In the vein of the many restaurant recommendations: If you, like me, do not live on or near a coastline I'd highly recommend making the time to get seafood while in Seattle. The difference in quality is pretty clear and worth going a little bit out of your way. I always make a point of getting sushi while in town.My recommendation for sushi is Mashiko in West Seattle. (My followup to that recommendation is that, awesome as the sushi is, if you're limiting yourself to just the sushi there, you're making a mistake.)
I second Vic's recommendation of Mashiko. It's sustainable!
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I'll be bringing my CPAP along with me so I sleep right at night, and it uses Distilled water.
I admire you for being able to sleep with that damn thing. I was proscribed prescribed (oops!) one of those about 6 years ago, and after two months of trying I gave up. I had a hell of a lot of trouble getting to sleep with all of those tubes all over the place. It made me self conscious about position and turning around, and I ended up getting less sleep. It made me so unhappy I was thinking I would willingly give up 10 years of my life to not have to put up with it.
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Ooh! And on the sightseeing side of things, the hotel is about 15 minutes away from the The Museum of Flight for those who are interested in aviation!
I will agree that this is an amazing museum... Went there about 12-s ago, and was overwhelmed.
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Is there a good place for me to get distilled water?
I'll be bringing my CPAP along with me so I sleep right at night, and it uses Distilled water.
Andy, we should coordinate on this one, since I will need some, too... And it only comes in gallons typically. Not that it is expensive, just wasteful. AJ may need it by then as well.
Question to the locals, is the Safeway accessible by public transport?
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Question to the locals, is the Safeway accessible by public transport?
One of the easiest Groceries to get to by public trans is another Safeway *right* at Othello Station on the Link Light Rail. Very easy to pick stuff up on the way back to the hotel. The A and 180 lines both have stops at SeaTac station and right near the hotel.
FYI Link runs from SeaTac straight through Seattle and on to UW station in north Seattle now. The last downtown stop is Westlake Station, the one for EMP. Stations are marked by a slanty capital T (helpful downtown where they are underground).
The other groceries mentioned in the Blog are reachable by public transit as well:
By the way, OneBusAway has a phone app that is *extremely* helpful when trying to use the buses. It doesn't plan routes, but does show you all the stops, when the buses are coming (late/on time/early), and can show you the stops for that line. For planning routes, use Google Maps or King County Metro's Trip Planner (site or app). The latter is a bit finicky about street names, but works.
I find great joy in the Seattle/King County Public Transit - feel free to send me a private message if you need any help at all (or email in my profile could be faster). I'm even willing to pick up ORCA cards for anyone wanting one ready to go (again, PM/Email).
Could anyone local give me any clue as to taxi fares? We're staying in the centre of Seattle (Grand Hyatt Central on Pine St).
Google maps says there's a short walk to Westlake station a train to Seatac/Airport station every ten minutes and then a short walk to the venue which it estimates will take 52 minutes.
By car it seems like it will take 25 mins (barring traffic). Any idea on what a typical taxi fare is from the centre of Seattle to the airport?
Taxi from SeaTac to Downtown Seattle would be $40-$50. Uber is here, and would be cheaper (phone app also). If you're staying there the whole Con, you might run into trains ending after midnight or so - be aware of the last one each day (different for Fri, Sat, and Sun/Holiday).
Cheers. I'm thinking I might train in and taxi out. (I won't be there all day every day as I have a non-gaming spouse and we're taking the opportunity to see Seattle).
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That should work pretty well (train starts at about 4:30 am) - if you're not staying all day, should be zero trouble training back as well.
There's also a convenience store across the street from the hotel where you could probably get the same water for a better price.
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Suggestion for Paizo peeps for the future - please collate this and include as a printed mini guide found in the Paizocon attendee baggies you get at registration.
Pretty please with a cherry on top!
There's also a convenience store across the street from the hotel where you could probably get the same water for a better price.You may be thinking of the previous location, the SeaTac Marriott. I don't believe there is a convenience store as close at the Doubletree.
I seem to remember a convenience store just a short walk to the left as you are leaving the hotel. I picked up some cellophane tape there last year.
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There's also a convenience store across the street from the hotel where you could probably get the same water for a better price.You may be thinking of the previous location, the SeaTac Marriott. I don't believe there is a convenience store as close at the Doubletree.
There is a liquor store across the street as well as a 76 gas station diagnal from the hotel.
