Sultan Hookah Lounge

I’d rate more like 2.5
I will start with the good.
CHEAPEST PRICE for hookah I’ve ever seen. $ 8
And you could mix as many flavors that you want. That alone makes this place worth going to. We ended up trying out the Ice Hose for $ 3 extra because of how cheap it was.
Shisha was yummy, flavorful, and burned well. Our hostess was polite and attentive to checking on us to see if we needed more coals, etc.
Moving on to the bad.
We went on a slow night so everyone inside seemed like workers/​friends of workers. And they just seemed noisy and talking about the quality of the building how the windows haven’t been cleaned in forever, how the place is a mess. Makes you question being there if the workers are complaining about the cleanliness of the place…
I also did not enjoy the big screen playing a movie on TV with commercials. I don’t go to hookah to watch TV! It’s hard to miss and makes a bad vibe.
And here is the kicker, I would have been okay with this place if not for this.
I literally watched a small COCKROACH walk by and underneath the couch right next to my feet. I got a clear look, and I know what cockroaches look like. Ick :(
So yummy hookah… but bad atmosphere. You decide from there.

Literally the worst hookah lounge I have ever been to! I love hookah, I love trying new lounges. They advertise outside their building that they have the cheapest prices in town… Wrong. They made us pay $ 5 per person just to get in and the hookah itself was $ 17 on top of that! Funny because on their website it says $ 13 for two people and says nothing about a ‘cover charge’. We paid $ 27 total to smoke a disgusting hookah.
On the counter behind the lady taking our order was a box of my favorite flavor from my favorite brand, which is grape mint. Now this is a premixed flavor, although the name is grape mint, it’s not grape flavored. It’s a stronger, smoother flavor and the smoke is thicker than other flavors. I pointed to the box on the counter and asked for that, but that’s not what I got! She made me grape flavor mixed with wayyyy too much Mint flavor and it was gross, extremely harsh and the hookah wasn’t even setup properly! I told them I was unhappy that they didn’t give me the flavor I asked for and the response was «we sell that flavor in the box but don’t offer it to smoke» why wasn’t I told this when I pointed to the box and said «that’s what I want»? They did make me a new head, which was supposed to be cherry, vanilla and mint… Tasted like nothing but mint! The service was terrible, the staff was rude and the girls working there were barley even wearing clothes, the building was smaller than my bedroom and the chair I sat in was a child’s chair! I was there for less than an hour and saw them drop coals 4 times!!! I couldn’t believe what I saw, how I was treated and how terrible the hookah was! I don’t know why anybody would go there. Never again. If I had the option of no stars that would be my top choice.

Okay so the first time here it was pretty good! Took a little bit longer to get the hookah but the smoke was smooth and the prices were great. They also open earlier than most hookah places. There isn’t any pool table or activity but usually music with a good vibe and people watching is fun in this part of town. Today though I was disappointed after driving from vancouver to come again and seeing they opened at 12:30 when they really didn’t open until 4! Gotta update your stuff.

Best hookah ever! I am from LA and have smoked everywhere pretty much from koreatown, hollywood, glendale to northridge. And Portland has the best hookah. Lol way to perfect, like every hookah should be. During my hookah session (about and 1 1\2) never once did I flip the coles. Was very well packed. Highly reccomanded !!! The only cons, is that I don’t like watching tv when I am smoking, hookah is to socialize not watch tv.

Hookah is way below par. I have been here a couple of times and still hasn’t met personal standards for Portland hookah lounges. Go to Kings or go to Qush much better locations for shisha. Pro… none. Cons loud music you don’t understand. Poor service quality of hookah could be much better if they tried harder. This is the getto hookah lounge that you go to when the nicer establishments are packed. Last resort. Trust me.

Most of the hookah shops in portland are kick it spots for kids with fake ids. This doesn’t seem to be an exception. It’s understandable that it happens hear when you look at the atmosphere — the joint is set up to being young folks in. From the cheap ikea couches, to the annoying flat screen tvs (I’m trying to chill, I don’t want tv), to the often too loud dubstep — doesn’t exactly go with the flow of kicking it.
Those are the cons. The pros outweigh them I feel. The prices are reasonable. The sheesha is good, the staff is friendly. They will teach you neat smoke tricks on occasion, and keep bubbles on hand to do smoke bubbles at no extra cost. I figure as long as everyone is nice and the price is right — what’s left?
If you enjoy smoking, check this joint out!

