Seattle/Vancouver folks...

Foehammer

i'm getting married on April 29th, the future wife and I are considering going to Seattle for a few days and then tale a ferry up to Vancouver for a few days, I'd just like to hear your recommendations on where to stay and what to do while there. i'd love to see some good bands play and check out some of the good restaurants and other places of interest but i have no clue about either city and what's fun to do there. thanks in advance for any advice or tips on where to go.

adam

Post your interests and types of music you like to listen to first

Just based on what you've told us so far I highly recommend doing the horse & carriage tour around Stanley Park here in Vancouver. I did it with my girlfriend, boss and his girlfriend and it was amazing. A truly beautiful park. I am sure Googling "Stanley Park" in Vancouver will give you all the info you need on planning and booking (although from what I gathered you book the carriage tour when you get there as there isn't really reservations or anything). Admission to the park is free. It also has an aquarium with all kinds of sea creatures and what-not to check out while there.

Cheers

Slayerjerman

Evening dinner atop the needle is very nice (spendy).

pogonip

You guys would be better off going to like New York city or Vegas or something . Seattle is cool but believe me it's far from a really happening city comapred to others. It's pretty for the most part but right now it's the rainy season so it's like raining everyday all day . I persoanlly think Vancouver is a much better city and I live just North of Seattle . Really outside of live music this time a year there is not a whole lot special about Seattle . In the summer time you can go whale watching and hiking and stuff like that ..anyways just my thoughts if you are dead set on coming to Seattle try here http://seattle.citysearch.com/ and yeah the Space needle is pretty cool . I would also suggest hiring a town car for getting around Seattle traffic is horride .

Foehammer

thanks for the info, music wise it would just be alternative rock/jazz/ anything but country.....

any other suggestions on cool places to go? i'd like to do something other than the beach and we can't afford to go to Europe as much as I'd love to, we're considering the Seattle area mostly because it's a city i've always wanted to live in and would like to check it out

pogonip

Ohh yeah congrates on getting married also !!!!! I hope your very happy

If I was going to do a honey moon i'd pretty much leave it up to the wife . I mean really isn't it there special day they been dreaming about since they were a little girl . Seems to me most woman want to take control of were the honey moon is ..maybe you should ask her ? If I was going to do a honey moon though I would go to somewhere romantic . I mean that's what your honey moon is all about right ? Maybe Niagra falls ?

JBoskma

I second that you give Stanley Park here in Vancouver a little visit by horse carriage. If you want to go to a really good restaurant there's a very famous Greek restaurant on Davie street. Davie is the main food /restaurant street together with Robson street downtown. Easy to find. Every time I walk passed by that restaurant there's a 2 hour line in front it, so reserving a seat might be recommended heh. Congratulations on getting maried btw

Foehammer

thanks for the congrats guys, we've been engaged for a little over 2 years now, took us awhile to figure out what and how we wanted to do it. anyways I will check out the stanley park in vancouver, sounds nice! thanks for the info.

T_Reynolds

Seattle places to stay: Edgewater Hotel. Salish Lodge.

Ninjas

In Seattle there is a little Thai place called Kwanji. It is built out of a little house. The best Thai food I have ever had, but very modest.

When I am showing people around Seattle I always go to Pike's Place Market. It is fun just to walk around the building. The place in the main entrance has amazing corndogs.

A lot of places have good and cheap Japanese food (The place on broadway springs to mind). If you don't like sushi, everybody loves chicken teriyaki. You don't use a spoon with miso soup.

Order Halibut and chips at least once. It kicks the teeth in on any seafood you can get around here.

I have never eaten at the needle. Not really my style, although I hear it is good.

If you really love to walk, all these places could be walked to. Really though, the bus is a pretty common, easy way to get around town and won't take all day. Parking is a real bitch. If you are going to go with a car, I reccomend practicing your parrelel parking skills.

Also, this is the wrong time of year to go. It will probably be grey and drizzly, meanwhile you while be missing the only decent weather of the year in Dallas.

Ryno

For Seattle, I've got a couple of tour packages that I like to take visitors on.

Tour Package A (classic sites):

1. Pike Place Market
2. Pioneer Square (Coffe shops, art galleries, bookshops)
3. Underground Tour (quite entertaining, even for locals(
4. Space Needle/Seattle Center (IMAX theater if you're interested)
5. At least one local brewpub, preferrably several. Pike brewery is conveniently located near the market.

Tour Package B (local/neighborhood tour)

1. Ballard Avenue for one evening outing. (tons of pubs, live music.)
2. Ballard Locks (Salmon ladder, ship locks)
3. Golden Gardens (Beachfront park, very nice)
4. Capitol Hill Neighborhood. (Beautiful old houses walking tour, Broadway Ave. with lots of funky shops, graveyard with Bruce and Brandon Lee)
5. University area (Walk U of Washington Campus, see University Ave., shopping at U Village if you've got ladies with you.)
6. Multiple pubs and coffee shops. (Good brewpubs: Elysian in Capitol Hill, Big Time on University Ave, Jolly Roger in Ballard, Dad Watsons/McMennamins in Fremont. Coffeshops are everywhere.)

Ninjas

Yeah. The underground tour is pretty sweet. Forgot about that one.

I like Freemont more than Ballard, but they are right down the street for each other (and that Thai restaurant is in Freemont)

Foehammer

so the end of April is a bad time to go? me being a Texan I figured it rained there most of the year.

Ninjas

Well, it will be starting to get sunnier then. For some reason I was thinking about going right now.