If it looks like a green hotel, and quacks like a green hotel, then it has to be… the Oxford Hotel in Bend, Oregon. This boutique hotel has gone the extra mile to make sure that guests can enjoy guilt-free and eco-friendly luxury.

The Oxford Hotel, Bend, OR

In fact,  ”where luxury meets sustainability” seems to be their watchword. Every luxury the hotel offers is rendered guilt free by the use of green technology and products.

The use of 100% renewable energy allows for them to light up the hotel like a Christmas tree with fluorescent lighting and for guests to use all kinds of gadgets and gizmos in the brightly lit rooms, including two 42″ LCD flat-screen television sets, a refrigerator, individual climate control and a microwave.

Room at the Oxford Hotel in Bend, OR

Many of the rooms and the 59 suites in the hotel offer views of the Cascade Mountains and Downtown Bend. The dark wood tones, ornate furnishings, naturally bright lighting with large windows and expansive space create the impression of an understated luxury that’s rare in a hotel where rates start from $160. Read More »

The Hotel deLuxe in Portland is offering a nifty shopping package that includes nine $25 gift certificates to different boutiques in Portland, a $25 food & beverage voucher to be used at either of the hotel’s two restaurants, and free valet parking.

Since the gift certs, voucher and parking are valued at well over $250 and the shopping package rates start at $249, they’re actually paying you for honoring them with your presence. You get to spend someone’s else’s money to indulge your inner shopaholic, stay in a Hollywood themed romantic hotel, and come back richer.

Hotel deLuxe Portland lobby with video screen

The deLuxe is nuts about Hollywood. They have over 350 black and white framed photographs of stars like Audrey Hepburn lining the corridors. Other hotels have a Starbucks in their lobby. This one has a theater. There’s a giant video screen just off the lobby, and they have a free ‘movie night’ on the third Sunday of each month.  Read More »

Travel Portland, the tourism marketing organization for Portland, is offering $50 in cold hard cash to anyone who checks into one of the 17 participating hotels under a promo called Portland Perks.

Book your stay at one of these hotels by April 25, 2010. Minimum two night stay required. Valid for travel through May 9, 2010.

Portland Perks

In addition to $50 in cash, the ‘Portland Perks’ you get include:- 

Exclusive rates at participating hotels;
Free overnight parking (avg. savings over $20/night downtown);
Complimentary continental breakfast for two; and
A discount-packed Portland Perks coupon book

If you check out the list of participating hotels in Portland, you’ll find rates ranging from $80.99 to $189.

In between, there’s some nice hotels on the perksy list, including the Paramount Hotel, the Westin Portland and two Kimpton Hotels – the Hotel Monaco and the Hotel Vintage Plaza.  

For cheapskates searching for rock-bottom, start with the $80.99 Best Western Inn at the Meadows. You end up with a $182 tab for two days (including taxes). 

Get back $50 in cash, plus the complimentary breakfast, free parking and the coupon book for discounts, and you’re down below $100 – for a two day stay.

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The Jupiter Hotel, a renovated motor inn turned boutique hotel in Portland, looks on first glance to be a hipster hotel which also happens to be pet-friendly. On second glance though, it looks like they’re going well above and beyond their call of duty as a pet-friendly hotel.

Jupiter Hotel Yappy Hour, Portland

The Jupiter is now offering special guest rooms for pet owners with pet beds and water and food bowls, outfitted by Portland’s LexiDog Boutique & Social Club.

The hotel also brought in the Oregon Humane Society, and together with Lexidog, the three of them are hosting a monthly Yappy Hour in  the hotel’s courtyard, where there will be pets, people, wine and food. 

The Jupiter’s Yappy Hour is set to be unleashed on the last Wednesday of every month (next one is on Jan 27, between 6-8 p.m.). There is no charge to attend Yappy Hour, and a portion of sale proceeds benefits animals at OHS.

Also, the hotel will be donating a part of the proceeds from each of the redesigned pet-friendly rooms to the Oregon Humane Society throughout this year. They plan to double the donation during February, on account of it being National Pet Month.

The Jupiter Hotel is located in East Burnside with easy access to the Pearl District and other hotspots in Portland. The hotel offers 80 artsy retro-themed guest rooms, a dreamSuite with wet bar, Wack Hair Salon, dreamBOX studio and Think Tank. There’s also the famed Doug Fir Restaurant and Lounge, which is open daily until 2 a.m. and offers live musical acts every night in its nightclub.

Jupier photo by SanFranAnnie

Info: 800 East Burnside Portland OR 97214; (503) 230-9200; www.jupiterhotel.com/

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