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George Howell Coffee At The Godfrey Hotel Boston Opens Today In Downtown Crossing

Pioneering coffee roasters George Howell Coffee today announce the official opening of the Downtown Crossing café located inside our ground-level lobby. Accessible to locals and hotel guests alike, George Howell Coffee at The Godfrey features a wide range of sophisticated yet inviting coffee experiences, such as an espresso bar, hand-poured single estate and micro lot coffee servings, and public cuppings. Later this summer, the café will offer coffee-tasting “flights,” specialty coffee-based creations, coffee brewer calibration clinic, group education coffee classes, and much more.

George Howell Coffee at The Godfrey is open daily 6:30 a.m. – 8 p.m., offering pairings for its estate coffees with a wide selection of pastries, toast tartines, and both breakfast and lunch sandwiches all made or sourced from local artisans or farms. In the evening, George Howell Coffee at The Godfrey offers fine French tarts and desserts from Praliné Artisanal Confections. The café is poised to offer expanded hours in the coming weeks for after-theater and dinner guests.

George Howell Coffee at The Godfrey offers a full retail section with a wide range of coffee brewing equipment on display and available for purchase, as well as an extensive range of retail coffee beans from farms across the world chosen for their quality and distinction. In this and all locations, George Howell Coffee is an expansion upon George Howell’s pioneering café collection The Coffee Connection in the early 1990’s with an esthetic environment combining contemporary art along with state of art coffee equipment producing exceptional coffee beverages.

For our guests looking to further immerse themselves in the thriving coffee culture in the heart of Boston, The Godfrey For Coffee Connoisseur package is available for booking beginning Monday, June 20. In addition to a two-night stay, the package includes a complimentary coffee flight for two, one-on-one coffee tasting course with a George Howell Coffee barista, and a takeaway of George Howell’s finest roast to take home.

Getting to The Godfrey Hotel Boston

If you’re visiting us from out of town, there are several ways you could arrive at our hotel in Downtown Crossing. While you can always drive or take a cab when you arrive in town, we’re also easily accessible via the MBTA.

From Boston Logan Airport:

From any terminal at Logan, you can take the Silver line to South Station for free. Once you’ve arrived at South Station, you have two options:

If you want to stretch your legs, we’re a ~10 minute walk. Once you exit South Station, take a left on Summer Street and walk until you come to Washington Street. Take another left onto Washington Street and we’re two blocks down on the right.
If you would rather get as close to the hotel on the T as possible, you’ll want to switch trains at South Station. After getting off the Silver line, take the stairs up one level and take the Red Line (towards Alewife) for one stop. Get off at Downtown Crossing. Once on the street level, walk down Washington Street in the direction of the theater district and you’ll find us on the right side of the street.

From South Station:

Just like if you’re arriving from Logan Airport you have two options:

Once you exit South Station, take a left on Summer Street and walk until you come to Washington Street. Take another left onto Washington Street and we’re two blocks down on the left.

Take the Red Line (towards Alewife) for one stop. Get off at Downtown Crossing. Once on the street level, walk down Washington Street in the direction of the theater district and you’ll find us on the right side of the street.

From North Station:

If you arrive to town through North Station, get on the Orange Line (towards Forest Hills) and get off at Downtown Crossing. Once on the street level, walk down Washington Street in the direction of the theater district and you’ll find us on the right side of the street.

Giveaway: Fall into New England

We’re excited to announce a collaborative giveaway with Paramount today. We’ve partnered to bring you the chance to win an overnight stay with us and two tickets to see an ArtsEmerson show during their fall performances starting this September (based on availability).

To enter the giveaway, share on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram why you’re ready to “Fall into New England,” tag us and use hashtag #GodfreyStyle by 12 pm EST on April 27. Be creative and have fun!

We’ll select and notify one person at random with @ArtsEmerson to win by 5 pm EST on May 2, 2016.

