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Things
To Do While Visiting Seattle...
Downtown Seattle's
main attractions are the busy stalls
and cafés of Pike
Place Market and the restored nineteenth-century Pioneer Square
, lined with restaurants and taverns. A stroll along the more touristy
waterfront lets you enjoy fabulous views of Elliott Bay. At the Seattle
Center in the north, the Space
Needle presides over cultural institutions and carnival rides,
as well as the city's latest draw, the Experience Music Project .
Several outlying districts are often livelier than downtown: Capitol
Hill 's cafés and bars are the heart of the city's hipster
and gay scene, and the University District is a student area with
inexpensive cafés and uptempo nightlife. .
Travel
Tips...
Seattle's dress
code is very much dictated by the season and its weather. But remember
that this is the American city which invented the phrase ‘cafe-society'
and that many denizens of the cappuccino world are there to be seen
as much as for the coffee. So you might like to pack something which
will stand up to close scrutiny.
Business hours
in Seattle tend to vary from one industry to another but in general,
most office environments operate between 09.00 and 17.30, Monday
to Friday. As for banks, they tend to be open between 09.00 and
15.00, Monday to Friday.
Getting
Here and Getting Around...
Seattle
is well served by both trains and buses . Amtrak (tel 1-800-USA-RAIL,
) runs its Coast Starlight train once daily south to LA, while its
Cascades line runs four times per day south to Eugene, Oregon, and
north to Vancouver in British Columbia. Amtrak's daily Empire Builder
route heads east (to Chicago), just as Greyhound (tel 1-800/229-9424)
provides bus service east across the Cascades to Spokane and beyond,
with other routes to Wenatchee (for Chelan), Ellensburg, Yakima and
Walla Walla. Areas not covered by Greyhound are usually accessible
on local buses, though this can be time-consuming and inconvenient.
Getting
to and along the coast is more difficult and requires some planning.
Ferries from Seattle shuttle across to Winslow, on Bainbridge Island
, from where Kitsap Transit services link with Jefferson Transit
for access to Port Angeles, Port Townsend and Olympic National Park.
In the Seattle and Puget Sound area, ferries (mostly run by Washington
State Ferries; Washington: tel 206/464-6400 or 1-888/808-7977; British
Columbia: tel 250/381-1551, ) are a reliable and enjoyable method
of getting to such places as Whidbey Island and the San Juan Islands.
There are also long-distance services, to Canada from Seattle, Anacortes
and Port Angeles, and to Alaska from Bellingham.
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