2025 ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Boston

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Any coffee or pastry shop recommendations in the Back Bay area?

You seem like my kind of gal.

 

[nguyhm]

Any recommendations for a lobster roll around TD Garden?

 

[TanithandBenFan]

They’ll charge you 10 cents per bag. If you a nylon one that folds small, might as well bring it. And don’t forget a chip clip, a few plastic bags to store opened items, and a baggie or two for your smuggled snacks.

Thanks! I’ll mostly be shopping for my mom. She doesn’t have tickets but just wanted to come hang out at the hotel for the week, so we need to get her snacks and stuff to make sandwiches in her room.

 

[Spikefan]

Any recommendations for a lobster roll around TD Garden?

I will test out Red’s in the Boston Public Market tomorrow and report back. It is cold/mayo rather than butter.

Last time we were in Boston we tried Neptune Oyster (oysters were good but everything else had way too much salt) and James Hook, the line was long and their butter for the roll had zero salt. I like a bit of seasoning. I would not return to either place.

 

[Aceon6]

Any recommendations for a lobster roll around TD Garden?

I like Neptune, but it’s pricey. Red’s Best in Boston Public Market is very good. People say nice things about Luke’s in Back Bay.

 

[ice coverage]

The shuttle from the Marriott is just for those with credentials, not spectators. The Sheraton and Colonnade are providing spectator shuttles, but I think you have to be a hotel guest there to use it. ...

Thanks for the correction. Yes, I meant the hotel guests of the official/spectator hotels. They're all within a few blocks of each other anyway.

As Debbie said, the shuttle for the Sheraton and Colonnade is separate from the shuttle for the Marriott.

For those eligible for the shuttle for the Sheraton and Colonnade, it is necessary to pick up a bus pass (photo ID required) in advance. Bus pass can be picked up starting Monday, and it is good for the whole week. Shuttle starts on Tuesday.
Not surprisingly: "Bus passes are only available to registered guests of the Colonnade and Sheraton Boston hotels who are accredited media or who have purchased an all-event ticket thru the organizing committee (OC). No exceptions."

[LOC always has made clear that this shuttle is only for Sheraton and Colonnade guests. For example, an all-event ticketholder who booked the Worlds spectator rate at the nearby Westin Copley Place is not eligible for a shuttle pass -- it will not work for a Westin guest to walk over and try to get on the shuttle.]

BTW, just noticed that this map now is on hotel page of LOC site:

Hotels - ISU World Figure Skating Championships® 2025

Hotels ISU World Figure Skating Championships® 2025

isuworlds2025.wpengine.com

 

[snoopysnake]

Thank you to everyone who got TPTB to release the practice groups information, especially for the Main Rink (The GAHDEN!) I was hoping the men's practice group for the US guys would not be so late. Will probably let our bodies decide how long to stay on Tuesday.

 

[Wyliefan]

OK, I expect to see pics of all of you decked out in the Worlds exclusive hair accessories collection. https://www.instagram.com/p/DHeB0UaAFQO/?igsh=MWI2OGVpOHY4dzR0MQ==

 

[Aceon6]

OK, I expect to see pics of all of you decked out in the Worlds exclusive hair accessories collection. https://www.instagram.com/p/DHeB0UaAFQO/?igsh=MWI2OGVpOHY4dzR0MQ==

OMDB

 

[Spikefan]

Only if I want to cosplay a character from Gossip Girl, which I don’t.

 

[PRlady]

Oh I’ll get a couple and give them to grandkids after Worlds!

 

[olympic]

I travel to Boston every Thanksgiving week and if anyone wants to splurge a bit on a proper, sit-down dinner complete with white linen tablecloths, there is a great French restaurant called Ma Maison not too far away

 

[Lanie]

OK, I expect to see pics of all of you decked out in the Worlds exclusive hair accessories collection. https://www.instagram.com/p/DHeB0UaAFQO/?igsh=MWI2OGVpOHY4dzR0MQ==

I'm totally gonna buy one because I love headbands

 

[AnnM]

Not to toot my own horn, but I think my own recipe, which you've sampled, are better. The Levain recipe is almost a cross between cookies and cake in texture.

Toot that horn! Your cookies were AMAZING!

 

[AnnM]

Any recommendations for a lobster roll around TD Garden?

My favorite lobster roll from anywhere is the hot roll at Neptune Oyster in the North End.

Luke's and Summer Shack were also good, but the locations I know of are in Back Bay.

