Customized Tours · Seattle
A private vehicle and guide collect your group of up to seven at your Seattle hotel, drive to Boeing Future of Flight with the factory tour tickets in hand, and bring you back past Lake Union. Pick it for door-to-door ease with a big family: one booking, one vehicle, and nobody has to drive.
Read the listing's own words first: "This is NOT a private tour of the Boeing Factory, but only private transportation with a knowledgeable guide. You will join the PUBLIC Boeing Tour with other museum-goers upon your arrival." Fair play to them for saying it. Customized Tours collects you at your hotel in an insured commercial vehicle, drives to Future of Flight, hands over the factory tour tickets and brings you back past the University of Washington and Lake Union.
The price is $1,507 per group, the same for one person or seven. Seven people pay about $215 each, of which $42 to $46 is the factory ticket. Fewer people, worse maths: two pay over $750 each for what is, inside the plant, the same tour as the $135 shared coach. For five or fewer, the Hola Seattle private car does the same job for $900.
Two more things. It is non-refundable, with no changes for any reason. And the listing's web address still mentions an "Optional Restoration Center": the Museum of Flight's Restoration Center at Paine Field is closed to the public, so don't book for it. Reviews are thin and mostly old, 4.5 stars from 15, the bulk written between 2014 and 2016.
Pick a departure between 9 am and 3 pm when you book. The confirmation voucher carries the local operator's phone number.
Commentary on Boeing and Seattle on the way north.
Lockers, the gallery and the Sky Deck, then the public 80-minute factory tour to the 777/777X balcony. Guests report the driver waits on site.
The return passes the University of Washington and Lake Union before the drop-off at your hotel.
★★★★★Our driver was excellent. He told us about the history of Boeing and of Seattle. He stayed at the factory while we toured. He was very pleasant [...]
★★★★★Our private tour went off swimmingly with our driver picking us up promptly on time and was quite amendable when we had to get back 15 minutes early. He also provided an informational dialogue as we made our way to Everett
★★★★★I would highly recommend this trip. It was awesome. Our guide was very knowledgeable and very attentive to our needs. [...]
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No, and the listing says so in capitals: it is private transport with a guide, and you join the public Boeing tour with other visitors.
No. The listing's web address mentions an optional Restoration Center, but the Museum of Flight's Restoration Center at Paine Field is closed to the public.
The group price is $1,507 for up to seven: about $215 each for seven, $301 for five and $754 for two. The factory tour tickets are included.
No. It is non-refundable and cannot be changed for any reason.
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Hotel pickup and a private driver-guide for a group of up to seven, with the factory tour ticket included.
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