Justin G
Google
This is a boutique hotel, a Marriott but “M Gallery” which is presumably a label designed to convey that this is not a standard Marriott and so don’t expect vending machines on each floor. The hotel is an old 10 storey brick building on a corner which has been nicely refurnished. Because it’s boutique, the lobby isn’t that spacious, and the doorman isn’t always there and the services are a bit more limited. But there’s a restaurant attached and you have pretty much everything you need. You miss a nice water cooler and morning coffee in the lobby (there’s one of those airport bottle refillers round the corner by the code entry bathrooms) but you have a good location and a nicely appointed room. Only 2 slow elevators, but the rooms are nice. The bathroom was a little cramped and the toilet flush had the noise and power of what I can only imagine the jet thrust of an F16 taking off from an aircraft carrier sounds like. A very comfy King bed, and a nice sofa to lounge on, big TV. As with all American hotels, the room was very dimly lit, I’ve never understood this. The location though is very good - basically walking distance to many of the main central Seattle sights. Even so, the immediate environs has more than its fair share of weed and crack smoking and homelessness on display, which can be a bit confronting to those not used to it. Central Seattle has beautiful busy streets and then the very next one can be deserted car parks with obvious drug deals going down. So some caution is needed. We were comfortable walking from and to the hotel into the early evening, but were taking Ubers for dinner. We thought this was a nice hotel and if we stayed in central Seattle again we would revisit.