Bill Speidel’s Underground Tour

One hour underground tour started which gave good knowledge about history of Seattle city with live commentary with all visual evidences of city life more than 100 years ago. Tour guide engaged us totally, gave proper instruction and took care of me as had certain issues of walking; had to go upstairs and downstairs many times. It was good study tour even for tourists. All info provided is appreciated.

— Dr. Anagha Kulkarni M.D. PhD scholar

I absolutely loved my experience! It was my first time in Seattle, second day, zero knowledge about anything. Our tour guide whose name I don’t remember unfortunately, had over 1300 tours at this point and was very welcoming, entertaining and knowledgeable about the history of the city and the specific buildings and areas we walk through. I visited in the beginning of February at 6 PM on a weeknight, there were only 12 of us and the tour was done in about 45 minutes. It was a great introduction to the city, I learned so much and I can’t wait to go back! There are only two tour companies that cover the underground Seattle. They’re very close to each other and now, knowing everything that I know after visiting, I think I want to do the other ones as well to get a different prospective.

— Sasha Fedorova

So I went to this underground tour really excited about it because my cousin suggested it. The whole wedding party went to it a few years ago with all of her Australian friends and they said it was really great. So maybe I was expecting more, but I was really disappointed. He explained the underground, and that was a good history about Seattle and was interesting, but our tour guide was absolutely horrible. Adam. I was being supportive and smiling and nodding, but then, for some reason, he turned on me when I wasn’t paying attention (not my fault he was being boring at the time )and in front of the whole tour, basically belittled me and was very condescending to me.. that is not very professional. Basically, he said,” oh, do I need to draw a picture?” “You don’t know the answer to the question?!” I think I was just his target because I was a blonde woman. Very sexist. So rude! I have never in all of my travels, have ever had a tour guide do that to me so begrudgingly in public. He should be fired! Absolutely awful and horrible! By the way, no tour guide, comedian or any person should ever make fun of a woman or try to make blonde jokes in this day of age. It is very offensive and sexist. And it’s also not very funny anymore because those jokes have been OVERdone for 100 years or so so it just means the comedian has nothing else and he’s not very good at his job because if that’s what he relates to that’s really sad. As a person who has heard these jokes for her whole life, and then trying to go on a tour for fun, and then hearing those kind of jokes again, it’s really upsetting, offensive, and not very funny, and also not original. It’s old and tiring and needs to be thrown out. Come up with newer jokes. Then he also tried to hustle us out the door when we were trying to take pictures for our video and content creation. I’m a content creator. Just because he doesn’t like his job doesn’t mean he has to hustle us out at the door. He was only trying to hurry us up because he wanted to get off the clock sooner. His name is Adam and he is absolutely horrible.

— Terra Scott

What a great adventure. You learn a lot about the previous Seattle. Our tour guide was spectacular. His dry sense of humor was great. This tour is definitely worth the price. Highly recommended.

— Diane Crandall

We had a wonderful time! The tour was funny, informative, and well paced. From the wonderful individual who checked us in, to our sweet tour guide. Everyone was kind, friendly, sociable, and a genuine pleasure to walk with. I highly recommend this tour if you find yourself in Seattle. You'll learn about the weird history of the underground areas, and hear some cheesy dad jokes that will cause you to groan.

— Anne Ivey