Blind Tiger Portland Danforth St.

Blind Tiger Portland Danforth St.

Blind Tiger Portland sits on Danforth Street with only nine rooms across three floors, close enough to walk to the Portland Fire Museum, the Charles Q. Clapp House and the International Cryptozoology Museum without needing a car, though a parking spot is available for 25 dollars a day if you bring one. There is no elevator, so the top floor asks something of your knees, and travellers who need ground-level access should look elsewhere. What sets this apart from the usual downtown Portland inn is the indoor fireplace built into the rooms themselves, paired with a garden and a sun deck for the mornings when the fireplace isn't needed. Breakfast and coffee are included, a concierge is on hand, and check-in can be done privately or contactlessly if you'd rather skip the small talk after a flight. A billiards table sits somewhere in the common areas for the evening you don't feel like going back out. Rooms come with bathrobes, slippers and flat-screen TVs, and the Standard King runs 400 square feet, generous by boutique-inn standards, with a full double bed and a private bathroom, though the listing doesn't specify how many it sleeps. Pets aren't allowed, and this isn't a hotel for anyone chasing a pool or a gym; it's a nine-room house with a fireplace in the room and a garden outside it. Business travellers get a center and event space if needed, but the pitch here is quieter than that. Solo travellers and couples who'd rather be walked past a cryptozoology museum than a chain lobby will understand the appeal faster than anyone counting amenities. A nine-room Danforth Street inn with an indoor fireplace, a garden and a sun deck, minutes from Portland's Fire Museum and Cryptozoology Museum. No elevator, no pets, and no interest in impressing anyone who wants either.