Review of Comfort Inn Portland near I-84 and I-205 2*

This hotel is one block from my house, and aside from the fantastic location, is probably the nicest hotel on the east side. I've visited it dozens of times since all my extended family stay here whenever they visit Portland, but only stayed here personally once. The staff is all *fantastic* and helpful, everything is very nice and very clean. The free breakfast isn't the greatest but there's a wide variety of food, not just pastries, and there's a waffle bar. The pool is very nice, rooms are very quiet despite 82nd & the highway, the beds are comfy, all the rooms have refrigerators (no cash-grab mini bar! ) and microwaves. Literally the only weird thing is some of the decor/furniture choices — there are giant cubboard-things taking up all the furniture space that are clearly meant to hold the fridge and microwave, which are elsewhere — so it just has big empty spaces and too few drawers for putting things in. The two bedside lights looked identical but one switch rotates and one is a push switch. (Not important, but weird. ) And I was in a room with a Jacuzzi tub and a regular tub — but no towel racks. That would've become inconvenient if I were there for more than one night. Overall a very lovely hotel, a bit expensive but much nicer than all the cheaper places. If you're staying here and want to walk to a restaurant — everywhere you can see from the hotel is a bar, most of which have mediocre bar food. But East Ocean Chinese restaurant a few blocks south has excellent food, and another block down and then west on glisan there are several excellent restaurants — east glisan pizza lounge, Paitong Thai, and Hanoi Kitchen. Burgerville is also within walking distance. It won't usually show up on Google maps, but there's also a cute coffee shop inside Milepost 5 at 81st & Oregon.