This was a terrific stay. I was born & raised in Vancouver, so I love to come home to visit, but the visits generally hold few surprises. Choosing to stay in Strathcona (a corner of the city I was less familiar with) made it feel that I was in a city both familiar and foreign. It yielded lots of pleasant and often delicious surprises. Great Chinatown restaurants like Sai Woo and cool cocktail bars like The Keefer and The Emerald Supper Club are just steps from Colin & Iris’s large, quiet, comfortable & stylish suite. We loved the little Asian touches throughout the home, like the Chinese checkers stashed in the desk. And we left several more neighbourhood culinary & cultural discoveries behind for our next stay. It’s our new home away from home away from home. Does that make sense???