Portland Value Inn

If I had the option to give it no stars I would. Horrible place, booked online through Hotwire, called them right way and complained. We booked a different place. They were blocking this place right away. How do places get away with renting rooms. When it was in there lobby, they were on the phone and she quoted the room for $ 80. That is a joke! This place needs to be condemned. I am glad we got out of there!!!

Almost stayed here. Didnt. This has an option to book a room inline. Don’t us it. There is no website for this hotel. Unilocal allows the booking, but there are no security measures. Here we were preparing to celebrate my Grandma’s 80^th, and now we have to cancel a credit card. This company reeks of scam. I gave it a star to write this review.

This is not even worth the single star it’s being given.
Just checked in, had to have a long argument and call the police because I have a seeing eye dog who is covered under the ADA. Finally given a room and upon check in there is food in the microwave still, floors haven’t seen a vacuum in at least three prior visits, there is mild covering the bathroom as well as the wallpaper is just shedding everywhere. The walls have major structural cracks, the lamps bulbs are out, I’d turn on the heat but the machine is covered in some sort of slime… Not making allegations as to what yet. There is literally «bed wet» marks covering the sheets, and this list could continue to a severe degree but I just got out of the hospital and needed a room so I could actually get some sleep. I know you «get what you pay for» but I’ve paid much cheaper for MUCH better, and there is a certain standard all rented rooms should be accountable for when someone else checks out. I do NOT recommend this to a friend, I would never let family stay here, an I hope the city shuts it down to allow vagrants free access because they would make it a better living environment then what these managers seem to care for. In case it matters the walls are super thin, but I’m not paying for a fancy hotel, I simply expected to not catch have to hold my breath as I put my head down. With all hopes they clean up there act a little bit, this could be a much better «cheap» option. But what can you do as a consumer? That being said I won’t be staying here tonight much less any other night.

I stayed here for three nights during my last excursion to Portland. For $ 50 a night, I got pretty much exactly what I expected.
Good parts of it:
*Transportation! This hotel was right off the I-​5, which enabled for quick transport to just about anywhere I needed to go between Tigard and Portland. The close bus was 12 line which ran until about midnight, so we could really stay out and party.
*Accomodations:
The room was big enough for two adults, contained a small fridge and a microwave. The Wi-​Fi was available, but I guess from our room we couldn’t pick it up very well.
Sucks to say that was about it for the good.
The water pressure felt like needles when taking a shower, the TV wouldn’t work for crap (looked like it was picking up channels from 20 years ago), and there were holes in the blankets, like cigarette burns or something.
The redeeming factor was that the guy running it was super chill, laughed a lot, and was pretty helpful when telling us about some other places nearby.
Also there was a Chinese food place right next door.
I gave 3 stars. Was exactly what I expected, and it was OK cuz I didn’t spend much time there anyway.

AVOID THIS PLACE LIKE THE PLAGUE!
Reserved a room here through Hotels dot com for a planned stop on a road trip. We arrived in Portland earlier than anticipated, around 1pm, so we decided to take a nap after a light snack. When we awoke, my wife discovered ants crawling all over her, the bed and the bag of snacks was infested! When we went to the front desk to complain, the guy didn’t offer to do anything for us — and the place didn’t look like it was full. His only comment was we would have to get a refund from Hotels dot com. We called Hotels dot com from their parking lot, who in turn called Portland Value Inn and chatted with the guy we had just talked to, who then said he couldn’t authorize Hotels dot com to give us a refund. He said we would have to call back on Monday, when the owner was in (it was a Saturday). When we called back on Monday, the owner wouldn’t give us a refund because we didn’t discover the ants soon enough — and Hotels dot com refused to help us out based on that. $ 50 I won’t get back, but the Motel 6 we moved to was just as cheap and it was sanitary and a little more modern.
Looks like not only can you not count on this place, you can’t count on Hotels dot com, either. :~(
AVOID THIS PLACE LIKE THE PLAGUE!

