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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you stay in the North End, you're going to be adding extra time to get to other areas of Boston like Copley/The Commons, etc.  There is only so much to do in the North End area.  So the extra 20 min to Tufts evens out with the extra time you'll spend going from your hotel to other parts of Boston.

We go to Boston a ton and DH and I lived there for years.  We pretty much always stay in the Copley area so we can walk to everything. 
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Forgot to add, I think your best bet since you seem so unsure is to figure out exactly what you want to do in Boston.  If most of your interests are in the Copley area, it makes no sense to stay somewhere else.  Whereas if you want to do the Museum of Science, Aquarium, North End ,  Faneuil Hall, it makes less sense to stay in Copley. [/quote]

Op here. Great point. That said, what do you suggest first timers (mom and teen) put on our to-do list in Boston - what are the to-do’s around Copley, for example? We’ll be looking into this ourselves, too, of course, but not sure we’ll be sorted before making a hotel reservation (my sister keeps on me to do this soon, as there are a lot of graduations around the same weekends in Boston). [/quote]

Actually, the North End is a quick walk to the Common and all of the Freedom Trail anyway.  Copley a little farther.
How old is the teen?  What are his/her/their interests?  How many days/hours of touristing time will you have? The area maybe 1/2 mile around Copley is about shopping/strolling on Newbury Street, seeing the beautiful homes on Comm Ave, enjoying the Common and Public Garden, and going up to the Esplanade along the river for longer walks.

If staying downtown, you have more historic sites like the Freedom Trail stops, Fanieul Hall, Paul Revere's House, Old North Church, etc.  The Aquarium is nearby also.

All of these places are generally within 10 minutes of each other on the T also, so you can see both "sides" easily.[/quote][/quote]

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