First of all, let me comment about the host for this unit. John was incredibly quick to respond to any items we had...usually within 5 minutes. When you are traveling to another country and out of sorts from a long day of travel, and you can't figure out parking and the GPS gives you the wrong address, having the ability to communicate with someone who can guide you is priceless. And not having to wait for that advice is even more critical. I don't know how many times I pulled John away from his other duties, or family, or dinner, etc, but he always responded quickly and politely. He provides a cell phone in the room should you need it and this was a nice convenience as we weren't sure our American phones would work in Canada (turns out they did, just a lot slower). Who does that? In all the places I've ever stayed I've never had the host offer a cell phone for my convenience.
This room ended up being absolutely perfect for my wife and I. She was attending a 3 day conference at the Convention Center, which was only a 5 minute walk away. While she was in her meetings, I was able to explore the city with ease and come back to the room and freshen up or change clothes depending on what the weather was doing. We never had to use our car the 5 days we were there since everything was in walking distance, or we could take the Sky Train for a few bucks, or rent community bicycles for less then $6/day! I love good coffee and there were more Coffee shops and restaurants then you can count and offered every type of food you might desire.
The rooms were also relatively quite without a lot of street noise filtering in and the main floor lobby offers up comfortable seating around a gas fireplace.
There is no reason why I wouldn't recommend John to any of my colleagues who plan to travel to Vancouver, and he will certainly be the first person I call when I make a return visit.