Hotel Sorrento

Set in
the genteel First Hill neighborhood, the hotel has long been a cultural and social
gathering spot for the city's elite, President William Taft was once
a guest, who flocked to the 1909 Italian Renaissance-style building inspired by the Hotel Vittoria in Sorrento, Italy. The sumptuous interiors are filled with Honduras mahogany and also feature oak floors, leather wingback chairs,
Art Deco lamps, patterned Turkish kilim pillows, Moroccan tiles, and Oriental rugs. In
2015, the hotel refreshed the public spaces, replaced its venerable Hunt Club restaurant with a modern bistro, Dunbar Room, and added a garden courtyard. The hotel's famous Fireside Room, an elegant
lounge with grand piano, fireplace, and live music draws locals and hotel guests, including couples and business travelers who appreciate the hotel's old world charms and subtle hipster aesthetics, like the edgy line drawings in the hallways.

Hotel Sorrento is located in First Hill, a
quiet and mostly residential neighborhood with many fine apartment buildings close to the city's main medical area. The popular Town Hall performance venue and the Frye Art Museum's stunning collection are both three blocks away and the hotel is easily
accessible from the I-5 freeway, three blocks west. Capitol Hill's restaurants and nightlife are a 10-minute walk northeast of
the hotel, as are many city center attractions like the
Columbia Center's Sky View Observatory, with panoramic city and
Elliott Bay views. The Washington State
Convention Center is a five-minute walk northwest while the Westlake Center and monorail to Seattle Center and the Space Needle are 13-minutes away on foot. The Seattle Art Museum is a
15-minute walk west, and it's a five-minute cab ride or 20-minute walk west to
the Pike Place Market, which is just east of the Elliott Bay Waterfront, the Great Wheel, and Seattle Aquarium. Sea-Tac International
Airport is 20 minutes away by cab or car.

Spread across seven floors, the hotel's 75 rooms and suites are elegant, understated, and individually decorated with details like carved wood furniture and molding, rich
fabrics, contemporary art, upholstered armchairs, dark carpets, and gilt-framed mirrors. The clean and well-lit rooms start at 250 square feet (or 23 square meters), making them spacious by urban standards, with chocolate brown, beige, and slate-blue walls.
All rooms come with mini-bars, free Wi-Fi, 42-inch flat-screen TVs with premium
cable and HD channels, French press coffeemakers with locally roasted coffee, and plush beds with Sealy Posturepedic mattresses,
goose-down pillows, 400-thread-count Egyptian cotton sheets. Carrara marble Bathrooms are clean and well-lit, featuring porcelain pedestal sinks, full-length
mirrors, terry cloth bathrobes, and premium Tarocco bath products. The hotel offers several different room categories, including suites with gorgeous Art Nouveu furniture and huge bathrooms. Street facing rooms can be a bit noisy.

Long a fixture of the Seattle social scene, the hotel's main features revolve around dining and drinking. The Dunbar Room, a new incarnation of the Hunt Club, offers locally sourced, seasonal dishes in a casual, yet refined bistro setting. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, weekend brunch, and limited room service are available and guests can dine in the hotels' garden courtyard from Easter to Thanksgiving, though no meals are included with bookings. Guests can also order from the Dunbar's dinner and cocktail menu in the hotel's famous Fireside Room, an elegant wood-paneled space with a grand piano and fireplace that often hosts live music, monthly silent reading parties, and performances. The hotel offers a small, 24-hour fitness center, a barber shop/salon, and a massage room, but there is no pool or spa. The Sorrento also has a dedicated concierge,
free shoeshine service, meeting rooms, a 24-hour business center, same-day laundry services, free Wi-Fi, and valet
parking for a fee. Pets of all sizes, weights, and breeds are permitted in
rooms, though fees are attached as well.