Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Advance Planning
One month before
Start looking at options for car rental, accommodations, tours and
train tickets.
Two weeks before
If you're hoping to see a particular performance or game, whether
it's the Mariners or the opera, it's wise to buy tickets in advance.
One to two days before
Book popular restaurants in advance. Search the
Stranger
and
the
Seattle Times
for upcoming art and entertainment listings.
Useful Websites
»
Stranger
(
www.thestranger.com
) Seattle's best newspaper for entertainment listings -
and it's free.
»
Not for Tourists
(
www.notfortourists.com/seattle
) Irreverent reviews and neighbor-
hood commentaries.
»
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
(
www.seattlepi.com
) Online-only newspaper.
»
Lonely Planet
(
www.lonelyplanet.com/seattle
)
Succinct summaries on traveling, and
the Thorn Tree bulletin board.
Arriving in San Francisco
Sea-Tac International Airport (SEA)
Link Light Rail connects to downtown Seattle in
30 minutes; shuttle buses stop on the 3rd fl oor of the airport garage and cost from $18
one way; taxis are $42 to downtown (25 minutes).
King Street Station
Amtrak
Empire Builder
to Chicago has one arrival/departure daily;
Coast Starlight
to Los Angeles via Portland, OR, and Oakland, CA, runs once daily each
way; Amtrak Cascades runs twice daily each way to Vancouver, Canada, and four times
daily to Portland and Eugene, OR.
Pier 52
Washington State Ferries runs regular daily passenger/vehicle ferries to Bain-
bridge Island and Bremerton, WA. The pier is on the downtown waterfront.
Kenmore Air
Seaplane flights from Lake Union to the San Juan Islands and Victoria,
Canada.
See
arrival
for much more.
Getting Around
There is a large and growing network of public transportation in Seattle.
