Jupiter Hotel
The Jupiter Hotel in Portland is a renovated motel that has aspirations of being hip and stylish. Actually it mostly succeeds at this--the rooms were miniscule but nicely furnished and clean, and two rooms of the place had been converted into an adult toy store and a tattoo parlor. The problem is that, in being hip and stylish, it also doubles as a nightclub.

Now, a nightclub with a hotel is a great idea--you dance and drink until you can can't walk, then crawl to the reception desk and get a room for the night. But a hotel with a nightclub is a terrible idea, especially when you play loud techno until 3:00 AM. Granted it's mostly muffled, but still slightly audible in the rooms. But that's not that bad, until the hotel decides that, to be extra hip and stylish, they're going to throw a fucking outdoor party in the courtyard directly outside the rooms, complete with obscenely loud P.A., bad DJs, and drunken screaming partygoers.

I'm not exaggerating when I say the music was loud in the rooms. Not audible, not annoying, actually "I wouldn't play music this loud if I was actually listening to it" loud. Until 3:30 in the morning. Naturally, when I called the desk they lied about how long it was going to go on for.

I'm sorry, Jupiter Hotel, you can be an outdoor club or you can be a hotel, but for fuck's sake, you can't be both. Don't go there if you fancy a night's sleep.
(+3 Baroque Vambrace of Icthyology, Thu 24 Jan 2008, 6:16, Reply)