Skip this Hotel
I really wanted to give this hotel a superior rating,I really did, but in all honesty, our experience left us with such bad feelings that I will have to advise all travelers to miss this hotel if at all possible! It is a beautiful refurbished hotel that is 98 years old and an integral part of Seattle's history. It is close to almost everything you might want to see or do in Seattle. The breakfast is ok and most of the staff helpful. The BIG problem is the parking, or rather the lack of parking. The hotel has a section of curbing for loading and unloading. The section will accommodate two cars at a time. We were the third vehicle. The hotel has contracted with the Butler Garage two blocks uphill for hotel patron parking. We were issued a key card which we were told had to be returned at checkout or we would pay a $50.00 replacement fee. The key is used for entrance and egress from the parking garage. What we were NOT told is the fee to use the garage is $20.00/day payable upon check-in. The hotel did not bill us for parking and so we headed off to the garage to depart. Only to find out that we could either pay the garage $28.00 a day OR we could walk back to the hotel to pay our $20.00/day parking fees. The manager of the garage was extremely hostile and rude as she apparently thought we were trying to steal parking. When we returned to the hotel, the person who had accepted our key card was no longer on duty and his replacement seemed to share the opinion of the parking lot manager. Fortunately, my husband remembered the card number and upon paying the $20.00 per day, we were released to trudge back up the two blocks, get into our vehicle and depart. My husband has proclaimed this family will NEVER return to Seattle. This could get interesting as our daughter was being recruited by the University of Washington! Seriously though, do yourself a favor and skip this hotel!