Seattle Met

Just purchased the seattle met summer edition great PNW getaways and mountains to climb. Sadly, I was very disappointed in seattle met. The magazine is spammed with large numbers of advertisements and little content. The cover article was only 4 tiny pages and disappointing in content. The mountain summit article only suggested the most obvious and well known climbs like pilchuck, granite, Raineer, and St. Helens. It could be this was just a bad edition but I think all will be over flowing with ads. Hope you turn it around seattle met.

Seattle Met is one of the two primary magazines that covers the Seattle area. Seattle Magazine is the other. Choosing between the two is difficult as they cover the same subjects. Similar to the battle between the alternative weeklies, The Stranger and Seattle Weekly, it comes down to personal preference.
Like Seattle Magazine, ads take up a huge chunk of each edition. There are a number of feature stories each month though that there are worth a read like the one in the current issue on Pike Place Market.
Though I find that it would be better if they stuck with local features rather than commenting on current topics. A small half page in the current issue discusses reasons why the Mariners should trade Felix Hernandez which sounds a bit heinous. Best to leave this commentary to the Times and ESPN to cover. Seattle Met should just stick with what they are good at which is covering food, shopping, attractions with local human interest stories thrown into the mix.
Seattle Met is even with Seattle Magazine when it comes to the print edition. Though I have to say that I do prefer the Met’s website as it includes a number of blogs that are worth a read.

Seattle Metropolitan has, apparently, renamed itself «Seattle Met.» I’m not sure what the point is supposed to be/​what «image» that is supposed to convey.
I’m also not sure why I have apparently been given a «free trial subscription.» An issue showed up at my door last month, and another a few days ago. I never signed up for this and don’t know where they got my name/​address. Per the mailing label, it looks like I am going to get another issue next month.
So, since I had them anyhow, I looked through the two issues I have received. I was completely unimpressed. The magazine is 90% advertisements and even the so-​called «editorial content» is really just more not-​so-​thinly-​veiled advertisement.
I have no interest in this. Both issues have gone straight to the recycle bin. I don’t see why anyone would actually pay $ 4.99 for 150 pages of ads at the newsstand.

I look forward to my Seattle Metro, it is a proper magazine that from time to time has left the realm of delightful and proven useful. The articles are interesting and sometimes opinionated… which is correctly Seattle.
All this is enough to earn them three stars but the fourth comes from the exceptional customer service, I just received. I didn’t renew in time to get the February issue (which I really wanted to read) however, I jotted down a little request to be sent the Feb. issue with my check and guess what showed up in the mail yesterday, not just February but the January issue as well. It made my day and made me a bigger fan.