DK Eyewitness Top 10 Seattle

Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides

by D.K. Publishing

Newly revised, updated, and redesigned for 2018.

True to its name, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Seattle covers all the city's major sights and attractions in easy-to-use "top 10" lists that help you plan the vacation that's right for you.

Packed with activities for travelers to enjoy, this guide lets you experience the best of this city, from the Pike Place Market to the best places to stop for coffee to the most delicious restaurants and cafes in the city. Find places to cycle, sail, or ski, or take a ferry excursion of Puget Sound. From the best shopping districts and markets to fun activities for children to the loveliest lakes, gardens, and parks, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Seattle is packed with insider tips that will help you make the most of your trip.

Whether you're looking for the things not to miss at the Top 10 sights or want to find the best nightspots, this guide is the perfect pocket-size companion. Rely on dozens of Top 10 lists--from the Top 10 architectural highlights to the Top 10 performing arts venues; there's even a list of the Top 10 things to avoid! The guide is divided by area, covering all of Seattle's highlights, and packed with reviews for restaurants and hotels.

* Brand-new itineraries help you plan your trip.
* Expanded and far more comprehensive, the new laminated pull-out map now includes color-coded design, public transportation maps, and street indexes to make it even easier to use.
* Maps of walking routes show you the best ways to maximize your time.
* New Top 10 lists feature off-the-beaten-path ideas, along with standbys like the top attractions, shopping, dining options, and more.
* Additional maps marked with sights from the guidebook are shown on the inside cover flaps, with selected street index.
* New typography and fresh layout throughout.

You'll still find DK's famous full-color photography and museum floor plans, along with just the right amount of coverage of history and culture. A free pull-out map is marked with sights from the guidebook and includes a street index.

The perfect pocket-size travel companion: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Seattle.

Genres: Travel, Reference, Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 17, 2005

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Eyewitness 'Top 10' travel guides are superbly put together. I have several of these for various locations and am never disappointed with the quality and tourist information provided. Divided into easily digested sections, giving advice on the Top 10 tourist attractions as well as things to do and must see sights by geographical area, places to stay, shop and eat. With additional hints and tips, as well as historical and cultural references, these guides are a must-have for any serious traveller.

[Todd Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book gives you an overview of the top ten activities to do around Seattle.

Includes activities such as Pike Place Market, the Space Needle, or Pioneer Square.

Also, you will find the best place for coffee, delicious restaurants, or unique cafes.

Includes places to sail, cycle or take a ferry across the bay.

Children's activities include the locks, lakes, gardens, and a zoo.

The top ten lists include architecture, performing arts venues, attractions, shopping, dining, and off-the-beaten path ideas.

In the book, there are also maps, public transportation maps, and street indexes along with walking routes.

I will use this book to refer to when I explore Seattle.

[Stephanie Jackson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm bummed that it's not a Kindle version but epub that I have to read on my phone or laptop. In the end, it was fine to read it on my laptop with Google Maps open and interesting places being marked as places to visit in my new area. Nice color pictures with a variety of places and information. I'm never interested in specific hotels, shops or restaurants unless they are particularly unique, so I always skim those pages. But there were unique suggestions that were not in other books, so that's nice.

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book may be my first DK Eyewitness Top 10 book. TBH, the city books by Rick Steve's are much better, but since he primarily focuses on Europe, I didn't have that as an option.

This book was fine. Nothing amazing, nothing bad. I didn't love the organization of it, but I can make it work. It did give me the information I was looking for, just kind of in a hodge podge manner.

[Alison · Rating 5 out of 5]

We went on our first family vacation (that was longer than just 3 days) for 10 days back in Sept 2018 when my son was just 4 years old. It's still one of the most memorable trips we have had together to date. DK books are always reliable, whether you use them for travel or general information (son loves their encyclopedias, too). Our 5 yo still talks about the ferries, aquarium, and ocean (he enjoyed picking up huge pieces of kelp that washed up on the sand at Olympic).

We budget traveled on the "big" parts by using Air BnB, found cheap flights, ate a few Target meals in downtown but also ate more expensive stuff like the place where Harry and Sally ate, stayed near Olympic National Park for half the trip, too. Highly recommend these books! The internet is obviously great, but it's nice to unplug and utilize these books as an alternative to having your face in a screen. (I prefer reading physical books).

This summer? We are flying to Chicago for 4 days so that we can pay off things.....traveling all together is our favorite thing to do as a family, and even though we only go once a year, it's also fun to see our region on day trips, too, when we don't have to do those dreaded house chores 😊.

[Corey · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an ok jumping off point...but in this day in age, where a smart phone take up about the same about of space...offers more resources AND your camera and navigation, I was hoping for a book that gave me a little more REASON to want to explore the places it mentioned...it just lacked that the draw...

[Shae · Rating 2 out of 5]

Seattle Center - monorail, Space Needle, Gehry’s Museum of Pop Culture
Seattle Pinball Museum

Capitol Hill - bar and restaraunt district
Seattle Waterfront - shops and restaurants
Starbucks - started here
Top Pot Doughnuts

Westfield Southcenter - shopping center
Westlake Center - shopping mall
University Village - shopping center

[Crystal · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was very helpful on my recent trip to Seattle. In fact I purchased it, and carried it around.

I recommend it.

[Lauren · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very useful in deciding where I want to go on my planned dream trip to Seattle. Now all I need is to get there one day!

[Paul · Rating 1 out of 5]

I've traveled with this guy and he's a complete idiot. He talks a lot but and thinks he knows everything, but he doesn't. Don't trust a word he says.

[Wanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Contains lots of information, more than just a top 10. It does repeat some info in several chapters. Lots of sights to visit, info on places to eat, stay, etc.

[Liz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gonna use this book in full next week in Seattle!