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May 21, 2024
There are plusses and minuses for this hotel. The Plus: The hotel is recently renovated and very clean. Several minuses: If don’t have a car, it is about ½ mile walk to the Joyce-Collingwood “Sky Train” (metro) station. You can get a bus from the station to Kingsway. There is no breakfast at Cassandra (except coffee or tea in your room). The closest places to get coffee are either Starbucks at the Kingsway Safeway or Trees Bistro across from the Skytrain station, both about ½ mile walk. Not much variety in the area restaurants; almost all are Chinese. There is one Indian restaurant (good), and a couple of Japanese and Korean. Also, a Filipino restaurant and Subway Sandwich shop across from the station; another Subway across from Safeway. The front desk is staffed only from 4 pm till 10:30 pm. Even though I had already provided my arrival time, I had to call on the phone before someone appeared at the front desk. Be sure to read the cancellation policy before booking. The room rates are quite expensive for what it is. Unfortunately Vancouver has some of the most outrageous hotel room rates I have ever encountered. All things considered, it was probably as reasonable a price as you will find in Vancouver and was relatively easy getting to the city centre via Skytrain. Summary: Not my first choice for location, but it was OK for the price compared to others I looked at.