Four Star Hotwire

So we had one extra day and night before we were going to be meeting up with our son and daughter-in-law in Seattle. I thought I would book hubby and I a room, but where. Not having been to Seattle since I was 3 or 4 years old I wasn't sure where to stay.

I asked myself, "self" what would Clark Howard do? You know Clark Howard the Consumer

advocate guy with all the good deals for us consumers. He said, if you are able book

your hotel stay the same week and go through "Hotwire". When you do, opt for 4 Star hotels

because you can't go wrong and you usually get the best deals.

So I did. It's interesting they don't tell you which Hotel it is until you book it. So you are pretty much committed. But it's a 4 Star Hotel, so you shouldn't be disappointed. Well Hotwire

I can honestly say, We were not disappointed. It definitely was a 4 Star.

We stayed at the Doubletree Arctic

http://doubletree1.hilton.com/en_US/dt/hotel/SEAACDT-The-Arctic-Club-Seattle-a-DoubleTree-by-Hilton-Hotel-Washington/index.do

It is located in the heart of the downtown Seattle Financial district, a Landmark Hotel.

It was gorgeous inside. It is an older Hotel so it has all the stylings of a Grand Hotel.When you walk into the the Lobby you see on one of it's walls a large glass encased bookshelf with old black derby's and tall hats from the 20's and up. The Lobby is very large with many places to sit and visit with other guests.

One area is a pool table.

There was an older couple playing pool. David was itching to play, I told him to tell them he would play the winner, but

he didn't want to intrude. Oooh the best part of the front desk was

Freshly warm cookies 24 hours a day.

So if you had a hankering for a Warm chocolate chip cookie you could come down

to the front desk and they would open up their Magical warmer. Each cookie was in its own cookie sleeve, and you could have as many as you wanted.

I didn't want to be greedy, so I just took two. One for hubby and one for me.

(I know what you were thinking I was going to eat both.)

The Bedroom Suite is gorgeous, it reminds me of the 30's era.

I like the color scheme tans, and rich browns.

They even have a fluffy white robe for your use during your stay.
I checked the price tag, if you would like to purchase this fine robe, it is only $115.00. That's

just about what we paid for the room. No thank you very much. Oh

yeah that's another thing, there were a lot of items in the room that you could

purchase at the front desk. But that wasn't quite in our budget.

Let's talk toiletries. If they have them, such as shampoo, conditioner, soap, shower cap,

whatever and they do, we of course use them. But if we don't use them all up it goes in our bag.

I mean it is for us to use. I can't tell you how many miniature toiletries I have at home

from the various places we've stayed. In fact I brought some from home to use. I was using

my Bestwestern bath gel in my Doubletree Arctic shower which carried on into

our Hyatt Olive 8 hotel the next day. I didn't dare leave

a shampoo from another hotel for the maid. I think it would have been

an insult to the other shampoos. Don't judge me.
If you ever get to Seattle, a must stay here at the

Doubletree Arctic Club Hotel.

p.s. Our last night in Seattle we were upgraded to a two room suite at a great discount because our daughter-in-law works for the Hyatt. That was a nice ending to

our Seattle Wedding Weekend.