Arrival in Seattle

We discovered we were sitting in business class for our flight. Paul had more leg room, and I had a bit more seat room to try and relax/curl up on for the next couple of hours. I did manage to sleep a bit after our meal, but Paul was wide awake.

We had to take a tram to another terminal to collect our luggage, and had quite a walk to luggage carousel number 15. Hardly anyone arrived, and we got worried. We checked the boards to see if we were correct, and then the carousel number changed to 5! So we had to walk back in the direction of where we had already come from.

Luggage collected, we caught a shuttle bus to the car rental office. The shuttle bus was busy with so many people going to hire cars. Fortunately, the queue for Thrifty wasn't long, and we soon got Kia car. It is very modern inside with a strange dashboard - very digital and "cold". It is petrol and not electric. The passenger seat is very low compared to the driver's seat. I can't make the seat any higher.

We managed to find our way to the hotel, using a satnav app on Paul's phone and discovered we could connect it via Bluetooth to the car's cental console screen and had an enlargement of the map.

After checking in, we got directions for the hotel's car park, which is around the corner and underground. It's going to cost an arm and a leg to park here for the duration we are in Seattle. We might see if a local car park is any cheaper!

Our room, 39 floors up, overlooks the city and is very spacious.

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