HotelBLU Vancouver

Had a very nice two night stay at HotelBLU, the location and amenities at the price could not be beat in YVR. With the CAD = USD conversation rate in my favor, it was luxe hotel on a minimal budget.
Front desk staff was young and fun, yet helpful and competent. The US to Canada phone situation is sometimes tricky and they were always willing to call a cab or provide the Wifi code one more time.
My room was pretty large with a King sized bed and, quite possibly, the softest sheets I’ve slept on in awhile. Had I not been visiting Vancouver for work, it would’ve been a special treat to sleep in and enjoy a few extra hours of slumber. But hey, more reason to return!
Though I don’t love the in-​room «sexy shower» (you know, the kind where it’s clear glass facing the bedroom?) it’s fine when traveling alone. This could get awkward if you were traveling with your parents or a non-​significant other. Note: there is a shade on the room facing side of the shower so you could have a little privacy… but not much.
Would definitely recommend HotelBLU to other travelers looking for a reputable hotel centrally located and affordable. And you never know, I might be back sometime soon?

This place was amazing in every way. Location, rooms, amenities, service.
Location:
It is a 10min drive to Granville island, Stanley park and Gastown. Want to shop or go grab a quick bite, just walk down Robson street.
Rooms:
Such a stylish room! Wood floors, chic décor, pretty view.
Amenities:
Man oh man, where do I start? Fancy espresso machine with bomb coffee. Hit water kettle to make tea. Makeup wipes incase you forgot your makeup remover. Nice big bottles of shampoo, conditioner and bath wash. Umbrellas in each room incase you didn’t look up the weather and forgot yours at home. Spa robes and slippers. Free rental bikes to ride to Stanley park. Free parking. Refrigerator where you can actually put your food in as opposed to those useless fridges with alcohol and chocolates that are on a sensor. Microwave to heat up your leftovers.
Decent pool, hot tub, sauna and exercise room.
Service:
They were so friendly at the front desk. When we called housekeeping a couple times to help us out with the espresso machine and bring up some plates, they were there within 5 minutes.
In the end:
I would recommend this hotel for anyone visiting Vancouver. Wish hotels in Los Angeles and Las Vegas took a class from Hotel Blu on service and amenities.

Hotel Blu is a modern boutique hotel, right downtown close to great restaurants and the hockey arena. The staff members were incredibly friendly and helpful — it felt like they genuinely were happy to be at work. The furnishings were really nice, we loved all the high end touches and tech features. We stayed here on New Years to celebrate our anniversary and caught a Canucks game — I happened to visit Vancouver a couple weeks later and stayed at another hotel; I ended up kicking myself the whole time.

Hotel Blu is a boutique hotel right in downtown Vancouver. It is minutes away from BC Place, Queen Elizabeth Theatre and a variety of restaurants and pubs. What sets this place apart from the other hotels in the surrounding area are the amenities that come with your hotel room and free valet parking. You typically pay $ 30 to park your vehicle in downtown, this place has free valet parking right in downtown. I would choose this hotel over the chain hotels in the area.

Superb helpful and friendly customer service! Checked in early due to our cruise early arrival, immediately, was greeted with cold orange juice patron. No room was available at 10am but was able to get a spacious nice clean room by noon! The concierge, Marshall, was very informative and took time to go over recommendations! We reserved the complimentary bikes for the next day. We came down, and one of the bike was missing a lock from the day before, they went out of their way and went to purchase the lock immediately so that we could lock up the bike during our day trip! Truly accommodating! Thank you so much The Blu! Stanly Park and Granville are biking distance away. We also walked to the ferry and aqua taxi over to Granville. Short walking distance to waterfront. We definitely would stay here again!

Pleasant rooms & fair amenities, but the service needs work.
Like other reviewers I was intrigued by this new hotel, and my wife and I decided to try it out for a recent 2-​night visit to Vancouver. My highest scores go to the room’s *very* comfortable bed and stylish appointments. (Although that display screen on the phone really is absurdly bright — we needed to cover it to sleep.) I enjoyed the sauna and hot tub, although the latter would have been better had the water jets been working. Since our room was near the end of a hall it was quiet (but note — be sure to ask for a room away from the ice machine, which is noisy and not in a closed room).
As is often the case with newer hotels, though, most of the staff doesn’t seem to grasp that service is what separates the better establishments from the also-​rans. A few cases in point:
1. «Hi. Has anyone left a message for me today?» «Let me look… no… oh, well except for this note on your reservation. Your friend called so say they’re delayed by 2 hours and won’t be here to meet you.» «I see… any idea why I wasn’t given that message when I checked in? Before I wasted a couple of taxi fares trying to find them?» (Desk clerk shrugs.)
2. «Hi, we need a drink, where’s the hotel’s bar?» «We don’t have a bar.» «Oh… (surprised silence…) Well, what would you recommend that’s nearby?» «Uh, just walk up Robson, there are lots of bars and restaurants.» «Gee, thanks for the tip.»
3. «Hi, we’re looking for a recommendation for dinner.» «Well, if you just walk up Robson there are lots of restaurants…» «OK, never mind.»
I won’t go into detail about the taxi fiasco that ensued later… suffice to say that the place is nice enough, but next time I’ll go to a hotel that I know has a better service orientation.