I am from the east coast, and I love this place. It reminds me a lot of the Italian tea houses I would go to– the place has a sense of community and you just know if you wait long enough someone will come and talk about their troubles with you, as well as having a bit of a feel for generosity. Its something that I feel is really lacking on the east coast.
I would warn, for a Hookah bar, it is a little more then I am use to paying ($ 16 for a double) and the drinks and food prices are 300% mark up. If you aren’t use to that kind of thing (which Portland isn’t) I can see the sticker shock.
One thing I don’t really like is the fact they have attractive girls working there. Don’t get me wrong, I like attractive girls, but I always like it more when the guy behind the counter is the owner. You can feel the difference in the way they talk and move and handle the business. That said my guy friends would disagree.

Saw oxygen bar sign, so I went in. Four smell. Barely feel the oxygen coming through.$ 5 tube, $ 15 for ten minutes. It felt like I just had to get hooked up on oxygen tank after years of abusing tabacco with plastic tube up my nose, so I got more anxious rather than relaxed at first.
I waited for calming effect to take place, but scent was too artificial and most of oxygen escaped and was wasted. It was nice for novelty, but I don’t think I derived much benefit from it overall.

Awesome place, great environment, great staff. I could hang out here for hours. I only knocked one star off because they had an employee there during my last stop who was walking around being loud and blasting awful rap on the store speakers and dropping the N-​word (over and over, and he was white, seriously?!) loudly and multiple times in front of customers every chance he got and generally acting like a huge obnoxious tool. He was terrible, but I do not feel he represents this establishment which is otherwise fantastic. The second he left, awesome middle eastern music was back on and the vibe was once again excellent. Highly recommended. I’ll complain about that one guy until he disappears because I love this place so much.

I used to come here all the time, then management changed. Minimal selection on Sheisha brands. Went in to buy a box of coals 14 bucks for 60 and 23 bucks for 100 insane. I was going just because of the close vicinity to my house but no more, I’ll drive out to other locations from now on!

Have been trying out new hookah bars every weekend. Was excited to try this one out, and was hoping it was worth the drive. Unfortunately it WAS NOT! Ordered a hookah and 2 Turkish coffees. I only order the Turkish coffee if a place claims to be authentic since you can really screw it up if you don’t know what you are doing. Got the hookah right away, but 40 minutes later no coffee. I asked about it, and they obviously forgot. Instead of taking the time to make it right they hurried and boiled the hell out of it, burning it. It was terrible. The prices were $ 8.00 more then I paid for the exact same thing at another place the weekend before. No one ever came around with fresh coals, and when I asked they still didn’t come around. My friend and I just decided to leave. The décor was ok, and the seating was pretty comfortable. I just felt like more of a nuisance then a customer. There are plenty of places in Portland that want your business that do much better at this simple business.

overpriced slow service. Not a relaxed atmosphere, and you feel like you are being hustled.

My first experience at a hookah bar was unfavorable. A group of friends and I walked in and were kind of overwhelmed with the pushy half naked girls that were hurrying us to show our id’s then pick our flavors. The prices weren’t really really discussed until the very end, and we ended up getting way over charged :(At least the selection of shisha was awesome?
The atmosphere was terrible; as if they took a convenience store, put in some chairs, hung some beaded curtains, blasted European techno as a loud as it could possible go, and called it «hookah bar». Oh wait, I think that’s exactly what they did. Also, this seems to be where lots of douche bags like to hang out, just sayin’. Lots of sideways flat-​billed hats and popped collars.
The owner was also a douche, telling our friend «you’re such an Arab» for ordering his own hookah. Maybe this is okay for middle eastern guys to banter back and forth at each other, I don’t know. Our friend seemed unfazed but it made me really, really uncomfortable. We also got yelled at for moving a hookah on our own. OH NOES WE MIGHT BRAKE YOUR LOANER CHEAPASS HOOKAH THAT YOU NEVER CLEAN. Okay I can kinda understand this one but seriously, chill out. Lastly, at the end of the night one of the employees (the owner’s son?) pulled out a rape whistle and started whistling and yelling «RAPE» as loud as he possibly could to the beat of some god awful Katy Perry song. And that was our sign it was time to go!
We were gone and will never ever come back.

So we were on a debate trip to Portland and we had to take a hookah break. We ended up here and it was a great experience.
They charge cover which sucks but the hookah wasn’t crazy expensive. The flavors were plentiful with the mixed berry being the stand out in my opinion. The ambiance was amazing, the chairs were comfy, the people were cool, and the music was awesome! I really want to know the radio station that they were playing cause it was cool as hell.

