{"id":1601,"date":"2026-07-12T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2026-07-03T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T00:15:14","slug":"now-is-not-the-time-to-keep-cool-places-a-secret-in-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2026\/07\/12\/now-is-not-the-time-to-keep-cool-places-a-secret-in-portland\/","title":{"rendered":"Now is not the time to keep cool places a secret in PDX."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I lived in Austin, Texas for less than five years. I&#8217;m not from Texas. Yet, within a year, I knew EVERY boutique hotel, every funky hotel, every historic hotel, despite never staying in one. I joke that I got a job at the United Nations because of the funky place I had him stay. I also knew every fantastic bar (especially those with live music) for whatever vibe you were looking for, even if I didn&#8217;t go there myself, and I knew at least 20 fantastic restaurants for whatever your budget. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have lived in the Portland, Oregon metro area since 2009 &amp; LAST WEEK is the first time I heard of <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietyhotel.com\/portland\/\">The Society Hotel in Portland, Oregon<\/a>. Historic building. Once a sailor\u2019s hotel. Great location. Affordable. There&#8217;s even a bunk room. Iconic lobby cafe. Rooftop deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it&#8217;s for sale because it&#8217;s not profitable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is so typical of the culture of PDX: how many times have I asked for ideas of places to stay in Portland? I&#8217;ve specifically asked of friends living in Portland for something EXACTLY like this. The comment is always, &#8220;Oh, I dunno&#8230; I&#8217;ve never stayed in a hotel here&#8221; or &#8220;When my family visits, they just stay with me&#8221; or silence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We stayed in Portland in January for my birthday. We would have LOVED to have stayed here! But we&#8217;d never heard of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, nothing against the Society Hotel, I guess. And it looks great &#8211; I&#8217;m putting info here on my blog because, hey, if you are going to stay in Portland, this place looks GREAT. But unlike someone from Oregon, I&#8217;m going to make sure everyone knows about it! Which I guess means it&#8217;s not cool anymore&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, if someone will tell me where the good Mexican restaurant is in the PDX area, life will be even better for me here. <br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lived in Austin, Texas for less than five years. I&#8217;m not from Texas. Yet, within a year, I knew EVERY boutique hotel, every funky hotel, every historic hotel, despite never staying in one. I joke that I got a job at the United Nations because of the funky place I had him stay. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[980],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}