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Well. if you can take a ferry out to Anacortes, it's absoltely gorgeous!
That sounds like fun, but I'm not sure I want to go on another ferry, I've been on enough of those in my lifetime already.
Well, if you are in the mood for a short ferry (45 minutes), I would suggest hitting up Bainbridge Island for the day (cute cute town, winery, beautiful scenery).
Things to do in Seattle: Duck Tour, Pike Place Market, EMP/Sci Fi Museum (if it's a rainy day), Woodinville (wineries and the Red Hook Brewery tour-only $1!). It looks like you're going to be here in wintertime? Head up to Snoqualmie Pass and go sledding for the day at the ski resort (or ski/snowboard if you know how), and then hit up Snoqualmie Falls. The Salish Lodge up there is a great place to go for brunch or dinner. If you like to gamble, you can drive up north of Seattle and go to the Tulalip Casino, there's also the Tulalip Outlets up there if you like to shop. Can Can at Pike Place Market is a live dinner/burlesque show that's pretty good. Teatro Zinzani is another dinner theater show that is fantastic- definitely worth the money since you get dinner as well as great entertainment.
I would skip the Underground Tour (it's really not that impressive). Also, the Argosy Cruises are skip-able.
Hope this helps!
Two things that is awesome, especially for the culinary minded people. Is the Food tours of Seattle. (Pike Place or Belltown)
Also try to hit up Tillicum Village. They do a fabulous authentic native american feast as part of the day you spend there. (It is a ferry ride though)
Taking a drive up the coast to the Olympic Peninsula is a good place for honeymoon. It has the Rainforest. (That's a trip on it's own though)
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What about heading up to Rainier? January will be kind of cold and icky though =\
One neat place is Port Townsend. We spent a weekend there, stayed at a quaint little bed and breakfast, walked around, had dinner, and just enjoyed ourselves. They had no tv, but they had these amazing bathrooms. No lie, old fashioned ginormous claw foot bath tubs. Big enough for two =-]. We filled 'em with bubbles, drank a bottle of wine, and sat in there together looking out the windows over to the sea. We walked around in the evenings and went to the wine shops. It's really small so 3 days is probably plenty. The place we stayed had this great porch. We sat out there, drank a bottle (i know we sound like alcoholics by now, haha) and talked about our future. It was just a great trip, very serene and peaceful. The couple who owned it made us fancy breakfasts in the morning. Only downside is they were SO liberal they were anti-military which was awkward for us....since DH is, ahem, a Captain and was getting ready to deploy. Getting "away" from the city itself may be ideal for a few days!
@ejs Glad to hear you enjoyed Port Townsend, I half-planned a Valentine's weekend trip for FI and I to a lovely historic little hotel out there, but we ended up staying in town. It's on our list for our next weekend getaway for sure.
I think Seattle would be a great honeymoon destination, and you have an ample budget to do the city quite nicely. The Sorrento is my pick for a gorgeous and historic hotel in the city. See a performance at the opera, the symphony, the Seattle Repertory Theater, the ballet, whatever your preference. A show at the Triple Door would be fun, as is the Can Can Cabaret at Pike's Place. Tour Theo's Chocolate factory and eat delicious chocolates. Perhaps rent an electric boat and float out on Lake Union for a few hours with a picnic. Teatro Zinzanni is fabulous, FI and I went there for our 3-year anniversary. Stroll the Arboretum or Golden Gardens or enjoy the skyline view at Kerry Park. Eat somewhere with a fantastic view, perhaps the Waterfront Seafood Grill which looks out on the bay and has amazing sunsets. We could talk all day about restaurants, the great culinary options here are endless. Have fun!
I love Seattle! The bees have already made great suggestions, but definitely just take some time to explore...we walked around everywhere, went to the touristy places, including the underground tour, and a ride on the monorail!!
So many things.
You could go to The Melting Pot on lower Queen Anne for a fun & fancy fondue dinner.
Also, you could take an Argosy dinner cruise
Also the dinner train. It used to be up by seattle but not you go from Tacoma I think....but it you drive here and have a car...a 30min drive there isn't a big deal
I'm trying to think of other cold weather stuff. Ummmm.....
