Jupiter Hotel Offers to “Keep Portland Queer” with new Program

 

Jupiter Hotel Offers to “Keep Portland Queer” with new Program

Locally-owned boutique property launches new room package for LGBTQ-friendly travel

PORTLAND, Ore. – This month the Jupiter Hotel continues welcoming travelers from all walks of life with a new room package, Keep Portland Queer. By focusing on the LGBTQ community, which has always been a pillar of support for the property, the Jupiter aims to provide tools that invite guests to come as they are for a comfortable travel experience.

While the place to rest your head comes standard, this special package encourages Jupiter Hotel visitors to bask in all that Keeps Portland Queer with an LGBT Travel Portland brochure, as well as complimentary goodies including Out City and PQ Monthly magazines, Voodoo Doughnuts, a gift card to Fantasy Adult Superstore and a bottle of Barefoot Bubbly Pink Moscato, with ten percent of the proceeds from the package donated to the PDX Q Center,.

The Keep Portland Queer Room Special Includes:

An overnight stay – Stay the night in one of Jupiter Hotel’s unconventional rooms, complete with a queen-sized bed, wall murals, chalkboard doors and green amenities.

Complimentary copies of Out City and PQ Monthly – Local LGBT publications with community news and happenings in and around the Pacific Northwest.

A Travel Portland LGBT brochure – A comprehensive guide to the local hangouts, sights and offerings of hip PDX.

A Fantasy Adult Superstore gift certificate – $10 to purchase anything that may tickle your fancy.

Voodoo Doughnut $10 gift certificate – Voodoo Doughnut is the epitome of Portland weirdness, and they’re delicious. Guests receive a $10.00 gift certificate to experience Portland’s famous doughnuts.

Overnight Parking – The Jupiter Hotel provides Keep Portland Queer guests on-site parking to stash their cars during their adventure.

Additionally, the package will return ten percent of the proceeds to the PDX Q Center, encouraging a symbiotic relationship with local LGBTQ partners and beneficiaries. With national notoriety from Portlandia and a quirky reputation from Keep Portland Weird, this new program continues the Jupiter Hotel's efforts to provide unique services that speak to the community it actively supports.

The Jupiter Hotel has partnered with a host of unique Portland businesses for this special offer, each of which will provide support for events through August:

• Travel Portland
• IGLTA
• Out City
• PQ Monthly
• Compete Magazine
• Barefoot Wine
• The PDX Q Center
• The NOH8 Campaign
• PABA
• TAG Approved
• Pink Banana Media

The Keep Portland Queer package can be viewed online or booked here : http://bit.ly/KeepPortlandQueer

For more information concerning the Keep Portland Queer room special or the Jupiter Hotel,  please contact Shannon Pratuch at shannon@jupiterhotel.com or 503-477-7155.

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About The Jupiter Hotel:
The Jupiter serves as a home-on-the-road for modern travelers, cultural creatives and business nomads alike looking to indulge in urban life. The 81 modern guestrooms, including the DreamSUITE,  connect guests to the vibrancy of Portland at affordable rates– with any number of ways to get around town. Travelers looking for a unique experience in urban hospitality find their destination at the Jupiter, with Gallery @ the Jupiter, an on-site art gallery located in the middle of the lobby! The adjacent Doug Fir Restaurant and Lounge is open daily from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. and offers cutting edge musical acts most nights in its underground music venue. The Jupiter Hotel is located at 800 E. Burnside, Portland, OR. For further information visit our online e-media kit or to make a reservation visit www.jupiterhotel.com or call 503-230-9200 or 877-800-0004.

PLAY THERE: THE JUPITER HOTEL ~ THE EPICENTER OF PORTLAND COOL

By the editors of Oregon.com

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Cool thing Number One: It looks like an old motor inn, because it once was.  That was in 1964, when motor inns were in fact the coolest thing going, but for different reasons.  Then it got way seedy: Drugs, hookers, jaywalkers and other assorted riff-raff.  It was resurrected in 2002 when proprietors Kelsey Bunker and Tod Breslau bought the property, hosed out the creepy elements and transformed it into its present hip self.

Cool thing Number Two: The complimentary chocolate on your pillow has been replaced by a complimentary condom. They come in a rainbow of colors and are packaged with the Jupiter logo. Use it or lose it. An ounce of prevention. Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? “The owners really wanted to create a place where the community could come together and people could have fun,” says Al Munguia, the General Manager who oversees this bastion of high trendworthiness. The Jupiter’s 80 guest rooms, he points out, have either a wall of cool, hand-painted bamboo plants from floor to ceiling, or an awesome mural. One design features a large, golden Buddha on the wall; another has Marilyn Monroe; a third features a cool nature scene, like Monument Valley. The guestrooms have all undergone recent renovation, with flat-screen televisions and iPod docks added to new headboards to go with the cool, low, minimalist platform beds. There are green shag pillows and enormous mirrors, and the chalkboard doors will always remain (“This space taken”; “I’m a Virgo, what are you?”; “Warning: I Brake for Doughnuts”) The Jupiter was at the forefront of the renaissance of its neighborhood, just across the river from downtown Portland on East Burnside Avenue. Once a place where you could practically cut the urban grime with a knife, LoBu, or Lower Burnside, is now a very cool place to hang your hat. Restaurants like the fabulous, French Le Pigeon and the wine-mecca Noble Rot are right around the corner from the hotel, and Doug Fir, the very cool coffeeshop and nightclub, with peeled log décor that would make Abraham Lincoln proud, anchors the nightlife scene. Touring acts the world over play the Doug Fir, and on weekends especially the club draws a lively, young crowd straight to the Jupiter’s parking lot. They hang out in the very cool concrete courtyard, covered by a white tent in the winter, with its white lounge furniture, free WiFi and stage. The Jackalope Tattoo Studio keeps late hours for the occasional impulse purchase, and the Wack Hair Salon works its magic on Portland heads. A fire pit makes for a lively party scene into the late hours, and the Dream Box is a meeting room with a built-in projector, bamboo floor and enormous chalkboard for brainstorming only the best ideas.

Cool thing Number Three: It just may be the only hotel in the world whose logo wear, available for purchase, includes beanies and thongs.

Cool thing Number Four: After midnight, any unsold rooms are made available for a flat rate of $59, excellent for those who don’t aspire to make the DUI roles, and the better to get to know you, my dear.

Check it out; you’ll thank your innermost bad self. For more photos, check out


http://www.oregon.com/Jupiter_Hotel


THE JUPITER HOTEL, 800 EAST BURNSIDE, PORTLAND, OREGON, 97214; 877-800-0004 or 503-230-9200; www.jupiterhotel.com