Hotwire Hotel: 3.5* Seattle (Renton) Embassy Suites Seatac

[jones721]

Looking at 17 to 21 August and the following hotel has shown up at $65

Renton (Airport areas)

Suite, restaurant, pool, fitness, breakfast, kitchenette, business, laundry.

Any idea?

Everyone has been so helpful when booking my accommodations in San Francisco, LA and Las Vegas. Now I need to sort our my accommodation pre-cruise.

Thank you

Tracey

[thereuare]

In this area i was able to find Embassy Suite, Homewood Suites, Springhill Suites, and DoubleTree Suites that seem that they could all fit 3.5* properties (there were others, but not that i thought could merit a 3.5* rating).

I can research further to try to narrow down this list, but before i do....

I don't know much about Seattle so i'll leave it up to our locals to comment further, but my understanding is that the area around the airport is not where you want to stay for a 4 nite stay if you plan on being a tourist and seeing the sights. Is that your intention or did you have some other plans that made you target the Renton area?

[jones721]

thereuare,

Springhill Suites seems to ring a bell - I did some research a while back and came up with that one but couldn't remember the name. Have finalised almost all our plans now, apart from a 4 day period before the cruise. If we stay in Seattle for the whole time then we will hire a car and use the hotel as a base for touring the whole area, not just Seattle itself. Therefore an airport location will be fine. Another reason for the choice is the breakfast and the price. It is also by a shopping mall.

The other choice would be to have two nights in Vancouver and then 2 nights in Seattle, if it is worth the journey. I cruise out of Seattle. Perhaps someone in the area could comment on the distance (I think about 3 hours?), whether you can take a hire car over the border and if Vancouver is a good place to visit for 2 days, entirely subjective I know!

Thanks again for all your help.

Tracey

[thereuare]

Don't know why i can't pull up all the hotels i mentioned above anymore, but in looking a bit further it seems that the Springhill Suites does not have a restaurant and the DoubleTree does not offer complimentary breakfast, so we should be able to exclude those.

My guess would be the Embassy Suites but i can't say with certainty.

[jones721]

Interesting, never thought of that(restaurant) But, no shuttle is mentioned and both Embassy Suites and Springhill Suites have an airport shuttle. Embassy Suites has internet and not listed on Hotwire. So . . . ? Can't be lucky enough to get the Embassy Suites again. If I bid for it in a few days time, I will post the outcome. Have sort of decided not to go to Vancouver but to have a rest instead ready for the cruise. We will have had enough travelling around in the two weeks beforehand.

Thanks,

Tracey

[jones721]

thereaure,

Did a lot of research into the possible hotels for the thread above but couldn't narrow it down to one - not everything matched up for all the combinations, either something missing or something extra. So, booked the 20th only to see what it was and then went back and booked the 3 nights beforehand. I know that it worked out slightly dearer that way (only $7) and I took the risk of the hotel disappearing between bookings, but didn't want to end up with some of them that were only $60/70 to start with.

So, to cut a long story short, I am VERY pleased. It was the Embassy Suites at Seatac. I am thrilled. Indoor pool, breakfast and evening drinks, two rooms (suite) and all the extras that Embassy Suites seem to offer.

Total cost was $298 (if booked at once) or $305 because I did it in two stages. Wish I had trusted your instincts, ES was your guess. Only thing that was missing was the Airport Shuttle icon. That confused me! Website rate is at least double, almost triple Hotwire rates in this instance.

Thanks again for all your help.

Tracey

[jones721]

Hotel won from 17 to 21 August in Renton (Airport areas) Seattle for $65 per night.

Embassy Suites, West Valley Highway (near airport)

Icons,

Suite, Restaurant, Pool, Fitness, Breakfast, Kitchenette, Business, Laundry.

Interestingly enough, ES websites advertises a complimentary airport shuttle, yet it is missing from the icons above.

Website prices for those dates, cheapest $163.

Tracey

[thereuare]

Congratulations on your win.

Sometimes the hotels don't list all the amenities.

This was the hotel that i suspected and i'm glad you have now confirmed it for us and we can add it to the lists.

Enjoy your time in Seattle.