What This Site Does
This site is a comparison guide to guided food, coffee, wine, beer and neighborhood tours in Seattle. It exists to answer one question well: which of the tours sold in the city fits your budget, schedule and interests. This page explains what it covers, where its facts come from and how it pays for itself.
What The Site Is
It is an authorless comparison site in a research and reporting voice. Nobody here claims to have tasted, walked or visited anything. Every tour fact is taken from the tour listing, and every practical fact, from transit fares to climate figures, comes from the official source named below. The reader is always "you".
What It Covers
Thirty tours across five categories: 10 Pike Place Market Food Tours, 6 Coffee, Chocolate And Sweets tours, 5 Wine Tasting And Woodinville tours, 5 Beer, Cocktails And Spirits tours and 4 Neighborhood And Restaurant Walks. Prices are per person and range from $30.00 to $160.00, with a median of $82 and a median tour length of 2 hours. All 30 listings state free cancellation with a full refund at least 24 hours before the start.
How Data Is Gathered
Tour listings were read for this site, and only stated facts are used: prices, lengths, group caps, inclusions and ratings as the listings give them. Practical facts come from their official sources: King County Metro and Sound Transit for fares, Washington State Ferries for walk-on pricing, the Washington Department of Revenue for sales tax, NOAA 1991-2020 climate normals for weather figures, and Pike Place Market and farmers market organizer pages for hours and market details. Where a fact is missing, the site says nothing rather than filling the gap.
How It Earns Money
The site earns affiliate commissions from booking platforms when a reader books after clicking a link. The price you pay is the same either way, and rankings reflect ratings, review counts and the tour picker, not commissions. The full details are on the disclosure page.
What It Does Not Do
It does not run tours, take bookings or process payments. It does not claim first-hand experience of any tour, restaurant or market. It does not rate tours it has tasted, because it has tasted nothing.
How To Cite It
Cite the site as Seattle Food Tours, seattlefoodtours.org. Check the tour page for the current price or rating before quoting it.