The Inn at El Gaucho    

- Very comfy bed - Friendly and helpful staff - Large and bright room

Personalized service, intimate setting, fantastic decor, fabulous location

Clean, well maintained, friendly staff, nice atmosphere

We loved everything! The staff was so sweet and had everything ready for us including fresh cookies and a hand written thank you note. The lobby is cozy and a great space to just relax. The rooms are very Europe- like reminded me of Paris. The seating area within the room was very comfortable and really made you feel like u could relax in your own space. The location is perfect - the staff was knowledgeable and didn't bat an eye at my wife and I (we have had some previous issues with acceptance as we are lesbians) and they used Mrs. When referring to us which earned major brownie points. The bed was like sleeping on a cloud so comfortable (we even took a picture of the tag so we can shop for one like it!) Also within the room there was a keurig coffee maker and Bose radio - which was playing beautiful classical music on our arrival. We loved every bit of our stay! The cab ride from sea-tac was just under $40 and the light rail was within walking distance as well!

No elevator - although great exercise my thighs were hating life due to my heavy suitcase! So it's really more of a double negative... A positive!

The staff was wonderful on arrival we were there a few hours early and thy held our bags while we went shopping down in pikes market place. When we went back they had our bags in our room and has music playing from the Bose radio, they had hand written thank you notes and fresh cookies in the room. The lobby was cute and always had a fire going making it seem very cozy and homey. The bed was incredibly comfortable. They also had a wine tasting in the lobby with fantastic wine. The location is perfect; we were able to explore quite a bit of Seattle on foot as they are almost exactly in the middle of the space needle and pikes market place. I'm sure I'm forgetting something but overall it was the perfect place to stay!

No elevator. It's good for my heart but my thighs were not happy climbing with suitcases.

Great room, fantastic size, nice decor. The bed was comfortable (too many pillows...but we removed those). They had a lovely hand written message for us when we arrived and freshly made cookies. It was a real treat!

The whole hotel smells like cooked meat due to the restaurant below. It's not as bad in the bedrooms, but the corridors smelt of cooking, which wasn't pleasant to walk through. A minor thing. The hotel was pretty good overall.

We liked the spaciousness of the room, and the helpfulness of the staff.

Charging too much for parking (we parked curbside to avoid what we considered to be high charges for Seattle)

The staff was very pleasant, polite and quick to help in any way. Loved the free cookies, they were delicious. Walking distance to the Clipper and restaurants. The view of the water.

Convinient walking distance to shops and good restaurants.

Aside from there being no elevator, the facility was great.

No elevator. 2 flights of stairs.

Great value in excellent location on First Avenue near lots of great restaurants and clubs. Room was furnished very nice with great bed.

Great staff, really friendly and helpful. Super comfy bed and lovely room - very big and nicely decorated, spotlessly clean and great bathroom. The hotel is also in a great location, walking distance to downtown but very quiet. Totally recommend this place!!

Nothing!!

Out of hand soap.

The bed was way too soft. We both woke up with sore backs.

the comfy bed & decor & cookies

wifi wasnt working that night and night guy staff was not very helpful

What a wonderful find El Gaucho turned out to be! My boyfriend and I visited Seattle with three other couples -- we all booked separate hotels and the others were so envious of our lucky choice when we showed them our room! The rooms are lovely -- vintage Hollywood colours, shades of tobacco and ochre that GLOW in the grey light of Seattle. Each room has a cozy sitting area that prevents it from feeling centered around the bed alone and the bathrooms are beautifully tiled in milky, vintage seeming tiles. The lobby is warm and quiet -- no elevator access and only 17 suites give it a secret feeling and it smells, most charmingly, like toasty butter! (There is a neighborhood theatre downstairs). The staff is fantastic. El Gaucho alone will prompt my friends and I to visit Seattle more regularly. WE LOVE IT!

Sharon at the front desk was super accommodating friendly and helpful.

Nothing

It was wonderfully quaint with excellent staff. Very clean and the rooms were nice and comfortable. It was in a perfect location for walking the city of Seattle.

Stair only access and remote parking

Lovely comfortable rooms. Caring staff. Cozy feeling of the whole hotel. Matresses. Bar menu and bar dining area. Happy hour. Location good for shopping, eating etc. We were walking from ferry with back packs and it was perfect for that.

Price of dining room menu. More than we would ever pay for a dinner. But the bar menu certainly delighted us so we were happy. However, no one at the hotel told us about that. We happened upon a city dweller entering an apartment house on the sidewalk and asked her advice on where to eat and she suggested it.

Perfect location, past that nothing.

Staff was more interested in surfing the web than interaction. Towels were frayed and thin. Rooms are on second floor next to busy street, so quite noisey. No soap for sink, asked 3 times, 3 different days and people. Soap dispensers in shower worked poorly.

Great location in Belltown. Clean facility with high quality linens and furnishings. The staff was plesant and helpful when approached.

There is a considerable amount of street noise but that is to be expected in a city location.

I really enjoyed wonderful old silver screen feel. Great location to many things and a movie theater in basement. Overall a super stay.

No coffee maker in room. And the lack of bar soap??? How to wash hands and such?

It has a quaint, boutique, European feel. Very comfortable, great service. We were upgraded to an Ocean view room because we arrived early (9am to check our car in valet) and our room wasn't ready. We had no expectation that it would be ready until check in time, but they still insisted on upgrading us. Good coffee in the morning. Beds are extremely comfortable. Perfect for a couple.

The room was excellent and quiet. The attention to detail was fantastic!