Less than five hours from Vancouver, an oasis of indulgence, relaxation and nature. A winery where you can stay the night!

Stroll through the vineyards then sample the produce whilst you learn about the bird that gives this place its name.

Take a refreshing dip in the pool, or just enjoy the view from your terrace, before treating your taste buds with a combination of fine wine and fine food. The chef and wine maker work together to give you a meal to remember.

A delicious breakfast to match the fabulous view may tempt you to stay another night! Expensive, yes, but worth every penny.

100 Burrowing Owl Place
RR#1 Site 52, Comp 20
Oliver, British Columbia, V0H 1T0

www.bovwine.ca/index.html?reloaded=true

Toll Free: 877.498.0620
Local: 250.498.0620

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Siganture Lux Suites offers self-catering furnished apartments for short and long term stays in Vancouver Canada.

We found the location excellent to visit the city's most popular sites such as Stanley Park, English Bay and the aquarium.

The staff were super friendly and the suites felt like home. Highly recommended and I hope to visit them again soon.

www.luxsuites.ca

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Overlooking English Bay and beside Stanley Park - ask for a room with a bay view. It is a local landmark built in 1912 of brick and terracotta and is covered in Virginia creeper. 25 minute walk to city centre. Rates from $100 high season.

1154 Gilford St;
tel: 604 681 9321;
www.sylviahotel.com

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I wouldn't recommend this hostel, no matter how cheap and central it appears from the website. Unless you like the smell of boiling blood and junkies EVERYWHERE. Apart from that Vancouver's a decent place from which to get to other nice places.

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The website below has info for all sorts of private parties, bars, and subculture events.

gothic.bc.ca/

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Popular with the Hollywood North set, the list of celebrities who stay here reads like a Who's Who, and even the doormen look like movie stars. If you can't afford to stay here, head over to the Opus Bar for cocktails and pretend you can.

322 Davie Street; Tel: 642 6787; www.opushotel.com

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One of Vancouver's more beautiful heritage buildings. The views from the front rooms are amazing.

1154 Gilford Street; Tel: 681 9321

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Vancouver's YWCA is clean, cheap and best of all, central. From the Y you're only a few minutes walk from Robson Street and the West End.

733 Beatty Street; Tel: 895 5830; www.ywcahotel.com/explore/rooms.html

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Worth the trip alone. The Pacific beaches are stunning and Tofino is a great little town - posh-hippy, laid back, with great restaurants. The Rainforest Cafe offers sublime high quality food. Walk through the temperate rainforests and the cathedrals of tall cedars and pines. You will probably see bears on your way too. In Tofino try the Wolf House bed and breakfast, a really great bed and breakfast with lots of character.

Tofino is on Vancouver Island;
www.my-tofino.com;
Rainforest Cafe: 250 725 2215;
Wolf House: 250 725-2330

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The University of British Columbia (UBC) throughout the summer has various types of accomodation available. The rooms are clean, comfortable and good value for money. There are great transport links and a few shops, bars and a beach in the vicinity. Around 45 minutes from downtown Vancouver, unless you get an express bus, which makes it around 25 minutes. Well worth checking out for those on a budget.

www.ubcconferences.com/accommodation.asp

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Cheap, central and secure. Friendly staff and you just can't beat it on price.

1114 Burnaby Street;
tel: 604 684 4565 / 1 888 203 4302 www.hihostels.ca/hostels/BC/BCRegion/VancouverDowntown/Hostels/index.html

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The Kingston is a great, small hotel near the centre of the business district. It's a little distant from Stanley Park (maybe a mile or so away?), but pretty close to Granville Island and very close to Chinatown... a nice walk in any case. It's fairly inexpensive, and there's nothing incredibly fancy about the rooms, and frankly, that's part of the Kingston's charm. It's clean, basic, family run, comfortable and a great place to rest your head before a full day of touring this great city.

757 Richards Street;
tel: 604 684-9024 (or 1 888 713 3304);
email: info@kingstonhotelvancouver.com;
www.kingstonhotelvancouver.com

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For live music, check www.livemusicvancouver.com

The best hostel in the city (during the summer) is the Jericho Beach Hostel. They organize all sorts of bar-crawls, vollyball and the usual BS. Plus it's a giant dorm right on the beach.

However, if you're coming here anywhere outside of summer, stay here www.samesun.com/vancouver_hostel.html or check out the Cambie Hostel/Bar. Both Hostels have good bars with cheap $6-10 pitchers of beer, full of ex-pats, and opportunities to go into the interior/Banff ect. The Cambie is a rowdy dive of a bar, so expect picnic tables, and lot's of beer being tossed everywhere by 19-23yr olds.

There are a few smaller hotels around Robson St. for about $90CAD a night. There's a million luxury hotels such as the Opus Hotel, and Hotel Vancouver (google for info).

For restaurants, you can either score $0.99 sushi on Davie St or check this www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=12744 (Best of Vancouver).

420!
Contrary to popular belief, it's not 100% legal here. However use common sense and you'll be fine. There are a few cafes around town, and an actual store operating called 'Vancouver Connection'. Read this magazine: www.cannabisculture.com/ and ask around the forum.

Get on the skytrain and get off on Broadway St. Make your way down commercial drive towards the water and you'll come across a billion artist-run centres/cafes/bars galore.

If you really want to do something awesome, look for vacation cabins along Shushwap Lake, Christina Lake, or the millions of other cabins. Rent a boat and party till the sun comes up on the beach in Osoyoos or whatever. Not cheap :(

Finally, if you want to check out local punk/metal bands, meet awesome people and drink the cheapest booze on the planet go here www.thecobalt.net

See above for all addresses.

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Barclay House is a wonderful Heritage B&B in the West End of Vancouver. It was like staying a very comfortable and friendly museum. Patrick and his staff were polite and helpful and looked after us extremely well.

1351 Barclay Street; www.barclayhouse.com

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This has long been one of my favourite hotels in Vancouver. Gerard's bar is great for martinis and star-spotting with none of the pretension you might expect.

845 Burrard Street; Tel: 682 5511; www.vancouver.suttonplace.com

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Only a 10 minute walk from the city centre, the Century Plaza's rooms are spacious and clean and great rates are available during the week. Out of town suburbanites use it as a base to crash after a night out.

1015 Burrard Street; Tel: 687 0575; www.century-plaza.com

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