Best Hotels in
Seattle

Seattle's most luxurious address occupies a prime position above the waterfront, with floor-to-ceiling views of Elliott Bay and the Olympic Mountains from nearly every room. The indoor pool with glass walls overlooking Puget Sound is one of the most spectacular hotel pool settings in the Pacific Northwest.

• Downtown
• Luxury
• Views

Built on a pier over Elliott Bay in 1962 for the World's Fair, The Edgewater is the only hotel where you can fish from your room window — a novelty that charmed The Beatles during their 1964 stay. The rugged Pacific Northwest lodge aesthetic, with stone fireplaces and tartan throws, feels genuinely romantic rather than contrived.

• Waterfront
• Historic
• Couples

A beautifully restored 1930 Beaux Arts building in the heart of downtown, with guest rooms that pay homage to Pacific Northwest naturalist Theodore Evermann through custom botanical illustrations and local artisan furnishings. The ground-floor Stoneburner restaurant is a neighborhood anchor for wood-fired Italian.

• Downtown
• Boutique
• Historic

Housed in the landmark 1910 Coburn Building, the Palladian blends Belltown's art-gallery energy with polished hotel hospitality — think exposed brick, curated vintage furniture, and the perpetually buzzing Shaker + Spear craft cocktail bar on the ground floor. Its location is ideal for Pike Place Market and waterfront access.

• Belltown
• Boutique
• Solo

A tech-forward boutique tower steps from Pike Place Market that deploys occupancy-sensing technology to avoid embarrassing housekeeping intrusions, with golf simulators and a spa using molecular-level skincare treatments. The BOKA Kitchen + Bar has become one of downtown's finest farm-to-table dining rooms.

• Downtown
• Business
• Boutique

A Curio Collection property that channels the spirit of Seattle's pioneering explorer culture through custom maps, mountaineering art, and rooms with an explorer-cabin-meets-luxury-hotel sensibility. The Charter Bar's Pacific Northwest whiskey program is among the most serious in the city.

• Downtown
• Boutique
• Solo

Seattle's largest hotel — at 1,260 rooms — delivers Hyatt's reliable upscale formula with the convenience of being skybridge-connected to the convention center and positioned between Pike Place Market and South Lake Union. The 24th-floor lounge and meeting facilities are the city's best for large business gatherings.

• Downtown
• Business
• Families

Seattle's most sought-after boutique address sits literally inside Pike Place Market, with rooms overlooking Elliott Bay from private balconies and a rooftop deck that may be the finest sunset-watching spot in the city. The 70-room inn is intimate enough to feel residential but sophisticated enough to feel special.

• Pike Place
• Boutique
• Couples

A 319-room hotel that leans into Seattle's performing arts identity with original musical instruments displayed throughout and proximity to Benaroya Hall and the 5th Avenue Theatre. Rooms are sleek and modern, and the location on 4th Avenue is as central as Seattle gets.

• Downtown
• Arts
• Value

The original Ace Hotel (opened 1999) that launched a global boutique empire still delivers its original promise: genuinely creative design, surplus army blankets on the beds, and an Stumptown Coffee cafe attached — all at prices that feel fair in one of America's most expensive hotel cities. A Capitol Hill institution.

• Capitol Hill
• Budget
• Solo

Twin circular towers dominating the downtown skyline since 1969, with the top-floor revolving restaurant now converted to the excellent Aqua by El Gaucho. Its central 5th Avenue location, Heavenly Beds, and large rooms at relatively competitive prices make it a reliable full-service choice.

• Downtown
• Families
• Business