Burrow atop a bed so divine that Keats could pen poems about its lusciousness. Yes, you read right: Boston is for lovers, especially if you can swing a night in her premier boutique hotel, the exclusive XV Beacon Hotel.

As dignified as a fine Château Lafite, the 62-room XV Beacon shakes up Boston's blue-blood lineage with playful modern touches. While you'll find a number of marble busts lining the 1903 Beaux Arts building, these stately fellows are interspersed with steel

Burrow atop a bed so divine that Keats could pen poems about its lusciousness. Yes, you read right: Boston is for lovers, especially if you can swing a night in her premier boutique hotel, the exclusive XV Beacon Hotel.

As dignified as a fine Château Lafite, the 62-room XV Beacon shakes up Boston's blue-blood lineage with playful modern touches. While you'll find a number of marble busts lining the 1903 Beaux Arts building, these stately fellows are interspersed with steel lines, subdued lighting, and abstract paintings by new artists. Refined, yes. Stuffy, no. When dusk arrives, couples head up to the plush rooftop terrace to soak in the hot tub with views of the adjacent gold-domed state capitol.

Guestrooms, handsomely decorated in sensuous caramel and mocha tones, are filled to the gills with pampering amenities. Guests receive direct phone lines (with business cards) upon arrival. However, it's non-business touches like velvet-covered canopy beds, Frette linens, aromatherapy jetlag kits, freshly baked cookies, flower boxes on the windowsills, and rainforest showers that ensure the inevitable push-pull: to leave your privileged perch atop Beacon Hill or hunker down and turn inward.

If you can tear yourself away, upscale Beacon Hill is steps from the hotel's front door, or the Boston Ballet or Boston Symphony might beckon. On returning, you'll find a fireplace, a bottle on Barolo on the nightstand, and gas lanterns twinkling just down the brick sidewalks.