Downtown Vancouver hotel rooms booking up amid heat wave, more U.S. travellers
Posted August 11, 2021 6:35 pm.
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) — With the combination of extreme heat forecast for Metro Vancouver and the land border reopening to fully vaccinated Americans — hotel rooms are filling up.
The Sandman Hotel downtown is sold out for Wednesday and Friday — when temperatures are supposed to hit their peak.
As the weather heats up in #Vancouver it looks like hotels downtown are booking up fast.
Staff at Sandman and Marriott hotels told me they’re sold out for tomorrow, not typical for a Thursday, due to both people escaping the heat and an influx of US travelers @NEWS1130
— Bailey Nicholson (@bcjnicholson) August 11, 2021
And the Marriott Pinnacle Hotel says it’s seeing a spike that’s not too common for a Thursday, selling out 300 rooms.
Many hotels around the city sold out during the heat dome in June, as people without air conditioning looked for a way to cool down.