It’s done! Our very own BC Lions are the 2011 Grey Cup Champions! For our friends south of the 49th parallel, the Grey Cup is the equivalent to the Super Bowl with a heavy dose of Canadian beer, spirit… For Vancouver, it meant a lot. It meant increased sales for restaurants and hotels, a chance [...]
OPUS Hotels Take Lead as Canada’s Premiere Boutique Brand
It’s time to say “bye-bye” to big hotel chains and their long lobby lineups and “hello!” to the friendly service of boutique hotels. Readers of Condé Nast Traveler Magazine have done just that. OPUS Hotels was recently recognized amongst the world’s hospitality elite as “Best in the World” and “Best in Business Travel” by readers [...]
OPUS Bar hosts The Global Party
Party around the globe, OPUS Hotels style! This past Thursday, September 15, OPUS Bar was one of 80 venues across the world, to be selected and invited into an exclusive membership to, well party… I mean really party. The event tagged as The “Global Party” and hosted by the hottest bars, clubs and lounges across [...]
How Vancouver mends our broken hearts!
Yes, the entire world knows that our hearts were broken when our beloved Vancouver Canucks lost in Game 7 in a hard fight for the Stanley Cup, but unfortunately our hearts were broken even further by the horrible rioting and delinquent behaviour that took place in our beautiful city. It will take a long time [...]
Blue and Green Fever!
Blue and Green Fever! Unless you have been living under a rock or live in a country that doesn’t eat, breath, and sleep for ice hockey, then you will undoubtedly be aware that our local NHL team, the Vancouver Canucks, are in the Stanley Cup Finals. To place some perspective on the impact that [...]
Accomplished Hotel General Manager aka blogger-in-training!
A very good friend once told me “An abandoned blog is like a frayed carpet in the hotel lobby – it speaks of apathy and neglect and is off-putting when stumbled upon.” It is a great analogy, which crystallizes the importance of staying fresh and current in the fast paced world of on-line management [...]
Earth Hour at OPUS: the lights will be out, but everybody will be home
For two hours beginning at 8:30 PM on Saturday, March 26, OPUS Hotel Vancouver will join world icons like the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and Rome’s Coliseum in shutting lights off to commemorate Earth Hour. Around the world, people and businesses will turn off lights and come together in celebration and [...]
Videorama! A Round-up of Our Refreshed Suites
With the recent refresh of OPUS Hotel Vancouver’s suites, we’ve been sharing videos inspired by the personalities behind our five lifestyle décor schemes. To help you shop and compare we thought we’d share all four videos here as one big semi-dysfunctional family (the characters that is, not the suites). No video for Billy yet—he doesn’t [...]
A Hundred Days’ Journey into Nights
Far out and funky! Virtually overnight, One Hundred Days has been stripped of its edgy art studio vibe and has magically morphed into an entirely new pop-up concept with a vaguely familiar name: One Hundred Nights. Think seventies discotastic wonderland: sparkly silver walls, murals of pop icons like Ziggy Stardust and Iggy Pop by graffiti [...]
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