HotelChatter - Tag: Oregon Hotels

Pacific Coast Highway Hotels Get Their Own App

ASchechter — 2011-08-10T09:15:02-05:00

Ready to take your next West Coast road trip to the next level? Check out this $0.99 iPhone/iPad app by GuideGecko, which organizes over 200 hotels—by state—along the 1,250 mile journey from San Diego to Seattle. And for all you jet-setting winos, there is even a special category built for California Wine Country.

While travel guidebooks can certainly be helpful in providing local info, listings, and some photos, no 500-page Lonely Planet can ever become as fully integrated (or as lightweight) as an app like this. Want to call and check availability? You're already on your phone. Want to book online? Tap away. Got lost along the way? All of the maps can be accessed offline.

Astoria: 'Goonies Never Say Die'...When It Comes to Winning a Free Hotel Stay

juliana — 2011-05-05T17:02:11-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/Gooniescontest.jpg" class="top"> Watch out for those booty traps.It's already well-established that Goonies is the best rainy day movie ever and anyone who was a kid in the 80s can probably recite the movie line-for line at any given time. (Our favorite? "Up there is their time but down here, it's our time.") So how can we not love this new contest which is combining two of our favorite things--Goonies and hotel rooms.<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/CANNERY+PIER+HOTEL/local/4160">The Cannery Pier Hotel</a> in Astoria, Ore., where Goonies was filmed, is offering Goonies fans the chance to win a two-night stay at the hotel, along with dinner for you and Troy, er, your friend/lover/spouse at the Bridgewater Bistro, drinks and dessert at the Astoria Coffee house

Portland: Pad Thai and Body Pillows at the Hotel Lucia and Hotel deLuxe

ASchechter — 2011-05-03T15:32:10-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/deLuxeRoom2.JPG" class="top"> If you've never heard of them before, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Provenance%20Hotels">Provenance Hotels</a> is a small boutique chain based out of Portland, Ore., with just five hotels in Oregon, Washington, and Tennessee (not to mention a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/10/4/225540/726/hotels/Trouble_is_Brewing_at_the_Hotel_Frank">new location in San Francisco</a> at the Hotel Frank). Last week, we got the opportunity to check out two of their Portland hotels, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Lucia/local/1804">Hotel Lucia</a> and the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+deLuxe/local/891">Hotel deLuxe</a>. Located blocks from each other in Portland's steadily growing downtown area, both hotels are housed in converted buildings from the 1900s, and both offer clean, artsy rooms with incredible service. In fact, if it weren't for the added glitziness and brighter colors of the deLuxe, we might have had a hard

Portland: Stick It To The Man With the Help of Ace Portland

juliab — 2010-11-08T16:32:49-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/aceportlandlobby.jpg" class="top"> Theres 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 <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Ace+Hotel+Portland/local/821">Ace Portland</a> has just launched is getting us even more excited than the moment on our first trip there that we were told there was no sales tax in Oregon. The Stick It To The Man package goes one stage further and offers you 10 percent off a standard room, 10 percent off things you buy at the Ace (including yummy Malin + Goetz smellies) and 10 percent off purchases from a selection of local retailers. The discount is good for

Portland: Naked Lady Alert In the Lobby of The Nines, Portland

juliab — 2010-11-04T17:35:45-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/ninesnaked1.jpg" class="top"> Ok so we knew Portland, Oregon has a reputation of being uber-hip and all, but nakedness in the lobby is something we definitely didnt expect to encounter especially as we were staying in swanky Luxury Collection property, The Nines. But as we came out of the elevator at the eighth floor to make our way to the check in desk, we were confronted by shop mannequins without any clothes on. Whew! There were three of them round one side of the check in desk, and another one in a flashers pose on the way into the atrium and the restaurant Urban Farmer. <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/ninesnaked2.jpg" class="top"> Sadly, they were all ladies. Even sadder, the theme did not