Hotels in Vancouver - Located in the largest metropolitan area in Western Canada, Vancouver is a great modern city with plenty of modern and historical attractions, but the main attraction that pulls torrents of tourists is its stunning natural beauty. Vancouver is somehow nestled in between the Coast Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, which gives you literally remarkable backdrop views no matter where you stand within the city. Although Vancouver is still considered a young city with only 125 years since opening but the indigenous people here, the Coast Salish has settled here for almost six thousand years. Accommodations are aplenty in Vancouver, you can find practically one Vancouver hotel in every street in this huge city.

Most of the cheap Vancouver hotels are located in much older part of the city, in the Gastown district. you can find plenty of early days architectural structures remained at mint condition, giving the entire district a different ambience, like being in a different timeline all together. Albeit being budget hotels in Vancouver, these low cost hotels provide much more for their guests such as posh restaurants, night clubs with priority to their guests and more. Apart from that, some hotels even offer tour service counters so you can hire a tour guide or join a guided tour right at the doorstep of your hotel.

If you prefer lively district with plenty of people movement, tall skyscrapers, monumental structures and lots of high end shopping stores, then Yaletown is the right place for you. Bustling with people almost all day long, the district is the centre of Vancouver's downtown with the city's Financial District, two entertainment districts, trendy condos and many of its hotels, clubs and historical buildings. If you're a first time visitor here, then Yaletown is the best place to start as it has almost everything a tourist needs, from luxury Vancouver hotels, excellent public transport, rows of shops and restaurants, and plenty of nightclubs and bars too. Take a stroll along the harbour and be amazed with the magnificent view of Pacific Ocean at the horizon.

When it comes to shopping, one of the first place and the most famous in Vancouver is Robson Street in city centre. Luxury brand lovers will have their taste buds tested with rows of specialty and designer stores especially along the Albemi intersection such as Louis Vuitton and Hermes. Pacific Centre, one of the well known underground shopping malls here houses more than 150 shops, restaurants and other services. Begins at Sears on the north end of Robson Street and stretches all the way to Pender Street, the mall has many floors and connected to another smaller shopping mall, the Vancouver Centre. Make sure you read the signs properly before using the exits because the underground mall has plenty of exits to the ground above all over Robson Street and city centre.

Vancouver - Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in British Columbia, Canada. With over 2.3 million residents, Vancouver is the third most populated metropolitan area in the country and the most populated in Western Canada. One of the key features here that any tourists would first notice is that almost half of the residents of Vancouver are not English-speaking residents as the city has a diverse mixture of ethnics and languages. Vancouver started as a humble settlement in late 18th century in Gastown with logging and sawmill as main activity. The village grows to become Granville town, and was renamed as Vancouver in 1886.

Port Metro Vancouver is now the busiest and largest in Canada, and also the fourth largest port in North America in terms of tonnage handled. Since forestry is the largest industry in Vancouver, nature lovers and tourists has made tourism the second largest industry in the city. Not only that, if you're lucky enough, you may just have the chance of watching some major films being shoot at Vancouver's natural parks and other city location. Vancouver is the third largest film production centre in North America, earning it the nickname as Hollywood North. Apart from that, Vancouver also has one of the most extensive collection of volumes, Vancouver Public Library collectively owns around 2.25 million volumes.