I’m looking for some good lodging in the Portland area for this upcoming weekend (nights of Friday the 11th until Sunday the 13th — possibly coming in on the 10th if the price is right). I’m going to a wedding in Oregon City, but I’d probably like to be on the other side of the freeway so I can take the kids to the zoo, etc… . The rub is that there will be 5 of us: Me, my wife, my 18 year old sister-in-law, and my two small children (6 and 3) so ideally we’d either need a suite or a small home or something.
The various vacation rental sites didn’t have much (I’m used to Central Oregon that has hundreds of vacation rental homes), and the chains that we’ve tried are all booked or too expensive for the room size we need.
Anybody got a good hookup? Email me at jake [at] utterlyboring [dot] com or comment here.
Update on 8/6: Thanks for the offers and the help, but we actually found some relatives that live really close to where we need to be, so we’ll be crashing with them. Thanks anyway!
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Jake – try posting something in the tripAdvisor forums: http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowForum-g52024-i238-Portland_Oregon.html
They get a lot of activity and the people are very helpful! 🙂
That was a helpful site. Thanks! I’ll see what I can come up with (I still might be able to find a relative in the area — we’ll have to see).
Jake,
Feel free to stay at my place, we’ve got what amounts to a little B&B with a large room, private bathroom, and a view of the creek. You have your own entrance so you can come and go at all ours of the night.
You should still have my phone number — give me a call.
–Ken
with an offer like Ken’s…you surely won’t need http://www.travelportland.com/big_deal/big_deal_hotels.html
Sometimes, they do have zoo packages with hotels at that site. http://www.travelportland.com/big_deal/big_deal_events.html
I’m going to be up there for a post-op on Friday, but I’m not sure how long the trip is going to be.
Yeah, we’re still working it out. My wife has an aunt, come to find out, that lives about 2 miles from the wedding site, so I don’t know if we’ll be able to pass that up, assuming that we can get ahold of her to stay there.
Thanks everybody for the great tips! Can you tell I don’t ever travel? 😉
Ken, I’ll let you know one way or another.