Lovely Woodlands by SeaTac
A beautiful place to stay by SeaTac - very secluded and quiet. Dinner was probably the nicest part of the entire stay by far. Peter in the restaurant was lovely!!! If you can have him for a server, please ask for him by name. I would recommend the Beet Salad and the Partridge. The 2011 Townshend Sauvingnon Blanc was fabulous. (Am going to order directly from the winery now-) Their Smoked Mary was also extremely delicious but it has a kick to it!! 
This is difficult to describe but we were just a little put off by the entire stay. Would be a great place for conducting a direct conference. Not sure if we would go back or not just given the rooms. The hallways were very clean and the room was clean but almost too much so. Not much for a warm feeling of decor in the Dogwood. It had an almost sterile feel to it in the room with the business style chairs. I don't want to feel like I'm 'sleeping in an office' - I want to feel like I'm in a hotel room if I'm at a hotel. 
The main lodge was cozier feeling by far. Nice breakfast options although not sure what happened to the sliced fruit - looked to have been frozen by the pale transparency of the apples and pears. Given their attention to details in the" farm to table" of the restaurant, this was rather surprising. Everything else was nice enough for the breakfast. (It would be recommended that if your going to serve smoked salmon and capers, please add on red onion with fresh dill and lemon to complete that presentation.) 
Given our stay here, I don't think we would book at Hotel Fifty in PDX on our next trip down, if it's anything like Cedarbrook. It's an odd thing but it just didn't feel like the welcoming kind of establishment that we had the previous night at the Inn at the Market. 
November 2012