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Guest Reviews of the Fairmont Vancouver Airport Hotel
Jun 28, 2009
The Fairmont Vancouver Airport is THE place to stay prior to a morning departure
to the US. The hotel is right above the US departure check in gates. This allows
one to balance sleep and the time needed to navigate the sometimes crowded and
chaotic departure scene for morning outbound flights to the US.
We are members of the Fairmont Presidents Club, and this resulted in us being
upgraded to the Gold Floor. This resulted in a great experience and delivery of
an in room breakfast before our early morning departure (before the club lounge
opened). Staff was helpful, pleasant and courteous throughout the stay.
President's Club membership won't always result in an upgrade to the Gold Floor,
but it does provide complimentary internet access.
Guest Reviews of the Fairmont Vancouver Airport Hotel
May 22, 2009
This is the first Fairmont I ever stayed at! It's the one that ignited my
devotion to all that is "Fairmont". It all started when I won a free
certificate for a night at this Fairmont. Erik and I decided to it would be fun
to use for Valentine's day weekend. We drove up north on Friday night, stayed
with my parents, then left the next morning to cross the border. On the drive
up, we thought we should call and find out about rooms with a Jacuzzi.
Normally, if you're staying at this location, I'd say you were probably flying
in or out of the airport. The hotel is right in the airport! It's pretty
awesome. At that time, it had been the only hotel I'd ever seen right in an
airport (and really, the only other one I've seen since then was a Hyatt at MCO).
So, we check in and the lady at the front desk sees the notes on our reservation
and calls for another staff member to take us on a tour of the rooms we could
upgrade too.
The first room was really cool. It was a Signature room. It was a definite
upgrade from a regular room - it had a runway view and a Jacuzzi in the bathroom
with one of those cut-out windows so you could see out the actual window while
you were in the Jacuzzi (or the tv if you really wanted).
The second room was not as fancy, but it was a Fairmont Gold room. It's the
concierge level, so you've got a dedicated concierge, a separate check in/out
desk, and a lounge where they serve a continental breakfast, afternoon and
evening canapés and free (non-alcoholic) drinks. Oh, and the room had a Jacuzzi.
And the view was a little bit cooler. So, that's the room we went with. We
reasoned that we could make a dinner out of snacks and we wouldn't have to pay
for drinks (soda) or breakfast, so why not?
The room even came with a pair of binoculars. That was super rad since our room
was RIGHT ON the airport runway! Honest to god, you could look right into the
plane from our room with those binoculars! The windows are made from some super
heavy duty noise proof windows. Other than the blinking lights on the runway,
you'd never know what was right outside your window at night, it was so quiet.
The king size bed is super
comfy, I could sleep for many, many days on that bed without feeling the need to
get up.
We didn't bring our laptop, but we could have accessed wi-fi at no cost if we
had.
Since we were at the airport, we decided to just relax and not go into
Vancouver-proper. It would have been about a half hour away or longer if we
opted to take the bus and leave our car parked at the airport. The Vancouver
airport is set-up that all the shops are located outside the security area, so
we weren't stuck with lame options like Burger King and Hudson News. Nope, there
were some cool shops, but we weren't there to do any shopping. There was a
liquor store - they were even having a liquor tasting! - so we picked up some
wine, and made our way back to our room.
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