A friend and I decided to take advantage of the Bolt Bus $1 special traveling from Seattle to Vancouver in June, 2012. We ended up going for a night and this hotel was our "win" from Priceline.
Like many other reviewers say, it is right across from Safeco Field, so if you are watching a game, it's a great location. Otherwise, it's quite a walk to downtown Seattle. I think it took us about half an hour to walk from the hotel to Pike Place. I found that during the day, the walk was fine but at night after you get out off the downtown core, it gets kind of "sketchy".
There is a free shuttle to get you from the hotel to various spots in downtown Seattle. However, the shuttle does not have a schedule and it depends on "availability." I called for a pickup at the Pine Street Sephora at 9:00 pm and they told me that the shuttle won't get there until 10:30 pm. Obviously, I wasn't too pleased with the wait and when I asked why it would take so long, they said that it was due to "high volume" and that it was a busy night. I get that it was a Saturday night but seriously... an hour and a half? Why even offer that service? We had plans for later that night, so we ended up walking back from downtown and we got back at 10:00 pm.
Same thing happened in the morning. We called down to see when the shuttle was going to leave at around 10:30 am and they said at 12:00 pm.. Again, we just walked back to Pike Place.
I just think, if you are going to offer a free shuttle, wouldn't it be better just to have a set schedule of when the bus will leave, instead of waiting to see who will or won't take the bus?
Service was average. The staff wasn't "mean" but they weren't "friendly". Just average.
Room was clean. I thought it was quite spacious but I had just came back from Asia so my expectations at that point were probably skewed. My friend said that it was normal North American sized.
I would not stay at the Silver Cloud Hotel Stadium, given the location of the place. It was just too far from the downtown core.
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