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Guest Review of the Holiday Inn Express Vancouver
Feb 5, 2011
My husband and I were visiting some friends and had decided to stay in
the city. As we were planning on having a few drinks we thought it best
to stay at a hotel. The people at the desk were very nice and helpful. I
travel a lot on business and this was one place I thought that others
should know. The rooms were very clean and well maintained. We wil stay
again!
Guest Review of the Holiday Inn Express Vancouver
Jan 12, 2011
About the only good thing I can say about the Holiday Inn Express is
that it is close to the Vancouver Place cruise ship terminal (about 10
minutes or less by cab) and the Hastings Street bus goes directly
Downtown. That's the good, the bad and the ugly are as follows:
generally, this facility is a bit worn at the edges, the lobby has ugly
Louis XIV-style furniture; the room furniture, bed, room and hallway
carpeting were all old. My companion noticed the bathroom needed a bit
more cleaning, as there were dirt streaks on the wood facing below the
sink and on the door, the hotel immediately sent someone to touch that
up, but Holiday Inn used to pride itself on "No Surprises"; there was a
false fire alarm that evening that woke us from a dead sleep with an ear
piercing high decibel alarm, my ears are still ringing! I went to the
exercise room after the all clear to work out. The exercise room had a
waste basket next to the water fountain that was overflowing to the
floor with used water cups. The exercise machinery is old, some
non-operational; the exercise room is quite cramped. There was one pair
of old rusty bar bells. The night guard turns off the sauna regularly on
his runs. The breakfast room is the absolute pits - too little room for
the number of people it handles - very poorly lit - with no windows, you
couldn't tell whether it was night or day that morning. The food itself
is of a very low quality, I think the scrambled eggs were powdered.
There were no boiled eggs. The breakfast sausage patties were seemingly
flavored fat. The hotel shuttle took us to GasTown but we would've had a
long wait for pickup because the shuttle is highly utilized, so we took
the bus, occasioning a quite unpleasant walk through Vancouver's "skid
row", flies, derelicts and all. I couldn't get a trip to the cruise ship
terminal until 2:30 PM on departure day and 'all aboard' our ship was
4:30 PM, too close for comfort, so we ended up taking a cab at no.
Very close to Vancouver Place terminal.
Bathroom needed additional cleaning, fire false alarm, poorly lit
crowded breakfast room with no windows.
Guest Review of the Holiday Inn Express Vancouver
Dec 27, 2010
It is located on the wrong end of East Hastings in an area that is
"transitional." There is some building going on and there's a new
Starbuck's, so there's hope. Crazy-people section of town to do so. That
said, the buses run often and as long as you stay on until it reaches
Granville, all is well. The carpets are really dirty, in fact the first
room I was given, was just down right filthy. Sheets did not look too
stellar either. The second room was better. Staff is very nice; if you
need the shuttle tell them the moment you get there as otherwise the
shuttle will be booked. I would not stay again unless nothing else was
available, but I have to say, the place was booked solid while I was
there.
Friendly staff.
Guest Review of the Holiday Inn Express Vancouver
Dec 7, 2010
Other than Secured parking is reassuring considering you are on east
Hastings. Close to highway #1 and a transit stop. Staff is very friendly
and courteous. Besides being in a not so great location this is a great
hotel. Never felt unsafe, just unsure at times.
Very nice hotel, especially considering the area that it is in.
Further from downtown.
Guest Review of the Holiday Inn Express Vancouver
Dec 2, 2010
Very small breakfast dining area with people waiting for tables. A
decent tax ride to the central city. Staff okay, accommodation okay.
Spacious room and comfortable bed.
Felt it was too far out to be called Downtown - taxi ride to city
through drug/derelict area of city.
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