City

Events in Boston

One event a year moves hotel prices in Boston, and this is what it does to them. Where to stay, how long each district is from the venue, and how to get here.

Illustration: a New England city street in April, brick row houses, spectators with flags, runners passing under bare trees
Boston · Illustration — a generated image of the kind of scene, not a photograph of the venue.

What is on

DatesEventTypeBooking
17–19 Apr 2027Boston MarathonMarathonClosing

The weeks the city fills

Against what the same hotel costs four weeks earlier — our estimate, not a live rate. Outside these weeks Boston prices like any other month.

Getting here

AirportCodeTo the city
Boston LoganBOS25 min

Trains: South Station.

Where to stay

Boylston Street (finish)
DistrictTo the venuePriceWhat it is
Back Bay5 min walk$$$$The finish line is the neighbourhood; everything books out first and costs most
South End & Fenway20 min walk$$$Ten minutes further out for a different price, still walkable on tired legs
Seaport & Downtown25 min metro$$$Newer hotels across the channel, one subway line from the finish
Cambridge25 min metro$$$Across the river on the Red Line; the reliable fallback with real rooms
Brookline30 min tram$$On the course at mile 23, residential, and cheaper than anything downtown

Elsewhere in United States on the same dates

More on Boston: which days to go and when to book. See also marathons.