This hostel is not too far from Fenway, and I’ve generally had good experiences there.

Boston public transit is generally really great; it’ll get you to and from Fenway, that hostel, and the airport/train stations/bus stations with no problems at all. 3 days is long enough that you should at least think about buying a week-long pass instead of individual tickets, depending on how much wandering you’re planning on doing.

Whilst it may be long winded and probably unnecessary i thought i’d chime in with my contribution.

I’m an Irish M’s fan living in Iceland (yes probably the only one) last summer i spent some time in Boston working at the Kennedy Library for my grad thesis. The good news is that unless you are some kind of crazy person you will absolutely love Boston. I’ve had the opportunity to see hundreds of cities, dozens of countries and six continents – of all the places i’ve been to Boston is my favourite. Blue collar yet cunningly sophisticated, gritty but with insanely nice people and full of incredible things to see and do.

I took in a three game series against the Rays (then they were 100% more satanic) last september. The games were awesome, i got to see a Big Papi walk off, a pitching duel and a huge comeback. I got tickets for the middle game in advance and the other two games i had to queue from 5pm to get on the day sales (a good option if alone). Fenway is literally the greatest place in the world, as are the people that inhabit it. The Red Sox fans get some negative coverage due to the huge amount of sway they have in all star voting, tv schedules etc but when you get to New England you’ll see that this is because they are genuinely infatuated with the team (about 3 seconds after crossing the state line from CT i saw a cement truck with a sox badge across the entire side of the barrel).

I stayed for one night at the Buckminster – literally right next to Fenway and pretty affordable (although I live in Iceland and gas costs over $2.4 a litre here!). After that i stayed at the HI Boston – a Hostel next to the Berklee music school which was really good value with free breakfast etc and lots of discounts available on various attractions throughout the city available to residents. As mentioned earlier public transport (which please forgive me is one of the USA’s few short comings) is fantastic in Boston and will take you everywhere you need to go, although walking is recommended due to lots of cool stuff to see.

Do – aquarium, freedom trail, harbour (or harbor) islands, newbury street
Eat – Chowder and only chowder.

NY is a really different story and one is was about 95% less keen on. I can sum it up by having a Yankee fan explain to me why Ichiro is overrated whilst wearing a Jeter Jersey, oh the irony.

Overall to the original poster – do it, go to Boston you’ll have the time of your life
To the people of Boston – be rightly proud, you have an insanely awesome city.