Pacific Palisades Hotel, Vancouver

The hotel offers 233 colorful guestrooms and suites. The spacious suites offer all the comforts of home, such as convenience kitchens with fully stocked honour bars, terry cloth bathrobes, hairdryer, iron and board, trendy aromatherapy toiletries, overnight shoe shine, dataport telephones with voicemail, high speed internet access, televisions with pay-per-view movies and video games

Zin Restaurant offers breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with retro furnishings, enlarged art photos, orange mood lighting, and gauze curtains used to create separate spaces. Tapas dominate the dinner menu. Specialties include lamb with chestnut empanada, and prawns served with coconut potato mash and tamarind jalapeno sauce. Breakfast and lunch can be traditional -bacon, eggs, and burgers or not.

The spacious health club boasts a 55 foot indoor swimming pool, whirlpool, sauna, two gyms, sun tanning bed, personalized fitness programs and spa treatments. The friendly yet professional services includes 24 hour room service, concierge, business services, morning Starbucks coffee and newspaper and complimentary evening wine reception. Stanley Park, a 1,000-acre green space, is less than 1 half-mile away and has walking and running trails, tennis courts, gardens, beaches, and a pitch-and-putt golf course