PWMTrav

I agree the decor is pretty generic, though, no matter where you are in the hotel, but we've had a good room or two. The one room we had that still stands out to us was from a birthday trip - we had a room on the pool level in the west tower (not the larger main tower) with a large gated patio with a lot of privacy and a very functional outdoor fireplace. There are also suites on the same level that are similarly situated, which now that our kid is older, we'd opt for. But I would take your comment about the gold lounge and add that we didn't find any of the on-property food to be anything special, including the botanist. Thankfully, it's Vancouver and there's a ton of great food in walking distance.

I'd go Shangri-La. Their rooms are kind of oddly shaped, not exactly square with some of the walls being at different angles. Fairmont waterfront isn't bad by any stretch but its gigantic and fills up with cruise passengers.

cornwall4000

Thank you all, again. I ran out of clock, and thus got-outvoted by my one traveling companion (our engineer).
He chose the Edwards [EDIT: Douglas], so I'm certainly amenable and good with it. Seems nice enough from the pix.
If it seems at all worthy of this sub, I will definitely post a review.
Still haven't had (what I've heard is) the pleasure of staying at any Shangri-La hotel. Been interested to try one, but it'll have to wait.

PWMTrav

Do you have a link to the Edwards? I can't find anything other than historic properties that are no longer hotels. We go up to Vancouver enough that I'm always interested in new places.

cornwall4000

Humblest of apologies, PWMTrav, I mean 'The Douglas'.

(My brain malfunction was surely due to a local friend advising me to go see 'The Edward' while in town; it's apparently a beautiful historic hotel building that's also haunted (!).)

The Douglas looks to be pretty nice in pics. It's part of M/B's 'autograph' grouping, for whatever that's worth (in my experience, hit/miss).
If it approaches/approximates lux, will surely pass on details of our short stay here.

tdiddy23

that makes more sense. Let us know what you think regardless. I'm a local so good to have feedback when people ask where to stay but not inclined to staycations... location wise, its probably a bit quicker to your destination, there can be traffic on the west side of downtown at times. The whole PARQ/casino scene is not for me personally, and I'd suggest dining elsewhere if its convenient.

cornwall4000

Yeah, sorry again, went back and corrected that erroneous post.
Sadly, it'll likely be fried chicken or similar at studio - we'll for sure be going quite late.
No time (or inclination, really, at least in this part of the world) for blackjack either.
If we can get back to Douglas before bar closes (on a winter Tuesday), I'll consider myself lucky to have a nice calm drinky-drink before retiring to SportsCenter and an early flight.

cornwall4000

Douglas worked out great.
Too short a time spent there - maybe 12 cumulative hours, much of it asleep - but enough to know it's a beautiful contemporary hard product, multiple f&b (all great looking, none tried), just classy all around.
Took a few photos, will put a smallish review up this weekend.
Excellent hotel.
Seems like it should be a 'luxury collection' designate within the M/B group rather than an 'autograph collection', but i don't know how they do that stuff.