Overview

If you prefer your hotels simple, elegant and affordable, this downtown lodging is probably for you. Located right on Robson Street, the city's version of Rodeo Drive, the Barclay Hotel is a European-style heritage building with a soothing and homey decor, and large and eclectically decorated rooms. Stay here and your shopping, gallery-going, cuisine-sampling and people-watching quotient goes off the scale. Another plus is that it is close to Stanley Park, the Vancouver Aquarium, Gastown and virtually every other major city attraction.