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Passport - August 2004

The swank center of gravity for the neighborhood, Opus Hotel opened in 2002 and has since become the uncontested choice for urbane visitors to Vancouver. This award-winning boutique hotel has 96 vibrant guestrooms and suites, a "see-and-be-seen" lounge, and a stocked, private business center. Opus has not forgotten about comfort in its pursuit of fashion: the rooms are larger than expected and any pretensions are undercut by a wily sense of humor (with tongue firmly planted in cheek, room decors are subtly patterned after five distinct" characters" including Chelsea boy Mike).