Show Me Seattle

If you are visiting Seattle and have limited time to get to know the city I highly recommend this tour company. We were able to book the night before and jump on a 10 am. tour that lasted 3 hours. Our guide was incredibly knowledgeable and if you end up with Carlton your tour will be fantastic. Carlton really made the tour with his stories about the history of Seattle as well as personal stories of his while living in Seattle. We were late meeting the group due to a miscommunication but Carlton turned around to drive back to our hotel and pick us up so that we didn’t miss the tour. He hit all the great spots in the city and knew his way around like the back of his hand. We saw some sites we would most likely not have seen on our own. It’s a good idea to do the tour at the beginning of your trip so that in case you see a place you like you can go back during your visit and spend more time there. I had planned to take the Duck tour but it was shut down so I luckily was referred this company. It’s a must do in Seattle!

I used Show Me Seattle to book the Boeing tour and I was very pleased with the experience. Our driver Dave (also known as The Elvis Cab Driver) was an awesome tour guide through the city and had a lot of great information and trivia to share with our group. He made the experience fun and educational and I definitely learned a thing or two about this amazing city.
The pick up location was located right in front of Westlake Center in downtown. I was staying in the downtown area so it was only a 10 min walk. But I’ll mention that when booking the tour, you can arrange for hotel pickup if you pay an extra amount on top of your ticket.
The brief tour of the city, the visit to Boeing facility as well as The Future of Flight is all included in your ticket. Well worth it;)

City Tour: Great introduction to Seattle! Saw all the spots in just a couple of hours, perfect length of time. Small tour, only 3 today, so we got lots of personal interaction with Steve a great guide.
Comfy bus. Pick this tour. Well worth it.

Great way to get the flavor of Seattle. Steve was an excellent guide and very knowledgeable on all aspects of the area.

Had a great time, wonderful driver, very knowledgeable. Shuttle was nice, clean and comfortable. Recommend highly.

We took the city tour today. After speaking to the company they repeated what we would see. Let’s see oh back their was the original Starbucks. No picture because we were past it. That was very important to me. Also the floating house from Sleepless in Seattle. Never saw it. However a stop was made at the locks for 25 minutes after a 5 – 10 min we were told. I am handicapped and was assured no problem! Wrong again. A troll was never mentioned and my husband and I have no interest but again a 15 minute stop. A quick pass by the stadiums no pictures. A quick pass by Pikes Market which we were told we could also at least take a picture. So all the things you list in your ad are false. We have several friends traveling here and we will explain all the issues and they will choose another company who is honest. Hopefully you actually read this and correct your false advertisements. We have traveled all over the states and in Europe and never experienced a travel company this bad. The Calders

We did two tours booked via Viator, 3 hour city tour with Bill and Dave and Boeing tour next day, both tours were amazing, tons of interesting facts, Bill and Dave both are most knowledgable and funny! The city tour is absolutely best!
Highly recommend to anyone visiting city!

I took a 3 hour tour of Seattle just yesterday. I was there for business and had just Saturday morning open for sightseeing. The tour was informative and interesting and a very effective way to see the city in 3 hours. Our guide, Jerry, was willing to spend more time with the group than the official 3 hour schedule — something you won’t see very often! I enjoyed this tour.

My wife and I decided to take a tour of Seattle. The tour guide was informative and funny. There are a few stops along the way, including one bathroom break an hour and a half into the tour. As long as your bladder is empty when you begin, the tour is a great way to spend the morning or afternoon. Have a camera ready to take pictures as well.

Will I take this tour? Absolutely not. Nor will I recommend it to any of my friends. After witnessing cars being cut off, honked at and **flipped off** by a driver in one of their mini tour buses while simply trying to merge onto I-​5 (yes, they had their signal on… The driver just wouldn’t let them in and the lane was ending).
This is not the way responsible businesses operate. If it’s any indicator of the tours, I am very worried for the customers. There is plenty of competition in Seattle; use them instead.
Also, I’d like to point out the other review (s) commenting on driving issues. Save yourself the stress and use a more reputable company.

We highly recommend this city tour and especially with Bill Handy as your guide. Bill is a longtime Seattle native who lives on a boat. He was willing to tell some great personal stories as well as history and detail about Seattle. He was clearly understandable and delivered at a comfortable pace. The cookies were a special treat and dropping us wherever we desired at the conclusion of the tour was much appreciated. Great value.

We did a city tour today and could not of asked for a better experience! This is a smaller independently owned tour company doing battle with the big guys and in my estimation they succeeded. Our tour guide, Tav, was an exceptionally knowledgeable and friendly tour guide who took us all over the city to places we likely would not have seen otherwise. Not only the obvious places like pikes Place market, but over to the Queen Anne neighborhood and the Ballard locks. The bus size wasn’t too great so everybody got introduced to each other and we had a really nice group. Tav the tour guide had a great sense of humor, energy. And easy-​going manner which made this wonderful three hours. Highly recommend this company for a more in-​depth look at the city and the history which made Seattle so great. Thanks Tavier!!!

