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Know Your Amenities

Boston’s Most Unexpected Hotel Amenities

There are some basic hotel amenities you can always expect. Like firewood menus, rubber duckies and personal oxygen devices. No? Well, you can expect them at these places.

TAJ BOSTON

Just Your Standard Firewood Menu

The Service: Pick up the wood menu. It’ll be the thing that’s an actual wood menu. Then choose from maple, birch, oak or cherry and summon the bellhop to commence the burning. Just like home, if home is an ancestral manor in the Scottish Highlands.
The Concierge Call: “Logs. We need more logs.”

THE LIBERTY HOTEL

Your 3D Tailor Is Waiting

The Service: Say the word and you’ll be whisked to an hour-long private fitting at Alton Lane, where 3D body scanning and other bespoke things will happen. The result: a completely custom suit. You can’t just not have a new suit.
The Concierge Call: “Crap. I forgot to pack a suit.”

HOTEL COMMONWEALTH

This Bar Just Gets You

The Service: You’re at the Commonwealth’s Hawthorne bar. One nightcap becomes... many nightcaps. Good thing there’s a special package you can only book at the bar after 10pm. And good thing it includes pajamas, a dopp kit full of Malin + Goetz provisions and a 1pm checkout.
The Concierge Call: “Room, please, bartender.”

REVERE HOTEL

In Case You... Overexert Yourself

The Service: Minibars at the Revere are stocked with personal oxygen devices that provide a full 40 breaths of fresh, pure oxygen. Remember, it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
The Concierge Call: “We’re running low on oxygen up here.”

THE RITZ-CARLTON, BOSTON COMMON

A Butler Who Only Draws Baths

The Service: Drawing bubble baths: taxing work. That’s why they invented bath butlers to do it for you. You can choose from a bath menu with options like Make Way for Ducklings, which includes hot chocolate and freshly baked cookies. And rubber duckies.
The Concierge Call: “Hey, this was your idea, not ours.”