Anapneo! When you get tired of breathing all that obnoxious oxygen and you need your hookah fix: enter Sultan Hookah Lounge.
The way this place was described to me by a student at Reed: «Man, this place is awesome. Great hookah flavors, lots of stuff nearby to walk to, and really chill people here.»
Item one — this place is awesome.
I disagree. In Colorado Springs I found a truly epic hookah place. This was more of a run of the mill place to come because it is the only thing open at the time you decide you need some hookah. That levels it down to the last page of your little black book — you know you are going to make that phone call at 1am after you’ve had a few [too many,] but you still think there was a better option somewhere along the road. Consult item three for a further critique of this place and more reasons why it is not awesome.
Item two — great hookah flavors.
Yes. I agree! We went with three flavors — «Adiós M#**&$*#%» which was a very interesting taste, but not very strong at all; «Guava» which was my favorite and definitely the strongest; and «Strawberry and Berry mix» which was not very strong or very awesome, but still acceptable as things go, which it went this time by just smoking this one along with another one at the same time.
Item three — lots of stuff nearby to walk to.
Eh, not so much. The owner himself even said so. Which kind of sucked since most of the group was starving and Taco Bell just seemed like a bad idea. The owner was cool to tell us we could bring anything we wanted back into the place, but with the stunning endorsement of what was available, we decided to just keep smoking and looking at the weird yet awesome videos playing on the television screen. This of course, after the owner initially was acting like a dick and wanted to keep charging and charging and charging — so perhaps the «nothing good around here» should be taken with a grain of salt, as the owner becomes much more likeable the longer you spend in the hookah bar.
Item four — totally chill people here.
Not really. This is not what I had in mind for Portland — it was small; the fellow Hookah bar patrons were extremely unfriendly; some d-​bag had his polo collar popped; the owner was initially very friendly and standoffish … yet the experience was not a total wash. The music rocked. The videos were fun to look at. And they had hookah.

Our usual hookah place was way too overcrowded this last Saturday, so we decided to Unilocal it and try somewhere new and I’m glad we did.
It started off a little sketchy– Mapquest took us from I-​205 to 405, onto highway 30, then over the St Johns Bridge. A little unconventional, but we went with it. This place is tiny– its about 10 steps long, and 5 wide. But what they have done with the space is very functional and works well. If you want to feel secluded you can, but you can also very easily chat up the next table.
We had them suprise us and ended up with Margarita and Mangosteen flavors. Both were very good and smooth, and they had high quality hookahs. They also have other tobacco products– cigars, cigs, chew etc that made my SO happy.
It’s across town but we’ll be back.

I love this place. I am not a HUGE smoker but the people who work here are so nice I just can’t help myself from going. I am now equally stoked that they serve some food! I have also been known to get my drink on mid-​toke @the bar across the walk and come back to finish my smoking… Though I do not recommend it… Its how I roll and is not for the faint of heart… They also serve coffee ridiculous hours from like 10-close…and its a drive-​thru which is great for those «lazy» days when actually getting out of your car just seems like toooooo much… though I have yet to partake in that particular bad habit… key word… yet.

Yay! Hookah bar! And it’s run by a cool guy? Yup, sold.
Sucks that it’s across town from my house, but I can’t ding ‘em for that. It’s probably a good thing, as I’d be dropping in for hookah frequently if this were anywhere within reasonable driving distance of my hood.
This new little hookah lounge out in St. John’s offers up a great selection of hookahs and shishas for take-​home or smoke-​in enjoyment. With indoor couches and outdoor patios, I can choose to partake under a roof or out under the stars. Add in a mint tea (if only they served beer) and some good old school hip hop, and what more could I want?
Oh yeah, free wifi. That’s what I want. And they have it. Word!
Consider me sold.

So… this place popped up almost instantly after former tenant, a coffee shop, opened and closed at least 4 times.
I, being a complete newbie to hookah had to go check it out. The owner is probably one of the nicest people you would ever want to meet. He is very patient and explanatory what his shot is all about. He offered smelling samples of many different flavors. They range from apple, strawberry, all the way to incredible hulk, and other exotic flavors.
After walking past it many many times I finally decided to try it with a friend. I asked for a recommendation. blue mist, and I must say it was an amazing choice. We hung out for around an hour or so enjoying the sun and watching rush hour traffic slowly scoot by on the very nice patio. They have tables in front and in the back with umbrellas nice landscaping and a big 3 tiered fountain.
They offer espresso, and even kept the drive-​thru for that reason, or I suppose they would sell you any of other goods they carry through the window. It’s quicker for me to walk here so I don’t really see myself needing that.
They have many smoking accessories, glass pieces, incense of many many kinds, a few teas and juices, and everything you would need to start smoking hookah at home.
I’m not sure how the prices are elsewhere but I deem it a very good value. This place will continue to grow if the food carts going in next door do well.