1st time on Pearl questions - Alaska June 7

[Elde]

With 9 of us (3 generational family), any recommendations on a 3 star hotel and what sights to see in Seattle?

 

Drop by the West Coast Departures board (not the Alaska board) and check out the "Seattle Q&A/FAQ" thread for assistance by a Seattle resident.

 

That being said, I always take family and visitors to Pike Place.

[challada]

If you have the time in Seattle, a good day trip is the Seattle Center/Space Needle/Pacific Science Center. It is the site of the World's Fair about a thousand years ago and the Space Needle is what is left over. The park area around it has other "main attractions" of Seattle including the Pacific Science Center (our science museum), Center House (variety of eateries and children's museum downstairs), Key Arena (where we used to have basketball....now Disney on Ice and concerts), and EMP (rock music museum). Just seeing EMP from the outside is a fantastic Seattle 'thing'. If you stay in the hotels near there, the monorail does run from Center House to downtown (those are the only stops....you can't get lost on it). You can then walk down to Pikes Place or nextdoor to flagship Nordstroms (best Macaroons in the ENTIRE world in the cafe up on the 3rd floor).

 

The airport is out of town about halfway to Tacoma. There are lots of reasonably priced hotels around the airport, but know that there are no attractions there.

 

ENJOY!

[challada]

Oh....forgot other piece of advice....

the piers have been redone into a touristy area....fun to see!

The Seattle Aquarium is down there (small,but nicely remodeled recently).

Ye Old Curiousity Shop is down there (frozen mummy and jackalopes next to trinkets from Seattle).

and....my best recommendation for Seattle: the CrabPot.....a crab steaming eatery where you get served in big bowls that they dump on your table for you to grab at w/the others at your table. It is SOOOOOOO fun!

 

 

If you have transportation, go north to see Gasworks park (old gaswork factory turned into a park, still has equipment there....was site that Amazing Race used for start/finish one year)....and Ballard locks (where the boats go thru from salt water to fresh water).

[LG61]

THis is all great information. I'm so glad to have found you all on the boards. Thank you!:)