Good morning Smas87,
YES, Newbury Street has a lot of unique, fun boutiques, cafes and restaurants. Definitely stroll through there on your visit. You'll have to check out Copley Place and the Pru Shops while you're at it. Copley Place has a sky walk connecting you to the Pru Shops. You'll really like these shops a lot.
Book a Duck Tour as soon as you can:
Boston Duck Tours
Go to the Mass Vacation site and check it out:
massvacation.org
If you're up for shopping, another destination for you while you're here is the "Wrentham Premium Village Outlets" in Wrentham, MA. Your concierge will be able to arrange it for you. Quite a lot of the hotels are geared up all the time now for arranging transportation for their guests to get to the Wrentham Outlets.
Walk some of the Freedom Trail if you get the chance! It would be part of the experience of being in Boston and you'd really enjoy it a lot, head to Beacon Hill and see if you can find where some of their famous residents lived in the past and where a few live right now.
The Freedom Trail Foundation
The Boston Common
The State House
Park Street Church
Granary Burying Ground
King’s Chapel
King’ Chapel Burying Ground
Benjamin Franklin Statue/Boston Latin School
Old Corner Book Store
Old South Meeting House
Old State House
Site of the Boston Massacre
Faneuil Hall
Paul Revere House
The Old North Church
Copp's Hill Burying Ground
USS Constitution — “Old Ironsides” & USS
Constitution Museum
Bunker Hill Monument
Seeing the USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides") is FREE so remember that, you hopefully will be able to check out the Museum while you're at it. The Bunker Hill Monument is a good take if you didn't already see the Washington, DC monument. There's a Bunker Hill museum across the street from the front of it as well that you should try to get to. Then you could stroll down Monument Avenue and at the bottom of the street, take a right and get yourself to 2 Pleasant Street where the "Warren Tavern" restaurant is located. GO there for lunch if you get the chance, it's where George Washington & Paul Revere himself stopped quite a few times:
Warren Tavern Charlestown MA, Oldest Tavern in Massachusetts
GO to the North End for dinner some night, most of the restaurants open at 5PM, some are open for lunch, but the majority of them open their doors at 5PM. In fact, that's a good time to go there for dinner, right when they open. On weekend nights they get packed. Take your pick:
Your gateway to the North End in Boston
If you have the chance, there's a couple of Museums that you'd really like. Over in the Fenway area of Boston is the Museum of Fine Arts:
MFA Boston: Home
AND this one, it's the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, GO there if you have the time, it's wonderful, wait till you see this one:
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Another great Museum is the Museum of Science along the banks of the Charles River. They have an IMAX theater that's going to have the ALPS till September 1st. On Friday May 23rd they're going to have "The Greatest Places" with gorgeous scenery of Greenlands giant iceburg, Tibet's Chang Tang Plateau and many interesting waterfalls etc...to view on their giant screen. It's quite a theater if you get the chance to get there. In the summer time it's nice and cool in their theater, try to get there in the late morning maybe? That way you can spend the rest of the day outdoors!
There's Boston Harbor Cruises that you could take:
Boston Harbor Cruises whale watch, Provincetown Fast Ferry, sightseeing tours, Harbor Islands ferries, Boston Tourism attractions
There's whale watches, Boston Island Day trips to take or even just cruising Boston Harbor for a few hours while the narrator tells you all about it would be fun.
SO much to do in such little time! You could go to Harvard Square via the MBTA "red line", IF you DO get to Cambridge, look for Mr. Bartley's Burger, there's one at 1246 Massachusetts Avenue, they have AWESOME and I mean AWESOME burgers! You could also on another day head to North Station and take the commuter rail right up to Salem, MA., or Rockport for the day:
MBTA.com > Official Website for Greater Boston's Public Transportation System
You HAVE to end your day at some point while you're visiting Boston with FINALE's Desserts, there's one at Park Square and I know there's one in I think Brookline and I know there's one in Cambridge, trust me GO there, it's awesome:
Finale Dessert Company
You could go to the 4 Seasons Hotel which is located directly across from Boston's Public Gardens. In the lobby go to the left to the Bristol Lounge. GO there for lunch if you get the chance, they have awesome burgers there too, everything is good here, no matter what you get, even a cup of tea with one of their yummy pastries is wonderful!
Lastly, check out Beacon Hill and Charles Street before you leave Boston!
The narrow, cobbled streets of Beacon Hill have housed many famous names of the past and present. Many of these are Boston Brahmins — old Massachusetts families that have been here for generations. (Perhaps you’ve heard the rhyme, “So this is dear old Boston, the home of the bean and cod, where Lowells talk only to Cabots, and the Cabots talk only to God”?) Descended from the Puritans, the Brahmins maintained many of their ancestors’ values yet also supported the arts and social movements, and contributed to scientific and educational change. The Brahmins were among the first and strongest supporters of abolition.
Many of these “First Families of Massachusetts” lived on Beacon Street, which separates the Common from the State House. The poet Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. referred to it as, “The sunny street which holds the sifted few.” Painter John Singleton Copley, patriot and merchant John Hancock, writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Federalist leader Harrison Gray Otis, and Colonel William Prescott were some of its other famous residents as well. The Boston Athenaeum, its name referencing Boston’s nickname as the “Athens of America,” is also on Beacon Street and functions as a library, museum, and art gallery. Though “Cheers” is on this street as well, near the Public Garden, it’s actually called the Bull and Finch (a play on Bulfinch) and looks nothing like the TV bar inside.
Another famous street is Mount Vernon. Charles Bulfinch, Daniel Webster, and members of MTV’s The Real World Boston cast all resided here. The narrow, steeply sloped Acorn Street is supposedly the most photographed and picturesque street in the country. Elizabeth Peabody opened the first English-language kindergarten over on Pinckney Street. Nearby is the famous Chestnut Street which features several large brownstones designed by Charles Bulfinch. Many of the streets on Beacon Hill have arboreal names - Chestnut, Walnut, Cedar, Acorn, Myrtle, Lime, Grove, Garden, Spruce, Branch, etc.
Our favorite address on the hill, however, is Louisburg (pronounced Lewis) Square. Bounded by Mount Vernon and Pinckney Street and filled with Greek Revival style red brick houses, the square was named after a 1745 battle against the French. Little Women author, Louisa May Alcott, and her family lived at number 10 for eight years. The middle of the square contains a wrought iron fenced green, decorated with statues of Columbus and Aristides the Just donated by a Greek merchant in 1850. Only residents have access to the green. The square’s most famous residents these days are John and Theresa Heinz Kerry, who live in a townhouse at one end.
Perhaps the best way to end a long day spent exploring the historical sights of Beacon Hill is to meander over to Charles Street and onto the pedestrian walkway on Longfellow Bridge. The sun’s last rays setting on the city provide a perfect photo opportunity, with Boston’s newest neighborhood, Back Bay, just across the water, and Boston’s oldest neighborhood, Beacon Hill, just behind.
Have a wonderful time exploring Boston!
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