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Seattle Tours

Well, once we got our bags stowed away in our room, which was now about 3:00 Seattle time, we decided to take a tour of the city and just happened to pick Seattle Tours out of a brochure. And what a great find they were. Seattle Tours came all the way down to Renton and picked us up right at the door of our hotel. We were the first ones picked up and the last ones to be dropped off at the end of the day. The actual tour was 3 hours but when you factor in all the picking up of people around the city it added an additional 2 hours to our excursion.

My wife and I both highly recommend Seattle Tours. They were great and the woman who drove us all around was very friendly and knowledgeable about the area. She took us all over the city showing us places like Pikes Market, the Ballard Locks, as well as panoramic views of the city from Kerry Park, as seen from the picture on the right. She was very patient and answered all our questions and even stopped at a place for us to get ice cream. mmmmmmmmmmm! Unfortunately for us we had just gotten off the plane that day after a 5 hour flight and now we're sitting on a bus for hours so it was a very tiring day.

Although I really wasn't interested in taking a guided tour at first, I am now a firm believer in starting off a trip that way. It gave us a great opportunity to get a general layout of the city as well as information on things we might want to explore in greater depth later. As far as Seattle goes we both highly recommend Seattle Tours. If you're going to Seattle anytime soon you may also want to take a tour first. You can check out their web site here to see what they have to offer and compare them with others.