Location is great if you have a waterside room - parking lot not so much. Loved the cruise liners moored next door, especially as they sailed in the mid-afternoon; when they docked at 5:00 am or so with horns blaring, not so much. Convenient to Pike Place Market, waterfront activities, and Bell Town (if you have police protection or a bodyguard) and a shuttle service is provided to within a reasonable distance of the hotel.
Decor is kind of weird for the Seattle waterfront - antlers everywhere and steel columns covered with bark and mechanically articulated brances to simulate trees... Really! The large LCD Panels in the elevators with underwater were interesting if a bit unnerving if a man eating shark or giant octopus happened to be showing as you entered. Room furnishings were also interesting - a chest of drawers that was probably intended as antique, but actually was way closer to the "garage sale leftover" genre. there was a footstool in front of the fireplace that was purportedly a bear - may have been at one time, but time had taken it's toll besides being butt ugly. The room was clean, but very cramped - not very comfortable for an extended stay.
In general, signs of ageing without timely upkeep were evident throughout. Door jambs and walls that had been run into by luggage carts leaving large gouges and scratches which had not been repaired were prevalent in the hallways. Lamps with loose sockets and inoperative switches are another example. Fire doors may be functional (one hopes), but are truly an ugly way to greet guests as they traverse the hallways - they are absolutely essential for safety, but could be way more attractively done.
We were part of a wedding party which included a buffet dinner. The food was good, plentiful and attractively presented, but the waiters hovered like flies around the guests as they went through the line. I'm not sure what their function was, but they seemed to be more of a hindrance than a help. Midway through dinner I asked one of the hoverers if I might have a cup of coffee and was told, "No, that comes with dessert." Makes for an interesting guest-server relationship...
We ate breakfast in the main didng room both morning of our stay. The food was excellent as was the service. The only fly in the ointment, so to speak, was the attitude of the host which was polite disdain at best. The fact that people wished to eat in his dining room almost seemed to be an unwanted distraction - from what I'm not sure, but he was obviously somewhere else - presumably in a "better place".
The Edgewater is not what I would consider a value for the prices charged. One would expect first class accomodations and a welcoming attitude at every turn. The fake woodsy, lodge-like look and all the antler embedded furniture is a bad joke.
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