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There is a liquor store across the street as well as a 76 gas station diagnal from the hotel.There's also a convenience store across the street from the hotel where you could probably get the same water for a better price.You may be thinking of the previous location, the SeaTac Marriott. I don't believe there is a convenience store as close at the Doubletree.
My mistake!
General advice: Check the weather and make sure you have warm enough clothes! Spring here may have started in January/February, but summer doesn't really start until the 4th of July. It could be 70s and sunny... or it could be 50s and rainy.
Also, if you bring an umbrella to downtown, be prepared for local pedestrians to be very bad at navigating around it. :P (Use of umbrellas here is mostly confined to tourists and transplants.)
There is a liquor store across the street as well as a 76 gas station diagnal from the hotel.There's also a convenience store across the street from the hotel where you could probably get the same water for a better price.You may be thinking of the previous location, the SeaTac Marriott. I don't believe there is a convenience store as close at the Doubletree.
Liquor is also available in grocery store chains here, but better prices are found in specialty stores like BevMo.
Yeah, there's a 7-11 a block or so to the left of the Doubletree.
A damn good thing, too, because last year I got to the hotel and realized I hadn't brought deoderant. (!!!!)
Ditto, except I'd forgotten bread to go with *lots* of sandwich fixings!
Ditto, except I'd forgotten bread to go with *lots* of sandwich fixings!Yeah, there's a 7-11 a block or so to the left of the Doubletree.
A damn good thing, too, because last year I got to the hotel and realized I hadn't brought deoderant. (!!!!)
God, this sounds like GenCon last year.
Forgot deodorant, forgot 'relaxing/lounging' shorts, forgot two of my PFS characters (thankfully didn't need them).
About the only saving grace was that because I hadn't overpacked on the food, I came out 'just right'
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And they must be played at 7-11. Not Tier 7-11, but the store itself.
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Is there a good place for me to get distilled water?
I'll be bringing my CPAP along with me so I sleep right at night, and it uses Distilled water.
Andy, we should coordinate on this one, since I will need some, too... And it only comes in gallons typically. Not that it is expensive, just wasteful. AJ may need it by then as well.
Question to the locals, is the Safeway accessible by public transport?
I'm going to be getting in stupid early. So I can catch a bus to the grocery and pick some up. Since there is so much of it, I can certainly share.
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Is there a good place for me to get distilled water?
I'll be bringing my CPAP along with me so I sleep right at night, and it uses Distilled water.
I've used a cpap for almost 10 years. It won't hurt anything to use tap water for a few nights. Just make sure it is bacteria free, and it will be safe.
The downside is that it may smell a little different.
Also Pacific coast is fairly humid, so depending on where you are coming from, you may find it uses much less water.
Yeah, I did do that for a short trip and while it worked fine, it left a white residue in the tray. It cleaned out ok, but I'd rather try and keep the machine as clean as possible.
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We're meeting some friends on the Tuesday after PaizoCon to start our West Coast driving tour and they're only there for the one night. Is the Space Needle restaurant worth visiting?I would generally say: yes. It is something worth doing at least once in your life, in my opinion. (And this is speaking as very frugal person who is very careful about how I spend my money. Granted, I went for lunch, instead of dinner, so saved some money that way.)
The food was really good and the view was gorgeous! Would do again.
I'd say that when I hear this question, half of the respondents say the food is really good, and half say it's really meh. I'd therefore mark it down as "inconsistent." So go to enjoy the view, and if the food is good, take that as a bonus.
(And if you want the really good seats, tell them you're with the band.)
Space Needle food once upon a time was a tragic joke, but I've been about a half dozen times in the last 10 years and it's actually quite good now.
It's VERY expensive, though. The cheapest entree I think is $35, and most are in the 40s-50s, going up into the 70s. It does include a "free" elevator ride to the top, which is I think like $15 just to ride up to the observation deck, so besides the rotating view as you eat (go near sunset - the views are incredible) you can also go up and wander the upper deck and balcony.
Dinner guests at the Space Needle also get to skip the wait for said elevator ride, which can be more than an hour if all you want to do is go up and look around.
And for the sake of everybody, including the people in the rooms next door to Andy, we would like him to have water for his CPAP.Is there a good place for me to get distilled water?
I'll be bringing my CPAP along with me so I sleep right at night, and it uses Distilled water.
As someone who was assigned to sleep in a room with a person with severe sleep apnea at a weekend camping trip, I can relate that this is more than likely not exaggeration.
I don't have apnea, but I *do* sometimes snore if I'm overly exhausted.
We were quite literally waking each other up -- me when the room-mate's apnea would kick in, the room-mate when my snoring started...