Seattle, United States

Hotel Theodore

Price per night from$184.80

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (USD184.80), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

Style

Sleeping in Seattle

Setting

Dapper Downtown

Originally, Hotel Theodore had a crush on President Teddy Roosevelt: built in 1929, its first name was the Roosevelt Hotel – and it still has the red neon sign to prove it. These days, though, it’s crushing on Seattle – and you’ll share its affection for the city, following a stay here. Sample the Pacific Northwest's surf ’n’ turf bounty in ravishing Rider restaurant, join the locals enjoying coffee and cakes in mellow Made café, take in the city views from the loftiest floors and admire the dapper decor, which riffs on the sartorial leanings of the best-dressed locals.

Smith Extra

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$10 credit to use in the on-site coffee shop

Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

In total, 153, including 16 suites.

Check–Out

11am; earliest check-in, 4pm.

More details

Rates usually exclude breakfast, but include WiFi, access to the 24-hour fitness centre, and aperitivo hour in the hotel lobby (5.30pm–6.30pm), featuring free cocktails mixed by Rider’s bartenders.

Also

Request an in-room massage or beauty treatment via Tousled: Seattle’s modern mobile salon and spa. You can also summon Well+Fit kits to your room, stocked with a Manduka yoga mat, barre3 bands, weights and a core ball, plus an iPad pre-loaded with fitness videos. Alternatively, make use of the hotel's free passes to local studios.

At the hotel

Coffee shop; valet parking; gym with weights, yoga mats, treadmill, elliptical, Peloton bicycle and stationary bicycle. In rooms: TV, WiFi, air conditioning, alarm clock, minibar, tea- and coffee-making kit, blackout curtain.

Our favourite rooms

We’d happily move into the Residence and never move out. The hotel’s penthouse sprawls across 20,000 square feet, occupying the entire 19th floor. Bespoke furnishings, designer lighting and original artworks decorate this handsome expanse. If your spatial requirements and/or budget are a little more modest, opt for a suite – they all have clawfoot bath tubs and Seattle-made raincoats for guests to borrow.

Packing tips

If you’ve booked a suite, don’t waste case-space by bringing a raincoat: the hotel helpfully lends guests his ’n’ hers numbers made in Seattle by Freeman. If you’d like to buy one/a pair to take one home with you, just let guest services know.

Also

The hotel has a bedroom and bathroom adapted for wheelchair-users.

Pet‐friendly

Four-legged Smiths weighing in at 50lbs or under are very welcome (for free). The hotel helpfully provides doggy beds, food and water bowls, and a canine welcome gift. See more pet-friendly hotels in Seattle.

Children

Little Smiths can come, but the hotel reckons it’s best suited to teens.

Food and Drink

Photos Hotel Theodore food and drink

Top Table

That depends: do you want to spy on the food, or your fellow diners? If the former, sit at the restaurant counter and watch the action at the wood-fire grill; if the latter, nab a seat by the window in the main restaurant for prime people-watching.

Dress Code

Off-duty creative. Don’t go large on soft grey hues, unless you want to be mistaken for a member of staff.

Hotel restaurant

We’re revved up for Rider, an industrial-glam affair with exposed brick and masculine styling. The menu champions the Pacific Northwest's natural double-whammy: the ocean and the forest. Dishes include delectable oysters and smart brunch options, such as smoked salmon with horseradish, dill and grilled sourdough.

Hotel bar

Rider restaurant serves potent cocktails; we sipped a Guns & Flowers (grapefruit, lemon, lavender bitters, honey and bubbles) and Roughrider: a blend of averna, sweet vermouth, Peychaud’s bitters and absinthe. Don’t miss Aperitivo Hour in the lobby.

Last orders

Rider has stamina, catering to guests from 7am until midnight.

Room service

Order options from Rider’s full menu throughout the day; pick from salads, sandwiches, burgers, seafood and steaks. You can also request cocktails, beer, wine, soft drinks and coffee. Fancy breakfast in bed? Pancakes are never a bad idea.

Location

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Address
Hotel Theodore
1531 7th Ave
Seattle
98101
United States

Hotel Theodore occupies a landmark building on the intersection of 7th Avenue and Pine Street, six blocks from the city's legendary Pike Place Market.

Planes

SeaTac International Airport is 14 miles away (a half-hour drive). Single hotel transfers cost $50 for up to three people in one vehicle.

Trains

King Street Station is a 10-minute drive from the hotel, with services connecting to all major cities along the West Coast. Single hotel transfers cost $30.

Automobiles

Hotel Theodore is on the corner of 7th and Pine in downtown Seattle. Once you’ve arrived on 7th Avenue, pull into the valet entrance, where you’ll be greeted by obliging staff.

