SeattleThe Emerald City on Puget Sound — Pike Place Market, the Space Needle and Chihuly Garden at Seattle Center, Pioneer Square and Capitol Hill, and Mount Rainier and the ferries beyond, with Eastside and light-rail rentals into downtown

Seattle is the Pacific Northwest's largest city — built on the hills between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, under the 14,410-foot bulk of Mount Rainier. Pike Place Market and the rebuilt waterfront anchor downtown, the monorail runs to Seattle Center's Space Needle, Chihuly Garden and Glass, and Museum of Pop Culture, and the stadium district south of Pioneer Square holds T-Mobile Park and Lumen Field. Capitol Hill's cafes and live-music rooms, Ballard's locks and breweries, and the Fremont Troll fill the neighborhoods, while the Washington State Ferries cross the Sound to Bainbridge and Bremerton and the floating bridges reach the Eastside tech corridor.

Our Seattle-area rentals sit in the suburbs and Eastside communities that ring the city, where the homes have yards, parking, and room to spread out. The Tukwila duplex is three minutes from a Link light-rail station — a fast, car-light ride straight into downtown Seattle and Pike Place, and seven minutes from SeaTac for early flights. The Sammamish suite sits near Lake Sammamish and the Eastside trails close to Bellevue and Redmond; the Kent condo and the Bremerton house (a quick ferry across Puget Sound) round out a metro base for groups who want space outside the city core. Most guests pair a rental car for the Mount Rainier and ferry day-trips with the light rail for downtown.