A series of handsome suites on a leafy Back Bay street, St. Botolph even eliminates keys: guests punch access codes into keypads instead.
And the Hotel El Patio Andaluz (García Moreno N6-52; 593-2-228-0830; www.hotelpatioandaluz.com) has handsome suites that open onto a 16th-century courtyard for $250.
About half the 49 handsome suites and 10 standard rooms at the Commonwealth Park Suites, in a century-old building at 901 Bank Street, (888) 343-7301, fax (804) 343-1025, www.commonwealthparksuites.com, look over the Capitol.
WHERE TO STAY The Sudbury Inn is a handsome bed-and-breakfast built in the late 1800s that has 18 rooms, which include seven two-bedroom suites and a three-bedroom apartment with a fireplace.
And in this story, it begins with a handsome, bespectacled thirty-five-year-old political consultant named Chad Griffin, in a spacious suite at the Westin St. Francis hotel in San Francisco on election night 2008.
The 20-suite hotel (19 Bostanbasi Caddesi, Galatasaray, 90-212-244-3400; thehouse-hotels.com), in a handsome structure built in the 1890s, is the result of a two-year renovation by the folks who created the city's House Cafe chain.
A handsome brick rectory dating from 1863 on a street lined with gems of Colonial architecture, this bed and breakfast has 10 rooms and a suite.
