Hotels in Peabody

Peabody is a Massachusetts suburb north of Boston, best known today as a shopping and business-travel base rather than a tourist destination in its own right — the sprawling malls and retail strips along Route 128 draw more visitors than any historic sight. Confusingly, the city shares its name with Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, but that museum is in Cambridge, not here, so don't book Peabody expecting to walk to it.

What the city actually offers is proximity: it's a manageable drive from Boston Logan International Airport and close enough to Boston proper for day trips into the Museum of Fine Arts, Old North Church and the Old State House, without paying downtown Boston prices. Be honest: there's little reason to linger in Peabody itself beyond retail therapy or a work trip. Stay near the Route 128 corridor for easy highway access to both the airport and Boston's historic core.