The Canlis is one of our most fancy resturants here...amazing view and pricey. I have never been but perfect I suspect for a honeymoon
Also EMP is you like music
Oh...and a seaplane tour on Kenmore Air
I second the Kenmore air float plane tour. We did one a while back and it was AMAZING! ALTHOUGH, it might be a bit cheaper to take a flight lesson from http://www.wingsaloft.com/ for $148 one of you gets to fly the pane (cesna) with an instructor and the other is a passenger. You get to fly over the falls, downtown and Bellevue too! It's an hour long lesson.
Wow, thanks gals. You've been a ton of help. It's going to take me awhile to get through all of this now, but totally worth it I'm sure.
@Spraguebride - I'm native to the area and my fiance's Grandpa has been Chris Canlis' barber for YEARS. We ended up celebrating my FMIL 50th birthday there a few years ago. I want to give a little plug and say that Canlis is - hands down - the best high-end restaurant in Seattle. It's not a chain, not a two-location - it's ONE place where that family has put their heart and soul into making the place a success. The food, view and service are all WELL worth the price and for a honeymoon it would be fantastic.
I noticed you are getting married next January so I'm assuming you will come to Seattle afterward - It IS a very rainy time of year here and not the best, but there are many things you can do with a car rental and some money. If you want some other advice I'd be happy to pass it along.
One other tip - try signing up for www.groupon.com - They offer AMAZING deals on tourist attractions, spas, salons, fun stuff, bars and clubs, places to eat - usually for about 50% off. You can buy them and book in advance in most cases.
@christalynn We definitely don't mind the rain. FI went to school in Portland for a year and we lived together for most of that, so I got used to it pretty quickly. Since it's going to be a slow time at his work, we want to go during then. I'll have to check out groupon for sure cause I know FI won't plan anything (he's already told me haha).
Hi Toffee,
Lots of great suggestions but I'll add some offbeat ones. You could take flying trapeze lessons at Emerald City Trapeze- it is SO. MUCH. FUN. (unless you are afraid of heights, of course). They do have you harnessed up, so it is very safe. http://emeraldcitytrapeze.com/ . There are also shows happening periodically there- if one happens to be playing while you're in town, you should go see it!
As far as culinary tastes go, if I were on vacation in Seattle, here's a list of restaurants I'd go to:
- The Corson Building in Georgetown. http://www.thecorsonbuilding.com/about/index.php . Amazing food from what I hear. I'm dying to try brunch there.
- Le Gourmand in Ballard
- Ray's Boathouse in Ballard (on Shilshole Bay)
- Lark on Cap Hill
- Tilth in Wallingford
- La Medusa in Columbia City
- Elemental in Wallingford (note- arrive early for this one, I think they only do two seatings per night and the restuarant only holds 19 people).
Other fun but not as fancy places: Green Leaf Vietnamese food in the International District, Tamarind Tree Vietnamese (also in the I.D.), Musashi's sushi in Wallingford.
Other attractions- the aquarium just got redone and it is really nice. Also, the museum of Flight in South Seattle is apparently pretty amazing (although I haven't been there so I can't say for sure). Finally if you get a chance to go down to Tacoma, the Museum of Glass is neat. I'd also check out the Seattle Art Museum depending on what is in town.
Have a great time!
Oh I forgot
Teatro Zinzani!!
You must go to this! I never had because it's like $100+.....but I am planning to for a special night. Maybe our anniversary
Check it out....it's really cool and I have heard nothing but great things
I'm going to agree/disagree with a few comments here:
Teatro Zinzani? WONDERFUL, DO IT. I can't go on enough about how fantastic it is!
Museum of Glass in Tacoma? Eh. I've been, more than once, and its a long drive for a short in tiem attraction. Tacoma has been trying to reinvent itself the better part of my adult life (I'm a peninsula native) and even after 20 years, I have still not seen anything worth going out of your way for down there as a tourist. Just my two cents.
Also, I too have heard amazing things about the trapeze company! Such awesome ideas everyone!
We honeymooned in Seattle last summer! I grew up in WA so any trip up there always ends up being about visiting family/friends...this was great to be a tourist around the city for once!
