re: Boston + Maine Coast, Maine Coast Only?

Three - Good to hear, MV is where my wife wants to stay if that's the route we take. Anything in particular that y'all did that we need to do if we go that route? Places to eat? How long did y'all stay?

Nichol - the batting practice tour sounds awesome! Will definitely look into it! When I went as a teenager we did a tour of the stadium on an off-day and I absolutely loved it. Such an incredible stadium and atmosphere. Hope to talk my wife into catching a couple of games instead of just the one.

Noted -- surprised to hear you say Nantucket was harder to get around than MV, figured it'd be the apposite since MV is much better. Guess the public transportation is better? If we went with the day trip route I'd really like to rent a moped (typical tourist) or bikes.

Will look into the Anchor Inn and staying in Hyannis!


Abita - very excited for the trip, we think it'll be a lot of fun. I don't really have many questions right now. I've gone through your mega thread + the other threads on TD and pulled a lot of information from there. If there's something in particular that's missing, or a new restaurant open that we need to check out I'd love to hear it! Planning to stay in the Beacon Hill/Back Bay portion of the City.

I would separate out Maine as an entire trip by itself. We did Acadia down to Portsmouth NH and it was great. Boston has a lot to see and we hit Newport RI for a day trip, but wish I would have spent a night or two there and maybe added Nantucket and/or Cape Cod . Unless you are doing 2 full weeks, I would not do Maine and Boston together.

Thanks for the recs! We’ve looked heavy into staying on MV but I think right now we’re leaning towards staying on the Cape and making a day trip to one (or maybe both) of the islands.

I’ve seen Newport RI mentioned a few times, will definitely look into it. It doesn’t seem to far out of the way.

I agree with y’all that Maine should be a separate trip and that’s what we plan to save it for. Sounds like an incredible trip!

I’m currently up here in Marlborough for Thanksgiving, took a ride to Newport on Friday but it got dark very quickly and didn’t get to walk the cliffs and see the mansions, will definitely do this the next chance we get to visit.

Thanksgiving was great, flew into Logan Thursday midday with no problems and wasn’t as crowded as I expected. Weather was cold though, stayed in Marlborough where it got right at about freezing every night, Friday night experienced a bit of snow. Spent Saturday at the BC/Wake Forest football game and froze. It’s weird up here how it seems to start getting dark earlier than expected. Each evening we were thinking it was about 9pm but it was actually only 6ish.

Bump, update in OP