Optimal Place to Stay in Seattle Area?

[Anonymous]

Looking to see downtown, Mt. Ranier, Olympic, maybe Victoria BC. Downtown seems expensive. Is there a suburb where motels are much more affordable but it is not a big schlep to Pike Place, etc.? Also, if I want to rent somewhere, try Airbnb?

[Anonymous]

Seattlelite here. If you're looking at hotels and want to save money, I'd recommend near the airport because you can easily catch the light rail into downtown for the tourist attractions and, when you're ready, you can swing over to the airport and pick up your rental car to go explore other areas (i.e. Olympic National Park, Victoria or Vancouver, BC, etc).

AirBnB is great around here too! What type of neighborhood do you want? Ballard, Fremont, Wallingford are very trendy and hip. Laurelhurst, Phinney Ridge, and West Seattle are more family-friendly. Downtown is touristy. Things on the East Side (Redmond, Bellevue) are very tech-saturated and have lots of great ethnic finds and lots of good luxury, but aren't really "Seattle".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seattlelite here. If you're looking at hotels and want to save money, I'd recommend near the airport because you can easily catch the light rail into downtown for the tourist attractions and, when you're ready, you can swing over to the airport and pick up your rental car to go explore other areas (i.e. Olympic National Park, Victoria or Vancouver, BC, etc).

AirBnB is great around here too! What type of neighborhood do you want? Ballard, Fremont, Wallingford are very trendy and hip. Laurelhurst, Phinney Ridge, and West Seattle are more family-friendly. Downtown is touristy. Things on the East Side (Redmond, Bellevue) are very tech-saturated and have lots of great ethnic finds and lots of good luxury, but aren't really "Seattle".

Don't really know a ton about the area so looking to explore. Only concern is airpot kinda noisy?