Got this place after a last minute decision and expected the worst. From the outside it looks like «no-​tell» motel and for $ 45 I didn’t expect much.
However:
Our room was old, but very clean. If you don’t mine worn out, it’s fine.
It has a fridge, microwave, and free wifi. All worked.
Very large room, easy to spread out.
Very quiet, window looked out over a school field (no school in August). Slept well.
$ 45 in Portland in August! (barely, you have to drive to interesting areas.)
If you want a new place with a walk to sites, this is not for you. However, if you want a cheap place to urban camp, this motel is great.
1 Star for neighborhood
3 Stars for cleanliness and quiet.
4 Stars for fridge and microwave and wifi
5 Stars for Price.

I don’t care how old the hotel was, but the room was too dirty and poorly maintained! The floor wasn’t vacuumed, the bathroom vent fan was super loud, the smell was bad. I could even hear footsteps upstairs, walking around above my head. The hairdryer sucks. The wifi was unstable and slow. No continental breakfast. Location is okay and the price was cheap, but I won’t come back even if it goes cheaper.

Determined to spend as little as possible on lodging for an absolutely unplanned road trip, we settled on Portland Value Inn based on a HotelsCombined search… and reaped what we sowed.
PROS:
–Cheap. $ 45 for a one-​bed, non-​smoking room.
–Good water pressure and the bathroom was for the most part very clean (this might even bump the place up to 2.5-star status)
–The basic needs were met (place to sleep and shower), but I wouldn’t count on it for much else
CONS:
–It’s in the friggin’ boonies. You only save money if you place no value on the time and gas it takes to get here from any typically visited place in the city.
–Wait, Portland Value Inn is associated with Days Inn and Hampton Inn? Likely not, though that’s where the soaps and such were lifted from.
–Though the toilet seems to use 5 gallons of water per flush, it certainly carries NO power with it (oops, let me take that 0.5-star advantage back).
–Our butler was a dead fly named, why of course, Alfred.
This inn looks like a place for those to go in, do the ol’ in ‘n’ out, and get out. It’s not a place you ever want to prolong your stay or touch anything if you can help it. Contrary to the unkempt pot-​bellied guy in a wife beater one may typically expect to find at the front desk of a motel like this though, the Indian lady was very pleasant and cordial.

It’s a dump. Clean, but still a dump. It was the cheapest thing available thru Priceline, $ 45.
It’s actually a seedy old apartment complex that has been converted to a decrepit motel. It’s next door to a skeevy Chinese restaurant/​bar, and is overlooked by a dodgy apartment building.
It’s near the intersection of I-​5 and 99W, just up the hill from a former Denny’s that is now an adult video & novelties shop.
My «suite» was formerly a one-​bedroom apartment. Everything is worn, including the sheets. Clean, but tired-​looking. The living room floor and shower stall in this suite — 42 — are physically buckling. TV remotes were missing or not working.
The cigarette burned-​furniture and faint tobacco smell mark this is as being a smoking suite. I think that the suite *itself* actually has a smoking habit. Do they have smoking cessation programs for buildings? Perhaps nicotine patch rugs?
The suite had free — weak — WiFi, a fridge, a microwave, 2 TVs, a sleeper sofa, and those annoying theft-​proof hotel clothes hangers in the doorless closet.
Like many run-​down motels, this one is an under-​capitalized mom-​and-​pop operation, owned by immigrants from The Subcontinent (there is a picture of some chariot-​driving Hindu deity in the office).
The desk clerk was friendly. He made sure that the registration form included my car make «in case something happened» to it.
Get the picture?
No complimentary breakfast. For that, I am grateful.
McMenamin’s offers a bunk bed with shared bathroom in two of its hotels (White Eagle and Forest Grove Grand Lodge) for $ 45 a nite. For a gregarious solo traveler, this is probably a better option.
The punchline: it’s actually not the worst place at which I’ve ever stayed.