Car Rental help post cruise / Seattle

[Motor City]

 

First Alaska Cruise, first time in Seattle so any advise and tips would be very much appreciated!

 

Get in at 10pm Friday, so plan is to just stay at SEA-tac.

Saturday make our way to DT, stay Grand Hyatt or someplace central to DT and cruise port.

Sunday is embarkation

 

The following Sunday - debarkation

Our flight home (Detroit) isn't until 10pm. 

Anyone know the best place to rent a car close to the port? Easiest way to get there?

We were thinking of just renting a car and spending the day exploring surrounding Seattle, instead of storing laggage and doing Uber, or stuck at SEA the entire day/evening. Thinking with a car rental we wouldn't need a place to store luggage, see a bit of Seattle, and have just return it to the airport that evening before our flight home.

 

Any places to see in or around Seattle for a couple with 6 year old?

Pikes is on the list, just was trying to find something different, we may hit Pike's and then scoot to Discovery park for a picnic.

 

Thanks for idea and advise

Edited July 17, 2023 by Motor City

[CruiserBruce]

Who are you cruising on? HAL? They dock at Pier 91, which doesn't have much of anything close, at least in terms of hotels. They used to have shuttles to rental car companies, hopefully @Ferry_Watcher can confirm they still do, and what brands.

 

There are dozens of threads here on hotels, both downtown and airport. 

 

Pike Place Market will be very interesting to your 6 y.o. Especially the flying fish. The Space Needle and the Seattle Great Wheel may also interest the little one.

[Motor City]

9 minutes ago, CruiserBruce said:

Who are you cruising on? HAL? They dock at Pier 91, which doesn't have much of anything close, at least in terms of hotels. They used to have shuttles to rental car companies, hopefully @Ferry_Watcher can confirm they still do, and what brands.

 

There are dozens of threads here on hotels, both downtown and airport. 

 

Pike Place Market will be very interesting to your 6 y.o. Especially the flying fish. The Space Needle and the Seattle Great Wheel may also interest the little one.

 

Yes, we are on Holland America

Just trying to figure out the best way to kill a day after the cruise, given we will have luggage and our flight isn't until 10pm

 

[1025cruise]

You aren't going to want a car in Seattle proper. You'll end up paying a fortune for parking. Seattle offers Port Valet which will take care of your bags.

[Motor City]

1 hour ago, 1025cruise said:

You aren't going to want a car in Seattle proper. You'll end up paying a fortune for parking. Seattle offers Port Valet which will take care of your bags.

 

So we’d have to valet bags, uber around for the day, find our way back to the port to collect our bags, and then uber to the airport…would be less?

[SCX22]

16 minutes ago, Motor City said:

 

So we’d have to valet bags, uber around for the day, find our way back to the port to collect our bags, and then uber to the airport…would be less?

 

Read about Port Valet here:

https://www.portseattle.org/page/port-valet-enjoy-seattle-luggage-free

 

The company collects your bag for you and checks them in with your airline.  It's a free service--you just pay the checked bag price the airline charges.  If all goes well, which it almost always does, you'll see your bags at your destination airport. 

 

Caveat is that it won't really work if you have a ton of carry on bags.  You still have to schlep those around yourself.

[Motor City]

14 minutes ago, SCX22 said:

 

Read about Port Valet here:

https://www.portseattle.org/page/port-valet-enjoy-seattle-luggage-free

 

The company collects your bag for you and checks them in with your airline.  It's a free service--you just pay the checked bag price the airline charges.  If all goes well, which it almost always does, you'll see your bags at your destination airport. 

 

Caveat is that it won't really work if you have a ton of carry on bags.  You still have to schlep those around yourself.

 

Yes, unfortunately we will have several carry-on

 

Good to know for the larger checked bag

Thank you for the link!

Edited July 18, 2023 by Motor City