Thanks Mike - that's a great analogy. I'm leaning that way as our flight home is on Tuesday evening so we'll have a whole day in Boston and I really don't want to be dragging luggage around if we can help it. Plus it's close to the airport. Hopefully a couple of bars will still be open on the way back to the hotel.Foxborough is like ... well think of going to a game at Wembley and staying in Neasden. Boston, on the other hand, is great fun.
But the train is pretty incredible. It's slower and clunkier than you'd have thought possible. Still, the last time I did it (last season) things had got better, at least on the organizational side. You could buy tickets online in advance and download them to your phone wallet. And, slow though it was, I didn't miss kick-off.
So my advice is, unless you're desperate to tailgate or walk around the Patriots Hall of Fame (my guess is the answer is "no" about the latter from what you say -- it would be a useful re-education, but there we are) bite the bullet and use the train. Have a couple of extra ****tails in town.
Now here is a VERY IMPORTANT piece of advice. Make sure you've read the restrictions on what can be brought into the stadium and HAVE NOTHING ELSE WITH YOU. You can't leave backpacks and so on on the train.
Have fun!
And slower and clunkier? I raise you Waterloo East to London Bridge!