Vancouver’s Michelin Approved Hotels

September 8, 2022
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By Destination Vancouver
2 min read
Outdoor pool area at night with lounge chairs, palm trees, and a modern building with large glass windows.

The MICHELIN Guide includes over 5,000 hotels across the world, each vetted and judged excellent in five categories: architecture and interior design, quality and consistency of service, overall personality and character, value for the price, and a significant contribution to the guest experience in a particular setting.

Like restaurant ratings, MICHELIN Guide hotels are rated with one, two or three keys. Key hotels represent the highlights of a broader hotel selection and identity, according to Michelin, the most outstanding hotels in the world.

Currently, The MICHELIN Guide hotel selection in Vancouver includes 1 Two Key hotel and 3 One Key hotels.In addition, there are six other hotels that make the Guide’s official list.

Two MICHELIN Keys

Vancouver's time-honored sanctuary, Rosewood Hotel Georgia is a restored 1927 landmark at the historic heart of the city. Long celebrated as the most glamorous hotel in Western Canada and an urban escape in the heart of downtown.

One MICHELIN Key

The Hyatt Vancouver Downtown Alberni is a 5-star luxury hotel located at 1128 West Georgia Street. Awarded a MICHELIN Key, the property features floor-to-ceiling windows, Italian marble bathrooms, the Orrin Spa, a year-round outdoor heated pool, and the highly rated Carlino Restaurant.

The Loden Hotel offers stunning views from Coal Harbour on the city’s north edge, with its perfect vantage point over Burrard Inlet. It offers five levels of stylish rooms, with the Halo Suite featuring a wrap-around terrace for unbeatable mountain views. The mid-century modern design and muted regional colors create a sophisticated yet unpretentious vibe, with extra-deep soaking tubs ideal for rainy nights.

The Wedgewood Hotel is a boutique property that exudes European charm and is located on Robson Square in downtown Vancouver. Rooms offer views of the city or Robson Square Gardens from private balconies. Guests enjoy spacious marble baths, deep soaking tubs, and, in the penthouse suites, fireplaces and jetted tubs. The hotel also features a spa, fitness center, and Bacchus restaurant.

MICHELIN Selected Hotels

Downtown Vancouver’s financial district is no place for funky little boutique hotels — EXchange Hotel Vancouver is pure international urban luxury, set in a skyscraper built atop the 1929 shell of the Vancouver Stock Exchange building. The interiors are contemporary-luxe, with a pronounced Art Deco accent, and they’re glamorous but not excessively racy; the rooms and suites seem equally well suited to a romantic city weekend or a style-conscious work trip.

Just to the east of Vancouver’s hip Yaletown district is Parq Vancouver, a mixed-use entertainment and hospitality development right alongside BC Place, the city’s major-league soccer and football stadium. Set in an eye-catching modern glass tower, the Douglas is a luxury hotel with boutique-hotel aspirations, its interiors a mélange of classic modernism and quasi-industrial loft aesthetics.

It’s a special trick to navigate a storied history while staying current, but the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver does it effortlessly. Opened in 1939, the elegant hotel’s prime downtown location means you’re just minutes from Robson Street, Gastown, and other area attractions. Inside, the rooms and suites share a modern sense of style punctuated by Art Deco touches.

One of the most modern, most stylish, and most luxurious of the Fairmont properties is the Pacific Rim, set on Vancouver’s waterfront, offering extraordinary views of the city skyline, Stanley Park, the Burrard Inlet, and the North Shore mountains.

Though like any West Coast city Vancouver is perhaps known for its funky side, its youthful side, its design-happy hipster side, it’s also a city that can do grown-up with the best of them. This is no less true in the hospitality world than it is in any area of life. A case in point is L’Hermitage, an absolutely classic small luxury hotel, right in the middle of downtown.

Opus Hotel Vancouver is, first of all, quite possibly the best-located hotel in the city — its Yaletown neighborhood is full of life, packed with hip restaurants, cafés, galleries, and shops, and has a visual character that’s far more appealing than Vancouver’s central business district. And this character includes the Opus itself, a stylish contemporary structure whose brick-fronted facade lends it an extra measure of inviting warmth, a hint at what’s inside.

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