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I spent one night at the DoubleTree by Hilton Portland - Tigard in August, 2026. My experience was "meh", so to speak. Let me explain.
This is a hotel wedged into perhaps the smallest lot I've ever seen for a "suburban" style hotel. Parking is in part in front of the hotel, part under it, and part up a steep hill. So, right away you're pulling into a tight spot with other cars on both sides. I managed to squeeze out of my vehicle. while holding my door to stop it from slamming into the downhill car.
I checked in. I was given a parking pass (they charge for parking here in the Portland suburbs -- terrible policy, in my view). When I got back to my room, I realized I was not offered any chocolate chip cookies. I went back down to get a couple.
The room was fine. It suffered from (1) poor lighting (they've adopted, for some of the fixtures, the terrible Marriott practice of dim LED lights), and (2) sink in the bedroom. Of course, that means if the wife gets up early to get ready the whole room is lit up since otherwise she can't use the sink. Since I was alone, this wasn't a problem, but "sink in the room" is a terrible design.
I noticed at check-in that the hotel celebrated a youth soccer tournament, and it was apparent that the place was chock full of parents and young pre-teen and early teen girls there for the tournament. Well, I got up early, and headed to breakfast at 7:15am. Despite being only 15 minutes after the start of breakfast, everything was cleaned out -- there were early matches, and about all of the contestants crowded into the breakfast space. A tiny bit of fruit, a spoonful of eggs, no silverware, and one remaining plate.
If the hotel hadn't been advertising their affiliation with the tournament, I could maybe understand how they could be overwhelmed by a breakfast rush. But, in this case, they should have known this would happen, and yet were completely unprepared for it. Very poorly done. After my meager meal, I went back to my room, packed up and as I went to check out (this was at 8:00 am, there were still no plates and almost no food.
Between the poor room design, the offensive parking charge, and the lackluster service, I won't be back.