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Hotel Coverage: Ace Hotel Portland
Nom, Nom, Nom: 5 of Our Favorite Hotel Grilled Cheeses
If you stay in hotels as much as we do, you start to develop a "regular" dish. You know what we mean. This is your go-to order when you've checked into your hotel and desperately need something to order from room service, even at the in-between hour of 4pm. It's...
July 19, 2012
Just In Time For Summer, More Hipster Goodies From The Ace
The latest output from the seemingly endless fount of hipster goodies commissioned by The Ace Hotel will slip around your wrist, smell like an old English saddle, and make you look super cool at, say, an outdoor music festival. At least, that's the intention behind the new Ace X Tanner...
May 03, 2012
Lunch at Clyde Common at The ACE PDX Cost Just This Much
We have a serious heart-on for the Clyde Common restaurant at the Ace Hotel Portland and it's easy to see why--we had lunch there for just $10. And it was a phenomenal lunch too as we ordered an aged monterey jack and marinated anaheim pepper grilled cheese served with...
August 16, 2011
Inside The Ace Hotel in Portland, Oregon
You've heard all about the Ace Hotel New York, we're sure, but what about the other three Ace properties scattered on the west side of the the country? There's just as many people strolling through the lobby thinking they're cooler or more influential than they really are, and there's...
June 29, 2011
More Metal Thingies in Hotels, This Time at the Ace Portland
Okay, it's official; we are totally on the look-out for hotel rooms that feature the little extra amenity of a wall-mounted bottle opener. First, we spotted in the business traveler-oriented, $300+ rooms of the Sofitel Heathrow Airport, and now one has made an appearance in the hipster-centric $95 rooms...
June 23, 2011
You Get What You Pay for With This Portland Anti-View
You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face,...
June 15, 2011
Why Everyone's 'Checking Into' Room 215 at The Ace Portland
For the past month now, guests at the Ace Portland have taken a particular liking to room 215, often making daily pilgrimages there in the mornings between 7am and 11am. It might (just might) have something to do with the following: the ever-innovative Ace has converted a previous Junior...
April 06, 2011
Stick It To The Man With the Help of Ace Portland
There’s nowt like getting discounts on your shopping, and nowt like going with the flow in a place like Portland and getting all chippy against The Man, so the new holiday shopping package that the Ace Portland has just launched is getting us even more excited than the moment...
November 08, 2010
Ace Hotels Apparently Not 'Too Cool' To Blog
The Ace Hotels are already known as purveyors of cool so we’re not surprised that they’ve started a blog—just that it’s taken them so long to do so. The still fledgling blog, which you can find here, looks appropriately lo-fi, fitting right in with the chain’s artsy vibe. Featured...
January 25, 2010
Ace Hotels Sets Up A Quickie Holiday Shop In Tokyo
'Tis the season for pop-up shops, and wouldn't you know that the Ace Hotels—those four hipster paradises found in Seattle, New York, Portland and Palm Springs—are getting in on the shopping fervor with a temporary store inside of Tokyo's Isetan Shinjuku department store. The 5th floor cabinet of curiosities...
December 14, 2009
Portland's Ace Hotel Enters Fall With New Bikes And Artisan Booze
Ah, fall in the Pacific Northwest; it just makes you long to be outside, wearing your favorite flannel shirt and dreaming of chai tea. Luckily, The Ace Hotel in Portland, Oregon anticipated this and they've amped up their offerings for a refreshed and outdoorsy autumn. First up are their...
October 05, 2009
Ace Hotels Publishes a Guide To Sonic Youth's Hotspots
Ace Hotels, always excited over collaboration to produce their own goodies, is at it again with a new guidebook to Seattle, Portland, and New York City featuring the favorite spots from members of Sonic Youth. Only 3,000 of the guides were printed, which are being given for FREE to...
July 09, 2009
Five PDX Hotels for Less Than a Benjamin
Wah! You want a getaway, but your wallet says no. Skip the guilt trip and take a mini-vacay to Portland, Oregon, where plenty of hotel rates are caught in a budget-friendly fiscal time warp. Here are five of our fave Portland hotels for under $100 a night. ...
May 19, 2009
Use Your Ace Hotel Portland Room Key to "Stick It to the Man"
Taking advantage of people's need to watch their wallets and bargain-hunt this holiday season, the Ace Hotel Portland is all about the discounts; they've launched partnerships with neighboring boutiques and even Amtrak to ease the economic pain. According to the Ace, "shopping in Oregon means no sales tax, and...
