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McMenamins Grand Lodge (Mic MIN i mins) in Tualatin (T\u2019WAL-i-tin) Valley, Oregon<\/a> (OAR-a-gun) \u2013 you get the idea \u2013 gives new meaning to the word funky \u2013 also whimsical and droll and quirky. Oh yes, and historic. But if you’re looking for glitz or glamour \u2013 not to mention basic amenities such as a TV or a dresser \u2013 the hotel is not for you. If you want a little bizarre, you’re in the right place.<\/p>\n

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The hallways are sensory overload. Photos and paintings crowd the walls along with kitschy sayings and names on every door from the recognizable to the never-heard-ofs.\u00a0 The seemingly random d\u00e9cor appears with little explanation though I later learned the basement is devoted to musicians, the first floor American history, the second landing local history and the Attic, to books. Not surprising, there you will also find reading nooks in hallway crannies, with incongruous chair-like replicas and Victorian reading lamps \u2013 again not your usual furniture configurations.<\/p>\n

Not a wall, column, ceiling or molding is left unadorned, including pubs, restaurants and guestrooms. For instance, our room was named Atfalati, named after a local Indian tribe, with descriptive messages surrounding the walls inside. All the restaurants ooze a cozy and clubby ambience. The Doctor’s Office, a downstairs pub, boasts extensive hours \u2013 and the pool tables, pinball machines and table shuffleboard are all \u201cinstruments\u201d in working order. Plus the usual vintage photos and inscrutable sayings \u2013 and also \u2013 dare I say it? Televisions!<\/p>\n

Surreal is the word that most often comes to mind. There is a \u201cHallway Tour List\u201d but even with that it is frustratingly difficult to identify what you\u2019re looking at. It\u2019s easier just not knowing. Every inch of wall space is intriguing but as my husband remarked at one point: “I’d trade a few of them in for so much as a hanger in the room…”<\/p>\n

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Did I mention the secret doors?? Of course, there are. But you have to go to the top floor, negotiate the cavernous hallways until you find an over-head blue light. Push on the wall and voila \u2013 an ominous secret room. The first, an eerie subterranean grotto with painted stalactites and stalagmites. The second, not as sinister \u2013 just a smaller room rimmed with pictures of gigantic toadstools. At some point, I stopped trying to make sense of any of it.<\/p>\n

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The all-organic, full-service Ruby\u2019s Spa actually seemed normal. Its highlight, though unconnected to it, is embodied in a free-form outdoor Jacuzzi soaking pool in a very secluded bucolic setting surrounded by rocks and greenery. Not much about the rest of the hotel can be classified as bucolic. The sign at the front desk, \u201cEscape the Ordinary\u201d barely does the hotel justice! You will never be able to stay in a Holiday Inn again! For more information, visit McMenamins Grand Lodge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

McMenamins Grand Lodge (Mic MIN i mins) in Tualatin (T\u2019WAL-i-tin) Valley, Oregon (OAR-a-gun) \u2013 you get the idea \u2013 gives new meaning to the word funky \u2013 also whimsical and droll and quirky. Oh yes, and historic. 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