Hi We, DH and I, are flying into Seattle and then taking Amtrak to Vancouver. Still working on transportation back after the cruise. I haven't finalized this portion of our trip.
Anything you can share would be great.
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Here's what I posted before. There are parts of the ride that are lovely, parts that are frankly ugly and a bit depressing. A history lesson really in the changing industrial landscape of the area. For me it was fascinating but a little sad at times. Some of the coastal stuff was lovely though!
Overall though, we'd do it again. Train was fairly dated at the time but have supposedly been refurbed since then.
Well the light link from SeaTac to King Street Station here in Seattle is really easy, though not terribly fast. It is a fun ride, just with a lot of stops. We did it once as we were coming back from a weekend away with my in laws and stayed downtown for the night without kids. It was a fun way to get to our downtown hotel and not deal with leaving our car at the airport. Not sure how the timing will work for you with flight times and Amtrak times but if you need to kill time by the King Street Station, there is a lot to do tourist wise and dining wise within walking distance. The light link gets off in the International district and then it's about a block walk to the Amtrak station I think.
On the way up, they check passports at the Vancouver Station. On the way back, they walk through the train, checking, as you cross the border.
In Vancouver, there is good information online about the routes on the light link. We rode it several times with no issues (downtown to Granville, checked out the olympic Village, ect) but it was a little limited in terms of where it went at that point and I've no idea how it may have expanded, or not, since then.
I did find this
"Pacific Central Station (the Amtrak Station) is half a block from the Main Street/Science World SkyTrain station where you can catch Vancouver's light rail service to downtown Vancouver. Trips take about 3 minutes and cost about $3.50 for adults and $2.25 for children. You can also take a taxi downtown for about $10.00."
The Expo and Millennium lines are the ones that go to Canada Place and the Waterfront Station which I think would be the one you want. Both of them stop at the Main Street Station so theoretically it should be pretty easy, other than thte two short walks you'll have, one in Seattle and one in Vancouver, to change train stations.
Now that I recall, we'd have tried this on our trip but it wasn't visible and it was pouring so we took a cab. LOL!
http://tripplanning.translink.bc.ca/...9&LineAbbr=999
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We will follow her anywhere.(except sushi).
Thank good ness they are not picky drinkers.
Any suggestions? We have a couple days before the cruise. Has anyone mentioned a before the cruise meet somewhere? Maybe for drinks or dinner.
We did the wedding cake tasting tonight and got the cake ordered. Megan picked a very funky cake. It is notin the least traditional and guess what the grooms cake is? It is home plate with the Yankee logo. She mentioned that you would appreciate the cake but Nancy would not. 
