<p>A couple of suggestions for smbsmom: I can’t think of any hotels within walking distance of BC. Try staying in the Copley Square area, several hotels – the Westin, Fairmount Copley and others. There’s a Copley T-station where you could take the BC green line to the bottom of the BC campus, leave yourself 7-10min to walk up to the admissions area from Tstop. Probably leave 45 min. to get from copley to bc.
From the copley area you can easily take a green line train inbound the next day to the Fanueil hall area for sight seeing. The Copley area itself is also nice – Copley Place (shopping and restaurants), Boston Public Library, Newbury Street nearby, within walking distance to theater district.
Also try calling the admissions office to see what they suggest.
Hopefully all of our rainy weather will be over by the time you visit. Also, the Boston Marathon is Monday April 19 – great and fun event, but you probably don’t want to come then – boston is crazy busy that day and preceding weekend – getting a hotel would be difficult.
Enjoy your visit!</p>