Lonely Planet Pocket Seattle

Lonely Planet Lonely Planet, Sainsbury Brendan Sainsbury

Description

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Pocket Seattle is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on Seattle's can't-miss experiences. Go shopping in Pike Place Market, experience world-renowned Chihuly Garden and Glass, or check-out the spectacular view at the Space Needle -all with your trusted travel companion. Inside Lonely Planet Pocket Seattle: Full-color maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Free, convenient pull-out Seattle map (included in print version), plus over 16 color neighborhood maps User-friendly layout with helpful icons, and organized by neighborhood to help you pick the best spots to spend your time Covers Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront, Pioneer Square & International District, Belltown & Seattle Center, Queen Anne & Lake Union, Fremont & Green Lake and more. The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Pocket Seattle , a colorful, easy-to-use, and handy guide that literally fits in your pocket, provides on-the-go assistance for those seeking only the can't-miss experiences to maximize a quick trip experience. Looking for a comprehensive guide that recommends both popular and offbeat experiences, and extensively covers all of Seattle's neighborhoods? Check out Lonely Planet Seattle guide. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check Lonely Planet Washington, Oregon & the Pacific Northwest guide. About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. The world awaits! Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

Sujets

• Washington (U.S. state)

Informations

• Publié par: Lonely Planet Global Limited
• Date de parution: 01 juin 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781787010864
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 24 Mo

Extrait

Contents

QuickStart Guide

Welcome to Seattle
Top Sights
Local Life
Day Planner
Need to Know
Seattle Neighbourhoods

Explore

Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront
Pioneer Square & International District
Belltown & Seattle Center
Queen Anne & Lake Union
A Musical Education in Capitol Hill
Parks & Pubs Around Lake Washington
Cheap Thrills on 'the Ave'
Fremont & Green Lake
Ballard & Discovery Park
Georgetown & West Seattle

Best

The Best of Seattle
Downtown Architecture
Center of the Universe
Restaurants
Coffee Spots
Bars
Live Music
Spectator Sports
Bicycling
Gay & Lesbian
Activities
Shopping
For Kids
For Free
Tours
Rainy Day Ideas

Survival Guide

Survival Guide
Before You Go
Arriving in Seattle
Getting Around
Essential Information
Behind the Scenes
Our Writer
Welcome to Seattle
Blink and it’s changed: Seattle can be that ephemeral. Welcome to a city that pushes the envelope, embraces new trends and plots a path toward the future. But it's not all technological wizardry. Set on a jagged coastline amid emerald islands and snow-capped volcanoes, Seattle is handsome as well as precocious; a cultured slice of Pacific Northwestern splendor.

Seattle waterfront | Cdrin/SHUTTERSTOCK ©
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Seattle Top Sights

Pike Place Market
Way more than just a market, 110-year-old Pike Place is a living community, a cabaret show, a way of life and an intrinsic piece of Seattle’s soul. Click here

F11photo/SHUTTERSTOCK ©


Seattle Top Sights
Space Needle
The city icon that is as synonymous with Seattle as the letters S-E-A-T-T-L-E was built for the 1962 World’s Fair, and its novel revolving restaurant and bold futuristic design have proved durable. Click here

Matt Munro/LONELY PLANET ©


Seattle Top Sights
Museum of Pop Culture
Paying homage to the left-handed, guitar-burning musical genius that was Jimi Hendrix, Paul Allen’s architecturally bizarre MoPOP is an apt memorial in a region that has long been a powerful musical innovator. Click here

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Seattle Top Sights
Museum of History & Industry
Seattle's history might not go back so far, but it's expertly curated in this cleverly redesigned naval armory building that sits attractively on the south shore of Lake Union. Click here

Richard Cummins/Getty Images ©


Seattle Top Sights
Museum of Flight
The huge, super-modern Museum of Flight tells the remarkable tale of how humankind got from the Wright Brothers to the first moon landing in less than 66 years. Click here

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Seattle Top Sights
Discovery Park
Seattle justifies its ‘Emerald City’ moniker in the rugged confines of 534-acre Discovery Park, a one-time military installation reborn as a textbook example of urban sustainability. Click here

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Seattle Top Sights
Chihuly Garden & Glass
The US' capital of glass art offers up this imaginatively laid out set of galleries and gardens displaying the whimsical creations of local glass sculptor Dale Chihuly. Click here

Courtesy of Chihuly Garden and Glass


Seattle Top Sights
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle's art credentials are growing ever stronger thanks, in part, to this envelope-pushing downtown museum with dual specialties in modern and Native American art. Click here

Photo.ua/SHUTTERSTOCK ©


Seattle Top Sights
Pioneer Square Architecture
The homogeneous red-bricked neighborhood that served as Seattle's original downtown still reeks of history, intrigue and stories from the city's pioneering days. Click here

Glenn R. McGloughlin/SHUTTERSTOCK ©
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Seattle Local Life

Insider tips to help you find the real Seattle After checking off Seattle's big-hitter sights, here’s how you can experience what makes the city tick – the quiet local parks, hidden coffee corners, bohemian bars and envelope-pushing music venues that make up the Seattleite's Seattle.

Belltown, Old & New
y Bars
y Nightlife
For many people, Belltown is the pinnacle of Seattle's nightlife. Others dream nostalgically of the days when stage-diving was still an acceptable form of social interaction. Whichever view you hold, Belltown remains stuffed with strategically located places to eat, drink and listen to music.

