This shipshape, snug little two bed, one bath apartment with AMAZING views of the north harbor and the mountains beyond is a great jumping off point for exploring downtown Vancouver. The fact that as a guest you have access to the building's underground, secure parking area is a huge plus! Otherwise you might not feel so safe staying so close to the dark vortex of depressing homelessness that lies just a few blocks down the street, at the corner of Main and East Hastings. I gather that this is Canada's health care system at its best: offering addicts and those with severe mental health issues safe harbor and free methadone, but it is a tent city that stretches many blocks in all directions from that nexus. But it's also a bit too reminiscent of San Francisco's tent cities of homeless living in the streets in cardboard structures and hand-me-down tents. All of which is to say, plan on parking in the garage and driving to your destinations. Though there are a few coffee shops and sandwich shops nearby that might be cool. We didn't have time to check them out. Otherwise the apartment itself is well-priced for Vancouver, and appointed with great Ikea style furniture. Would love to have found a giant poster with a map of Vancouver on the wall since Vancouver is a complicated archipelago of islands. So wonderful to have a fully stocked kitchen and plenty of towels and bath soaps, shampoos, etc. We'll stay again if we come back through Vancouver. Just think future guests need to know they won't want to walk to Yaletown or Gaston from this apartment.