Hotel rooms

Hello, I hope this post finds you all well, and enjoying your extra daylight this evening. Phil and I busy working on wedding logistics excitedly counting down the days till July 7th! We still have much to do, but we (I'm) are enjoying all the planning and preparation. I'm meeting with our wedding invitation designer this week and hope to have the final invitations printed and mailed out by the end of the month! Another project I've been working on is a block or rooms for our guests. Phil has been traveling the country for the last two years, working on his Marriott VIP status, so we contacted the Marriott Renaissance hotel in Seattle about a block of rooms for our friends and family. They are able to give us a very good rate on nice rooms in downtown Seattle.

About the hotel:
Rooms will be $159 per night if you chose to book in the block. The hotel is located right in the heart of downtown Seattle, just blocks away from many of Seattle's most famous landmarks, like Pike Place Market, and the Space Needle. You may check out the hotel web page here for more information. Renaissance Seattle Hotel

Getting there:
Seattle recently opened a light rail train service from the airport to downtown. The train is $2.75 one way, and leaves the airport about every 15 minutes and makes a handful of stops before arriving downtown, then it is just about 3 blocks to the hotel from the train stop. A cab ride from the Airport to Seattle is about $35-$40, or shuttles from the airport run about $15.

Going to the Wedding:
I will be setting up a shuttle service to help guests staying at the hotel get to and from the wedding venue, Golden Gardens. The venue parking is limited and we want everyone to have a good time and not worry about driving home. Hopefully this can also eliminate the need for many of you to rent a car, unless you have some other sight seeing you want to do! There is an abundance of beautiful scenery in Washington, Mount Rainier National Park, and the San Juan Islands are just a couple that come to mind. However when the rain stops in Seattle (as it typically does in July, knock on wood) Seattle can become a beautiful walkable city if you chose to forgo a car rental and rely on your own two feet/public transportation.

My goal today is to find out who is interested in a room at the Renaissance Hotel, and if so how many nights. The Wedding is on Saturday July 7th. If you have an interest please let me know as soon as possible, so I may give the hotel a best guess on how many rooms they should hold for our group. The 4th of July is the Wednesday before the wedding so rooms are starting to fill up fast. If you are interested in other hotels, I am happy to give you a list of alternate hotels in the area.

Looking forward to seeing you all soon!

Karla and Phil

P.s. the 4th of July is a fun experience in Seattle, they load up a barge in Lake Union with fireworks, and set them off about 10 pm (Seattle family 4th) We'll watch the fireworks from Alki Beach where we plan to have a bar-b-Que set up for anyone who would like to join the the festivities