Red Lion Hotel Portland Airport

Quick stay 2 rooms 3 adults 4 under 7yo

Pros: Comfortable quiet dark rooms for sleeping

Cons: Breakfast needs to be available earlier or at least some cereal and fruit

Adequate

Pros: The hotel is closely located to the airport and provides a very timely shuttle to and from the airport. The workers at reception are accommodating and the rooms are clean.

Cons: Unfortunately, they don't offer any sort of continental breakfast in the morning. There is a restaurant next door, but unfortunately it wasn't open when I was looking for a piece of fruit and some toast in the morning. There were no luggage carts available when I first arrived which was an inconvenience as I was traveling with a lot of gear for work, and since I arrived late, reception was unable to assist me with my bags to my room.

It's a place to sleep

Pros: The bed was comfortable and clean. The room was definitely very well serviced by the standards of a typical 2 star hotel. The morning shuttle driver was incredibly friendly and helpful, and most of the staff I encountered were great. The hotel was fine as a place to crash for a single night. Unfortunately I had to stay for a couple nights, but it wasn't too bad even so.

Cons: The air-freshener used in the hallway is the same one used by many porta-potty companies. Hence, the hallway reminded me of an outhouse. Might want to work on that.... The windows are NOT sound blocking - and the hotel is at the foot of the runway, so if jets bother you, this will be a problem (PDX is pretty quiet from 11pm to 5/6am though, luckily) There was an outdoor light mounted just outside my window that had an incredibly loud transformer hum, which was very very annoying. Walkability is incredibly low. You will need a car here if you want to go get food, unless you're cool with walking about a mile to the local restaurants (you can take the shuttle also, which I didn't do as I do like to walk and the weather was nice.) The rooms do NOT exclude external sounds very well. Doors slamming up and down halls are clearly audible and startlingly loud at times. Conversation of people walking by, etc. Overall, it's more that the hotel is ALMOST an excellent 2 star hotel than anything particularly bad.