And, to make everything fair, a few rules for the Giveaway:

The Godfrey Hotel Boston is the sponsor of this Giveaway in partnership with Paramount and ArtsEmerson.
Must be 21 or over at the time of entry and a legal, U.S. resident. No purchase necessary to enter or win. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY LAW. INTERNET ACCESS, A VALID E-MAIL ADDRESS, A FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM or TWITTER ACCOUNT, AND PHOTO UPLOADING CAPABILITY REQUIRED.
Only one winner will be selected by management jointly at The Godfrey Hotel Boston and ArtsEmerson. The winner can select his or her own guest to accompany him or her.
Be creative. No profanity, no illegal or offensive or inappropriate submissions. No entries that defame, misrepresent or contain disparaging remarks about Sponsor, or its products or services or other people, products or companies.
If including a photo, the photo must be an original that you submit and must be your own photo that you either took as a selfie, you captured, or someone took for you.
There is no daily or overall limit on the number of entries per Entrant during the Giveaway Period.
No photos of you, the entrant, consuming alcohol.
By entering, you grant The Godfrey Hotel Boston, The Godfrey Hotel Chicago, ArtsEmerson and its ownership the right to use your photo in current or future marketing efforts if they wish, including but not limited to social media sites, websites, public relations and advertising. The hotel does not guarantee the posting of any photo.
To enter, you must have a public profile on the social media sites of Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and you must tag @GodfreyBoston and use #GodfreyStyle in the entry.
Management at The Godfrey Hotel Boston and ArtsEmerson will decide the winners of the giveaway. All decisions are final. Winner will be notified via social media to privately share their email, phone and mailing address with The Godfrey Hotel Boston and ArtsEmerson.
No cash substitutions will be provided and no transfer of any prize to a third party is permitted. Submissions of entries will be accepted at Sponsor’s sole discretion. Each winner will be solely responsible for paying all applicable federal, state and local taxes on prizes. If applicable, winners may receive an IRS Form 1099 for the prize retail value. All Registered Trademarks and logos used in conjunction with this Giveaway are the intellectual property of their respective owners and are used by permission.
Sponsor shall have the right to modify, suspend, or terminate the giveaway at any time for any reason whatsoever, at the sole discretion of Sponsor. Sponsor reserves the right to modify, suspend, or terminate the Giveaway (including, without limitation, make changes to these Terms & Conditions) without notice.
You are supplying this information to The Godfrey Hotel, not Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or its partners or application developers. You are providing your information to the owner or operator of this Facebook, Twitter and/or Instagram page and not to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or any of its partners or application developers.
Giveaway ends Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 12 pm EST.
Some blackout dates apply for the available show dates with ArtsEmerson. Blackout dates for the hotel stay at The Godfrey Hotel Boston are: September 25-28, October 8-10, October 21-23, November 17-19, 2016.
Violation of these rules will disqualify you from the Giveaway.

Good luck!

A Boston Staycation

Over Valentine’s Day weekend, we hosted Style-Wire for a romantic staycation. Her review of our hotel shows just how much fun she had while staying with us, and her photos are certainly worth sharing.

Following are a few excepts from the review:

The Godfrey is super tech friendly with complimentary wi-fi, smart TVs (log into your Netflix account and chill!), and rechargeable Bluetooth speakers in every room. Obviously once my Valentine arrived we did what any other couple would do and binge watched Nurse Jackie on Netflix and ordered late night pizza from New York Pizza while munching on chocolate and sipping champagne. Perfect evening if you ask me!

We love Elissa’s recap of her overnight stay, which you can read entirety here, but we’re head over heels in love with the photos she shared. The photos capture her love for travel as she took advantage of our in-room amenities. We’ve shared some of our favorites above, but you can check out the rest on our Facebook page or in Elissa’s post.

We love hearing about our guests’ stays and we look forward to hosting you in the future.

Chance to Win a Two Night Stay

What better way to start the New Year than with a little traveling? Frette, the makers of our luxurious guest room linens, is holding an incredible sweepstakes for a chance to win a two-night stay with us – plus, you get to take home a fabulous sheet set and duvet cover.

Frette is a favorite of ours because their linens deliver quality luxury and sophistication at the same time. Our General Manager, Larry Cassillo, said, “When it came to linens, it was almost a natural fit in selecting the best product we could possibly choose: Frette Linens.” We’re also honored to be featured as their Hotel of the Month.

Excited? So are we. All you have to do is enter for a chance to win here.

The contest ends on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016. And remember, the more Facebook friends you refer to the contest, the more entries you will receive for yourself. You can enter through Frette’s Facebook page – simply click here.

Good luck and Happy New Year! We hope to see you in Boston in 2016.

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