Portland is renowned for its warm summers and for more than a hundred years has been known as “The City of Roses”. The main reason I would want to visit Portland however is to investigate and evaluate the Microbreweries that make Portland the microbrewery capital of the world!
As far as accommodation goes the best method to find Portland Hotels is via a site like SideStep. This site enables you to enter the City that you are looking for accommodation in (for us that city is Portland ), dates relevant to the time period you are going to require and other aspects like number of rooms, how many adults and children in your group.
Not only do you get a set of results showing the hotels that match your search, there are a number of reviews that previous visitors to the hotels have submitted. The reviews are quite blunt in some cases especially where a Hotel has not lived up to its reputation – however this is exactly the kind of information that is useful to know.
Another great feature of the site is the Activity search, by entering a City and a date range a list of activities happening at that time will be returned to you, along with prices if they are paid activities.