As someone who attended school in Boston, this is the third time I've stayed at the Inn at Harvard. A few negatives this visit caused me to give the IaH only an "average" review; including my previous stays, I would rate it closer to a "good" than only an "average".

The pluses: fantastic, fantastic location in Harvard Square; wonderful staff members; clean and modern rooms with lovely views of the Square; very good room service.

The minuses: I'd forgotten that these rooms don't provide a coffee maker. It seems like a small thing, but we stayed over the New Year's holiday - and the restaurant in the hotel was closed every day we were there (Dec 30th - Jan 2nd). So, if I wanted tea or coffee in the morning, I had to either pay the $6.00/pot charge for room service coffee or leave the hotel for one of the many coffee shops in the area. Not a huge deal, I know, but who wants to get out of their warm bed on New Year's Day to put on a coat and go get coffee? We had room service two days; the other two days, I got the bathroom sink water as hot as I could and made some lukewarm team.

The other issue with the hotel restaurant closing was that it also, apparently, meant that evening room service was closed as well. As I mentioned, we had room service breakfast twice (and it was quite good and fairly priced, as these things go) but the two evenings we called for dinner room service, we were told that they were closed. Again, not a huge deal, but it would have been nice to know that fact before we booked the room.

However, these few minuses aside - I love the Inn at Harvard overall, and will continue to stay there if possible whenever we travel back to Cambridge.