The Coast Hotels Ice Martini Fountain / Sculpture
I received an invitation for Coast Coal Harbour Hotel’s Grand Opening event tonight, and went expecting a meet and greet style event in one of Coast Hotels’ clean and classic conference rooms. I obviously didn’t read the press release closely enough!
Coast Hotels are nice, but if I had to choose only one word to describe their new $60 million four-star Coal Harbour location it wouldn’t be “nice,” it’d be SWANKY! *makes a whistling noise*
The event took up four floors and a couple of guest rooms on the fifth floor for touring. Each floor was themed and served perfectly bite-sized portions of delectable eats and alcoholic beverages (the dangerous kind that don’t taste like alcohol but would pack a wicked punch if you didn’t bother to count how many you were having). Each floor, and even the spaces between the floors, had entertainment from a DJ to an orchestra, to a contortionist! Yeah, the contortionist was a little out of place, but entertaining nonetheless.
I met up with Elisa and Danny at the event, sampled some of the eats (delish!), and took a tour of the accommodations. The tour of the rooms felt more like an open house event at a staged apartment than a walk-through of a hotel. We went through an Executive Suite, and one of their Comfort Rooms — both of which had private balconies and those signature comfy Coast Hotel beds that Ang loved so much on our trip to Victoria last year when we stayed at Coast Victoria Harbourside Hotel & Marina. The bathrooms had both showers and baths, and the kitchen area really did look like one out of a staged apartment right down to the squared-off cabinet handles. All very modern and clean. My favourite features of the rooms were the balconies, high ceilings, comfy beds, and wallpaper (yes, I notice hotel wallpaper).
If you ever have guests flying into Vancouver and you want to impress them, book a room at Coast Coal Harbour Hotel! Or better yet, throw a swanky event like this one in their ginormous ballroom (5,000 square feet) that will really knock their socks off. 
You bought your Lotto Max ticket right? haha
