"One of the city’s first wave of boutique hotels, the Royal Sonesta Portland — formerly the Kimpton Hotel Monaco — pre-dates the Portlandia hipster-craft stereotype by a few years — and its location, in a century-old building in the central business district, leaves it with one foot firmly in the business world. But it’s anything but an ordinary business hotel, mixing as it does old-fashioned charm with up-to-date boutique-hotel personality." - Tablet Hotels