Staying with Pamela was our first AirBNB experience. We picked this place because it is close to our family and downtown Portland in general. We were please with most aspects of our stay. We traveled with a 3 year old so it was great to have a separate bedroom for her so that we could stay up later if we wanted. The bathroom was nice and spacious and very modern. There were extra toiletries which was nice since I had forgotten shampoo! It was wonderful to have our own fridge to keep my daughters juice cold. The place was very clean and had comfy, newer carpeting throughout. The futon in the living room had a great mattress, not one of those flimsy college ones. The two aspects of the place that I didn't care for were minor and perhaps can't be fixed due to the fact that it's an older house. One, you can hear a lot of what happens upstairs due to the thin walls. We weren't home too often for it to affect us too much but when we were home we could hear a lot of their conversations and house noise. I have a sound machine for my daughter so we drowned that out during nap/bedtime. Two, while we were happy to have a private entrance, the hall leading to the unit is in their "garage/basement" and it has a musty smell. That is hard to get over and is does come into the rooms a bit.
All in all it was a nice trip and although we didn't speak much, Pamela was a nice host and was very courteous when we did speak.