Great Hotel and Location; Poor Pool/Exercise Area
Hard to find a better location: just a block from where the airport train stops (Westlake train station and bus tunnel under Nordstrom's, from which you can get almost anywhere), across from the Westlake shopping center and monorail hub, across the street from a pharmacy which sells snacks and minimal groceries, and only a short 15-minute walk to Pike's Place market and the waterfront.
This is a large hotel. I was here for a conference and spent most of my time on the three conference floors, so for business travelers here's my take on that: many rooms, some huge some small, which makes this a perfect place for such events. Room setup and service was great. My only complaint is that a few times the doors between room dividers (in the Cascade rooms) didn't close properly, so it was difficult to hear over noise from adjoining sessions.
The guest rooms were great, and the "heavenly beds" were indeed heavenly. The in-house restaurant was ok, but not great. I ate from the buffet Sunday morning before I flew out--a very large selection (scrambled eggs, fresh pancakes, plentiful fruit, and rolls, bacon, sausage, yogurt, etc), but the eggs were dry and overcooked. Adult buffet price was $19.00.
The exercise room was small and cramped. It contained barbells, an exercise ball and three different weight machines. You wouldn't want to spend much time in here, especially if there were more than one other person. The pool was a disappointment; small and so shallow at one end that you hit your hands/feet when swimming laps. And it tasted/smelled salty and a little disgusting. The temperature in both the pool and the spa varied widely from day to day--one day it was so cold it was unbearable to swim in. And there was plaster falling off the pillar at the west end, which no one cleaned up during my entire 4-day stay and which thus got tracked around the pool.
But aside from the pool problem, this was a great hotel