Taxi for 4+luggage at Seatac hard to get?

[luvtravel]

We're taking the Solstice to Alaska this coming Friday - 4 adults with 1 pc. of luggage each - and wondered how difficult it is to get a taxi that holds the 4 of us.

Have tried taxi websites but their info seems to only be for 2 people per cab.    Has anyone had experience with this?  Thanks!!

[fastpitchdad]

No, you will be fine. Once you collect your bags you will take an escalator or elevator up to level 4 and walk across the bridge and take an elevator (there is an escalator as well which is working once in a blue moon) down to level 3 which is where the cabs and ride shares are. Usually there are several cabs waiting most of which will be Prii but there should be vans as well. If not there will also be several black suburbans/limos for hire...you can sometimes get them cheaper than a cab. The weather is finally turning better just in time for your trip 🙂 .

Edited July 14, 2019 by fastpitchdad

[princeton123211]

You can also just Uber which will make sure you get a larger car with UberXL. You head to a staging area at SeaTac thats pretty easy to meet the car. 

[bluedevil72]

We flew into Seatac on the 5th for our Alaska cruise. There were four of us with 8-10 pieces of luggage and some of them were pretty big. There is a person at the taxi stand helping people get taxis and we just told him we needed a minivan. He got us one immediately.  UberXL in theory might work but the ones we’ve taken don’t have enough room for that much luggage. 

[rabbitjr]

Does anyone remember how much the taxi cost? I'm trying to weigh the benefit of say, shuttle express to the hotel near the needle vs taxi or uber xl. We would also be 4 with 8-10 pieces of luggage.

[fastpitchdad]

10 hours ago, rabbitjr said:

Does anyone remember how much the taxi cost? I'm trying to weigh the benefit of say, shuttle express to the hotel near the needle vs taxi or uber xl. We would also be 4 with 8-10 pieces of luggage.

 

UberXL will be about $60 but I think Cabs are flat rate of $40. You might want to call them...here is the link. On that web page it implies that if you pre-order a cab they will pick you up curbside which would be nice if you have a lot of luggage. 

 

The least expensive method would be to take the light rail from the airport parking garage to Westlake and then get a cab/uberXL from there (there is actually a monorail to the space needle from Westlake but I wouldn't recommend it with a bunch of luggage). 

[bluedevil72]

The sign on the taxi and the taxi stand does say $40 but our fare was about $45. That may include some type of airport use fee, or maybe it was a little farther than what is considered downtown although we were staying at Hyatt Regency Downtown. 

[DaveOKC]

On 7/25/2019 at 8:51 PM, bluedevil72 said:

The sign on the taxi and the taxi stand does say $40 but our fare was about $45. That may include some type of airport use fee, or maybe it was a little farther than what is considered downtown although we were staying at Hyatt Regency Downtown. 

STILA limo (towncar I am sure) is $45 to downtown hotel.  We plan to use that to Hyatt Regency.

 

[luvtravel]

On 7/13/2019 at 9:16 AM, luvtravel said:

We're taking the Solstice to Alaska this coming Friday - 4 adults with 1 pc. of luggage each - and wondered how difficult it is to get a taxi that holds the 4 of us.

Have tried taxi websites but their info seems to only be for 2 people per cab.    Has anyone had experience with this?  Thanks!!

Updating on my original question of this thread......the 4 of us and luggage walked out to join the taxi line, expecting probably to take 2 cars, but we were so surprised when the 4 of us plus our carryons and 4 big bags fit into the Urber..must have been an XL - worked just great and we didn't even have to wait for the taxi.   We don't recall exactly - but fare was about $45 or so for the 4 of us...was great!