Ferry to Bainbridge Island | Cdrin/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

Queen Anne Coffee Crawl
y Architecture
y Coffee
Coffee is practically a synonym for Seattle, and Queen Anne is the elegant quarter where many of the pioneering roasters and baristas confected their first lattes. Stroll past well-heeled mansions and drink in vast views as you taste the best brews the city has to offer.

A Musical Education in Capitol Hill
y Live music
y Clubbing
Those who walk through Capitol Hill quickly uncover its musical beat, whether it's pogoing to retro grunge in a punk pub or salsa-ing with a drag queen in a gay club. Tour the bars and dives of the Pike–Pine Corridor and listen out for the sound waves of Seattle's musical underground.

Parks & Pubs Around Lake Washington
y Parks
y Pubs
Beyond the Central District on Seattle's east side, the city quickly melts into leafy suburbs interspersed with spacious parks overlooking Lake Washington. Once you're done with frolicking in the sun (or rain) with a frisbee, a host of cozy neighborhood pubs await.

Cheap Thrills on 'the Ave'
y Cheap eats
y Shopping
The U District is Seattle's proverbial student-ville, where the beautiful University of Washington campus sits next to the shabbier 'Ave,' an eclectic strip of cheap boutiques, dive bars and ethnic restaurants for those on tight budgets.

Fremont Taste Tour
y Breweries
y Coffee
Fremont's restaurant scene is a regularly shuffled pack of cards with a few jokers thrown in. Locavore food is the latest niche. The neighborhood is also home to an excellent array of bars, taverns and brewpubs, and is a good place to uncover Seattle's latest trends and zeitgeist.

Other great places to experience the city like a local:
Bainbridge Island Ferry
First Thursday Art Walk
Owl & Thistle
Ballard Farmers Market
West Seattle Fish 'n' Chips
Salumi Artisan Cured Meats
Myrtle Edwards Park
Cheshiahud Loop
Fremont Almost Free Outdoor Cinema
Flip Flip Ding Ding

Ballard's Bars & Beer Culture
y Bars
y Historic quarter
Ballard is Seattle's beer capital, which is saying something in a city that helped kick-start North America's 1980s microbrewing obsession. New bars and restaurants seem to pop up in the space of a lunch break, with fresh competition sitting alongside the dive bars of yore.
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Seattle Day Planner

Day One
M Early birds catch more than worms at Pike Place Market . Arrive promptly at 9am for some real-life street theater at market roll call before wandering over to the Main Arcade to see the lippy fish throwers warming up. Spend the morning getting lost, browsing, tasting, buying and bantering with the producers, but don’t miss the gum wall or Rachel the Market Pig.
R When you're done wandering the market grab an on-the-go tub of mac 'n' cheese at Beecher's Handmade Cheese before tracking through Belltown to the Seattle Center where it'll take you exactly 41 seconds (by elevator) to zip up that other Seattle icon, the Space Needle . After an hour of view-admiring and playing with the gadgets on top, descend to adjacent MoPOP , where you can play on more gadgets (rock and roll this time) and immerse yourself in music memorabilia.
N Dive back into Belltown for dinner at Shiro's Sushi Restaurant before continuing the rock theme at the Crocodile , Seattle's grunge-throwback live-music venue.


Day Two
M Return to Seattle Center for a stroll around this giant homage to the 1962 World's Fair taking in the finer details. Resist no longer the crystallized magnificence of Chihuly Garden and Glass , one of the US' finest glass-art museums.
R Divert into Belltown for lunch at lauded Europhile bistro Tilikum Place Cafe . Walk along 6th Ave afterward and pop into the Assembly Hall , where you can while away an hour drinking coffee or enjoying free games of pool and shuffleboard. See out the rest of the afternoon perusing modern art at the Seattle Art Museum .
N Go south for dinner, with a pint in Irish pub the Owl & Thistle and dinner in Pioneer Square Indian sensation, Nirmal's . Should subterranean humor tempt you, head down the stairs to Comedy Underground .


Day Three
M Start the morning like a true Seattleite with a latte in Zeitgeist Coffee , possibly the city’s best indie coffee shop. Cross the road, admiring 1890s redbrick architecture, and visit the entertaining, educational and free Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park . If there’s time, take a gilded-age elevator up the Smith Tower before lunch.
R Hit the International District for dim sum in Jade Garden . Keeping with the Asian flavor: call in on the ID's most famous sight, the Wing Luke Museum ; and its most esoteric, the Seattle Pinball Museum (for a quick game); before imbibing tea and Japanese American history in the Panama Hotel Tea & Coffee House .
N In the evening work through our Musical Education in Capitol Hill local life tour and join Seattle's locavore culture with dinner at Sitka & Spruce .


Day Four
M Time for a journey through Seattle’s outer neighborhoods. Start the morning in South Lake Union, where a lakeside park hosts the Museum of History & Industry , a roller-coaster journey through Seattle’s past.
R Have lunch in Serious Biscuit , owned by celebrity chef Tom Douglas, before flagging a bus to Fremont. Soon after crossing the Fremont Bridge, you’ll spy Waiting for the Interurban and plenty of other whimsical public sculpture . Share coffee with the locals afterward at Milstead & Co before heading west by bus or bike to Ballard.
N Warm up in Seattle's best beer neighborhood with a microbrew in Populuxe Brewing , before more rambunctious King's