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By adamg on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 12:18pm

The Boston Business Journal reports the owners of the Taj Boston are putting it up for sale - and pricing it to move (they paid $170 million for the former Ritz, would accept $125 million).

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By downtown-anon on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 12:34pm.

Something seems off. Maybe it is just the Taj brand.

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By FredQuimby on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 1:01pm.

The Taj was billed as a 5* hotel when it moved in. It was a relatively unknown chain in this part of the world, trying to compete with the well established Ritz, Four Season and Mandarin Oriental.

I am surprised at the price drop however. Com Real estate has been skyrocketing in the city thanks to ultra low interest rates. Particularly in the back bay. Im guessing the hotel is in need of a massive, expensive overhaul in order for it to compete going forward and may not be worth the investment.

Maybe a condo conversion is on the cards.

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By cybah on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 1:09pm.

I agree... there's a reason why the Ritz built a new high rise and moved out of that building. I stayed at the Taj a while back. Nice.. but small rooms and not all that luxurious. You could def tell it was an older hotel.

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By Whit on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 1:14pm.

As long as they change its ticky tacky name to something else I don't care what happens.

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By bosguy22 on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 1:29pm.

It's the name of the hotel chain.

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By Whit on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 1:51pm.

The Taj sounds Euro-trashy to me. I would be embarrassed to say I was staying at the Taj. A hotel for little maharajlings and their Bangladeshi maids.

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By Miaow on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 2:48pm.

You do realize Taj hotels are part of an Indian company, right?

I have stayed in the Taj in Bangalore, India, a number of times on business. It is a beautiful hotel, no euro-trash in sight, with excellent service and lovely rooms.

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By Whit on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 3:02pm.

I don't care. It's still trashy. Taj. Boston. Barf.

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By Steeve on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 4:17pm.

What on earth are you arguing?

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By Whit on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 4:31pm.

If you can't see why a hotel called "Taj" whatever is ersatz and bogus then I guess there's nothing to argue with you about.

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By Steeve on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 4:39pm.

I went to a bar in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil last week named Taj. It was pretty good.

Figured I'd throw in a minor non-sequitur while you're still going on about how an Indian brand in Boston sounds tacky. Should they have renamed their Boston branch of their sizable chain O'Malley's or something?

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By Whit on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 10:42pm.

Oooph Brazil! Exotique! Congrats.

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By Steeve on Fri, 05/20/2016 - 8:44am.

Shit townies say.

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By anon on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 9:05pm.

Doesn't Trump have a Taj casino in Atlantic City? Or Maybe that's contributing to your impression of tacky...

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By Scumquistador on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 1:47pm.

our names don't mean shit

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By JimGaffigan on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 3:53pm.

Those are some classy names right there.

Perhaps HoJo's is more your style?

And we wonder where the Ugly American tourist stereotype comes from?

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By Whit on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 4:04pm.

Ritz is glamorous. Taj is tacky. I have never seen anyone but zit speckled Saudi money going in and out of that place personally.

Actually, Howard Johnson does have a certain nostalgic glamor for me. Doesn't it you?

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By JimGaffigan on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 4:41pm.

What the Taj is named after?

One of the most iconic & spectacular buildings in the world. It was commissioned in 1632, long before anyone ever heard of Ritz of Four Season.

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By Whit on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 9:25pm.

Yes I do, you fucking idiot. Though I had begun to wonder if maybe it was someone's last name from the reactions.

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By JimGaffigan on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 9:49pm.

You fooled a lot of people with your previous comments.

Everyone else just assumes your a moron.

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By Whit on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 10:23pm.

Your a moron. Hee.

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By anon on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 9:26pm.

The Taj Mahal is indeed a spectacular building. Let us not forget it is also a mausoleum.

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By anon on Fri, 05/20/2016 - 9:49am.

Troll much?

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By bgl on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 2:38pm.

Well, that was basically after their botched multi million dollar reno, where the contractors basically threw a new coat of paint on it and called it a day. Although it was the first Ritz in North America, after that fiasco, then the building of the new Ritz, and finally the closing of the dining room, the writing was on the wall that the end was neigh. It is a very nice hotel/building, but, it does lack things like a parking garage, and it probably needs a ton of improvements that never happened when the Ritz tried to fix it up.

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By anon_wd on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 11:12pm.

Having been in there when it was the Ritz 20 years ago and in the past couple years- you can tell there's been no money put into it the last several years- the common areas of the hotel are particularly threadbare

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