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The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver |
900 West Georgia St
Vancouver, BC V6C 2W6 |
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Property Description |
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The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, originally a four-story, 60-room wooden structure at Georgia and Granville Street, opened in 1887 to offer guests a fine view of Burrard Inlet and the North Shore mountains from its verandah. Vancouver residents thought the Canadian Pacific Railroad was crazy to build a hotel so far from downtown (then at Hastings and Water Streets), but the tourist center prospered with guests traveling on Canadian Pacific steamships in and out of Vancouver.
In 1995, the Crown granted The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver its own Heraldic Badge - only the second Canadian hotel to receive such an honor (The first hotel was The Fairmont Palliser in Calgary). The Badge contains 2 main elements. The first is a griffin, the mythological barkless hound of Zeus with the upper part of an eagle and lower part of a lion. It is embellished with the wings of Hermes, the Greek God who is the protector of travelers and also decorates the hotel's front door. Found in many areas of the hotel, the griffin grips a torch to light the way. The second part of the badge is a coronet made of dressed stone to represent the stone of the hotel. Capping the coronet's merlons are symbols of the modern buildings in Vancouver. The final symbols on the coronet are two waves, which symbolize the sea. |
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| AAA/CAA Four-Diamond Award past 7 years |
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Property Statistics |
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| Year built | 1887 |
| Last year renovated | 1995 |
| Number of rooms | 556 |
| Meeting rooms | 16 |
| Sq. ft. of meeting space | 40,000 |
| Banquet capacity | 1,500 |
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Food & Beverage Outlets |
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| Restaurants |  Cafeteria/Buffet
Regional American
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| | Lounges | Lounge
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Amenities |
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| Hotel Amenities | - Indoor Pools
- Fitness Facility
- Health Clubs
- Spas
- Business Center
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- Concierge services
- Data ports
- Minibar
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