Nice hotel. Good location and friendly staff. We got upgraded to a room with a mezzanine which was awesome. Although we couldn’t work out how to turn some of the lights off and all the telephones had big, colour screens lighting up the room. Why?
Pool and hot tub were nice and quiet. Outdoor space needs some plants or something to make it worth sitting out there.

The rooms at this hotel are amazing, but it stops there. While we were sleeping at 3AM several guests came in screaming at the top of their lungs and fighting, it was very scary. The next morning our DND sign on the door was turned to Please Make Up Room so the maids woke us up. When I mentioned all this to the front desk people they casually brushed if off like «yes we also heard about the screaming, now what can I help you with?». Terrible customer service, we won’t be staying here again.

Normally when we travel we’ll stay at the Marriott or some other known place. You know what to expect, right? Well, the bf made an excellent call and chose to stay at a boutique hotel during our trip to Vancouver. As soon as we walked in I was immediately impressed. The lobby was very sleek with clean lines and as soon as we walked in we were immediately greeted with fresh squeezed orange juice. Whaaaaat?! The girl that checked us in was super cool and nice which made a great first impression.
We walked to the elevator and the bf told me that Hotel Blu is comprised of a hotel and residences. Man, if I could live here I certainly would. I can only imagine how the residences look.
When we walked in our room I was super impressed by how clean it was and how it didn’t have that dank hotel smell. One thing that we didn’t know was that you can see inside the bathroom from the bedroom. So hopefully you’re super comfortable with the person you’re staying with. If not, you’re about to get comfortable:) Just kidding, there’s a shade that you can pull down for privacy. The bed was beyond comfy. Let’s just say I almost said, «Ehhh we don’t need to see the city. We can just lay here all day». On top of all that there was an iPad in the room which came in handy to search Unilocal for great restaurants and bars. AND, you’re able to take the iPad outside of the room as if it’s your own. I KNOW, RIGHT?! Just don’t lose it. You will have to pay to replace it. The last part for me which assured me I’ll stay here again if I ever return to Vancouver was that they provided makeup remover in the bathroom. I was so excited about this because I was way too *ahem* unavailable to dig through my luggage and fish for my makeup remover. Right on, Hotel Blu. Lastly, I have to mention the spa water in the lobby. Seriously, they thought of everything. I would suggest or recommend you stay here but if you haven’t decided to after reading this review I don’t know what else to tell you.

My stay here was good, I agree with the other reviews about the noisy hallway and the glass window looking into the shower was a little strange. But the tub was nice and big, perfect for a relaxing bath! the tablet in each room was a nice touch but my gosh the couch was like sitting on a rock! Overall nice hotel not sure if I would stay here again for the the price.

Hard to say whether or not I would stay here again. I absolutely LOVED the modern look of the room — whoever they hired as an interior designer did a terrific job. I also felt super posh in the incredibly cozy, high quality King sized bed. Also, the location is great and I found a few good restaurants in walking distance.
Here are my major beefs though, and why I probably won’t come back:
1. You could hear everything through the door. I had a hard time falling asleep one night when some raucous partiers came back to the hotel around midnight, and was woken up early the next day by the cleaning staff, who sounded like they were inside my room. The door also had a ton of light coming through, which was distracting.
2. No room service! Boo!!! When I travel for work, sometimes I like to get room service in the morning so I can power through my work before heading out for meetings. Although grabbing a quick bite at Starbucks isn’t that hard, it robbed me of 20 extra minutes I could have spent working.
So, all in all, I feel ambivalent about HotelBLU. I will probably keep trying to find Vancouver’s best hotel.

Was surprised with a return trip home after being away for 2 years. I was excited to stay at this hotel because of it’s green claims.
There was nothing extrinsically green about the hotel.
The room was fine — we stayed in #203 a loft suite. The washroom has a glass wall in the shower with an outside control for a shade. Kind of weird but it worked for privacy.
The patio area was prison cell-​like with no décor/​greenery on it and a couple of sad chairs and a table.
Furnishings of the room were new (the hotel is new), power curtains etc… washroom located on main floor, bedroom in loft. Kind of a dicey walk when you are ½ asleep in a new place however there is a lighted floor area (which will keep you up all night if you are sensitive to light). Also, the phone beside the bed stays lit up with a giant LED panel or something — had to unplug it after the first night to get some actual sleep.
Gym, pool, laundry and breakfast area located on the same floor as the loft suites — weird layout to have the expensive suites in a high-​traffic area but you couldn’t hear any hallway noises while we were there anyway.
Gym was fine. 2 treadmills, 2 bikes (low quality) 2 benches, a mash of free weights and some mats/​weighted balls. All were clean and in ok condition but the universal machine was dedicated to too many functions so it was really janky to work read: if you lift, you’ll be frustrated.
Breakfast was just ok, felt like they didn’t have enough food out and the way the portions were doled out on the banquet table made you feel like you shouldn’t eat too much, that was $ 40 pp.
Central location, stones throw to both stadiums.
We rented bikes (free) and toured the city one day — that was a plus for sure.
I wouldn’t stay here again for the price/​lack of «green» as advertised, but it’s not that bad.

