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Hotel Review of the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites North Vancouver
20 November 2011
Whilst visible from the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge, getting into the
hotel was our first challenge. Although when you've found the turn off
once, it's easy!
The waterfall, totem pole and fountain out the front were beautiful, a
very relaxing welcome to this hotel.
Check in was smooth, and being a Priority Club Rewards member, we were
given extra bottles of water and a bag of trail mix. A pleasant
surprise.
Initially we had two rooms a few doors apart (212 and 210), however once
we realised that interconnecting rooms were available, a quick stop at
reception had us moved to Rooms 211 (1QB) and 212 (2QB) the next
morning.
Each room was clean and had a little kitchenette (microwave and fridge)
which was fine for the two nights we were there. The rooms were very
close to the front entrance (and the waterfall), but there was no
noticeable noise from the cars coming through.
Breakfast and dinner at The Pantry were lovely (but not included). I
would recommend it for meals, but I can also say that room service
(provided by The Pantry) was equally lovely and arrived within 20mins.
The gym was clean with treadmills, cross trainers, bicycles and weights.
The indoor pool looked nice, but I didn't use it.
Since our sightseeing was focused on Grouse Mountain (seeing Coola and
Grinder at feeding time was amazing) and Stanley Park (last time we
visited was just after the 2006 storms - lovely to see it rejunivated),
I would say it was a good location, since we had to drive anyway.
However, if you wanted to see downtown Vancouver, you might find it a
little more challenging being in North Vancouver.
To finish our stay at Holiday Inn North Vancouver, the check out process
was lovely (even if it was 7:30am) and the concierge, having noted that
we were beginning a very long drive to Jasper offered us a few extra
bottles of water to keep us hydrated. I got the feeling that this wasn't
necessarily because of my Rewards card, but more because he genuinely
wanted to be helpful.
Hotel Review of the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites North Vancouver
18 November 2011
First of all I want to mention that we did not plan to stay almost a
whole day at this hotel.
We wanted to check out Vancouver first, but then I got sick in the
morning, so we decided to drive directly to our hotel (we already had a
reservation).
We entered the spacious and almost bit upscale looking lobby at about
noon. We kindly asked if we could get into our room right now due to my
bad condition. But the girl at the reception told us that every room is
still occupied or in need of cleaning (this hotel has over 160 rooms and
60 suites, so quite large) and it was already noon - I couldn't really
believe that, cause it was Friday (not Saturday or Sunday). I needed a
place to rest very urgent, but they couldn't provide a room.
After about an hour (in the meantime I tried to get some sleep outside
in our (cold) car) my girlfriend checked a second time with the front
desk (this time a different girl) and now they were able to get us a
room. Finally!
The room itself was very nice, spacious and clean. Huge flat tv, micro
and fridge. Very quiet area and very nice maintained hotel property with
lots of plants and trees, although hotel is
located just beside an intersection (but very well protected by trees).
A supermarket (Real Canadian Superstore) is in walking distance - that
was very good, because my girlfriend could buy some drugs for me (she
was not allowed to drive the rental car).
Restaurant (breakfast) was great, we had a breakfast package (20 bucks
credit for the restaurant). Parking is free and the free wifi is pretty
fast.
This hotel should have a nice pool what I've heard, but due to my bad
condition we were not able to check it out.
I would definitely stay there again. If we would have gotten a room at
our first try, I certainly would have rated this hotel as excellent.
Hotel Review of the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites North Vancouver
4 October 2011
I took my mom on a little trip to Vancouver and we stayed in this hotel
for a night. I had driven by this hotel many many times on previous
visits but had never been inside before. We were both pleasantly
surprised by how nice it was. The lobby was a little understated, but
the warm and friendly front desk staff made up for that. The room was
well appointed - pretty typical of a hotel at this price but one of the
nicer touches was having both hard and soft pillows and having them
nicely labeled. There was a great waterfall at the front of the hotel
which we could certainly enjoy from our room on the 3rd floor. The
landscaping was very nice for a hotel right off the highway. The hotel
is close to everything as well since it is right on the highway. In our
room (north side of the hotel) we didn't hear any noise. We ate at the
Pantry restaurant which is attached to the hotel. Normally I wouldn't
choose this chain to eat at but again, we were very pleasantly
surprised. Pleasant staff and good food. |
