Will spend one Saturday in Seattle, alone, early October. Here's my plan so far:

Staying at Hotel Monaco, 4th and Spring
Breakfast near hotel
Art Museum (or suggestion)
Lunch at or near Pike Market
Ferry to Bainbridge and back for the view (how much time will this require?)
Explore Pike Market (other things in the area?)
6PM dinner reservation at Etta
7:30 show at Seattle Rep

I have been to Seattle perviously, so have done quite a few of the typical tourist things. Being from the Midwest, I want to eat as much fresh seafood as possible and bring some home. I love art, Dale Chihuly, shopping the unusual (we have Nordstroms, etc at home), textiles. Plantar fasciitis makes long walking an issue right now, so would like to use public transport or taxi for the long distances (up & down those hills). Hoping to make one big loop of a day without returning to the hotel in the middle. It will most likely be raining, which doesn't bother me, but want to consider that for activities.

Thanks.

For breakfast, just go downstairs to the Monaco's in-house restaurant, Sazerac. One of the best breakfasts in town.

The ferry crossing is 35-40 min. each way, plus turnaround time, so I'd allow 2 hours for the round trip. Note the ferry terminal is at the foot of Yesler Street, so steeply downhill from the Monaco, or down several flights of stairs from the Pike Market, then half a mile along the waterfront to the terminal. Don't know if that will be easy/hard with your plantar fasciitis, but just a heads-up.

I think the art museum is a good choice - works under any weather situation.

If you want to bring seafood home (as opposed to having it shipped) then a mid-day return to the hotel might not be a bad thing, unless you plan to take it to the theater with you.

Link to the free bus zone map: http://metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus...attle-rfa.html

In August, I arrived in Seattle in my own car about 8PM on a Friday night and drove around more than an hour looking for a parking spot within 5 blocks of the City hostel in Belltown.

Lunch at or near Pike Market.

Your dinner (Etta's) is in Pike Place Market. Other good market area restaurants include Cafe Campagne, Steelhead Diner, and Matt's.

TASTE Restaurant, in the Seattle Art Museum, and nearby Purple Cafe and Wild Ginger are additional good places for lunch.

You can't go wrong with any of these.

HTTY

Thanks all. I really appreciate your details (ferry time, walking difficulty, etc.)

Gardyloo: On previous trips the fish market delivered fish to my hotel on ice, packed for carry-on to go home. I hope they will do that again.

Happy trails: I think we had dinner at Wild Ginger on our last trip. Wonderful place.

Tom: I won't have a car, so no worries with parking. I have found the bus trip planner web site and it seems quite easy to get from hotel to most anywhere.

May try the Aquarium. Worth a look?

Dinner reservation at Etta for 6PM. Appears quite quick and easy to get to SEA Rep via bus from there. Will taxi back to hotel late at night after show.

Dinner reservation at Etta for 6PM. Appears quite quick and easy to get to SEA Rep via bus from there.

Not really. If you want to eat at a Tom Douglas restaurant, you would be better off at Dahlia Lounge, which is a shorter (and easier) walk to the stop for the #2 bus--best bus for getting to and from the Rep.

A better idea would be to have dinner at Toulouse Petit, which is an easy walk to the Rep: http://www.opentable.com/toulouse-pe...hen-and-lounge

HTTY

I really agree about Toulouse Petit; their seafood menu is more eclectic than Etta's. However you should look at the menu - TP is a blast. (The crayfish beignets are to die.) Both equally noisy/active at Happy Hour, i.e., very.