Last minute trip to Seattle area-need suggestions
Oct 26th, 2006, 05:52 PM
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Last minute trip to Seattle area-need suggestions
Going to be in Seattle area first weekend in November. Looking at short trips around and wondered whether to go east or west. Lake Crescent Lodge is closed. Do you suggest trip to Port Townsend, Port Gamble area, San Juan Islands, La Conner or similar locations? Having trouble finding B&B availability on weekends. What is Snohomish like? Would it be a good base for day trips north and east?Any suggestions would be great. Thanks
Oct 26th, 2006, 08:37 PM
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try this place for home case on the over the Hood Canal Bridge on the Olympic peninsula.
Inn at Port Ludlow
www.portludlowresort.com
you can get great gourmet breakfast, dinner water/marina views ..if the sun comes out great mountain views..close to Seattle, Port Gamle, Port Townsend..great parks...Fort Warden or Fort Flager..
in fact if you go to www.parks.wa.gov you can rent old officer quarters...alot more rustic than a B&B but great outdoor spaces and water to watch, beaches to comb
Inn at Port Ludlow
www.portludlowresort.com
you can get great gourmet breakfast, dinner water/marina views ..if the sun comes out great mountain views..close to Seattle, Port Gamle, Port Townsend..great parks...Fort Warden or Fort Flager..
in fact if you go to www.parks.wa.gov you can rent old officer quarters...alot more rustic than a B&B but great outdoor spaces and water to watch, beaches to comb
Oct 26th, 2006, 08:54 PM
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Snohomish is just a suburb-I wouldn't base a trip there.
Rather than try to pick a town first, I might pick a resort/b and b that sounds great first. November has some of our worst weather, and the days are short. I'd look at accomodations in any of those areas and find one that seems like it would be a nice place to hang out in case of terrible weather, whether that, to you, means a bigger resort with nice common areas, a place with good restaurants like Orcas Island, an inn that has amenities like massage, or just a room with a great view-whatever would appeal to you in a rain/windstorm.
Rather than try to pick a town first, I might pick a resort/b and b that sounds great first. November has some of our worst weather, and the days are short. I'd look at accomodations in any of those areas and find one that seems like it would be a nice place to hang out in case of terrible weather, whether that, to you, means a bigger resort with nice common areas, a place with good restaurants like Orcas Island, an inn that has amenities like massage, or just a room with a great view-whatever would appeal to you in a rain/windstorm.
Oct 27th, 2006, 09:14 AM
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Why not stay in/near Seattle? There is lots of stuff to see and do. Walk around in Pike street market (unique), Go see Snoqualmie Falls and have lunch there (go before 11:30 or reserve for breakfast--stunning!), take a Ferry to Winslow as a 'walk on' and shop the neat shops there, go to the Seattle Art museum, Air museum, a tour of Boeing at Everett, Pioneer square, the Underground, etc. Why run around, when you can enjoy being here.
Oct 27th, 2006, 10:43 AM
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You don't say how many days you have; however, one good option is to take the North Cascade Highway (Route 20) to Winthrop, and to spend a night or two at Sun Mountain Lodge (a very desirable place).
Return to Seattle via Route 2.
This routing will take you through the Skagit Valley, the North Cascades, the Methow Valley, along the Columbia River, and over Stevens Pass.
Return to Seattle via Route 2.
This routing will take you through the Skagit Valley, the North Cascades, the Methow Valley, along the Columbia River, and over Stevens Pass.
