We stayed here on the weekend after Thanksgiving. Excellent value for money. It is a little bit outside of the city centre but it is easy to get a bus from right outside to Harvard T station and then straight into town. The rooms are perfect and have everything you need.

The pool was perfect for my kids, while I could work out in the work out room. If I chose to, I could also swim laps. The rooms we large, and cleaned very well every day. If I had to go back to Boston, I would defintely go back to the Days Hotel in Boston, or maybe look into the Days Inn, which is down the road. My relatives stayed there, and said it was great as well.

As long as you keep in mind that this is a budget hotel, you should be very pleased with your stay. While it is definitely not 'in town', it is located on the Charles River (across the street) where you can watch the college crew teams practicing and take a morning run. The weather wasn't good for our stay, but I would imagine in any season, on a sunny day, the walk along the Charles River to Harvard Square would be wonderful.
We used our car for everything, but taxis were always pulling into the hotel. I can't speak for the restaurant since the breakfast buffet was the only option at $10 and didn't seem worth it for me. A fair number of people did seem to be enjoying it each morning. I did appreciate the restaurant's bar being open. Most of the people in the bar seemed to be guests simply unwinding or catching up with their tour group after a day of sightseeing.

Stayed one night at the Days Hotel in Boston. The room was clean and the front desk accommodating. Certainly, you get what you pay for, and, being one of the only places (and certainly the cheapest one) in Boston where I could get free parking, I must say this hotel was what we were looking for, though not a particularly lovely place. The neighborhood, if you can call it that, is empty of people and warehouse-y, and though it's only a 15 minute walk to Harvard Square, it's not a walk we wanted to do at night. Soldiers Field Road is the road on the western side of the city that snakes along the Charles River, and as it heads east, it becomes Storrow Drive. The divided road can make the hotel tricky to get into if you're coming from the east, though, with its bright Days Inn sign, it's certainly easy enough to find. If you pay a little extra you can get a view toward the river, which is nice. The hotel has a covered parking lot which is a great convenience and keeps you out of the weather - the lot is under the back building, which gives it a creepy feeling at night. (However, we encountered nothing that gave us any reason to feel that way.) Also, the hotel has a restaurant, but we didn't eat there as it was always totally empty. Carpets look a little worn throughout, but the bed was okay. TV has many channels, bathrooms were clean, with decent shampoos, etc. If you want a cheap base of operations and need a free place to put your car, this is a good hotel to consider. But if you're looking for something you'd call "nice," look elsewhere.