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Getting to Seattle is easy. Getting home is the problem.

The train and the express bus will take you north for a few dollars, and on a weekday morning you should absolutely use them. But the 590 stops running in the early evening and doesn't run weekends at all — which is roughly when the game ends, the concert lets out, and the dinner finishes. That's the trip we're built for.

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Tacoma → Seattle · Starting rates
Downtown Seattle~34 mi · 40–70 min · I-5 N
Sedan3 pax · 3 bags
$119
SUV6 pax · 6 bags
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Van / Sprinter10–14 pax
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Coach Bus25–55 pax
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Hourly charterChauffeur stays with you
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Per vehicle, not per person. Quoted by distance from your address, then locked. Tolls & gratuity included. No surge, no late-night fee.
Quick answer

How do I get from Tacoma to Seattle?

Four practical options, and they are genuinely not interchangeable. Sounder commuter rail (S Line) runs Tacoma to Seattle on weekdays, timed to the commute. Sound Transit Express bus 594 covers Tacoma to Seattle including off-peak and weekends; route 590 is weekday peak only. ST Express adult fares are around $3. Driving takes 40 to 70 minutes via I-5, about 34 miles — then you pay downtown Seattle parking. A private shuttle goes door to door to any Seattle address, from $119 in a sedan, at any hour.

Here's the part nobody puts on a comparison page: transit into Seattle is excellent and transit out of Seattle in the evening is thin. The 590's last southbound trip is in the early evening and it doesn't run weekends. Sounder is weekday commute service. So if you're at a Mariners night game, a Kraken game, a concert at Climate Pledge, a show at the Paramount, or dinner that runs past nine — the way up is not the problem. The way back is.

That's the trip most of our Seattle bookings actually are. We dispatch 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with no late-night surcharge — a pickup at 11:30 PM costs what one at 11:30 AM costs.

$119Sedan, Tacoma → downtown Seattle
34mi40–70 minutes via I-5 N
$3ST Express adult fare, each way
24/7Including after transit stops
Every option

Train, bus, car, or driving yourself.

Laid out honestly. Two of these are cheaper than us and we'll tell you exactly when to use them.

How you're getting there Runs when Gets you to Costs Best for
Sounder — S LineSound Transit commuter rail Weekdays
Timed to the commute		 King Street Station, downtown. Then you walk or transfer. A few $per person Weekday commuting
ST Express 594Lakewood – Tacoma – Seattle 7 days
Incl. off-peak & weekends 		SODO Busway and downtown Seattle stops. $3adult, each way Solo trips, daytime, light luggage
ST Express 590Tacoma – Seattle Weekday peak only
No weekend service 		Downtown Seattle. But not in the evening, and not on a Saturday. $3adult, each way Weekday peak commuting
Drive yourselfYour car Anytime Anywhere — then you find parking, downtown, on an event night. Parking+ fuel + the search Off-peak trips with easy parking
Tacoma ShuttlePrivate, door-to-door 24/7, 365
Incl. after transit stops 		Any Seattle address. Stadium gate, hotel lobby, hospital entrance, pier. $119+per vehicle Evenings, groups, luggage, events, medical
Solo, on a weekday, in daylight, happy to walk from the station? Take the train or the 594. It's a few dollars and it works well — we're not going to pretend otherwise. The maths only flips when transit doesn't fit the trip: two or more people (where fares multiply and our rate doesn't), an evening that ends after the buses do, luggage, a medical appointment, or a stadium letting out thirty thousand people at once. Confirm current schedules and fares with Sound Transit before planning around them.
The evening gap

The bus stops running before the game ends.

Look at the shape of the service. ST Express 590 runs weekday peak hours only — its last southbound trip is in the early evening, and it doesn't run on Saturdays or Sundays. Route 594 picks up the off-peak and weekend slack, and Sounder is weekday commute rail. All of that is fine, and for a 7:30 AM trip into the city it's genuinely excellent.

Now put a 7:10 PM first pitch on it. Or a Kraken game. Or a show at the Paramount that lets out at 10:40. Or a work dinner in Belltown that runs long. Or a wedding at a downtown hotel. The northbound leg is easy — it's the 10 PM leg south that isn't.

At that point you have three choices: leave early and miss the end, stand in a rideshare queue with thirty thousand other people while the surge multiplier does its work, or drive up yourself and pay downtown Seattle event parking for the privilege of driving I-5 home tired.

Or you book a car. It's waiting where you agreed it would be, the price was fixed this morning, and it costs the same at 11:30 PM as it does at 11:30 AM. No late-night surcharge exists in our system.

24/7, no late-night fee

11:30 PM costs what 11:30 AM costs. There's no multiplier to apply.

