Hotel Sorrento: Old World Seattle

Old World is not the first term that comes to mind when thinking of Seattle. This city is more a beacon of Tech, or Grunge, or Entrepreneurship, or the Great Outdoors. But set one foot inside the city’s iconic Hotel Sorrento, founded in 1909, and you come to appreciate how Seattle is a city with deep historical roots. And the Sorrento is proud to showcase The Emerald City’s history as home to the intrepid and independently spirited.

Perched atop First Hill in downtown Seattle, Hotel Sorrento harkens back to the Old World first in its architecture. Renaissance-style architecture inspired by the Hotel Vittoria in Sorrento, Italy. The garden terrace, originally an Italianate garden, serves as the threshold between outdoor and indoor, new and old. Meanwhile the interior is among the warmest spaces Seattle has to offer. The wood-paneled lobby, anchored by a formidable fireplace, serves as the setting of some of the hotel’s most iconic social experiences: The Silent Reading Party, Drag High Tea with Queen Andrew Scott & DJ Mixx America and the French Toast & Bubbles drag brunch.

The Fireside Room serves food and cocktails and is continuously programmed with the city’s best crooners, musicians, and acts. Speaking from experience, the hospitality and mixology of the bartenders at the Fireside Room is unrivaled.

From impromptu gatherings to scheduled special events, Hotel Sorrento supports and builds community. People gather here as guests, regulars, neighbors, iconoclasts, explorers, and celebrants. For over a century, the Sorrento is where people have gone to mark an occasion and why today it makes for the ideal wedding venue.

Surrounded by some of the most spectacular vistas to be had in Seattle, to exchange vows at the hotel’s Top of the Town rooftop ballroom is the epitome of romance. This domed venue is ideal for up to 120 guests. Toast your married life in the adjacent Penthouse boasting one of the very rare outdoor rooftop spaces in the Emerald City. Dine and dance in the Garden or at the hotel’s signature restaurant, STELLA., and while away the first hours of married life back at the heart of the Hotel Sorrento experience, by its iconic fireplace.

And when it comes to calling it a night, every one of the Sorrento guest rooms is an experience unto itself. No two rooms are designed the same, but all make guests feel like they’re staying in the comfortable guest room of an English manor house. Such is the experience at the Sorrento that we’d even suggest basing yourself here for a honeymoon in and around Seattle!

A Sorrento wedding is both old and new, intimate and sweeping, indoor and out, elegant and laid back.

However, when it all comes down to it, Hotel Sorrento is about the people who choose it for their wedding, but also those who choose it as their place to work. The team here is deeply committed to celebrating the freedom to love as our hearts dictate and live confidently in who we truly are.

Like Seattle itself, the Sorrento is a true original.