Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Mount Rainier
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Flights, cruises, city breaks and fly drives
British Airways and Virgin Atlantic offer year round daily non stop direct flights from London to Seattle. These flights are daytime outbound and the return journey is overnight in under ten hours. Norwegian offers four flights a week direct non stop from London Gatwick to Seattle and Thomas Cook Airlines introduced two flights a week between Manchester and Seattle in May 2018. Aer Lingus also launched a direct non stop flights from Dublin to Seattle in May 2018. Icelandair offers flights from London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Aberdeen to Seattle, changing at Reykjavik. Virgin Atlantic operates one of the shortest London to Hawaii routes via Seattle, with opportunities for stopovers.
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
Sea-Tac Airport lies fifteen miles south of downtown Seattle. Ground transportation links are excellent with the Link light rail taking 30 minutes into downtown Seattle from its convenient airport station. There is also an array of taxis, limos, and a full range of car hire companies available.
Sea-Tac Airport and Seattle’s downtown cruise terminals are the Green Gateways to the Pacific Northwest. Nine cruise lines have Seattle as their home port in 2018.
In 2016, Cruise Critic, the world’s largest review site for cruise planning, named the Port of Seattle the #1 Homeport in North America. 2017 was a record breaking year with 9% more passengers than 2016 and over 1 million visitors travelling through Seattle to cruise to Alaska.
216 ships departures sail to Alaska from Seattle - Don Wilson
Seattle is an ideal stopover before and after an Alaskan cruise. Two thirds of passengers cruising from Seattle do so. With so much of Seattle’s best scenery within three hours’ drive of
Sea-Tac Airport and Seattle’s cruise terminals, this is the ideal destination for fly-drive holidays of any duration, with time spent in Seattle at the beginning or end.
Waterfalls in downtown Spokane
Washington has 25 scenic byways: from epic high mountain passes to memorable sea views, to rolling hills amongst the vineyards, this State has it all. Along the way are towns and cities with stories for you to discover, such as Wenatchee, the Apple Capital of the World, Spokane with its wines, breweries and roaring river, or Friday Harbor, gateway to the San Juan Islands.
The Port of Seattle is celebrating 20 years serving the cruise industry and this 2018 season, welcomed 1,114,888 million revenue passengers through its cruise terminals, the second year in a row the Port exceeded the one-million passenger mark, up 4% on 2017 numbers. More growth is expected in 2019 with the arrival of the Royal … Continue reading Port of Seattle record-breaking 2018→read more >
Nov 19, 2018
Mount Rainier is not only one of the highest and most spectacular mountains in the USA at 4,392 m, it also has over 120 glaciers and expansive views across the Cascades and the famous Mount St Helens, one of the most active volcanoes in the Cascades. For the summer months, hiking and climbing are popular … Continue reading Wilderness paradise at Mount Rainier→read more >
Nov 12, 2018
Visitors to Seattle will continue to have the choice of five direct, non-stop air services to the city in 2019 with Virgin Atlantic and British Airways offering daily flights from Heathrow; Norwegian offering four flights a week from Gatwick, Thomas Cook Airlines growing from two to three services a week from Manchester, and Aer Lingus … Continue reading DIRECT NON-STOP FLIGHTS FROM THE UK AND IRELAND TO SEATTLE FOR 2019→read more >
