Vancouver Hotels!
The past few years have seen a lot of activity in the Vancouver hotel business. The building boom associated with Expo '86 was followed by a flush of new hotel construction and renovation in the late '90s, right up to 2003, when the trendy Opus opened in Yaletown. There are lots of rooms and lots of choices, from world-class luxury hotels to moderately priced hotels and budget B&Bs and hostels. In fact, for a city this size -- with about half a million in the central metropolitan area -- the choices are amazing. So no matter what your budget, there's no reason to settle for second best.

Most of the hotels are in the downtown area or in the West End. Central Vancouver is small and easily walkable, so in both these neighborhoods you'll be close to major sights, services, and nightlife. Downtown, which includes Vancouver's financial district, the area around Canada Place convention center and cruise-ship terminal, and the central shopping-business area around Robson Square, is buzzing during the day but pretty quiet at night. You'll find the fanciest of fabulous luxury and business-oriented hotels downtown (with one exception: the Westin Bayshore Resort & Marina, in the Coal Harbor section of the West End).