Directions & Accommodations

VT MÄK is located at 150 Cambridge Park Drive, 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02140.

Directions from:
Rt. 128 (I-95)
Boston's Logan Airport
By Subway

For your convenience a list of Cambridge area accommodations is included below.

From Rt. 128 (I-95)

  1. Take exit 29A, Cambridge/Rt. 2 East.
  2. Follow Rt. 2 East approximately 10 miles to the end.(You will pass a motel and bowling alley on the right, just before Rte 2 ends.)
  3. The road forks left or right at two traffic lights. Bear to the right onto Alewife Brook Parkway. 
  4. At the light, turn right onto Cambridge Park Drive. (The Alewife T Station is on your right.)
  5. Pass through a light and turn left into either 100 or 150 Cambridge Park Drive parking lots (they are connected). 
  6. Press the buzzer and tell them you're here to see MÄK. Park and go to 150 Cambridge Park Dr. We are on the 3rd floor.

From Boston's Logan Airport

Before you decide to drive, you might want to consider taking a cab or public transportation. The cost of a cab is reasonable (around $45) when compared to a car rental and the challenge of the Boston highway system. At your car rental counter, ask for good directions for exiting the airport and a local map. Ask them to highlight the below route to VT MÄK:

  1. Follow signs towards the Airport exit and the Ted Williams Tunnel.
  2. After you go through the tunnel, follow signs to I-90 WEST.
  3. Continue on I-90 for 6.1 miles to Exit 20 - Brighton/Cambridge.
  4. As you exit the toll booth, bear right towards Cambridge/Somerville.
  5. As you approach the traffic signals, move to the left lane as much as possible.
  6. Go through the lights, but before you cross the bridge, turn left onto the access road for SOLDIERS FIELD RD.
  7. Continue through the next traffic light and merge onto Soldiers Field Rd.
  8. Soldiers Field Road makes an S curve that takes you under an overpass and then curves to the right. Stay to the right.
  9. As Soldiers Field Rd. starts to curve left to a traffic light, stay to the right and leave Soldiers Field Rd.
  10. Cross a bridge and bear right at the foot of the bridge.
  11. The road forks. Go straight toward the traffic light.
  12. Go through the traffic light and stay to the right, onto FRESH POND Parkway.
  13. Fresh Pond Parkway winds through a small residential area, then passes an automobile dealer and some other businesses and comes to a rotary (traffic circle).
  14. Bear left around the rotary. Continue to a second rotary.
  15. Bear right at the 2nd rotary and take the first exit onto Alewife Brook Parkway.
  16. Get in left lane, and at 2nd light, take a left onto Cambridge Park Drive. (There is the Alewife T Station on the corner)
  17. Pass through a light and turn left into either 100 or 150 Cambridge Park Drive parking lots (they are connected).
  18. Press the buzzer and say you're here to see MÄK. Park and go to 150 Cambridge Park Dr. We are on the 3rd floor.

By Subway from Logan Airport

VT MÄK is approximately a five-minute walk from the Alewife T Station, the last stop on the Red Line.

  1. Take the SilverLine 1 bus to the South Station T stop (red line).
  2. Get on the Red Line at South Station in the direction of Alewife. 
  3. Take the Alewife train all the way to the last stop, Alewife Station.
  4. Exit the train station and head down Cambridge Park Drive, to 150 Cambridge Park Drive. 
  5. Enter and come to the 3rd Floor.

A map of the subway system is available from the MBTA.

 

Cambridge Area Accommodations

Price Guide

Based on a single occupancy room.
Prices may vary by season.
$ = $100 - $150
$$ = $151 - $200
$$$ = $201+

Best Western Hotel Tria

220 Alewife Brook Pkwy
Reservations: 1-866-333-TRIA
http://www.hoteltria.com/
Across the street from VT MÄK's offices.
Please ask for the MÄK corporate rate when booking.
$$

A Bed & Breakfast in Cambridge

1657 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-868-7082 phone
http://cambridgebnb.com/
$$

Cambridge Bed and Muffin

267 Putnam Avenue
617-576-3166
bedandmuffin.com
$$

The Charles Hotel

One Bennett Street
866.582.7956
www.charleshotel.com
$$$

A Friendly Inn at Harvard Square

1673 Cambridge Street
617- 547- 7851
http://www.afinow.com/
$$

Hampton Inn Boston/Cambridge

191 Monsignor O'Brien Highway
617-494-5300
bostoncambridge.hamptoninn.com
$$

Harding House

288 Harvard Street
877-489-2888
http://www.harding-house.com/
$$

Harvard Square Hotel

110 Mount Auburn Street
617-864-5200
http://www.hotelsinharvardsquare.com/
$$$

Holiday Inn Express & Suites

250 Monsignor O’Brien Hwy
617-577-7600
http://www.hiecambridge.com/
$$

Le Meridien Hotel At M.I.T.

20 Sidney Street
617- 577-0200
www.lemeridien.com
$$$

Hotel Marlowe

25 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
617-868-8000
www.hotelmarlowe.com
$$$

Irving House

24 Irving Street
617-547-4600
http://irvinghouse.com/
$$

The Kendall Hotel

350 Main Street
866-566-1300
http://kendallhotel.com/
$$$

Boston Marriott Cambridge

Two Cambridge Center, 50 Broadway
617-494-6600
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/boscb-boston-marriott-cambridge/
$$$

Mary Prentiss Inn

6 Prentiss Street
617.661.2929
http://maryprentissinn.com/
$$

Courtyard Boston Cambridge

777 Memorial Drive
617-492-7777
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/boscy-courtyard-boston-cambridge/
$$

Residence Inn Boston Cambridge

6 Cambridge Center
617-349-0700
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/boscm-residence-inn-boston-cambridge/
$$$

Royal Sonesta Hotel Boston

40 Edwin Land Boulevard
617.806.4200
www.sonesta.com/boston
$$$

DoubleTree Suites by Hilton

400 Soldiers Field Road
617-783-0090
http://doubletree1.hilton.com/en_US/dt/index.do
$$$

Sheraton Commander Hotel

16 Garden Street
617.547.4800
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=607
$$$