The State Hotel sits on the corner of Second and Pike, overlooking Seattle’s Pike Place Market and the waterfront, and just minutes away from Lumen Field. With six FIFA World Cup matches coming to Seattle this summer, it seems like the kind of downtown hotel that would fill up with people attending the games.
But that’s not the case. Bookings for June, when the first four games are scheduled to be played in Seattle, are slow. In fact, occupancy for the month is running 7% below where it was last year, according to Anne Johnson, the hotel’s general manager.
Johnson calls it “frustrating.”…