27% off (Sale price $119.00, Reg. Price $165.11) :: Hotel at a Glance: The OrencoThe Orenco hotel resides in a brownstone-style building in Hillsboros trendy Orenco Station neighborhood. Its a pedestrian-friendly district with shops, restaurants, and parks. A nearby light-rail line gets travelers to and from downtown Portland in about an hour. Free continental breakfast—available all day—includes local pastries and fresh fruit with coffee and tea. Living it up: The luxury king room comes with a jetted tub, and the luxury king studio has a full kitchen and a private patio. Free WiFi helps guests stay connected. For rainy days, theres a library with DVDs and books.Hillsboro, Oregon: Charming Small Town with Mineral MuseumHillsboro was once lauded as the Best New Burb by Sunset magazine, thanks to its lively town center filled with wine bars, restaurants, and live music. At the nexus of this area you can find the 3-acre Orenco Station Central Park, which was modeled after a park in France.The town is also home to the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals. What began as just a husband and wifes private collection has ballooned to include more than 20,000 geological specimens, all housed in a sprawling ranch-style home listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Galleries here twinkle with rubies, sapphires, and dinosaur fossils and meteorites. The crystal collection numbers more than 4,000, highlighted by the bright-red Alma Rose rhodochrosite crystal—an extremely valuable gem unearthed from a mine in Alma, Colorado.
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