# Portland Dopefest - 2/29-3/2? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 12, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281 "2008-01-12T14:36:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/21 "2008-01-15T00:45:06Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] How much are you when it isn’t scheduled? [/QUOTE] You two go work that out via private email, o.k.? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/22 "2008-01-15T01:24:52Z")
> [@](#): > > How much are you when it isn’t scheduled? Hey, I’m cheap but I ain’t easy! ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/23 "2008-01-16T00:21:41Z")
[QUOTE=Czarcasm] Are people wanting a restaurant setting, or a potluck setting? If restaurant, we could do any of the McMenimans pubs. [/QUOTE] I’d vote for one of the McMenamin’s venues–or one of the good pubs… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/24 "2008-01-16T01:11:16Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] I’d vote for one of the McMenamin’s venues–or one of the good pubs… [/QUOTE] I’d go for the Horse Brass Pub, but it’s still a smoking establishment, and my guess is that some would want non-smoking only. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/25 "2008-01-16T01:21:29Z")
I’m up for it. Restaurant is best for me, 'cause I’m still learning all the good places. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/26 "2008-01-16T01:24:57Z")
[QUOTE=Czarcasm] I’d go for the Horse Brass Pub, but it’s still a smoking establishment, and my guess is that some would want non-smoking only. [/QUOTE] Oddly enough, the Horse’s Ass was just the pub I had in mind but forebore to mention due to the smokiness factor. It’s a whole lot better recently, I’ve noticed, since they put in those new fans and ducting. Man, I’m a sucker for any place I can get draft cider… Kennedy School is fun… ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/27 "2008-01-16T01:33:29Z")
Sigh, we people north of Portland (meaning Seattle and surrounding area) should have a fest. I’d come, but it’s a bit of a drive for me. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/28 "2008-01-16T02:19:53Z")
[QUOTE=Taters] Sigh, we people north of Portland (meaning Seattle and surrounding area) should have a fest. I’d come, but it’s a bit of a drive for me. [/QUOTE] Perhaps you could carpool with other Seattlites that are interested in coming? We’d love it if we could get some of you Northerners to make an appearance. ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/29 "2008-01-16T08:02:25Z")
I think I may be coming as far as Albany some time around the February/March transition. (I don’t know exact days at the moment.) If there were an event at that time, I might be able to drive the additional hour to make it. (I’m in Medford. I drive to Roseburg for a quarterly Hot Wheels event at K-Mart, but Portland is a bit far for a special trip.) ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/30 "2008-02-14T22:02:44Z")
Wow, I killed this thread. I’ll be in Albany 2/27. My wife and I are hoping to continue up to Portland and stay there through the weekend, but we don’t have hotel reservations or anything yet (2/28 is our ten-year anniversary). ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/31 "2008-02-15T00:04:52Z")
[QUOTE=Tool of the Conspiracy] Wow, I killed this thread. I’ll be in Albany 2/27. My wife and I are hoping to continue up to Portland and stay there through the weekend, but we don’t have hotel reservations or anything yet (2/28 is our ten-year anniversary). [/QUOTE] Well, congratulations! Do you need recommendations for a good place to stay? ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/32 "2008-02-15T02:39:24Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] Well, congratulations! Do you need recommendations for a good place to stay? [/QUOTE] That’d be great. We’re in a Hilton “frequent flier” program, so that’d be one direction for us to lean. I’ve always thought that McMenamins sounded cool, too. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/33 "2008-02-15T03:08:24Z")
Well, if you’re going McMenamins, the [Edgefield](http://www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?loc=3) is the one I’d say was most conducive to an important anniversary–it has the advantage of being fairly close to the airport, but it’s out the Gorge a ways in Troutdale so if you’re looking more toward being in town then [Kennedy School](http://www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?loc=57&category=Location%20Homepage) has a lot to recommend it–something about the way the rooms still reflect the previous life as schoolrooms has that kinda naughty “we’re gettin’ away with something” feel. On the B&B front, [this place](http://www.bedandbreakfast.com/oregon-portland-thelionandtherosevictorianbedbreakfast.html) looks very promising and it’s right in short NE which is very close to a lot of good restaurants and within spitting distance of downtown, or there are other B&Bs on that site that also look nice. If you’re looking for that very special “break the bank” stay, my parents heartily endorse the [Heathman Hotel](http://portland.heathmanhotel.com/index.asp) in downtown–it has pretty much everything but I suspect it’s spendy as hell because they don’t post any prices… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/34 "2008-02-15T10:58:31Z")
Any room for a noob? (Assuming I can break away from the family for the evening- or are we talking family friendly? I assumed not since we were talking “The Brass”.) Do I have to eat the Haggis or scotch eggs as some sort of initiation ritual? ich Re: McMenamins Hotels- The Edgefield Hotel may actually be more like a Hostel, not so much a hotel. At the very LEAST, it is “European” style (very common amongst the McMenamins hotels) which means you share bathrooms. The Kennedy School is not (and is where I stayed my wedding night 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/35 "2008-02-15T21:54:49Z")
[QUOTE=The Tof] Any room for a noob? [snip] The Kennedy School is not (and is where I stayed my wedding night 🙂 ) [/QUOTE] Hmmm, sounds like kismet or something! Well, if you stay at Kennedy then that would be a perfect place to hold a get together–what say you, PDX Dopers? Shall we try to herd some cats together at the end of the month? ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/36 "2008-02-15T23:37:45Z")
I might be persuaded to drive up from Salem. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/37 "2008-02-16T06:08:34Z")
Okay, we have an intrepid soul from Salem–where’s the PDX locals at? **Czarcasm, susan, Shoshana, Runs With Scissors, FilmGeek?** What say you guys? Whadda we have to do to get some attention here–I know! Where are the Threadkillazsup[/sup]? Bet they can’t kill this thread, bwahahahaha!! ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/38 "2008-02-16T06:48:03Z")
I wish I could, but I work that weekend. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/39 "2008-02-16T15:58:48Z")
I won’t be able to make it. Going to Reno the night of the 20th, and planning a trip to New Orleans in April. Can’t really get away between those dates. Anyway I’ve eaten the haggis. (Most of it. I’ll finish it off for breakfast today.) ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281/40 "2008-02-16T19:33:38Z")
Aww, buncha party poopers you are! 😉 Let’s give this another bump and see what happens–where are the PDX people, ya can’t all be hibernating! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-dopefest-2-29-3-2/433281.md?page=3)