I'm going back to Neptune this trip, but am also going to check out the rolls at Row 34 and Eventide Fenway.

 

[yurokis40]

Worlds should have been removed from the US, US has become an enemy authoritarian country under Trump Administration several european countries and Canada have issued travel warning advisories today.

 

[Karen-W]

Worlds should have been removed from the US, US has become an enemy authoritarian country under Trump Administration several european countries and Canada have issued travel warning advisories today.

Yes, I can see the ISU's insurance company paying out the costs necessary to remove Worlds from Boston. Except, as we all learned 5 years ago, force majeure wouldn't apply in the current situation, so, no, the ISU would lose its shirt if it tried to move Worlds on this short of notice.

Go back to your idiotic, rabidly pro-Canada ice dance posts in the Dance Hall thread, you obnoxious troll.

 

[olympic]

Worlds should have been removed from the US, US has become an enemy authoritarian country under Trump Administration several european countries and Canada have issued travel warning advisories today.

You are not completely wrong. I don't think we are the 'enemy' and honestly, if the more civilized wanted to deny the US the right to host international events because of Trump, then I would not be happy, but I would have a tough time defending my country. Keep in mind, there is and will be a growing difference under Trump between cities like Boston v. cities like Houston, at least that is what I am seeing, or hoping for. By patronizing a city like Boston, you are helping the fiercest resisters to Trump.

 

[yurokis40]

I think even with worlds in US remember it is an international judging I expect most of the american skaters not to get the scores they were expecting I am already predicting Piper and Paul will win worlds.

 

[Aceon6]

Bless your heart.

 

[Karen-W]

Bless your heart.

I mean, some people want to believe that ice dance judges who engage in bloc judging are going to be morally self-righteous enough to take international geo-politics into consideration when marking the teams in Boston...

 

[dedee]

I am Canadian. I am going. I am scared.

 

[nylynnr]

I am Canadian. I am going. I am scared.

What of?

 

[dedee]

With the climate, you never know.

 

[Barbara Manatee]

I am Canadian. I am going. I am scared.

I'm sorry.

 

[Karen-W]

I am Canadian. I am going. I am scared.

Probably would have been scarier last month when the NHL's Four Nations Faceoff Final was being played at TD Garden than it will be this coming week.

 

[PRlady]

Canadians should know that the vast majority of skating fans who will be at Worlds like Canada and Canadians and are horrified by this nonsense. You are not Russia. You have done nothing wrong. If we liked LaLa or Deanna before this, we still do. I’ll happily stand for your anthem if any of your skaters win.

 

[Alilou]

I am Canadian. I am going. I am scared.

I sincerely hope your SM is politics-free, or more specifically free of anything anti the current regime. They're checking through people's phones at the border.
Many stories are starting to emerge now of people being refused entry or detained for very little reason.
Good luck! Probably everything will be fine.

 

[PRlady]

I sincerely hope your SM is politics-free, or more specifically free of anything anti the current regime. They're checking through people's phones at the border.
Many stories are starting to emerge now of people being refused entry or detained for very little reason.
Good luck! Probably everything will be fine.

They could refuse entry to half the Americans at the border if that were the only standard, believe me. They’re looking for immigrants or visitors with specific links to Hamas or Hezbollah or researchers on topics the government doesn’t like. That’s awful enough but just today three of our friends who have posted plenty of stuff against our government (and theirs) got thru Dulles uneventfully on tourist visas. Don’t panic.

But don’t hand over your phone.

 

[Karen-W]

They could refuse entry to half the Americans at the border if that were the only standard, believe me. They’re looking for immigrants or visitors with specific links to Hamas or Hezbollah or researchers on topics the government doesn’t like. That’s awful enough but just today three of our friends who have posted plenty of stuff against our government (and theirs) got thru Dulles uneventfully on tourist visas. Don’t panic.

I think that's the main focus, along with people who have ties to the drug cartels, as well as MS-13 and Tren de Aragua. But I'm honest enough to admit I've seen stories of people being denied who were trying to re-enter the country on a tourist visa while posting on their social media about working for board & lodging during their last tourist visit, people who had been flagged for open legal charges pending against them (either in the US or in another country), or people who got denied at one port of entry flying to another port of entry and trying to enter again then being detained. Those are all perfectly valid reasons to deny entry or detain someone, but my guess is that pretty much everyone coming to the US for an event like Worlds are not going to fall into any of those categories and they're going to be fine & have a perfectly lovely visit.