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Travel Forum / Destinations / USA and Canada / September 2003Request for comments about Holiday Inn Seattle
Hello. My wife and I secured a room on Priceline at the Holiday Inn Seattle (on Dexter) for 9 days in February 2004. Of course with Priceline you can't anticipate which hotel you are going to get, and we have no way of backing out of our deal. Should we be alarmed about staying at the Holiday Inn Seattle? Has anybody ever stayed there and can you give us comments about that hotel and/or the area it is in? I'm trying to put a positive spin to this experience, but I'll accept any comments, good or bad. Thanks, William Asher > Should we be alarmed about staying at the Holiday Inn Seattle? Why should you be. Holiday Inns are generally very good. > Has > anybody ever stayed there and can you give us comments about that > hotel and/or the area it is in? I'm trying to put a positive spin to > this experience, but I'll accept any comments, good or bad. I've not stayed in the Holiday Inn there, but I've been around and about the area it is in, from my limited knowledge it looks perfectly fine, fairly close to the city centre too. I'm sure you will enjoy your trip.. Despite the weather at that time of year ;-) "Mark Hewitt" wrote > "William Asher" > > Should we be alarmed about staying at the Holiday Inn Seattle? > > Why should you be. Holiday Inns are generally very good. I have stayed at several Holiday Inns. Some are very good (I liked the one at the airport in Los Angeles, and one in Lombard, Illinois, for examples), but others (which thankfully fade in memory) were not memorable. I stayed at one in Ithaca, New York, that had a killer chicken peanut Thai salad in the restaurant (excellent!), so that was quite memorable. :>Hello. My wife and I secured a room on Priceline at the Holiday Inn :>Seattle (on Dexter) for 9 days in February 2004. Of course with :>Priceline you can't anticipate which hotel you are going to get, and :>we have no way of backing out of our deal. You get the class that you ask for in the area you ask for. As priceline very clearly indicates. If you wish a specific hotel you should not use priceline. :>Should we be alarmed about staying at the Holiday Inn Seattle? Has :>anybody ever stayed there and can you give us comments about that :>hotel and/or the area it is in? I'm trying to put a positive spin to :>this experience, but I'll accept any comments, good or bad. Why are you assuming that the experience needs spin? -- Binyamin Dissen <bdissen@dissensoftware.com> http://www.dissensoftware.com > :>Hello. My wife and I secured a room on Priceline at the Holiday Inn > :>Seattle (on Dexter) for 9 days in February 2004. Of course with > :>Priceline you can't anticipate which hotel you are going to get, and > :>we have no way of backing out of our deal. > > You get the class that you ask for in the area you ask for. Yes, I suppose we got the class we asked for, but Holiday Inn was not one of the example hotels they listed to describe the class. I would not consider Holiday Inn on the same level as Hilton or Sheraton and others that they did list. > As priceline very clearly indicates. > > If you wish a specific hotel you should not use priceline. We have had great luck in the past with Priceline routing us to less well known hotels that were fantastic. This was just not what we expected. > :>Should we be alarmed about staying at the Holiday Inn Seattle? Has > :>anybody ever stayed there and can you give us comments about that > :>hotel and/or the area it is in? I'm trying to put a positive spin to > :>this experience, but I'll accept any comments, good or bad. > > Why are you assuming that the experience needs spin? If you look at the picture of the Holiday Inn Downtown Seattle on the web you will see a run down looking building next to the hotel. That sent my radar up about the type of neighborhood we were in. As one of the other respondents to the message indicated, this is not the best neighborhood. I am relieved to know that it is not dangerous - only light industrial and run down. > Hello. My wife and I secured a room on Priceline at the Holiday Inn > Seattle (on Dexter) for 9 days in February 2004. Of course with [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > hotel and/or the area it is in? I'm trying to put a positive spin to > this experience, but I'll accept any comments, good or bad. The hotel and area you selected aren't in the high rent district nor are they in an unsavory area. It's close to downtown, Lake Union and the Space Needle, so it's ideally located. The hotel isn't posh nor is it a dump. I assume you used priceline for reasons of economy and you won't be disappointed. KM  Signature(-:alohacyberian:-) At my website there are 3000 live cameras or visit NASA, play games, read jokes, send greeting cards & connect to CNN news, NBA, the White House, Academy Awards or learn all about Hawaii, Israel and more: http://keith.martin.home.att.net/ Well, the hotel is fine, but it's not in the most attractive area. It's not dangerous, though; just sort of industrial/commercial. However, you're close to Seattle Center and from there you can take the monorail downtown (to Westlake Center) and then walk to almost anyplace you'd want to go (i.e. Pioneer Square, Pike Place Market). If I were to stay in Seattle, I'd prefer a hotel in the area bounded by Elliott Bay, Stewart St., Interstate 5, and Madison. That's roughly the "core" of downtown. > Hello. My wife and I secured a room on Priceline at the Holiday Inn > Seattle (on Dexter) for 9 days in February 2004. Of course with [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Thanks, > William Asher By the way, nine days sounds like a lot for Seattle. Guess you are planning a lot of day trips. > By the way, nine days sounds like a lot for Seattle. Guess you are > planning a lot of day trips. We will be there on business and will have about 3 days to explore. I've been to Seattle before and feel pretty confident that there is that much to look at if you throw in a little exploring on the peninsula. We want to go to Poulsbo to buy some bread. It doesn't take much to keep us entertained. We want to go to Poulsbo to buy some bread. It doesn't > take much to keep us entertained. It must be odd to live somewhere where you can't buy bread, and have to travel to a seedy hotel in a seedy city to get some. What'll that cost you....bout $50 a loaf? > > We want to go to Poulsbo to buy some bread. It doesn't > > take much to keep us entertained. > > It must be odd to live somewhere where you can't buy bread, and have > to travel to a seedy hotel in a seedy city to get some. What'll that > cost you....bout $50 a loaf? How do I interpret that! Are you saying the Poulsbo is seedy? Or Seattle? Or the Holiday Inn? Curious to know! Of course we're not going to Seattle just to buy bread. We have a meeting to go to, and will spend some time touring after the meeting. Poulsbo is just one of those destinations. Does anybody else have any direct experiences with the Holiday Inn Seattle? Surely some internet-aware folks have stayed there and can share their experience! >>>We want to go to Poulsbo to buy some bread. It doesn't >>>take much to keep us entertained. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > How do I interpret that! Are you saying the Poulsbo is seedy? Or > Seattle? Or the Holiday Inn? Curious to know! The guy is probably just a troll-in-training. Don't worry about it. |
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