Great hotel! Staff are friendly and patient. The room is very nicely decorated, sleek and modern but also comfortable and quiet. The location is great, especially for Canuck games. There’s only valet parking, but that’s ok, we aren’t here pinching pennies. The breakfast buffet is not to be missed– frittatas, bagels, pancakes, scrambled eggs, oatmeal, everything you could want.

We stayed here for MLK day weekend on a Living Social deal. We loved the modern feel to the hotel, the concierge was helpful, and overall we really enjoyed our stay!
The room is very modern with wood floors and all new furnishings. The bathroom with the glass window proved interesting, and a unique feature I haven’t seen in other hotels. I’m glad they installed a curtain that can be closed for privacy. We noticed on our second night that we could hear a lot of noise from the hallway, and would not recommend this hotel for light sleepers. Hotel Blu did contact me to let me know that they are installing door sweepers to help reduce the noise level.
The breakfast was pretty decent for a hotel breakfast. Their Green Genius smoothie by far was the best thing there.
We used the pool our second night, and found that we had it all to ourselves! We really enjoyed rotating through the hot tub, sauna, and pool. Careful with the sauna door though: if you grasp the handle from the inside and push forward, it will smash your fingers between the handle and the door frame. Ouch!
With another living social deal, we would probably give Hotel Blu another try.

The Hotel Blu is awesome! Really hip, modern amenities. The shower head is in the middle of the giant, glass, shower stall, which has a vertical blind on the other side so you can either have your privacy or so you can see out into the room/​out the window from your shower or from the bed/​room into the shower. Pretty hot and pretty awesome. The room comes with a tablet which is synced with the TV. We stayed at the Hampton Inn the night before and I can say with confidence that every single thing is at least a 1 step up in quality or coolness at Blu. On top of all of this, the location is the bee’s knees! Google where it’s at! I would totally reccomend this place to a friend. And I would totally stay here again if given the opportunity. Everyone was super friendly and helpful. They have valet parking and are more than happy to help bring your bags up to your room. Final verdict: This place is the Bee’s Knee’s!!!

We had such a great experience! Nice rooms, comfy beds and amazing amenities! Such friendly and helpful staff. They let us check in early and gave us a late checkout. We will be staying here again.

Hotel Blu was a great hotel to stay at. The rooms were nice, the staff was incredibly polite and the location was perfectly situated in the heart of many restaurants and sights, but not in the middle of the busiest part of the city. There were some days I was bummed we were so far from the other side of the city, but it’s not THAT far of a walk and it’s fairly close to the trains. (We were able to walk to and from the trains to the airport with our luggage and everything).
I was quite impressed by the hard floors in the rooms. As a mild germophobe I was put at ease with the cleanliness of the flooring. The downside of this was that parts of the hallway were also hard flooring and although there was carpet through the center of the hall, people’s voices carried as they walked through, making the hallway a little noisy.
The only thing I wasn’t totally impressed with was breakfast. The spread felt small because they try to put out only what they need to at the time to make sure everything stays fresh, but it made me feel like there were fewer options than I really had. That being said, the staff monitoring the hotel breakfast was FANTASTIC. The lady working the buffet knew ALL of the returning guests’ breakfast drinks when they waked through the door. She was a gem!
Overall I really liked the hotel and the value of what they offer to their customers. I would totally stay here again.

It was such a lovely weekend staying at this hotel. It has this modern & classy feel to it. The room was absoutely gorgeous, with a balcony. I loved how the room had a microwave & empty refrigerator. I would definitely come back again.
My boyfriend booked this through this app called hotel tonight.
We spent a little time in the hot tub, the pool is small so it’s not possible to swim laps. We didn’t get a chance to use the fitness room, but it looked clean and equipped.
It’s walking distance to Robson Street and there’s plenty of restaurants and places to eat nearby.

Beautiful location on Robeson street! New rooms and innovative designs.

We stayed here and it just open 3 days before hand. It’s was hard to find the front but after a drive we found it. But the place looks great. The check in was smooth. We had issues but the staff came right to our room and corrected everything. Each room comes with a Samsung Tablet, a Nespresso machine
The shower was great the waterfall felling was great and the window glass shower was interesting. The Wood floor in the room wasn’t comfortable but they also supplied slippers. But bed was so comfortable you can lose yourself
I would give them 4 – 5 stars but they missed a lot of little things. A lot of the things in the rooms are so new they still have the no scratch sticky on them still.