OPUS Vancouver

The Opus blends hip design, pops of vivid colour and tongue-in-cheek art with excellent customer service, techy gizmos and a terrific in-house Italian restaurant. Boldly bohemian but comfortably luxurious, this hotel may be cool, but its welcome is warm.

In a perfect world Vancouver might have a half-dozen hotels like this — but in the real world we’ve got to make do with just one. Opus Hotel Vancouver is, first of all, quite possibly the best-located hotel in town — 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.