We rented a great apartment on Pike St. in the Capitol Hill area. We wanted to have a kitchen so we could cook ourselves when/if we wanted (fresh foods from pike street...yum!!!) so a hotel just wouldn't work for us. If you're at all interested in the place, message me and I can find the info. It was a great place, really affordable and totally walkable to everything (if you like to walk anyhow).
We had dinner at Canlis one night and reserved the private Cache room. The food was definitely amazing, though I've had comparable food for much much less, but the wine was fabulous and the experience overall was still worth it to us. It definitely is pricey...ours came out to ~$850 for the two of us...and the private room was only $150 of that cost.
The best food we had (the best food I've ever had at all in Seattle in fact) was at Tango Restaurant & Lounge. It's a tapas place and everything we had was wonderful. The El Diablo dessert is absolutlely mind-numbingly good. And to compare...I think our dinner here was around $70.
Take a look at the Seattle Citypass (just do a google search)...if you want to do any of the things on there it may be cheaper to get that. We got it because it was more cost efficient for the couple things we did want to do...and then we ended up doing EVERYTHING on it since we had the coupons. It was fun and we did things I wouldn't have otherwise done such as the Argosy Cruise...which I would have thought would be skippable like an earlier poster said...but we really enjoyed it.
I just wanted to add in a couple of my favorite restaurants:
For brunch: Portage Bay Cafe. I love this place. I don't even like French toast but their Bananas Foster French Toast is to die for.
For dinner: Barrio in Capitol Hill, Wasabi Bistro in Belltown for sushi, La Carta de Oaxaca in Ballard (yummy yummy Mexican food), Serafina (in Eastlake), Pink Door (in Pike Place Market), any Tom Douglas restaurant (Lola, Dahlia Lounge, Ettas, Palace Kitchen- PK is my favorite)
I HAVE to second Pink Door, Palace Kitchen and Bario and add the Dalia Lounge, OM NOM NOM NOM! Bario is a chain though (one other restaurant in Bellevue) if that bothers you. Across the street from Bario is La Spiga (YUMMY italian food) or Plum (Vegetarian food) When you're done you can walk a few blocks to Molly Moons for homemade ice cream or Cupcake Royale for delicious cupcakes! The Capitol Hill neighborhood is always a ton of fun! After dinner you can catch a band at Neumos. For some late night grub you can grab a vegetarian hotdog from the street vendors or chips (fries) from the late night chip shops. I <3 Seattle ;)
Ooh Molly Moons! Salted Caramel ice cream... nom nom nom..... you absolutely MUST go to Molly Moons. Two locations- one in Capitol Hill, one in Wallingford. They let you try as many flavors as you want too, and don't let the line discourage you because it's soo worth the wait.
Thanks YSAP2M, now I'm going to have to fight the urge to suggest to FI that we go there tonight! :)
I love Pike's Place Market. There is also a cool underground tour of the old part of Seattle if you are into history. I think it was called Bill Speidel's Tour.
I second Ride the Ducks and Melting Pot...
Have you thought of going to other places too? Seattle might be fun for a couple days then you could drive down to the Oregon Coast and get a beach house!? I'm doing that for my bach party and it will be a blast. It's only about 4 hours from here, and you def could make it work with your budget!!
@RxBrideToBe We were actually talking about possibly staying in a condo that he stayed at previously that's just south of Seattle. It's literally right at the ocean's edge. I think he wants to stay there for a day or two, which is fine with me.
We've been talking a lot about this and the biggest thing for me is finding stuff he'd be interested in although I think we'll be making a stop by the cupcake place! Sounds delicious.
I know I want to stop in the Asian/Chinatown District for at least one or two meals because they have a really good one to visit. We're skipping the Needle as far as sight-seeing goes because we've already both been at least once, but I suggested maybe eating in the restaurant because my parents really enjoyed it when they went. Anyway, I love the suggestions and welcome more! We'll probably skip the Argosy Cruise because FI works for the resort here in CDA, Idaho and they already offer dinner cruises around the lake here.
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My FI doesn't like to travel and has completely rejected my idea of going to a beach for a week, but that's fine. We decided that Seattle was close enough (driving from Spokane area). What should we hit and what's a miss? We're both culinary minded and are planning on Pike's Place Market, but probably going to skip the needle as we've both been up there already. Looking for any suggestions as we'll probably have between $2k-3k to spend on it.