Grand Park Hotel & Suites Downtown Vancouver, Ascend Hotel Collection

Don't consider this hotel if you have a car. Under the current road construction in front of the hotel (Drake) it's extremely difficult to get to the hotel by car. There's also construction at the rear of the hotel which removes another access point to the property. Currently it's all one-way access to the hotel; not sure what it was like before the road construction as I never used this hotel before. If you aren't familiar with downtown Vancouver driving, it'll be quite a challenge if you missed your turn and have to circle back to retry again. You may end up on a bridge going south if not careful during your second attempt (left on Howe). The hotel also charges what I consider exorbitant parking fees. $35 per day parking fees, for which the pricing wasn't noted in Trip.com's posting for this hotel (probably would scare away any potential guests with a car). We ended up paying an additional $150 on top of the ~$350 for the 3 days. This was charged at checkout. What a nasty surprise! That's over 40%extra! The front desk folks apparently added this to my paperwork (which you sign when they take your $200 deposit). At checkout time the manager explained to me that the front-desk folks always explicitly asked the guest if they wanted this onsite underground parking. I don't recall this question being asked at all but I still paid the fees. The Indian manager there was rather cavalier about the entire situation and didn't offer any resolution. It's one of the reasons I'm posting this review,. I want future customers to be fully aware of this issue. (BTW, because of the location of the hotel, this is a mandatory requirement if you drive a car. I didn't know this before, but the hotel has homeless people living around the area so finding public parking and then feeling secure about the vehicle will be challenging..) Based on the above bad experiences I really can't recommend this hotel. I'll have to resolve this with CTrip after the fact. My experience with CTrip is that CTrip has always been great at rectifying consumer injustices like this in the past.

A true gem in Vancouver! Love this place, staff are great!

The location was good, not core Downtown. Staff was pleasant. Easy check in and check out. Room was clean, with enough towels and toiletries. Fridge was empty, no complimentary water - I later realised this is a Vancouver thing. There is a restaurant by the lobby, where you'll get a 10% discount only if you show your key and you are eating in. The ambience was good, lovely staff especially YuHi. The food was amazing, never had mashed potatoes that much before 😂.

Great location around downtown. Clean and cozy place to stay. Easy access for pick up for tours and uber. I like it here.

Very good location at a great price! Highly recommend this place especially with amazing staff and daily housekeeping! The building itself is definitely slightly aged, but it's evident that the current management/owners are doing their best to improve the facilities. The good - affordable coin laundry, communal kitchen, very big rooms, amazing rooftop patio and sauna, impeccable location in Vancouver downtown The not so good - no breakfast options, communal kitchen's own pots and pans look iffy, slightly aged facilities (but the communal areas are definitely renovated in recent years) Will stay again if I'm ever in that area!

Hotel renovated already. Location is a bit walk from Yaletown Roundhouse station. Overall good experience thanks.