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Nine Years in the Making, The Mandarin Oriental in Boston is Finally Open

Where: 776 BOYLSTON STREET [map], Boston, MA, United States, 02199

October 6, 2008 at 3:37 PM | 0 Comments

Nine years in, now that the fire is out, their front door is feng-shui correct, and they convinced the city to move two stop lights in order to shave one minute off the valet delivery time, the ultra-luxe Mandarin Oriental Boston is open for business. Just in time for the economic sky to fall.

They don't seem too worried about filling their rooms though, despite industry doom and gloom predictions.

Evidently, there are still people out there who can -- and will -- fork over between $625 and $8,000 a night when in Boston for little touches like a rainforest shower, silk window treatments, mother-of-pearl ceiling tiles and humongous flat screen televisions. At least (from what we can tell from this Boston Globe article), the folks at Mandarin Oriental are banking on that, anyway.

Oops, wait, isn't banking a bit of a bad word these days?