December 11, 2008
Eats at the Ace Hotel in Portland
While the Ace Hotels readies for it NYC Opening, Abigail checked in on the Portland location. While we may have been sleeping at The Nines on our recent trip to Portland, we couldn't help but heading over to the Ace, a long-time HotelChatter love, and take our picture in...
November 12, 2008
The Nines To Open as a Luxury Collection Hotel in Portland
Department Store Fashionistas, if you aren't brave enough to stay at the Ace Hotel in Portland, Oregon then there might be something a little more your style coming soon.The Nines is set to open this fall on the top nine floors of the historic 100-year-old Meier & Frank building which...
May 21, 2008
The Ace Hotel in Portland Wants You To See Stephen Malkmus and The Jinks
If you were a big fan of the underground band Pavement back in the day, then you might be interested in this new package from the Ace Hotel Portland.Former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus and his new band, The Jicks are playing in Portland at the Wonder Ballroom on May for...
April 16, 2008
Ace Hotel Portland is Inspiration for the Number (N)ine Fashion Line
We knew the Ace Hotel in Portland, Oregon was a pretty hip spot but could it really be a fashion muse? Apparently so. The hotel was the inspiration for the Japanese designer Takahiro Miyashita's Fall `08 menswear line for lable Number (N)ine. In fact, the hotel collaborated with Miyashita on...
February 13, 2008
Ace Hotels Expanding to California, New York
Seattle's hipster haven, the Ace Hotel, is expanding to both the East and West coasts. While we told you about the planned Palm Springs location Monday, we've since learned more and also heard about a possible Ace in New York. In Manhattan, the Ace plans to redesign the landmarked Breslin...
December 05, 2007
The Peninsula Hotel In Manila Has Re-Opened
The Peninsula Hotel Manila has reopened after a scary failed military seige took place there last week. The Peninsula Hotel has now formally re-opened, after repairs said to cost more than $100,000. It estimates it lost $1.2m through the alleged coup attempt. That is almost as bad as Britney Spears...
December 03, 2007
Someone Else Stayed at the Ace Hotel in Portland, Did You?
The other day HotelChatter's Markj spent a night at the Ace Hotel in Portland aka "The Drugstore Cowboy Hotel." And today Amy over at NewYorkology sent in her pics from stay inside a room at the Ace which had a giant dripping cat stenciled on the wall.She paid about $200...
October 09, 2007
Ace Hotel Portland: 'Drugstore Cowboy' Hotel Video
Downtown Portland's old Hotel Clyde recently became Ace Hotel Portland, and the renovated Clyde boasts murals in every one of the 79 rooms, a popular cafeteria style restaurant in the lobby, its own coffee shop, free WiFi, free common computers, and rooms for under $100--warning--those rooms don't come with...
October 08, 2007
Partner Reviews: Ace Hotel Portland
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Awesome movie nights every Wednesday! -
Ask to dj w your own iPod, either mine or Nikkah's! -
Come on Tuesday & Wednesday night for service from sexy lady bartenders! -
Awesome movie night every Wednesday night!!
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an East Village jewel -
Best bartenders in the city. -
Come on a Tuesday night and leave the bartender, Bianca, a huge tip. She is super sexy! -
My other 5th street go to. This place is a gem and possibly the closest replacement to Mars Bar you can find. -
Maddy hearts Bradley! Tip your bartender! -
241 happy hour every day til 8, and awesome movies on Wednesdays :) -
Tip the bartenders well and you'll always b treated well
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Also, the two heated pipes against the wall do wonders for your back. It's like a hot tub. -
Wear your jacket and don't fall off your stool.
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$6 PBR and well bourbon happy hour is appealing. As is the 4am and later lock-in where you can convince the bartenders to put on your iPod.
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actually John Ross is mayor of fish bar.
holy overrated
A tough stay, but I love portland so fair city I'll be back and will stay elsewhere. and I still think staff stole my cuff watch
Wake Up Call!
The rooms at the Ace Hotels are among Portland's most unique and the Clyde Common's kitchen is by far Portland's most innovative however The Front Desk could be a bit better!
Unique, vintage flair with a reasonable rate
I didn't know what to expect when my husband and I booked our stay at the Ace Hotel. We typically stay in pampered bed and breakfast venues but we were looking for an affordable, hip place to stay near the Pearl District. I loved the minimal decor and clean lines in the rooms and the vintage flair throughout the hotel. We stayed on the third floor with the shared bathroom down the hall and never had any issues with waiting to use the facilities. Everything was clean and if you don't pack alot (we each have one small to medium sized suitcase for a weeks worth of vacation attire/toiletries) there is no issue of not having enough space. We didn't have any problems with sound issues or thin walls, but our room did have a window with a view of a brick wall. But then again, what can you expect when you are downtown in congested living at a reasonable price? It is very convienent to walking anywhere you want to go (at least a dozen art galleries, unique boutiques, Cupcake Jones, Powell's Books, plenty of dining -fast or fine). The staff was friendly and helpful with giving directions. We also loved that is since we only had a day and a half to visit the area it is nice that the hotel is located next to Stumptown Coffee Roasters and Clyde Common restaurant. Great coffee, fun food and awesome mixed drinks, and a refreshing place to stay all within steps of each other. We had a great time and would definitely go back.