On suggestion of Po Po before I went to Seattle, took this tour! Po Po says good way learn of any town is take their tour! Coupon for five dollar off at hotel, hotel calls to make the reservation! They pick you up and drop you off at your respective hotel! Think was to be thirty dollar before the coupon, gave him the coupon, was fifteen dollar! Po Po say they probably charged me child admission! His name was Richard, he once ran for Mayor! Did you win, he says If I won, do you think I be doing this? We saw a bridge had sand image of troll eating a Volkswagen! Saw the Hiram Chittenden Locks, the hatchery where the salmon were spawning! Saw Mount Rainier, wow, that huge! Salmon only have five second to ten second memory! He had two of us (LITTLE ONES GO UP FRONT), so the little boy and me, go to front of the window of the hatchery so we can see! I high to recommend this tour, five hours but worth it! Without this tour, probably not been able see Pike Place Market!

Our experience was wonderful! Very knowledgeable guide on 8÷5÷14. A great way to see and learn about Seattle. The Locks alone make it worth it!

I went on this tour with my husband. It’s our 2^nd time in Seattle but it’s been awhile so I decided to book a tour. I found this through Unilocal and thought it sounded good. I don’t remember our tour guide’s name but she was a young woman in her 30’s. She was nice and very knowledgeable but a little boring at times. Overall the tour was ok, not bad but not great either.
My favorite part of the tour was going to Ballard Locks and seeing the boats move from salt water to fresh water and having our tour guide give us our own guided tour of the locks and detailed explanations of the salmon life cycle.
I recommend this tour if it’s your first time in Seattle but if you’ve already taken a Seattle tour, I would pass on this.

YES GO!
Arriving late at night in Seattle, we weren’t sure what to do and booked a tour with Show Me Seattle so we could get some highlights in along with an overview. We knew this would help us decide where to spend additional time.
Kathryn was so helpful on the phone and sent us email instructions on where to meet up the following day. I prefer to be a ‘visitor’ than tourist and that is how we were treated by our guide Peggylyn (spelling?). As a 3^rd generation Seattlite, and just returning from 5 years touring as a musician in the world cruising industry, she knew what would be interesting to our group of 8; hubby & me and a group of 6 others, including one needing a walker.
She explained the owner of the business had gathered all types of questions visitors had and created the tours around that. It was perfect. We saw and learned so much in such a short time. Peggylyn clearly loves her city and was enthusiastic and engaging while showing us the various neighborhoods and places of interest.
Her ongoing dialogue was informative and entertaining and a fun sense of humor was appreciated. Further she was compassionate to the walker bound visitor and made sure needs were taken care of while balancing needs of the full group.
This was the start of a great visit to an area we had not yet explored and we look forward to returning in the future.
Reading some other reviews it makes it clear the guide really can make it or break it and we are thankful we had the expertise of Peggylyn to show us around town and Kathryn for setting things up perfectly.

Yikes! Booked a simple tour to the Boeing Factory because renting a car is too expensive in Seattle.
Expectations of all on board were clearly that we’d get transportation to and from there with possibly a few comments on the way and back.
What we got was an obnoxious tour guide (Jerry, I believe), who has a loud, grating voice, a gruff demeanor, a terrible sense of how to drive, and ridiculous narration on his favorite restaurants, snide commentary on Boeing, and nothing useful except a lot of unsophisticated opinions.
Literally I wished I had brought headphones so that we didn’t have to listen to him. Tone deaf, insincere, ridiculous.
I can’t believe no one else has posted about this guy or this company. You’d be better off paying a cab.

We took the Seattle tour yesterday and it was great! Tavier is a great tour guide, very knowledgeable and a fan of local history. Show Me Seattle is a local business and worth every penny.

Our guide from ¹⁰⁄₆ 1:35pm was sooo cool.
(His name is escaping me right now.)
He was on time and extremely knowledgeable !! We were picked up from our hotel and we were allowed to be dropped at almost any site (we choose the Space Needle).
The little lesson about salmon and the circle of life was deep lol
Oh and we also saw the houseboat from Sleepless in Seattle! Awesome!

The van was nice, with large windows so you could see everything easily. We were picked up on-​time. We saw tons of Seattle, and things you wouldn’t normally see or hear about… neighborhoods, Fisherman’s Memorial, Chittenden Locks, and the troll under the bridge. It was a good tour and our driver was a wealth of Seattle knowledge. My only complaint is that he didn’t use the microphone, instead he screamed at us for the three hours, but that did not bother the others in my group, only me.