maudelynn
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Post by maudelynn on Mar 17, 2008 13:35:29 GMT -5
Matt and I are heading to Portland tomorrow for the day We have booked the Monaco but I thought there may be other places some of you Oregoners might prefer! So???  |
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Post by Mme de Beaufort on Mar 17, 2008 14:46:50 GMT -5
I've never had the pleasure of staying in a hotel in town... Sorry! |
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catecalloway
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Post by catecalloway on Mar 21, 2008 20:17:57 GMT -5
Well, it's too late now, but for future reference anyway, though I've never stayed in one, I'd still recommend any of the Mcmenamins pubs/hotels. They're all nice restored old buildings-- and lots going on to go see and do before you've even left the building (movies, pubs, bars, saunas, whatever, that type of thing-- not in all of them). I think they've got places in Seattle too, so you're probably well aware of them. Here in Portland there's the White Eagle, one of the oldest former brothels / current pubs in Portland, supposedly haunted, with an entrance into the Shanghai Tunnels where they used to shanghai drunk people and ship them off as sailors in the old days. You can tour the tunnels. And there's Kennedy School, and... well here's the website: www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?type=hotel |
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maudelynn
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Post by maudelynn on Mar 25, 2008 12:14:17 GMT -5
Well, it's too late now, but for future reference anyway, though I've never stayed in one, I'd still recommend any of the Mcmenamins pubs/hotels. They're all nice restored old buildings-- and lots going on to go see and do before you've even left the building (movies, pubs, bars, saunas, whatever, that type of thing-- not in all of them). I think they've got places in Seattle too, so you're probably well aware of them. Here in Portland there's the White Eagle, one of the oldest former brothels / current pubs in Portland, supposedly haunted, with an entrance into the Shanghai Tunnels where they used to shanghai drunk people and ship them off as sailors in the old days. You can tour the tunnels. And there's Kennedy School, and... well here's the website: www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?type=hotelthose look wonderful! next time we will try one of those! We ended up at the Monaco and it was lovely! A bit of a madhouse as actors and writers from 2 movies being filmed in portland were in residence there, as well as shaquile o'neil and the rest of his team Good times |
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