Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown

Every time I stay at an old-school, traditional hotel like this Marriott, I remind myself how stupid and irrelevant this category of stays is compared to a random short-term condo rental. Not only you vastly overpay for your booking but you get a smaller room with no amenities, no microwave, not even fork & knife to eat your dinner leftovers, no table to play a board game on with your family, no smart TV (so that you buy their pay TV), overpriced parking and a paid wifi (which they will *maybe* remember to waive if you join their stupid loyalty program), which uses an annoying and insecure proxy. The room amenities they do offer (a safe, a wired phone, an alarm clock, a shower cap, plastic water bottles, disposable cups and a daily change of towels) are ridiculously irrelevant (and not sustainable) in this day and age. The experience is worse than a self-check-in condo listing as they try to upsell you with unnecessary services like enhanced Internet, valet parking or luggage porters. On a positive note, I'm glad that they at least moved on from the silly little toiletries which wasted lots of plastic and are now using larger dispensers. The view from the 23rd floor was also quite nice. The location was good if I wanted to sightsee on foot, but was a hassle when driving a car. It's less of a critique of this particular branch, but I'm writing this elaborate essay here to remind myself to steer clear of the whole category of places that this Marriott represents.

Front desk staffers are very nice and warm hearted. Our family arrived a little early and the receptionist Shwelta kindly provided timely update to us. The hotel is very clowns super convenient to the water front. We will surely come to stay here again.

This hotel fit our need perfectly. The staff was friendly and helpful. The room were very clean and the pool and spa facilities were perfect for my family. The location of this hotel was also very nice several good restaurants and coffee shops were in walking distance, and the parking garage felt very safe and was well lit, additionally it was easy to find parking.

Our stay was short (2 days) but our experience was very good. We needed an extra bed for our grandkids that made the room rather "tight" however staff were very helpful and made it work! The restaurant staff were particularly friendly and efficient.