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Pacific Northwest Hotel Guide :: A Family Package That Rocks at the Mayflower Park in Seattle
HotelChatter contributing editor Tim Leffel is moving around the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. and Canada, seeing the hotel scene from a family travel perspective. If you have a question about where to stay in the region, hit us on the tipline, or just comment below, and we will do our best to get you some sort of answer. Enjoy.
Seattle's Mayflower Park Hotel first opened in 1927, built for $750,000 and in a move that was rare at the time, all 240 rooms had their own baths.
On the downside, this was during prohibition, so the current bar was then a drugstore. Double rooms ran from $3.50 to $7 and suites topped out at $10 during peak periods.
You will pay $289 a night a now for a suite under the "Family Fun Package," but in today's dollars, it's a good deal. For that price you get a true suite--as in put the kids in a different room--and some quality extras.
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At The Grand Hyatt Seattle It's All About The Bathrooms
Once again, we are stalking the #1 rankings on TripAdvisor to find what they have ranked as the top hotels in cities throughout the nation.
This week our obsession took us to Seattle, where not only did we learn that the top property is the Grand Hyatt, but that the way to a guest's heart is a great bathroom. Case in point:
The bathroom was huge (almost bigger than the actual room). I absolutely loved it!
The room was a good size, but the bathroom was amazing!
The bathrooms are massive with a separate frameless shower and extra deep soaker tub with a waterfall faucet.
So hotel developers take note: it's not all about location, location, location. Although, we're sure that can't hurt. Afterall, who can soak in a tub while staying in a bad neighborhood?
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MLB Travel :: Seattle
Summer is here, which means baseball-obsessed people all over the U.S. are hopping in planes, trains, and automobiles to visit MLB fields around the country. To help these fanatic fans/hotel guests, we will be looking at ballparks around the country and give you a quick rundown of your closest, safest, and best hotel options. "America's Favorite Pastime" with some of America's finest second cities--what is not to love? If you got any hotel questions or suggestions or even better, firsthand baseball park hotel reviews, send them here and share them with other MLB fans--even if they are Yankee fans.
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Today we're heading to Seattle, home of the Mariners and Safeco Field...also, former home of our favorite stray infielder, Alex Rodriguez. Stray Rod heads back to Seattle to play his old Mariners in September, and we're betting that he and the blonde will check into The Fairmont Olympic Hotel.
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Where the Cast of 'Grey's Anatomy' Might Stay in Seattle
A few cast members of Grey's Anatomy got some serious pay raises this week--Meredith is making 200k an episode, the others are getting around 125k--meaning they are close to making at least $3 million a season. So we wondered with all this money in the bank, where would these Seattle Grace "doctors" stay if they were to actually visit Seattle one day?
We looked at what was near the city's Swedish Medical Center which has state-of-the-art surgical facilities and found that the Hotel Sorrento was only a few blocks away.
The hotel is 7-story, European-style (small) hotel that's almost a hundred years old where the staff prides themselves on their excellent service. All of which is perfect for a bunch of Hollywood celebs.
Even though this is a luxury hotel, the regular standard room just won't do. But the 1,850 sq.ft. Penthouse Suite will. There's a master bedroom with a king bed, 400 thread-count linens and a pillow menu; a marble bathroom with a double-sink vanity, and a "fill from the ceiling" air jetted tub; a living area with a baby grand piano; a dining room, library and best of all, an outdoor terrace overlooking Seattle skyline.
Yet, if the cast wants something a little more Hollywood they can book the hotel's music suite which features:
music memorabilia as eclectic as Kelly Clarkson and Black Sabbath--you'll even find a guitar played by The Who. The living space and bedroom boast a collection so whimsically selected it's sure to amuse every guest who loves to turn up the stereo.
Some other hotel perks? The place is smoke-free, pet friendly and internet access is free for the first 24 hours.
Related Stories:
· Hotel Sorrento reviews [TripAdvisor]
· "Grey's Anatomy" stars get pay rises [Yahoo!]
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Guess What Caused These Stains at the Ramada Seattle
When you wind up with a bad hotel room, you tend to whinge to your pals about it for a while. Some people even mention it to management. And others write really long detailed letters that get published all across the world, thanks to the modern wonder of the internet. Blogger Propaganda Sifter had plenty to say about a stay in the Ramada Downtown Seattle, starting with a too-small TV and a broken airconditioner. A discovery of cigarette burns in the blanket led to further investigation:
Having kicked off the comforter on the bed, I turned and encountered the biggest, most horrible-looking, unsavory stain on the box spring. In all my life I have never knowingly slept on something so disgusting.
After a sleepless night, this unhappy guest checked everything more thoroughly and found a few more less-than-perfect points to his room:
The bathroom wall had unsightly stains next to the toilet, at eye level, where someone had apparently used the wall as a snot rag ... The shower had some disturbing-looking reddish stains on the back wall. There was also a filthy stain on the entry wall, where someone had apparently spilled a soda or something. Finally, when my fiancee decided she needed to iron a shirt that next morning, she was treated to a stained ironing board that looked as if someone had used it as a toilet.
Hmm, sounds a bit less than appetizing.
Related Stories:
· Ramada Downtown Seattle reviews [TripAdvisor]
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Room with an Anti-View: The Ace Hotel
You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.
The Ace Hotel in Seattle is a pretty cool hotel, but we always deemed it to be a step above a hostel. So we can't really expect that much from the room views.
Related Stories:
· Bradley Allen's photostream [Flickr]
· Ace Hotel reviews [TripAdvisor]
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Hotel 1000 Sees You When You're Sleeping
New York Times reporter Jamie Gross recently checked into Seattle's Hotel 1000 wondering if he should be expecting a scene from the Jetsons since he read on the hotel website about their high-tech amenities (a tub that fills from the ceiling, infrared occupancy sensors.)
However, walking into the place, Gross reports the lobby is just like any other--boring but stylish.
Appparently, all the high-tech stuff takes place behind the scenes. Aside from the tub, nothing may be cooler than the fact that housekeeping will never knock on your door here; their infrared occupancy sensors will also tell the front desk and hence, the whole place that your room is still occupied and thus needs no housekeeping yet.
The amenities don't stop there, these rooms are stocked:
[A] smart minibar that tells housekeeping when you're out of beer; an ultrahigh-speed Internet connection; and, most impressively, a 40-inch L.C.D. screen that does quadruple duty as a 5.1 virtual surround-sound theater, computer screen, satellite radio and digital art gallery. There's also a nifty touch-screen VoIP phone that schedules wake-up calls, summons your car from the valet, orders breakfast and checks weather and flight status -- all with surprising ease.
And in case you were wondering, that WiFi is free.
Gross also assures us that despite the high-tech gadgetry world of Hotel 1000, they still manage to create a cozy environment with warm earth tones and a comfy bedspread and plenty of pillows.
But we have to wonder if the staff is also watching the infrared occupancy sensors of our rooms as some sort of "Predator Movie" watching the two red bodies moving closer to each other in the blue light of the room.
Related Stories:
· Check In Check Out [New York Times]
· Hotel 1000 Reviews [TripAdvisor]
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