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You Now Need a Passport to Visit Portland

Allison Williams
Author: Allison Williams
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Welcome to Portland! Have a doughnut.

How foreign is Oregon? Well, it’s a land where pot, sales tax, and pumping your own gas are illegal. But the new Portland Passport isn’t about diplomatic regulations—it’s a new package of deals for winter visitors to Rose City.

The promotion is available only through the city’s Travel Portland website and applies to visitors staying through April 1. After a hotel stay is booked through the site, visitors get coupons good for freebies like a free Voodoo Doughnut treat (good only for the Portland Cream; you’ll have to buy your own Fruit Loop concoction), a free plate of meatballs at IKEA, a free salami from Olympic Provisions, and free basket of buttermilk biscuits from Country Cat Dinnerhouse & Bar.

Oh, you thought Portland was health central? There’s a coupon for a YouCanHasCheesburger at the Brunch Box food cart—a hamburger that uses two Texas-toast grilled cheese sandwiches in place of a bun. Besides a city-load of calories, the passport is also good for a Widmer Brothers Brewing one-hour tour and souvenir glass.

Select Portland Perks hotels also offer free parking and continental breakfast. Not that you’ll be hungry.




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Allison Williams
Allison Williams
Since joining Seattle Met in 2011, Allison Williams has overseen the magazine’s travel and outdoor coverage, including deep dives into Olympic National Park, the Columbia River, and a Burger King drive-thru in Canada. She edits the travel-focused blog Tripster and contributes service, news, interview, and narrative pieces to the magazine, including long-form features about mountain mysteries and puppies in prison. She’s earned awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and been nominated for a City and Regional Magazine award.  Allison was raised here in Olympia and studied writing at Duke University, Oxford University, Columbia Journalism School, and University of Alaska. She began her career in New York City in the newsrooms of Metro newspaper and Time Out New York, then hightailed it back to her native habitat so she could write guidebooks and climb mountains.