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Oregon Travel: Staying at the Hotel Deluxe, Portland, Oregon


My weekend started early this past week, Tuesday evening to be exact.  The boys were going to be off for school for three days so we decided to head into the city (Portland) for some fun.  We only live 38 miles from downtown but when you live in the country it seems like you are going to another planet, I love that.

We stayed at a beautiful, old, sophisticated hotel known as the Hotel Deluxe.  The hotel has been renovated to pay tribute to the Golden Era of Hollywood.  Beautiful chandeliers, mirrors and all kinds of fanciness make up this stylistic hotel’s lobby and rooms.

When the doormen opened the door as we entered, my boys looked at me and said, “Oh this is a fancy place huh Mom?”  Glad they can recognize the difference, LOL.


Each floor of the hotel pays tribute to Hollywood director’s of the Golden Age and movie posters from their films line the hallways.


Here are the boys checking out the view of the Morrison Bridge from our window.  Our room was nicely appointed, very clean, large and comfortable.  The walk-in closet was so big we could all be in there at once. 


This was the best part, the pillow menu.  Yes, we ordered one of each and several others.  They brought them immediately and was just awesome as I don’t usually get along with hotel pillows.


The hotel also had this next to the phone.  While we weren’t inclined to order from it, I’m now curious what the Four Noble Truths are…need to Google that.


We did a lot of walking around, which is what we love to do in the city.


Portland is a beautiful city with amazing architecture and charm.  You can actually find parking and I have yet to feel unsafe there.


I did some damage here.


This guy will still pose for me at my request.


We had some lunch here.  We love Bento!!


And besides all those other places we ate, we also went to a very nice restaurant called Salty’s on the Columbia.  This beautiful restaurant sits on the Oregon side of the Columbia River as opposed to the Washington state side.  The Columbia River is what you see when you are landing at Portland International Airport.


We had a very nice table next to the fireplace.


Despite Salty’s being a more upscale restaurant, they completely catered to the kids.  They brought them Jello, Goldfish crackers and crayons to keep them busy before dinner.


Here is a picture of my Pork Tenderloin built around a Port-Juniper Berry Reduction.  It was amazing and I washed it down with some Panther Creek Pinot Noir, a perfect pairing.


When we returned home the boys had a birthday party to attend.


The party was at Safari Sam’s which is pretty much Chuck E. Cheese on steroids.  This is the humongous jungle gym that goes all above the party tables.


Glow-in-the dark miniature golf.


And enough video games to make the kids insanely happy.


With his ticket winnings, this guy bought a set of mustaches.  Yes, he’s still wearing them. 


It was a good weekend, how was yours?

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  1. WOW, my weekend was not as exciting as yours. Portland looks like a very interesting city. Your dinner looked fabulous. I loved the mustaches. It surely seemed like a nice weekend of memories.

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  2. What a nice weekend you had. I love hotels that are old but are still well maintained. This weekend I took the kiddies to a U-pick farm and we picked pesticide free green beans straight from the vine. They ran from a cow that was also incidentally spooked and running from them…good times, good times.

    My best, Lynn

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  9. Hello friend! My little one just saw the pictures of your boys and said, “Oh, I miss them so much!” I hope you are doing well! I miss you too! šŸ™‚

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  12. Sounds like you guys had a great time in Portland! I shopped around Williams and Sonoma myself last Tuesday. I don’t shop in downtown Portland that often but I had a great time and had to wonder why I don’t do it more often. And thanks for the hotel review. It sounds like a wonderful place to stay!

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  13. Pretty quiet here. Took a drive up north for a quick day trip on Saturday.
    Your photos are yummy on this post. I love the sepia toned hotel shots and all the street scenes. What a beautiful city. FABULOUS hotel!!

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  14. I always loved weekends away in new places with my chidren. Now they are all grown and have travelled the world themselves I still love them. You look lke you had a wonderful time and the sepia touched photos are fantastic.

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  15. Cathy, what a fabulous getaway. The boys look like they had a wonderful time.

    The Four Noble Truths are the core of Buddhist teaching: There is suffering. There is a cause to suffering. There is an end to suffering. The is a path out of suffering.

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  18. Your boys do so ooze personality. (Bet they get that from their mama… šŸ™‚ )

    So funny you photographed the Jumpin’ Jackpot. Our She-Twin loves those so she had be look up how much they cost ($8K) to see if they’re too expensive for personal purchase. They are. šŸ˜‰

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  19. I love Portland too…it’s so much fun to wander around all day. I still haven’t tried Salty’s – it’s on my must try list.

    Next time you visit the city try Lucy’s Table – it’s amazing!

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  22. What a great weekend. Love that tenderloin and the pillow menu…how stinkin’ cool is that along with the whole premise of the hotel. The boys are adorable as always.

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  24. I love Portland. It is the one and only big city I will drive too, and around in, by myself, without a panic attack. It is beautiful and mostly friendly with so many wonderful small towns and scenic areas surrounding it.

    Looks like my kind of weekend, and your hooligans are so cute, how blessed you are to have days like this with them.

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  31. Your family takes the most interesting trips. That hotel looks like a blast – I think I would have ordered one of each of the books just to see what they were all about!

    Those mustaches – practicing for later life!

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  33. What fabulous pictures. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I love Portland too. The hotel’s amazing and as for the boys – well, can we borrow them?? They look like so much fun!

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  35. I love restaurants that cater to kids. In Florida, other than close to the House of Mouse, they’ll fall over themselves to help seniors, but bring a kid into a restaurant, and you might as well be toting along an alien being. High chair? Yeah, we might have had one of those back in 1945. Got disposed of to help the war effort. I don’t go to Florida much.

    I like your black and white and bw/sepia photos. They are nice. And I’ll go for the hotel with the pillow menu. That’s even better than room service (and I’ll bet that was awesome, too)!

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  40. Yes Saltys is very good although not very highly rated on yelp. I would eat there again, if you drive a tad east from Saltys
    you can watch the planes coming and going from Portland Int.

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  44. I’ve never been to Portland so I really enjoyed taking a little virtual trip via your blog! It looks so quaint – not at all as I had assumed it to be. Thanks for sharing!

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