A pre-agreed pickup point

Set before you go in. No thumbing an app in a crowd of thirty thousand.

Hourly / as-directed

Keep the chauffeur for the evening. Game, then dinner, then home.

Nobody drives home

The most underrated feature of a chauffeur is that you can have a second drink.

Where in Seattle

"Seattle" is a lot of different places.

We drop at the door, not at a station a walk away from it. These are the destinations we run most from Tacoma.

Most booked

Downtown & hotels

Hotel lobbies, the Convention Center, Pike Place, Westlake, Belltown, Pioneer Square. Door to door, no walk from a station with a bag.

40–70 minFrom $119
Game night

Lumen Field

Seahawks and Sounders FC. Dropped at the gate, collected from a pre-agreed point afterwards — not from a rideshare scrum.

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Game night

T-Mobile Park

Mariners. A 7:10 first pitch means a 10 PM finish — which is exactly when the 590 isn't running and everyone else is opening an app.

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Arena

Climate Pledge Arena

Kraken games and concerts at Seattle Center. Also the Space Needle, MoPOP, and Chihuly Garden if you're making a day of it.

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Cruise

Pier 91 — Smith Cove

The Interbay cruise terminal. Royal Caribbean, Carnival, Celebrity, and most Princess and Holland America sailings.

45–65 minFrom $125
Cruise

Pier 66 — Bell Street

The downtown waterfront terminal. Norwegian, Oceania, Silversea, Windstar, and selected Princess and HAL ships.

40–60 minFrom $119
Medical

Seattle hospitals

UW Medical Center, Swedish, Virginia Mason, Seattle Children's, Fred Hutch. A driver who waits or comes back — not one who leaves you to find a ride afterwards.

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Business

South Lake Union & Denny

The tech campuses, client meetings, and offsites. Corporate accounts with monthly invoicing and priority dispatch.

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Campus

University of Washington

Move-in weekends, parents' visits, graduation. A van holds the boxes; the 594 does not.

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Ferries

Colman Dock

The Seattle ferry terminal, for Bainbridge and Bremerton sailings. Dropped at the terminal, not two blocks uphill from it.

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Events

Weddings & theatre

The Paramount, the 5th Avenue, Benaroya Hall, and downtown wedding venues. Guest shuttles and end-of-night returns.

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Anywhere else

Name the address

Ballard, Fremont, Capitol Hill, Queen Anne, West Seattle. If it has an address, we go to it.

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A Seattle evening

How a game night actually works.

A 7:10 PM first pitch at T-Mobile Park, four people from Tacoma. Here's the whole evening, priced once and settled in advance.

4:45 PMPickup

Collected from your door

All four of you, one vehicle, one fare. No park-and-ride, no meeting at the station, no arguing about who's driving. Nobody has to stay sober out of obligation.

~50–70 minNorth on I-5

Through the evening commute

The slow direction at the slow hour — which is precisely why you're not driving it. Your driver takes it while you're on your phone.

~6:00 PMDrop-off

Dropped at the gate

Not at a garage eight blocks away that you'll be walking back to in the dark. At the gate. And before you get out, you agree the pickup point for later — a specific corner, not "somewhere near the stadium."

10:15 PMThe part that matters

The car is already there

Thirty thousand people leave the ballpark simultaneously. Some of them are opening a rideshare app and watching the price climb. You walk to the corner you agreed on and get in. The 590 stopped running hours ago; that's someone else's problem tonight.

~11:15 PMHome

Back in Tacoma, same price

No late-night surcharge, no surge multiplier, no event pricing. The number quoted this morning is the number charged tonight. And nobody in the car has to drive.

Prefer to keep the chauffeur for the whole evening? Hourly and as-directed charters mean the car stays with you — game, then dinner, then home — rather than being two separate bookings with a gap you have to solve. See black car & hourly service →
The real comparison

Four people, evening event, Seattle.

This is where per-vehicle pricing stops being an abstraction. Same four people, same night, four different ways home.

What you're comparing Tacoma Shuttle Transit (594) Rideshare Drive & park downtown
Cost, 4 people, round trip From $238 (one sedan, both ways) ~$24 ($3 × 4 × 2 legs) Surge both ways Event parking + fuel
Available at 10:30 PM Yes, 24/7 Service thins out Yes — at a price Yes, if you drive
Available on a Saturday Yes 594 yes · 590 no Yes Yes
Price known this morning Locked at booking Fixed fare No — set at request Depends on the garage
Post-event surge None None The worst moment of the week N/A
Dropped at the door At the gate Station, then walk Near it Garage, then walk
Somebody has to stay sober Nobody Nobody Nobody Somebody
Works with luggage or a group Sedan → coach bus Awkward Multiple cars One car's worth
Drive I-5 home tired No No No Yes
Read that first row honestly: transit is roughly ten times cheaper. If your four people are all happy to walk from the station and the 594 is running when you need it, take the bus — it's a good service and $24 beats $238. What you're actually buying from us is the 10:30 PM leg: a car that's already there, at a price fixed this morning, on a night when everyone around you is watching a surge multiplier climb. Some nights that's worth nothing. Some nights it's worth all of it.

