Experience Connection & Comfort: Our SIETAR USA Conference Hotel Awaits in Portland!
May 02, 2025
EMBASSY SUITES: Our SIETAR USA Conference Hotel in PORTLAND, OR
This hotel conveniently located at 319 SW Pine Street in downtown Portland will serve as home for the 2025 national conference. A very reasonable nightly rate has been negotiated. The long list of amenities make it a user friendly venue for our conference.
The hotel is centrally located in Portland, within a 10-minute walk of Lan Su Chinese Garden and Pioneer Courthouse Square. This historic hotel is 0.8 mi (1.3 km) from Portland Art Museum and 0.9 mi (1.4 km) from Portland State University.
This LGBT friendly hotel offers free breakfast and fitness facilities. The fireplace in the lobby would be cozy place to meet and mingle with SIETAR USA friends, old and new. It is a no-smoking hotel. Free wifi is provided to hotel residents. We need to meet our room-night obligation so please stay in the hotel which makes conference attendance easier (you can easily run to your room for something you forgot or just to take a break).
The hotel has a Conference Center that puts participants in the same place as we go from one session to the next, encouraging se serendipitous conversations that are such an important part of the in-person conference experience. The conference center clusters meeting rooms to make navigating the conference program easy. Conference lunches and invited speakers will be in the ballroom near the breakout rooms.
The Ballroom will also be the location for the closing gala and dance, two well-liked traditions for SIETAR USA conferences.
Make yourself at home in one of the 276 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and LCD televisions. Your bed comes with down comforters and premium bedding. The spacious rooms with living area provide comfort, spreading-out room, a place for a private conversation, relaxing in between conference activities.
This Hilton Embassy Suites hotel is ideal for all the aspects and activities you have learned to expect at a SIETAR USA conference. Newcomers, we are sure this will become your favorite conference.
Join us in Portland November 11-15, 2025. See you there!
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