Seattle Top Travel Destination in 2019, According to People With Terrible Taste

Lonely Planet thinks this is something to see. Charles Mudede

Smart, progressive and loaded with creative energy, Seattle is rarely out of the global spotlight. In a city that has a habit of turning homegrown ideas into international brands, Amazon is the current headline-grabber. The world’s largest online retailer has radically transformed a vast tract of the Denny Triangle neighborhood, creating a dense business district of sleek office towers anchored by a trio of innovative glass ‘spheres’ where workers share office space with 40,000 plants. Nearby, the emblematic Space Needle has received its biggest refurb in over 50 years while, down on the waterfront, a multi-billion-dollar tunnel has replaced an ugly concrete expressway.

Lonely Planet released its top 10 travel destinations for 2019 , and Seattle somehow made the cut, along with Copanhagen, Mexico City, Katmandu, Nepal, and Miami. And what, exactly, did Lonely love about our moldy city? Bezos's Balls, apparently....

Now, Seattle does have a few selling points. Sure, you might have trench foot for 9 months a year, but come July, we've got the best weather in the U.S. Plus, we've got legal weed, a nice looking lake or two, and there's all the shit outside of the city to see, like the Cascades, the Olympic Peninsula, and highly impressive traffic jams each day outside of Fife. But what the hell is there to do in Southlake Union besides play sidewalk frogger with thousands of Amazon badges? Interview for a developer job? Seems like the next time Lonely Planet wants to advertise Seattle, they should probably, you know, actually visit.