This is a beautiful hotel with service you will not find elsewhere. My personal favorite is the way the bellmen welcome you back every time you leave and return to the hotel. It's such a nice gesture to say "welcome back" and always put a smile on my face. The Concierge was extremely helpful with restaurant suggestions and handling the reservations. The room we had was a Deluxe King and I thought it was plenty big with a nice bathroom (although I would have preferred to have had a separate shower and bath instead of a bath/shower combination). The cleaning women cleaned the room very well each day and there is turndown service each night. Also each night they leave a card with the next day's weather forecast (which I found very helpful in planning the next day's wardrobe selection). In the morning, there is a newspaper delivered. There are no "views" from this hotel, but what you're paying for is the service. I would recommend the hotel to those who enjoy high quality service.

I just arrived home from 5 days at the fairmont olympic hotel in seattle and i would have been content to move in their permanently! i was fortunate to be booked in on a convention rate ($250 per night--and they didn't have the basic room for 5 nights so for $25 more i had a suite!).....that is $25 well spent!! i had a huge king sized bed and a separate living room with sofa, 2 overstuffed pillows to rest my head after a day of shopping, a desk, chair and 2 tvs.....there is a separate dressing area and the bathroom was nice with 2 robes to use.....
the hotel is first class all the way....the staff cannot do enough for you!! i had requested a coffee maker, which for some reason the fairmont does not provide.....when i checked in, there was no coffee maker in the room, so i phoned the front desk.....the head of catering told me that he would get one for me, even if he had to buy it himself.....sure enough, within 1/2 hour they brought me a coffee maker on a silver platter with all the acoutrements!! i was very impressed.....the doormen greet you when you leave the premises and when you return--a nice touch!! coffee and tea is served in the lobby in the early morning.....the carpet is starting to look a bit dated in the halls, but that would be my only complaint--and a small price to pay for a marvellous hotel.......i can't wait to stay on the "gold floor" on the fairmont in boston--where i am going in 1 week!!
by the way, seattle is a great city for shopping! it is small--all of the shops are within a 2 block radius--macy's, nordstroms, brooks brothers, coach, yves st laurent, etc. etc.! heaven for this visitor from canada!

The Fairmont Olympic is a beautiful historic building with a central location in downtown Seattle. My daughter and I arrived just after noon for our two night stay, and our room was ready. Although it was on the small side, it was very comfortable with two (long) twin beds, a chair/ottoman, TV armoire (with minibar), desk/chair, and fairly large closet with safe. The bathroom looked recently renovated and sparkled, it was so clean. Toiletries, robes and slippers were provided.

The hotel has excellent service. Everyone greeted us by name after the first introduction, and the concierge staff was extremely helpful. The phone calls I made were answered on the first ring, and with the greeting "Good day/evening, Mrs. xxx, how may I assist you?"

One of the hotel amenities is complimentary coffee in the lobby every morning, but I prefer having it in my room while getting ready. Since no coffeemakers were available, room service delivered a lovely coffee tray free of charge both mornings.

The only negative is that we were only on the third floor and the street noise was pretty bad. Since I was so tired the first night, I didn’t really notice it that much until around 6am when I was awakened by garbage trucks (or something very noisy) and couldn’t get back to sleep. I would have requested a room change, but needed to get up at 6am the next day anyway, so figured it would be ok. Unfortunately that night something woke me up around 2am (sirens?) and I couldn’t get back to sleep at all. I mentioned this to the doorman as we left, and he said they would be addressing the noise issue with an upcoming renovation.

I booked the room via our corporate travel, so got it for a really good price -- the rack rate is a bit over my normal budget! I would not hesitate to stay there again but would make sure to get a higher floor and/or interior facing room.

Being a grand dame of this city, I was expecting a nice property and happy to announce that we had a good stay for the remaining weekend while in Seattle.

We had just returned from Olympic National Park and so it was a very pleasant experience when checking into this hotel. The staff were very professional (the front desk more so than the concierge).

See photos for the executive suite (bathrooms had been updated and I like the simple classic European design, very fitting for this hotel)

The gym feels like a sauna (due to it being July and this is one of the hottest week in recent history supposedly) as it is by the pool (yes the equipment are all lined up along the sides and all over). If it isnt that humid and warm, we would have enjoyed it.

Location of the hotel is perfect for any tourists, right in the shopping belt and so close to Pike's Place. It is definitely more central (the week before we had stayed at the Marriott Waterfront)

Overall, we would return but there are too many cool new and chic hotels (esp. the boutique ones) in this town.