Comfort Inn Downtown Vancouver

Jan 3, 2008
If you want to stay in the middle of everything, and not spend a load of cash, this is it.

However, if you're squeamish about the grittiness of urban nightlife--you may want to reconsider staying here. It's not a business hotel, it's not a family hotel. There's no doubt about your security once you are inside the hotel, and the rooms are absolutely silent despite the bustling streets below. If you're they type to be nervous about parking your car overnight in an outdoor lot, you might want to ask if there are any indoor options nearby. The hotel lot is a public parking lot on a dark corner which gets a lot of traffic.

Otherwise, this property is perfect if you're looking to spend a weekend enjoying Vancouver, eating out, shopping, all that fun stuff.

The rooms are small but very modern, the staff is highly professional. The breakfast is quite exceptional, too. The hotel has a very European flair in design and service.

The design of the hotel is a bit odd, and requires carrying your bags up several half flights of stairs, so it's not a great place if you like to over pack, or aren't good with stairs.

Dec 27, 2007

We stayed at the comfort inn downtown Vancouver in December, its an old hotel that has been completely renovated, the hotel is connected to a bar and everyone who works at the hotel/bar is very nice and friendly, if your staying in Vancouver and want to do alot of shopping and experience downtown I highly recommend this hotel we had an excellent stay.


Aug 26, 2007

We just returned from a five night stay at the Comfort Inn Downtown. The hotel was in a convenient location - we walked everywhere in the downtown area and only used our car for trips outside the city We did not feel that the neighborhood outside the hotel was unsafe, but it was definitely LOUD. Even my college age sons remarked about the late night street noise. There were police cars outside the hotel three of the five nights we spent at the hotel (In the 1:00 - 4:00 AM time period) It looked like they were dealing with rowdy - not dangerous behaviour.

I booked a 2 Queen bed room with a sitting area, at an excellent rate. The sitting area included a sofa sleeper, so the room could accommodate up to six people. The room was nicely decorated and was extremely clean. My husband and I were traveling with our two college age sons who prefer to have their own beds, so we used all three beds. When the sofa bed was open there was very little room to get around and not much room for luggage. The room suited us perfectly because we travel on a budget, are light packers and really only use our hotel room to sleep when we vacation. If you are a party of more than four and you wanted to spend more time in the room you would probably find it cramped. An adequate breakfast was included with the price of the room. Parking in their lot was $14/night.


Jul 20, 2007

Stayed here on two occasions of 2 nights each. The hotel messed up the agent's booking and gave us a smoking room rather than non-smoking. After a significant amount of complaining, we were offered another quad room which was barely big enough to swing a cat let alone 4 people. After further complaining they promised us VIP treatment for the last 2 nights of our holiday. This too was messed up and we ended up in an even smaller room. The error was only corrected for the last night of our stay. As far as the hotel itself is concerned, the rooms are OK and the whole place was clean and tidy. The breakfast was adequate if ordinary. The hotel is no more than a brisk 10 minute walk to downtown Vancouver, Harbour Centre, Canada Place, Look Out Tower, Gastown, Yaletown, False Creek etc. On the other hand, beggars, junkies, strip and lap dancing clubs, [--] shops and assorted other seedy joints are all within 2 minutes along with very noisy clubs, bars and fast food places. There were 3 incidents involving the need for police attendance on the 4 nights we stayed there. I cannot say that I was overly concerned personally, but wife and children were. Overall, I would say that although the place is convenient for downtown and the accommodation broadly OK, the overall impression and value for money is not so good.