Heading to Boston this fall? Stay three nights or more at the Bulfinch Hotel, and you can save a little on extras during your visit, thanks to a $5 amenity menu celebrating the Beantown hotel's fifth anniversary.

In a move likely to make it the lodging darling of New England's environmentally-aware and intellectual travelers, The Charles Hotel in Cambridge (whose bedspreads, fittingly enough, continue the vehicular theme by reminding us of oldschool taxis) has plans to juice up guests' hybrid and electric vehicles for free and offer discounted overnight parking rates to drivers of smaller cars.