Book the way back before you go.

Set the pickup point this morning and stop thinking about it. A locked price, a named chauffeur, and a car on the corner when the crowd starts moving.

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Frequently asked

Tacoma to Seattle, answered straight.

Including the ones where the honest answer is "take the bus." Still stuck? Call (253) 666-6560.

  • How do I get from Tacoma to Seattle?+
    Four options. Sounder rail (S Line) runs weekdays, timed to the commute. ST Express 594 runs Tacoma–Seattle including off-peak and weekends; route 590 is weekday peak only. ST Express adult fares are around $3. Driving is 40–70 minutes and about 34 miles via I-5, then you pay downtown parking. A private shuttle goes door to door to any Seattle address from $119 in a sedan, at any hour — including after transit has stopped.
  • Is there a shuttle from Tacoma to Seattle at night?+
    This is the question most people arrive here with. Public transit thins out badly in the evening. ST Express 590 is weekday peak only — its last southbound trip is in the early evening — and it doesn't run weekends. The 594 covers off-peak and weekends, and Sounder is weekday commute rail. That's why evening events are our most common Seattle booking. We dispatch 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with no late-night surcharge — 11:30 PM costs what 11:30 AM costs.
  • How much is a shuttle from Tacoma to Seattle?+
    From $119 for a sedan to downtown Seattle. SUVs, vans, Sprinters, coach buses, and hourly charters are quoted per trip. The rate covers the entire vehicle, not each seat, includes tolls and gratuity, and is locked at booking. By comparison, ST Express is around $3 per person each way — genuinely cheaper for a solo daytime trip, and we'd tell you to take it.
  • Should I just take the train or the bus instead?+
    Often, yes. Travelling alone, on a weekday, in daylight, happy to walk from the station? Take Sounder or the 594. It's a few dollars and it works. The maths flips when transit doesn't fit the trip: two or more people (fares multiply, our rate doesn't), an evening that ends after service thins out, luggage, a medical appointment, or a stadium emptying thirty thousand people onto the street at once.
  • Do you go to Lumen Field, T-Mobile Park, and Climate Pledge Arena?+
    Yes — Seahawks, Sounders FC, Mariners, Kraken, and concerts are among our most common Tacoma-to-Seattle bookings. Dropped at the gate, with a pickup point agreed before you go in, so you're walking to a specific corner rather than thumbing an app in a crowd. Hourly and as-directed charters are available if you'd rather the chauffeur stayed with your group for the whole evening.
  • Do you take passengers to Seattle hospitals?+
    Yes, regularly. UW Medical Center, Swedish, Virginia Mason, Seattle Children's, Fred Hutch. Door-to-door to the entrance, wheelchair support on request, and a driver who waits or returns for you rather than leaving you to arrange a ride afterwards — which matters a great deal when you're not feeling well and it's raining.
  • How long does the drive take?+
    40 to 70 minutes, about 34 miles via I-5 North. Midday and late evening sit at the faster end. The northbound morning commute and the southbound evening commute are both slow, and event traffic around Lumen Field, T-Mobile Park, and Climate Pledge Arena can add a lot more. We check the event calendar before setting your pickup time.
  • Can you handle a group?+
    Yes. Sedan, SUV, 10-passenger van, 14-passenger Sprinter, and coach buses for 25 to 55. Corporate offsites, wedding guest shuttles, sports groups, and family trips all run this corridor. Multi-vehicle bookings are coordinated so everyone arrives together instead of trickling in over an hour.
  • Is this a shared ride?+
    No. Private vehicles only, since 2015. Your booked vehicle carries your party and no one else, with no additional pickup stops. We've never run a shared or pooled ride.
  • Do you charge extra for late-night or event pickups?+
    No. No late-night surcharge, no event premium, no surge multiplier. There is no such mechanism in our pricing. The rate quoted when you book is the rate charged when the game ends.
  • What's the cancellation policy?+
    24+ hours before pickup: full refund. Within 24 hours: 50% fee. After the driver is dispatched: non-refundable. We try to be reasonable about genuine emergencies — call us and we'll work it out.