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We were in the Boston area to visit family, so we were not planning on spending much time at our hotel. The Fairfield Inn Dedham was easy to find from I-95 with directions from the evening desk staff. The room was clean and neat, if a bit small. But since we didn't spend much time in the room, the size was not a problem. The room was equipped with an iron, a coffee pot, and an Ethernet connection, as well as the TV and telephone one expects. All the staff members with whom we interacted were polite and helpful. Included with the room was a self-serve buffet breakfast with typical continental fare and cereal. The breakfast also included a Do It Yourself waffle iron and batter dispenser, which was almost foolproof (I say almost because there was one guest who didn't read the directions card next to the iron and had some problems getting her waffle cooked). My 10-year-old daughter, on the other hand, managed without any difficulty. In late November, it was delightful to have hot waffles for breakfast. The only thing in which I was disappointed in was the room heater that alternated between noisily heating the room and then shutting off completely and no body moisturizer. If the heater had been noisy all the time or quiet all the time, it would have been better; the cycling woke me up at night. And I have assumed that the hotel would provide body moisturizer because the last 2 hotels I had stayed in did. The lack of moisturizer was a minor inconvenience; I should have brought my own from home or run out to one of the nearby stores to get some.

The hotel was clean, the staff was efficient, the location was convenient for all the events I had to attend. It was also convenient to food and shopping.