Worth getting out of bed for

Stroll to Pike Place Market, which overlooks the Elliott Bay waterfront; it’s one of the country’s oldest public markets. Discover fresh produce, specialty foods and independent businesses, pausing for pit-stop nibbles and drinks. Admire some serious eye-candy on First Avenue at Seattle Art Museum, the Pacific Northwest’s centre for world-class visual arts. Chihuly: Garden and Glass is a museum in the Seattle Center that showcases the studio glass of Dale Chihuly. Chihuly’s famous series of glass artworks include Cylinders and Baskets, Niijima Floats and Fiori; he has also created critically acclaimed large architectural installations. Check the museum’s website for special events such as yoga, garden workshops, drawing classes and more.

Local restaurants

Canter through Asian-inspired dishes (duck spring rolls; tuna crudo; blackened cod; ginger rice and the ilk) at Stateside, which occupies a swellegant building on Capitol Hill. Cocktails are excellent; try the pineapple margarita with mezcal. Bateau on East Union Street is Renee Erickson’s classy steakhouse; order a hefty sustainable cut of meat and don’t stint on sides: kale with anchovy dressing, egg yolk and parmesan, buttery mash, carrots with sorrel, cream, verjus and cumin, and so on.

Local bars

Little sister and nextdoor neighbour to Stateside restaurant, Foreign National serves cocktails with Asian leanings – the Long Thailand, for example – alongside punchy bar snacks (we’d order the sticky rice sausages and sour pour again in a heartbeat). Worship at the altar of beer at No Anchor, an ambitious beer bar on 2nd Avenue that pairs its impressive array of top-notch brews with upscale snacks; there are also some intriguing beer-based cocktails.

Reviews

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Robyn Donaldson

Anonymous review

By Robyn Donaldson, Literary aesthete

Creating the ideal city break hotel is no mean feat. The aim is to create somewhere that guests will relish retreating, but not so filled with amenities that they feel short-changed not spending their entire break there. In short, cosy and welcoming, but also a springboard to adventure. 

Well, that’s exactly what Hotel Theodore in Seattle has accomplished – our perfectly placed home-from-home in the middle of the Emerald City. 

It is part of the Providence Hotel group, and you could feel the influence of the Portland-based company (I can say this with authority as it’s the next place we visited) as soon as you walked through the door. There was laid-back luxe décor, industrial touches and instant greetings from the friendly staff.

Yet, it was all unmistakably Seattle, meaning just the right side of hipster to feel aspirational but still inclusive. As the second stop on an epic US road trip and the city we were most excited to visit, we were counting on Hotel Theodore to be our ideal Seattle bolthole, and it did not disappoint.

After an epic day of travelling, we were thrilled to open the door to our room and find it was light and airy, with bags of personality. It was also a delight to discover that it was about the size of a one-bed in Peckham. 

Patterns were plentiful but complementary hues of duck egg, camel and charcoal kept things cohesive. The whole mood was eclectic and enveloping. It also housed the biggest bed I’ve conceivably ever slept in. And don’t get me started on the shower, which has ruined all other showers for me forever. 

The art was clearly carefully curated, which is always one of my favourite things in a hotel – no dogs playing pool here. I also clocked a Nespresso machine, but with an on-site coffee shop just downstairs, I knew I wouldn’t be using it. 

As hard as it was to prise ourselves out of our paisley-and-plaid pleasure palace, on our first evening, we headed to the Atrium for the nightly wine hour. It’s an excellent opportunity to mingle with other guests. Or, if you’re anything like me, to go and nose around the in-house art collection – every corner has a new and exciting piece to discover. 

Of course, as it’s the ultimate city-centre hotel, I noticed there was also plenty of provision for people who need to mix business with pleasure: a gym with running machines and Peloton bikes, meeting rooms, and WIFI signal to rival the White House’s (I’m assuming they have good WiFi in the White House). 

Luckily, our business was being tourists. To that end, the location could not be beaten. Everywhere you could ever want to go is walkable: the waterfront, the museums, the galleries, and the shopping (oh, the shopping) are all no more than 40 minutes away. If that still seems too much, the hotel also has bicycles to borrow. 

Each morning we’d walk to Pike Place Market to pick up our breakfast, whether that was a carb-fest at Piroshky Piroshky or a… carb-fest at Honest Biscuits.  

For a three-minute thrill, you could also get the Monorail, Jetson’s-style train ride that stops right by the hotel and will take you direct to tourist HQ: the Space Needle, Chihuly Garden, the Museum of Pop Culture and more. 

But apart from the great interiors, the great location and the great amenities, the thing that makes Hotel Theodore stand out is the really, really great staff. They are warm, hospitable and so helpful – everyone we encountered was a total joy. 

Whether they were tracking down an errant dress I’d had posted there, making suggestions for dinners or days out (great shout on getting the ferry to Bainbridge Island, guys) or the text service they offer that means you don’t even have to walk over to the phone in your room – they could not have made our time easier. 

So, if you’re heading Seattle-wards, make sure you stay at the Hotel Theodore – it’s the perfect pad for the innumerable adventures this city has to offer.

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