Hotel review

We're at the Mariott Copley Place in Boston for the ABA. Nice room - not very big, but it's big enough. I asked specifically for a room with a bathtub, since the last two hotels booked us in rooms with only a shower. Don't most people like to loll in the tub and read?

We've got a room with a view of the Charles River and we're next door to a big Mall and near Filene's Basement - which I think is the original of that chain. The Boston Public Library is a block away. It's a big old building with a new squared-off addition. I visited the lovely courtyard on a beautiful day - and had a wonderful Chicken Ceasar Salad eaten outside. Very nice. The Library must be under some adjustment as the Fiction was in one room - then a whole lot of empty shelves - then the rest of the alphabet in another room. They are having a Vintage Postcard exhibit, but the signage was so lacking I couldn't find it.

The hotel doesn't have in room coffee, a makeup mirror, or bathrobes, but they asked about newspaper delivery (and not just USA Today). No Boston Herald except in the gift shop.

The Boston Marathon is on Monday (we'll be gone) and the Old South Church across from the Library has a sign "May you run and not grow weary, walk and not faint." The also have a "Blessing of the Athletes" at "the Church of the Finish Line."