--- title: What You Need to Know About Making Your Reservations at the Hilton Portland Downtown description: A few helpful tips (and bonuses!) for making your hotel reservations for the 2017 LERN Annual Conference. image: https://blog.lern.com/hubfs/iStock-485586043.jpg --- [LERN Club Sign-In](http://beta.lern.org/club/) [![lern-logo.png](https://blog.lern.com/hubfs/June-folder/lern-logo.png "lern-logo.png")](http://lern.org) ** # Articles # What You Need to Know About Making Your Reservations at the Hilton Portland Downtown Jun 20, 2017 3:30:42 PM by LERN | ![iStock-485586043.jpg](https://blog.lern.com/hs-fs/hubfs/iStock-485586043.jpg?width=320&name=iStock-485586043.jpg)There are plenty of hotel rooms left for the 2017 LERN Annual Conference, Nov. 15-18, in Portland, Ore.,  but don’t wait too long.  We expect to sell out our room block sometime in October.  Right now about 10 percent of our room block has filled.  This is ahead of schedule.  But again, you have plenty of time.  Just don’t wait too long. We expect a great crowd for this year’s conference. How to Make Your Hotel Reservation: We appreciate your patience and understanding in making your hotel reservation this year. The new guidelines are so LERN does not pay tens of thousands of dollars in penalty fees to the hotel. You need to make your reservation: 1.  Directly with the Hilton Portland Downtown, by calling (503) 226-1611, not any other Hilton or other entity. 2.  Make sure you are in the “LERN room block.” 3.  The rate is $185 a night, single or double, excluding taxes and fees.  If you get another rate, you are not in the LERN room block. 4.  If you have any questions or problems, call us at (800) 678-5376 or [info@lern.org](mailto:info@lern.org) Hilton Portland Downtown 921 SW Sixth Avenue Portland, OR 97204 (503) 226-1611 How NOT to Make Your Hotel Reservation We appreciate your patience and understanding in making your hotel reservation this year. The new guidelines are so LERN does not pay tens of thousands of dollars in penalty fees to the hotel. When you stay in the LERN room block in the Hilton Portland Downtown, you get: - $100 Conference fee discount - FREE Wednesday preconference seminar of your choice - FREE Internet in your sleeping room Do NOT: - Do not make your reservation with the national Hilton reservations system or any other Hilton reservation, online or not. - Do not make your reservation with Trivago, Expedia, Kayak or any other website. - Do not make your reservation at the Portland Hilton not at the $185 rate and not in the LERN room block. [![2018 LERN Annual Conference Register Now!](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/119076/24706d0c-84eb-405e-b83a-271ab79f0564.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/119076/24706d0c-84eb-405e-b83a-271ab79f0564)       ### LATEST NEWS LERN Annual Conference Daily News - Friday LERN LERN Annual Conference Daily News - Thursday Afternoon LERN LERN Annual Conference Daily News - Thursday LERN LERN Annual Conference Daily News - Wednesday Afternoon LERN LERN Annual Conference Daily News - Wednesday LERN [Tweets by @LernUpdates](https://twitter.com/LernUpdates) [LERN Club Sign-In](http://beta.lern.org/club/)