We stayed here while attending the Northwest Flower and Garden Show at the Convention Center in Feb, 2012, and really there is no place you can choose that is more convenient. It is right across the street. The hotel offered a great, reduced-price rate on the room and valet parking for the show, which was greatly appreciated. The hotel was lovely, the staff very helpful and friendly, and the beds were great. I've stayed in other distant hotels before for the Flower Show, and taken the bus downtown to the Covention Center. It worked fine, but nothing beats the convenience of being across the street. This is where I'll be booking for next year's Flower Show.

have stayed here before and remembered how totally convenient to downtown: shopping, monorail, great restaurants. wonderful hotel!
Area recommendations
Downtown, Capitol Hill, Fremont, Ballard
Include warm clothing,this is a walking area

This is a great hotel and we would definitely stay again but there are two areas of criticism. The carpet is visibly stained in every hallway we entered including the club floor- looks absolutely awful. We had drinks in club lounge each night and each time there was only one poor person trying to serve everyone and cleanup- this basically meant tables were left dirty for more than an hour and food was not replenished. Aside from these two comments we found everything else fabulous and will be back. Such a shame about the carpets as it really lets down the look of what is elsewhere a lovely hotel

My girlfriend who is a platinum Starwood member and I stayed at the Sheraton in Seattle on Feb 3rd for 3 nights. We booked our rez through Hotwire and are we ever sorry we did. From the moment we walked in the door we were treated like second class citizens. We must have been reminded by the staff 50 times that because we booked through Hotwire we were not really "hotel guests"...they reluctantly gave us access to the club lounge but not until we spoke to many employees including the front desk manager. When the room was made up they paid no attention to detail...including just leaving our belongings in a big pile on the bed, not emptying the dirty coffee pot, no towels and when we asked for some they brought us ONE!!! We asked for extra coffee and took over one hour to deliver it....this was at 9am? We just ended up leaving to get coffee. When we checked out we asked for the general managers name and the Front Desk clerk didn't even ask why! If that isn't a hint things did not go well I'm not sure what is. We would never stay here again!