Ryan Marin

Review of Pacific Gateway Hotel at Vanco...

Due to a delayed flight, Air Canada hotelled a few...

Due to a delayed flight, Air Canada hotelled a few of us here. Exhausted, hangry, and generally miserable, my colleague and I wearily checked in (twenty minutes after the restaurant had closed, of course) took our luggage to the rooms and dragged ourselves down to the bar, hoping for a couple of scraps of food to sate our starving bellies.

We were greeted by Kristi, a waitress/barperson, who must have recognized the state we were in. A couple of drinks (Fuggles & Warlock on tap?!), a few orders of wings (incredible), chicken tacos (should have eaten before the hotwings, although I'm sure it would've tasted great if I'd had a palate left to taste with), and some sort of dish with sausage, prawns and garlic bread later, and we were feeling invigorated and in a MUCH better mood. The rooms were basic, but nice enough for a free stay - however, the bathrooms were gorgeous.

Breakfast the next morning was pretty good, the staff were a pleasure to deal with, I had the opportunity to see their patio/greenspace which was immaculately kept... And then the free airport shuttle service every twenty minutes was perfection. Gotta say, the Pacific Gateway turned what started as a moderate inconvenience in to a generally great time.