I recommend the Hilton app, you'll never have to wait in line at the front desk again. You can check in up to a day in advance and the room key will be pushed to your phone as soon as it's ready.

For non-US citizens I think they need to see ID before issuing the key. at least that is my experience

After arriving on BA I have never had a long wait manually checking in to Boston Logan Hilton apart from the time they said BA holidays had not paid them but when a back office manager came out all was sorted.

Boston Logan Hilton followed by BA238 is my favourite flight USA to UK.

Boarding from the lounge to E12 is the icing on the cake.

Technically it�s lounge boarding from E11, but today�s departure was from E8 about 3 minutes� walk away. Boarding was announced in the lounge, and by the time I�d made it to the gate they were already boarding both groups 1 & 2.

No, the lounge boarding is from E12.

My beloved home airport lounge is connected to E12 only, have to go downstairs for all others

Yes unfortunately no more lounge boarding for the morning flight these days. With the current schedule, the BA239 ends up arriving before the BA202 pushes back from E12, so has to use another gate.

I guess I was set up to fail there, as the lounge is accessed adjacent to gate E11, but direct boarding from the lounge is apparently gate E12 despite that.

FWIW, galley gossip from the crew told me that loads on the 238/239 rotation are currently low, particularly down the back. On Friday there total pax were around 90 pax on the BA239, and 120 on the 238 yesterday, and that possibly one of the three rotations might be withdrawn, especially bearing in mind BA's lack of aircraft for various reasons.

I believe we were on the same flight, very lightly loaded in WT. I flew over on the Thursday and the crew said there were total of 32 Pax on board, this was the 17:05 departure.

I'm not a US citizen and no ID was required when I used the HH app to check into the Hilton in Houston the day before my arrival and I got the room key to my phone on the day once in Houston. I just went straight through to my room and avoided the long check in queue.

Yeah BA lounge is above E12, Emirates lounge is above E11, and Lufthansa lounge is above E10. All three are accessed from the same staircase across from E11, and have direct boarding to their respective gates.

Was sadly sat down the back a couple of weeks ago on a friday , very lightly loaded. Many rows with people able to sleep across them

I meant to add directions for the 10 minute walk from Terminal E arrivals to the BOS Hilton.

The TL;DR is to follow the signs to Terminal A, then after a couple of minutes you should start seeing signs to the Hilton. If the Hilton signs appear to evaporate, refer to Terminal A signs for backup. Around half way, you should be able to see the Hilton building to your right as you walk along.

More detail…

There are a series of escalators, lifts and travelators to take, but as long as you keep eagle-eyed on the signs, you should be OK. The entire route is covered and almost entirely enclosed throughout its length: I didn’t need to put on my coat despite the outside temperature being -11C.

When you arrive at the Hilton, you’re initially on the meeting room/conference level (hotel’s level 2). After passing through this section, you’ll find yourself overlooking the lobby atrium, and can then either take one of the hotel room lifts or the escalator down to the lobby level to check in.

When going back to Terminal E, for a quick exit, you can avoid the lobby level entirely, and take the lift to the hotel’s level 2 instead, back through the meeting room/conference area, and back the way you came, following the appropriate signs to Terminal E.

Were the baked beans not cooked well or you just don't like that style? Being from Boston I grew on on Boston baked beans and still love them though I do appreciate British style beans when I'm there as well! And yes, unfortunately our lovely Puritan "blue" laws shining through there blocking us from having alcohol in the morning....