Sylvia Hotel

Located on English Bay just steps from Stanley Park, The Sylvia Hotel has attracted tourists for more than 100 years with its stunning and affordable rooms, romantic fixtures – including a Virginia Creeper climbing vine covering the exterior wall – and warm, approachable staff, whose relationships with guests extend as far back as the hotel’s beginnings.

“We are a heritage site and proud to stay true to our heritage,” says general manager Ross Dyck of the hotel, which first opened in 1912. He goes on to explain that some families have been coming to the hotel for three or four generations. And from day one, "all have felt that The Sylvia is home away from home,” he continues.

In keeping with its home-like atmosphere, the brick and terra-cotta hotel – designed by Seattle architect W.P. White – offers 120 comfortable rooms including family suites; a restaurant, patio and lounge; and easy access to the Seawall, as well as kayaking, swimming, cycling, tennis and sunbathing at nearby Stanley Park.

“We have a fantastic location,” says Ross of the hotel’s main attraction, Vancouver’s West End, where mountains, beaches and forests make for stunning backdrops to any vacation or business excursion.