Originally Posted by MSPeconomist

An alternative to downtown would be to take a brief taxi/Uber ride over to the airplane museum or whatever the one near SEA-TAC is called..

Originally Posted by MSPeconomist

... a tour of the "underground city", a good art museum, obviously the Space Needle, an art/glass exhibit that I think is permanently shown in a gallery in the little park around the Space Needle (plus more in one of the hotels, IIRC the Sheraton by convention center), the market, and at the Hiram M Chittenden Locks in Ballard in a small park along the way toward the U of Washington campus, (which is NOT on the way from the airport or downtown toward UW), a salmon "ladder" that's fun to see when the fish are active. ...