I have lived a 5-minute walk from Boston Garden (I hate the new name, TDB BankNorth, whatever!) for 20 years. I would stay RIGHT in Faneuil Hall at a hotel that is actually very affordable and beautiful called the Millenium Bostonian, a 7-minute walk from there. The Parker House is also historic and pretty affordable and about a 15-minute walk but extremely small rooms (they did it over) and in Government Center overlooking the Boston Common and down the street from our State House. If you are younger, I'd choose the Millenium because of all the energy, shops, food, and carts at Faneuil Hall.Oh, and the best part, is that my neighborhood, the North End, our Little Italy, is RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET, you wanna talk about a fabulous, old neighborhood where the oldtimers still talk Italina, the best food, great upscale nightlife, and TONS of movies being filmed here almost every day!It is LITERALLY right out of a movie!