| What to expect: Plain on the outside, the three towers comprising this six-story hotel contain straightforward rooms that provide all the space, comfort, and convenient amenities that business-class and budget-vacationers desire. Guests are attracted to its location with points of interest just a mile south in downtown Seattle, four miles north at the University of Washington, and a half-mile north around South Lake Union. Vacationers prize its walking-distance access (four blocks) to the Seattle Center—the city's 74-acre cultural and entertainment park and home to the Space Needle. Amenity highlights: These rooms are made for comfort. A soft, upholstered chair with a matching ottoman to rest the feet offers sink-down comfort after a go-'round in the hotel's fitness center, or for an evening of watching television and playing on the room's game console. A refrigerator preserves dinner leftovers, which can be warmed later in a microwave oven. Insider tip: Walk to Seattle Center and catch the elevated Monorail to downtown, just a mile away. From the downtown terminal it's just four blocks west to Seattle's soul—the bustling Pike Place Market, where there are dozens of food stands and restaurants, fish and poultry purveyors (don't miss the famous flying-fish act), myriad crafts stands and shops, and local farmers selling produce and flowers. The city's Belltown restaurant district begins two blocks north of the market, and the waterfront's visitor attractions (Seattle Aquarium, restaurants, sightseeing by boat) are two blocks downhill. |