More surfaces, please!
I like to think that I fit the The Ace's demographic in that I prefer small, unique boutique hotels and understand that might mean fewer amenities then you might find in a large chain hotel. That said, I was surprised that The Ace had more of a feeling of an upscale hostel then a not inexpensive hotel. I don't mind that I can't order food (again, not unusual in a smaller hotel) but it meant no one ever came to clean the room, leaving us with no clean towels for the next day. Even though we had a proper bathroom, it was a bit disconcerting seeing people duck in and out of the bathrooms in the hall and stairway. Because of that and lack of staff, the place had a distinct "self-serve" feeling about it. The room itself had great potential. Cool mural/painting on the wall, hardwood floors, a record player with a box of records, high ceilings and interesting decor. What there was of it. We had a sofa, but there was no coffee table or side table to put anything on, just short wooden boxes, which were too small to be useful. The bathroom sink was outside of the bathroom itself (which had nothing but the tub and toilet) and was a corner sink with no room for so much as a tube of toothpaste. They remedy this by providing a small stainless steel table as a space to put a few things. God help you of you have a large brush and lots of cosmetics and toiletries. They'll be homeless. The closet contained 5 hangers (for two people!) and instead of a chest of drawers or shelves to compensate, a hanging canvas shoe holder, as seen at Ikea. Would it hurt them to give you something in which to put a few days of clothing? All in all I found the hotel interesting, and ultimately enjoyed my stay in spite of the odd logistical issues but I can't say I'll be back soon. It did feel as if their determination to present a certain look and feel overshadowed any concern or sympathy for the person actually staying in the room. More surfaces, please!
and I am the target demographic
Let me get this straight, I can pay over $100/nt to share a bath, have a view of a wall, and expect absolutely bad front desk service? Or I can stay up the street at a real hotel (boring, yes) and have privacy and service? This hotel is simply too stripped down. There isn't even art on the walls, compared to the Seattle location this is a piss-poor deal. Everyone knows you don;t go to a place like this expecting it to be a spa, but at least give me an ipod hookup so i can play my own music. Or how bout's a little breakfast? Or some daylight? These are not high expectations. Maybe they blew the budget on the little wall mounted TV's? Further WHO EVEN WATCHES TV ANYWAY?!
New Favorite Place - Great Place for Events!
I had a party at The Ace Hotel recently in their event space "The Cleaners" and I couldnt have asked for a better experience. Every single person who worked there was awesome and helpful and sweet. The event space was fantastic and all our guests were impressed with the venue. They set up a bar and there was a DJ and a door person. For an amateur party thrower it was easy to plan and my contact was very patient with my contsant calls asnd questions. After the party we went up to our corner suite which we loved. Everything from the old books to the way the rooms were arranged, the beautiful bathrooms. I wish I lived there.. I would highly recommend staying there or having your next big event there.
Sleepless in Portland
So my wife and I live in Portland and decided to make a little weekend getaway to downtown. We had heard of this new funky, cool hip hotel downtown called the ?Ace Hotel?. Sounded like fun right? Well sorry to say but wrong! This place is cool and hip for sure, but there is one itty-bitty problem. Last time I checked hotels were for sleeping. Well we barely slept a wink. The problem? It?s hard to get any sleep when there are several nightclubs right outside your window. The problem gets worse when you realize that this is an old historic building, with thin walls and old windows. It sounded like we were IN the nightclubs. We could hear everything. The bars don?t close until 2:30 and then it all spills out into the street until 3:00 am. If that weren?t enough try the herd of elephants in the room above us. Finally at 3:30 am I called the room above us to ask them to keep it down a little. A very chipper guy answered and said ?sure no problem we were just getting ready to head out for the night?. I must be getting old or something, but I had to laugh. The only suggestion I have for the ACE is to provide complimentary earplugs in the rooms, but what hotel would want to send that message. All in all it is a neat hotel, but not for those that actually like a hotel for sleeping. It was a Friday night, so maybe the weekdays are better, but I can for sure say, stay away on a Friday night or get a room on that faces one of the numbered streets.
