This hotel was okay, and I say just okay! The room was alright, it was quite small. We were very excited that the hotel had a pool, but the pool was very hot, over 120 degrees, so it was certainly not a refreshing dip.
The hotel was not well kept; there was trash/dirt throughout the hallway; Trays and vacuum cleaners were left in the hallway for an entire day; at the pool there were used towels draped over every chair, flower pot, and laying all over the floor, and there were no clean towels to use.
My son got sick the first day we were there, and I called to have new sheets brought to the room. 2 phone calls, a trip to the front desk, and 1 1/2 hours later, at 10:30PM someone from housekeeping came and handed me new sheets.
We planned to take the shuttle @7AM, because we needed to be at the hospital at 7:30AM, but the shuttle didn't show up until 7:15, and we were nearly late.
The location is near the Longwood Medical area, so that was convenient. And there is a T stop right out front.
The food at the hospital was expensive, and not great quality.

I looked for a hotel rather late for the weekend of MIT's graduation (and Harvard, and other schools, no doubt). The Holiday Inn was one of the few that was $200 or less, still available, wasn't in a totally sketchy or inconvenient location, and got decent reviews, so I went with it.

The Holiday Inn is in Brookline on the Green "C" line (which runs right down Beacon Street, with the St. Paul St. stop right across the street from the hotel), which makes it very convenient to take the T into the city (though it is a bit far out on the green line). There also tends to be a line of taxis waiting on Beacon St in front of the hotel, if you need a taxi. We didn't have a car, so I don't know what parking was like. I didn't walk around the neighborhood during this stay, but I know from past experience that there's a great (if crowded, busy, with a long wait) place for breakfast called Zaftig's less than a half mile away, a good restaurant called Jae's really nearby, and some other good dining within a mile. The Brookline area is quite nice - I walked up St. Paul St to Commonwealth to the BU Bridge to walk across to Cambridge (about 1.4 miles in total) after I checked out, and it was all red brick neighborhoods with shady parks and a nice, neighborly feel. It's also very close to BU.

As for the hotel itself, we were in one of the tower rooms on the 6th floor. Except when people stood right outside my door talking, I found the room to be very quiet and quite well sound insulated. It was a good sized room overlooking Beacon St. Beds were reasonably comfortable, wifi worked fine, bathroom was clean (though the toilet was initially problematic, my sister fixed it and it didn't cause problems after that). It wasn't anything exceptional, but it was a comfortable, quiet, reasonable place to stay. On my last night there, I wandered around the hotel (ostensibly looking for something to drink - the vending machines are on a couple of the floors in the tower but not all of them) and wandered into the long portion of the hotel, which was a bit odd - benches and ramps up the middle leading to an indoor pool and hot tub, raised in the center of the atrium at the end of a long wide hall. All the rooms in that section had windows that looked in on the atrium, not sure why. The tower had a super-slow elevator, and the hotel did have a bit of a dated feel, but not run-down.

Overall, I'd say the hotel is a fine, reasonably priced (for Boston) place to stay in a nice neighborhood, and convenient to the T.

I spent two nights at the Holiday Inn Brookline:
** Service: perfunctory but fine-had no interactions except at check-in and check-out
** Room: Standard issue HI, bathroom a bit dated but new, plush, bedding. The room overlooked the interior 'atrium' so there was no natural daylight, which was occasionally off putting.
** Location: For someone OK with public transportation, it is fine, right on the Green Line. My business was over at the new convention center, which was about a 45 minute journey with two transfers.
** Food: Didn't eat at the hotel, but tried a Turkish place nearby that was good. Also the sushi place a block away is supposed to be among Boston's best.
** Price: At less than $200, it's hard to beat in this town.
Overall, I would stay there again but - all else equal - I would rather be closer to town.

This is an old but partially renovated and reasonably priced (for Boston) hotel in a great location. Can walk to small shops, a movie theater, and lots of restaurants around Coolidge Corner. Jae's, a nice Asian restaurant, is right across the street, as is the streetcar. It's a short ride to Fenway Park, the Gardiner Museum, or the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The hotel has underground parking ($15 fee) though we had difficulty squeezing into a tiny space...the last one available. The staff was very efficient and pleasant. Our spacious king size room with renovated bath overlooked the dining area but was quiet and very comfortable (great bed). Aside from the parking issue, the only other downside was the elevator. Seems there's only one and it is very slow. We didn't get to use the pool or fitness area. The breakfast was reasonably priced for the city and offered an extensive buffet as well as ala carte choices. We will definitely stay here again....a good value.