So what do you do when you have friends or family coming in from out of town, or a colleague in another city is coming? Always, there is the dreaded question, where should they stay? Which hotel or motel is going to be the right combination of price, location, interestingness, and cleanliness?

The Seattle Times asked their readers for recommendations for hotels in Portland recently, so we can all benefit from their advice. They recommend:

• Inn @ Northrup Station
• The Mark Spencer Hotel
• Kennedy School
• The Benson Hotel
• 5th Avenue Suites

A second articlelet has even more suggestions:

• 72nd Avenue Studios
• The Edgefield Manor (I'm not sure I've ever heard it referred to as a manor!)
• Silver Cloud Inn