Flights land at Seattle/Tacoma's
Sea-Tac
Airport (tel 206/431-4444, ),
on Hwy-99 (the Pacific Highway)
fourteen miles south of downtown.
Outside, the Gray Line Airport
Express bus ($8.50 one-way, $15
round-trip; tel 206/626-6088, )
leaves every twenty minutes for
the 25-minute journey to various
hotels downtown. ShuttleExpress (tel
206/622-1424 or 1-800/487-RIDE, )
offers door-to-door service for
$18-30. Metro express city bus
#194 ($1.10, peak hours $1.75)
takes thirty minutes to reach
downtown's Transit Tunnel. A
taxi
to the city center costs $25-30.
The Amtrak station at Third
Avenue and Jackson Street, just
south of downtown, and the
Greyhound bus terminal at Eighth
Avenue and Stewart Street to the
east, are both an easy bus ride
from downtown. A couple of blocks
towards downtown from Greyhound is
the visitors bureau , on
the Galleria level inside the
Washington State Convention Center
at Seventh Avenue and Pike Street
(Mon-Fri 8.30am-5pm, summer also
Sat-Sun 10am-4pm; tel
206/461-5840, ). The main post
office is downtown at Union
Street and Third Avenue (Mon-Fri
8am-5.30pm; tel 1-800/275-8777;
zip code 98101).
