A friend and I stayed here for a week, and it made a very convenient, affordable base for our time in Seattle. The location was pretty convenient. It is easy and cheap to get into town on the bus - we found that there are enough routes running that it wasn't necessary to plan to get a particular bus, we could just turn up at the nearest stop (about 150 yards away) and wait. Getting home on the bus was never hard either.
There are OK restaurants on the doorstep, so it is not necessary to go into town for every meal. It was nice feeling like we had our own little neighbourhood, away from the middle of town. There's a good cinema (the Siff) just round the corner, and an extremely good supermarket a block away (Metropolitan Market, on the corner of 1st Avenue North and Mercer Street). It's open 24 hours a day and sells excellent fresh food. Our room had a little kitchen, with gas hob, sink, microwave and worktop space. It was very nice to be able to have breakfast in the room each morning, and it saved lots of money.
The hotel staff are tremendously helpful and friendly. All our extra requests were provided: coat hangers, hairdryer, a second suitcase rack and more blankets. We found that our radiator really only had two settings - on or off - and consequently the room was either much too hot or pretty cold. Not ideal. On the upside, the room was beautifully cleaned every day. The wifi was frustratingly unreliable - we were told that the signal becomes weak or non-existent at peak times, which turned out to be most of the time.
If you do stay at the Inn at Queen Anne, here's a nice, quiet walking route to a park, which in turn leads most of the way into town. Turn right out of the hotel, and right again along Republican Street. Walk a few blocks and then turn left onto 3rd Avenue West. As you walk down the hill, you'll find a footbridge which will take you across the big roads and railways, and into Centennial Park, which runs along the waterfront. It's a great place for a walk or a run, and if you turn left into the park, you'll find it takes you a fair way into town, very close to Belltown which has some nice shops and restaurants.
And a tip about the Seattle buses - they require exact change ($2.25 off peak, $2.50 peak), which can be a bit of a hassle. If you're staying a little while, you can buy an Orca card (a pre-pay electronic card) but the only place I found which sold them was the Westlake Center, which is downtown. An alternative is to buy a book of bus tickets - either peak or off-peak. These are available locally - the nearest source I found was at Bartell Drugs, a block from the hotel, just above Metropolitan Market on 1st Ave N and Mercer (and also open 24 hours a day).
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