What is it?:
The Liberty Hotel in Boston, USA.
What’s so special?:
Always an architectural gem, what was once the iconic Charles Street Jail is now the stunning, vibrant Liberty Boston Hotel. It's hard to escape what this building once was: a decrepit jail where Boston locked up its most notorious prisoners. But that's just the point. Architects took pains to preserve many features of the 156-year-old stone building and its history. The old sally port, where guards once brought prisoners from paddy wagons to their cells, is being converted into the entrance to a new restaurant, Scampo, which is Italian for ''escape.'' In another restaurant, named Clink, diners can look through original bars from cell doors and windows as they order smoked lobster bisque or citrus poached prawns from waiters and waitresses wearing shirts with prison numbers. The hotel bar, Alibi, is built in the jail's former drunk tank.
The details:
From $319 a night for the lowest-priced room to $5,500 for the presidential suite.
Getting there:
Aer lingus fly direct from Dublin to Boston from €199 each way including taxes and charges.
By Natalia McCarthy
