PreCruise Seattle Hotel/Shuttle Review

After a long search for a reasonably priced hotel we booked the "Cruise/Stay" package for 2 nights at the Hampton Inn in Tukwila. This was an EXCELLENT decision. Fri night was $157 and Sat night (with cruise transfer) $197. We called the hotel from the airport and within 10 min we were on our way.

The room was fine, internet, breakfast & bed were excellent and the folks at the front desk were wonderful! They shuttled us (leaves every half hour) to the light rail station and we took that to downtown and then monorail to the Space Needle area. When we were done they picked us up where they dropped us. No charge for this shuttling!

The Chihuly exhibit was amazing! The Space Needle itself was way over-priced and not very interesting (view wasn't very appealing). Each activity was approx $20. I'd say the Chihuly was worth twice the price and Space Needle maybe worth $5, but lesson learned. My husband checked out the SciFi museum and enjoyed it. We walked to Pike's Market and that was interesting. On the way we passed through Olympic Sculpture Park - not much there.

The morning of the cruise we were told to meet the shuttle (Orion) at 10:30 which got us to the port early and we cruised through the embarkation process. The shuttle lady was hilarious and made the trip to the pier enjoyable.

Thanks for all the hotel suggestions! After seeing the crazy rates they wanted for even 2-star hotels for this busy summer weekend, staying in Tukwila was definitely the right solution for us!

Hi, just curious about the prices you quoted. Was that the total with all taxes? Also, how long was your travel time from the hotel to the city center area? Would like to stay downtown to avoid travel and wait times but the prices are too high. We are sailing on Aug. 24th and will have two days to sightsee.

Here's the Light Rail web site. It takes about 40minutes to reach Westlake Center (the last stop) from the airport.

http://www.soundtransit.org/Schedules/Central-Link-light-rail

current rates will be on the hotel web site.

After a long search for a reasonably priced hotel we booked the "Cruise/Stay" package for 2 nights at the Hampton Inn in Tukwila. This was an EXCELLENT decision. Fri night was $157 and Sat night (with cruise transfer) $197. We called the hotel from the airport and within 10 min we were on our way.

Thanks for the followup report. This will be especially helpful to those folks who need a cruise/stay option but the location will also work for anyone who wants to stay nearer the airport and take the LightRail into Seattle to sightsee.

Thanks for the report!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Keith