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Cubicle Dreamin': All I Want on Vacation is Books

Where: 1001 S.W. Broadway [map], Portland, OR, United States, 97205

January 31, 2008 at 10:15 AM | 0 Comments

Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? Send the story our way.

In this episode, Contributing Editor AmandaK has a bookworm getaway. Enjoy.

There's a really, really good reason that I want to stay at the Heathman Hotel in Portland, Oregon, and it's definitely not because I want to check out the alleged ghost activity. No, this time it's all about the books.

The Heathman Hotel is famous for its 4000-book library, just unveiled to the public and ready for my voracious reading eyes. To celebrate this opening they're offering a package called "Books By Your Bedside" which sounds like the ideal hotel deal for me. For $229 a night you get a tour of the library, your very own travel reading light, a few books from the local bookstore and a hardcover copy of a book written by one of the authors who has stayed overnight at the Heathman--possibilities include Tom Wolfe, Alice Walker and John Updike.

Free books? This is my dream hotel. Now all they need to add is a few dream cocktails (also free, please) and an extremely comfortable chair, and I'll be reading my heart out for my entire stay. I have a feeling I wouldn't have a chance to check out Portland, but I'd sure as heck be getting my brain stimulated. By chance, the Heathman Hotel also looks like a pretty funky hotel, so if my eyes stray from the page I'll still be happy.

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