Ride 2 Downtown

March 29 - May 16, 2026

Local discounts and exclusive specials every week ( March 29 - May 16) from your favorite downtown Bellevue businesses!

How It Works

  1. Sign up below with your email address.

  2. Once you have signed up you will receive an email with the full list of all seven participating businesses and the promotions they’ll be offering during campaign.

  3. Each week (March 29 – May 16), you’ll get a reminder email featuring that week’s business, along with the link to get your promotion ticket or code to show the business.

  4. Ride sustainably to Downtown Bellevue (light rail, bus, bike, walk, carpool, or vanpool) and show your weekly ticket to enjoy the special offer.

  5. Repeat the following week with a new business and a new offer!

Sign up once and enjoy seven weeks of rewards!

Want updates, reminders, and transportation news? Follow @ConnectBellevue on Instagram!

☕ Ride2Downtown and treat yourself. This week, @belldencafe is offering Buy 1, Get 1 FREE on coffee & tea (equal or lesser value) as part of our Ride2Downtown campaign! 🚉🥑 Ride sustainably to Downtown Bellevue (light rail, bus, bike, or just
What a day! 🎉🚊💙   Thousands of people showed up at Bellevue Downtown Station on March 28 to celebrate the opening of the 2 Line Crosslake Connection, and the energy was everything we hoped it would be.   We handed out tote bags and exclu
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❄️ The first snow of the season has arrived in Bellevue!   At South Bellevue Station today, buses and the 2 Line light rail kept moving through the winter weather, helping people get where they need to go.   For employers, reliable transit
🚆From March 29 - May 16, celebrate the 2 Line Crosslake Connection by riding sustainably to Downtown Bellevue and unlock exclusive weekly promotions from seven local businesses and organizations.🎉   🎟️Each week, we’ll spotlight a partic
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The Ride 2 Downtown campaign offers exclusive deals at participating businesses throughout downtown.

From March 29 – May 16, ride sustainably to Downtown Bellevue and unlock exclusive promotions from seven local businesses and organizations.

When you arrive by light rail, you’ll unlock special discounts and perks that make it even more enjoyable to shop, dine, and explore.

Skip the traffic, forget about parking, and step right into the center of it all—just minutes from your stop.

What You’ll Get

  • 7 weeks of exclusive offers ranging from restaurants, cafes, fitness studios, salons, and more!

  • A reason to explore downtown by light rail, bus, bike, or foot

Each week, we spotlight a new participating business and send you that week’s promotional ticket directly to your inbox.

Participating Businesses and Organizations

  • Belldend Cafe

    Bellden Cafe

    At Bellden, you'll find handcrafted food made fresh with love, a team that feels like family, and a warmth that stays with you long after the last bite. We're not just a cafe, we're the happiest table in Bellevue, and there's always a seat for you.

  • Café An'Clair

    Two sisters, Anthea and Claire, started Café An’Clair to share their love for coffee and baking. They bring Korean flavors to Seattle through specialty drinks and handmade treats. Their goal is to create a friendly space where everyone can enjoy these unique flavors every day.

  • Vanity Pham Salon

    Vanity Pham Salon is a boutique luxury salon specializing in premium lash and brow services, including lash extensions, lash lifts, brow shaping, brow lamination, and permanent makeup brows. Our beautifully designed space offers the perfect setting for personalized beauty treatments, as well as intimate gatherings and private beauty events.

  • Hello Robin

    Hello Robin has been dedicated to crafting daily, ambitious cookies and signature creations like our S'more Cookie. We offer a variety of cookie flavors, including  a few gluten-free, nut-free and vegan options, making them a Seattle favorite for cookies!

  • Bellevue Pilates

    Bellevue Pilates isn’t just another place to exercise — it’s the Eastside’s only fully-equipped Pilates studio with the complete range of Gratz apparatus, designed to deliver the true, classical method as it was intended. With industry-leading equipment, a spacious and uplifting environment, and instructors who represent the gold standard of Pilates education, every session is about one thing: you.

  • City Sweats

    City Sweats is the premier cold plunge and infrared sauna studio, dedicated to helping client’s detox, recharge, and rejuvenate. As pioneers in infrared therapy, we offer a range of services, including full-spectrum infrared saunas, mechanical and manual lymphatic drainage, therapeutic massage, and cold plunge therapy—all designed to promote deep healing, circulation, and overall well-being.

  • Choose Your Way Bellevue

    Choose Your Way Bellevue is an outreach program and information resource provided by the City of Bellevue, Washington. It is part of the city's effort to improve mobility through transportation demand management (TDM). Choose Your Way Bellevue staff can answer your questions about transportation options and keep you up-to-date with transportation news affecting Bellevue. We also offer some sweet rewards for those who use alternatives to driving alone, so don’t forget to log your trips!

Frequently Asked Questions

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  • Ride2Downtown encourages sustainable transportation like light rail, bus, biking, walking, carpooling, or vanpooling. We invite you to choose a non-drive-alone option whenever possible.

  • You must sign up with your email. Each week’s promotion link is delivered directly to subscribers.

  • Yes. Signing up is completely free.

  • Ride2Downtown is hosted by Connect Bellevue, Bellevue’s Transportation Management Association, and the Bellevue Downtown Association, in partnership with Downtown Bellevue businesses.

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