2 Nights in Portland with Tweens, Portland, Oregon

In a bookstore in Portland, Oregon we spotted a book called聽This is Portland: The City You鈥檝e Heard You Should Like. It pretty well summed up our experience in this Pacific Northwest city-of-the-moment.

We didn鈥檛 dislike Portland. We found things to do with kids and teens, and good, inexpensive places for families to eat. But as cities go it was too low-key for us. Tween Traveler said more than once that it didn鈥檛 feel like a city. I have to say that with all the beer, coffee and聽live music we might have had more fun on a couple getaway.

We stayed two nights and didn鈥檛 quite get to everything we wanted to do. Here are some fun things we found to do, some things we think you can skip, and things local friends highly recommend doing with tweens that we didn鈥檛 get to.

There is a concentration of independent and chain聽hotels downtown. We opted for the boutique聽Dossier Hotel聽for its location and the good price we found.

It鈥檚 the sort of hotel where the staff is more than friendly to kids, but they definitely don鈥檛 cater to families. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).

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Guide Name: 2 Nights in Portland with Tweens
Guide Location: USA » Portland
Guide Type: Self-guided Walking Tour (Article (B))
Author: Eileen Gunn
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