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Pike Place Market & Waterfront
Green Tortoise Hostel
HOSTEL$
( 206-340-1222;
www.greentortoise.net
;
105 Pike St; 8-/6-/4-bed dm incl breakfast $32/34/36;
; Westlake)
Seattle's backpacker central - and what a location right across the street
from Pike Place Market! Once pretty crusty, the Tortoise moved to the Elliot Hotel
Building a few years back and now offers 30 bunk rooms and 16 European-style rooms
(shared bath and shower). Breakfast includes waffles and eggs.
The hostel offers a free dinner three nights a week and there are weekly events such as
open-mic nights.
Pensione Nichols
B&B$$$
( 206-441-7125;
www.pensionenichols.com
;
1923 1st Ave; r from $130; ; Westlake)
In a
town with few cheap hotels and hardly any B&Bs right downtown, Pensione Nichols is a
treat. Right in the urban thick of things between Pike Place Market and Belltown, this
charmingly remodeled European-style pensione has 10 rooms that share four retro-cool
bathrooms, two large suites and a spacious common area that overlooks the market.
Edgewater
HOTEL$$$
$$$
( 206-728-7000;
www.edgewaterhotel.com
;
Pier 67, 2411 Alaskan Way; r 420-750; ;
13)
Fame and notoriety have stalked the Edgewater. Perched over the water on a pier,
it was once the hotel of choice for every rock band that mattered, including the Beatles,
the Rolling Stones and, most infamously, Led Zeppelin, who took the 'you can fish from
the hotel window' advertising jingle a little too seriously and filled their suite with
sharks.
These days, the fishing - and Led Zeppelin - is prohibited, but the rooms are still de-
luxe with a capital 'D.'
Belltown
Moore Hotel
HOTEL$
( 206-448-4851;
www.moorehotel.com
;
1926 2nd Ave; s/d with shared bath $68/80, with private
bath $85/97;
;
Westlake)
Old world and allegedly haunted, the Moore nonetheless
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