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Thanksgiving · Christmas · Holiday Pops · New Year's Eve
Where to stay in Boston for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Eve: whole apartments with a full kitchen, free parking and room for up to 10.
A holiday trip is almost never one person. It is a family, or several of them, and a hotel answers that by selling you three rooms on two floors and a breakfast buffet that closes at ten.
The two things you actually need over the holidays are the two things a hotel room does not have: a kitchen and a table. Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day are the days when restaurants across Boston are closed or booked solid months out, and takeaway is thin on the ground. A whole apartment gives you a full kitchen, a dining table everyone fits around, a living room to sit in afterwards, and laundry in most units for a long stay — all of it behind your own front door, with no front desk.
Up to 10: 42 Glenway, four bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms. Up to 7 in Dorchester: 7W2, 9W2, 7B2 and 9B2 - three levels, a king bed, two full beds and a sofa sleeper, 2.5 bathrooms. Up to 7 in Hyde Park: 17 Ellis Apt 1, Apt 2 and Apt 3, and 19 Ellis Apt 1, Apt 2 and Apt 3 - three queen bedrooms and a sofa bed, two bathrooms. Up to 5: 143 Erie Apt 1 and Apt 1C. Up to 4: 17 Ellis Apt A, 19 Ellis Apt A and 19 Ellis Apt B. Up to 3: 9W1, 7B1 and 9B1.
A bigger family can take two apartments side by side: 7 and 9 Warner Street, 7 and 9 Bernard Street, and 17 and 19 Ellis Street are next door to each other.
Thanksgiving is Thursday, November 26. Most Thanksgiving travel into Boston is people coming to see family, and the family they are seeing does not have the room. We wrote about that trip properly in staying near family in Boston — close enough for the whole day together, far enough that everyone sleeps. Plymouth, where the story starts, is about forty miles south of us and runs its own Thanksgiving parade the weekend before.
The Bruins play Toronto at 1pm on Black Friday.
See which apartments are open for Thanksgiving, Nov 25 to 29 - every open one shows with its total before BOOKDIRECT, which the booking box then takes off.
Snowport, the Seaport holiday market, opens November 6. The Nutcracker runs at the Citizens Opera House from November 27 to December 31. Copley Square lights its tree on November 30 and Boston Common on Thursday December 3, 6 to 8pm, and the lights go up at Faneuil Hall. The Celtics play Miami on Christmas Day, and the Fenway Bowl is December 26.
School holidays mean the booking is usually several nights rather than one, and the nightly rate drops as the stay gets longer.
The Boston Pops play 40 Holiday Pops concerts at Symphony Hall from December 3 to 24, plus The Muppet Christmas Carol in concert on December 27 and 28. On New Year's Eve, Samara Joy joins the Boston Pops at 8pm.
Boston does New Year's Eve as First Night, a free city-wide festival that has run since 1976 — usually ice sculptures, performances through the afternoon and evening, an early fireworks show for families who are not staying up, and fireworks over the harbour at midnight.
It is a wonderful night and a miserable one to drive into. Streets close, garages fill and price up, and everyone leaves at the same moment. The sensible version is to leave the car where you are staying, take the T in, and come back to somewhere you can all sit down together afterwards. One of our guests did exactly that last New Year's: a group of ten, out for the evening, back for the ball drop.
Every apartment has its own free off-street parking, so the car sits somewhere safe all night and costs you nothing.
For December 31, 2026, Boston Harbor Now has confirmed the Ice Sculpture Stroll, 1 to 5pm at spots along the waterfront, and the midnight fireworks over Boston Harbor between East Boston and the North End. First Night's full program had not been published as of October 27.
See which apartments are open for New Year's, Dec 30 to Jan 2 or Christmas, Dec 23 to 28.
Dorchester is the closer one: downtown, TD Garden and Fenway are 15 to 20 minutes by car outside rush hour, and Warner and Bernard Streets are a 4-minute walk from Talbot Avenue station, about 19 minutes by train to South Station. Hyde Park is quieter: 25 to 30 minutes by car to downtown, or a 14-minute walk to Hyde Park station and about 20 minutes on the train.
Boston declares snow emergencies, and when it does, parked cars on posted streets get ticketed and towed. Visitors find this out the hard way, usually at seven in the morning on a day they had plans.
Every one of our apartments has its own off-street space, included. No resident permit, no circling the block in a storm, no tow lot. The apartments have proper heating, and the kitchen and laundry are yours for the whole stay — which is what makes a long winter booking comfortable rather than something to endure.
Absolutely stunning home. We celebrated New Year’s Eve at the garden and came back here for the ball drop. It was perfect for our group of 10! Cute little touches and the place is decorated wonderfully. Would 100% stay here again!!— verified guest review
13 of 19 whole Boston apartments are confirmed available tonight (9 Warner Street, Apt 9W2, 7 Bernard Street, Apt 7B1, 9 Bernard Street, Apt 9B1, 19 Ellis Street, Apt A, 7 Bernard Street, Apt 7B2, 9 Bernard Street, Apt 9B2, 17 Ellis Street, Apt 1, 17 Ellis Street, Apt 2, 17 Ellis Street, Apt 3, 7 Warner Street, Apt 7W2, 9 Warner Street, Apt 9W1, 42 Glenway Street, 143 Erie Street, Apt 1c). Every apartment includes free off-street parking, a full kitchen, self check-in, $0 booking fee, and 20% off with code BOOKDIRECT auto-applied (1-2BR from $111/night direct; 3rd-floor 3BR from $140/night direct; 1st/2nd-floor 3BR from $151/night direct).
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