Christmas is a time to enjoy the attractions in Seattle
Winter Wonderland – not exactly. However, Seattle is particularly busy during the Christmas holidays, and an ideal destination to combine shopping with a special getaway.
Seattle Center to Westlake Center to the Pike Market Place, attractions for frequent visitors were a little more special on a cold winter day. An enthusiastic crowd of families, including couples and enjoy the seasonal offerings in Westlake, such as Quest on rides, kettle corn or ears and elephant nearby. Vendors are making balloon animals for children, while strong echoes of Christmas music in the background to ensure that nobody misses the spirit Christmas in Seattle.
Make it a trip one night and, even better. First, be sure to see the many lights of Christmas in the streets of downtown as the star of the famous Macy's, the lights of the Space Needle and many other specific details season. And overnight, you can turn a shopping session in a real shelter.
Our base of operations has been a point of Seattle landmark, the Edgewater Hotel. These Once you remember that Edgewater was famous in the sixties when the Beatles stayed there and fished out his right window. In fact, he became the obvious choice for many famous rock bands who came to the city during this period to play for one of the spectacular rock concerts Pat O'Dea.
Today These days Edgewater has a classic elegance combines the best location in Seattle with an interior design that evokes updated the rich Native American heritage in the Northwest. The first thing we saw upon entering our room overlooking the sea was a Washington State Ferry – by the window and in the waters of Elliott Bay. Our point of view we have felt as if we were traveling on a cruise with nothing but water between us and the ferry. This, of course, is the main attraction the aptly named Edgewater – a place literally on the water with incredible views of Puget Sound and nearby islands.
Our room featured many Northwest accents, like a bedside Log in to our comfortable king-size, crust and topping a wooden panel of the fireplace in the corner, Native American Designs on carpets with sockets knotty pine and character of India and drawings on the entertainment center with a wooden frame. In the bathroom, a large bath style shoe looks very attractive, while the colors and modern bathroom accessories look something you'd see in a magazine of interior design. The amber quartz slate floors were, while the room also includes a European spa shower glass.
With a room at the Edgewater – which includes a constant parade of boats outside the window – not the temptation to stay and enjoy the sights and sounds endless. But our main objective of this trip was to check the activities of Christmas in the city, so he went to Pike Place Market, a few streets away.
The market is one most recognizable symbols of Seattle – at the height of the Space Needle. This probably has something to do with how the TV sports announcers always make a point to show pictures of the market, while the diffusion Hawks Seattle Mariners and Washington Huskies sports broadcasting. Normally, shooting is one Pilots of the fish release king salmon – so we welcome on our arrival, the fish were really flying. As the 50 or so visitors to attend others look around, we saw the famous Pike Place Market shooting fish.
Fish processors in their suits, T-shirts and sweatshirts are not the only reason to go through the Christmas market. The market is especially decoration and, in fact, Christmas trees available – not not that I wanted a new car in Edgewater. Walk north from the fish market first and get into a hive of activity that seems like almost everything you want is on sale – fresh fruits and produce honey, herbs, dried flowers, jams and jellies, fruit dried fruit, chocolates, shirts, bags, and more. There are actually several fish markets in the same building as well as restaurants where you can dine on the fish to cool before to exit the market ..
In front of the market compared to Starbucks, a musical group called Slimpickens warmed the crowd with lively music Style 1930 has played in a configuration of four pieces for guitar, bass stand, violin and washboard. dress of the 30s, the group seemed to respond Depression to his music: a lot of smiles and tapping feet, but not a lot of coins falling prominently in the cup.
Throughout us here find Piroshky, Piroshky, a small restaurant serving fresh take Piroshki Russia for under $ 5. These are the oven and, if you 're request, it piroshky like a flakey turnover stuffed with meat, cheese or other toppings. They are delicious, and for us, always a fast food and cheap.
Some of our friends was the site of the Grand Café Von city, just blocks from the market on Pine Street, where the food was good, but indicated it was the first time I found canned champagne. He commanded a division of champagne and the box was returned to his table was a straw attached – our friends said recalling cans of fruit drinks are for their children. Of course, is that visiting the "Big City "is about – experimenting with new things.
A few blocks from the market is Westlake Center, a modern multi-storey shopping mall with upscale stores – due to its location near Macy's and Nordstrom – the epicenter of the activity center commercial. There, for only $ 2 per ride, you can board the monorail – originally built for Expo Seattle in 1962 – and the zip code of Seattle Center, where their entertainment Winterfest celebration party continued and one of the coolest and model miniature railway towns Christmas their children will never see.
Soon it was time to return to Edgewater, where we saw the role fog and was amazed at how few boats that were in that winter day were able to dodge the ferries State Washington. Thank you God for the siren and radar, so to speak. A few minutes walk Edgewater is the Spaghetti Factory, where we enjoyed a delicious dinner, but at low cost.
The night was calm and when the sun rose the next morning the sky was blue and the view from our room was like a picture postcard. No need to lose sight, while the breakfast – the ground floor we stopped at the Edgewater in a good meal with the best views of the city on the hotel's award-winning Six Seven restaurant. We were pleasantly surprised at reasonable prices, given the excellent the restaurant situation and reputation of high quality.
More exploration was in the tap center of our second day, not lacking in goods prices exceptionally good. Soon it was time to go home, but it was like a homecoming the mall where it is exhausted and I swear that I never go shopping with the crowds again. Yes, we did our Christmas shopping all rights – but also felt excited by a trip to an unforgettable winter vacation with the wonders Seattle.
For more information on Seattle call 206-461-5840 or go to www.visitseattle.org. For more information about Edgewater Hotel, please visit or www.edgewaterhotel.com phone 1-800-624-0670.
About the Author
Cary Ordway is a syndicated travel writer and president of Getaway Media Corp, publisher of www.californiaweekend.com, a site focusing on California travel, and www.northwesttraveladvisor.com, which features Pacific Northwest travel
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