Seattle: Arrival and information
Flights land at Seattle/Tacoma's Sea-Tac Airport (tel 206/431-4444, ), on Hwy-99 (the Pacific Highway) fourteen miles south of downtown. Outside, the Gray Line Airport Express bus ($8.50 one-way, $15 round-trip; tel 206/626-6088, ) leaves every twenty minutes for the 25-minute journey to various hotels downtown. ShuttleExpress (tel 206/622-1424 or 1-800/487-RIDE, ) offers door-to-door service for $18-30. Metro express city bus #194 ($1.10, peak hours $1.75) takes thirty minutes to reach downtown's Transit Tunnel. A taxi to the city center costs $25-30.The Amtrak station at Third Avenue and Jackson Street, just south of downtown, and the Greyhound bus terminal at Eighth Avenue and Stewart Street to the east, are both an easy bus ride from downtown. A couple of blocks towards downtown from Greyhound is the visitors bureau , on the Galleria level inside the Washington State Convention Center at Seventh Avenue and Pike Street (Mon-Fri 8.30am-5pm, summer also Sat-Sun 10am-4pm; tel 206/461-5840, ). The main post office is downtown at Union Street and Third Avenue (Mon-Fri 8am-5.30pm; tel 1-800/275-8777; zip code 98101).
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