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🚢 Cruises
Seattle cruises
Two cruise piers, two different days. Choose by your booking — your cruise line picks the pier — then open the pier-specific page for time-budgeted shore-excursion options, embarkation timing, and emergency cab estimates if you cut it close.
Carnival Spirit sailing from Pier 91 today.
Step 1 — Find your pier
Which pier is your cruise sailing from?
Your cruise booking confirmation lists Pier 91 or Pier 66. Verify the morning of embarkation — do not assume from your cruise line alone, since some lines use both piers depending on ship and date.
🚢 Pier 91
Smith Cove Cruise Terminal
2001 W Garfield Way, Seattle 98119
Industrial waterfront, ~3 miles north of downtown. Most large Alaska sailings.
Walking from terminal: Nothing walkable from the terminal. Cab or rideshare for everything off the ship.
Cruise lines using this pier: Princess, Holland America, Royal Caribbean, Celebrity, Carnival, Cunard, MSC, Virgin Voyages
Open Pier 91 guide →
🛳️ Pier 66
Bell Street Pier Cruise Terminal
2225 Alaskan Way, Seattle 98121
Downtown waterfront. Walking distance to Pike Place, the seawall, and Colman Dock ferries.
Walking from terminal: Pike Place Market is 8–10 minutes uphill. Colman Dock (Bainbridge ferry) is 12 minutes south on foot.
Cruise lines using this pier: Norwegian, Oceania, Windstar, Silversea, Cunard
Open Pier 66 guide →
Step 2 — Plan the surrounding day
Before and after the ship
Before your cruise
Most Alaska cruise passengers fly in the day before. Hotel choice, rental-car return, what to do with the afternoon before boarding, and how to get to the pier without missing the ship.
Open before-your-cruise →
After your cruise
Disembarkation morning, the 4–8 hour gap between leaving the ship and an evening flight, where to stash luggage, and getting from pier to Sea-Tac on a deadline.
Open after-your-cruise →
Where to eat & stay
Twelve cruise-passenger picks beyond the main day-before page — six Pike Place restaurants, four waterfront seafood spots, and two more Seattle hotels in Belltown and the U-District.
Open the directory →
Honest note
These pages are written for the cruise-passenger frame: hard timing, fixed origin, hard deadline. We try to give specific times, distances, and cab estimates rather than soft recommendations. If a piece of timing here is off — last ferry, walk distance, parking rate — we want to know. Email hello@seattle.net with the correction.