Budget Inn Patricia Vancouver
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403 East Hastings Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6A 1P6, 604-255-4301
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Historical Traveler Reviews of Budget Inn Patricia Vancouver
Budget isin't always bad...
We saved a fair bit of money that we were able to spend on attractions and what not. Speak to the desk staff and they will tell you what they told me - that the neighbourhood has many places for people to receive help: clinics, missions, places for people to receive medical attention, shelter, showers food etc. So if you dont like staying in a neighbourhood where needy people can receive help, then spend the extra $ and stay somewhere else.
Honestly alot of the locals were not so pretty to look at, but they were hamless and not once was I perstered for change like I was on Granville st. downtown.
My final coments are that this is a budget hotel and that is exactly what it is, there is no pool and the rooms are smaller etc, so if you feel the desire to spend $1000 US on a suit jacket, maybe you should/can afford to spend the extra $$$ and stay in a fancier hotel. As for the helpful staff of the Patricia - "See you again next year"
Stay as far away from this place as possible
The Worst Location Ever
Very nice hotel, great location, in a safe drug neighborhood
The hotel should be more open in their literature and website about the fact they're in a heroin and prostitution neighborhood. I agree with other reviewers who said they felt completely safe; we did too at all time of night. So don't let that stop you; but you have to be ok with syringes on the ground and lots of malformed opiate bodies walking around. Interesting sights out your window at night of buying and selling.
Overall great hotel for the budget traveller .
Do NOT believe the hype or manager rebuttals...
I had never seen the notorious area known as East Hasting St up to that point, but I promise that I never care to see it again. Upon arriving, my friend and I were treated to the sight of about 25-30 junkies congregating right across the street from the Budget Inn. That is no exaggeration either, but we still figured to give it a chance for maybe the hotel itself was highly secure with a safe, underground parking garage to boot. WRONG again... the hotel seemed more like a motel for the drifter or a place to take a quick shower for a truck driver. The front desk representative reminded me of wardens I had seen in movies about prison. The demeanor and appearance suggested that the surrounding neighborhood had either spawned the gentlemen or had taken effect on his style of engagement. We got our room keys and they were just that, KEYS. Keys with big key chains at the end of them that stated the room number. I thought keys had gone out in 1992 or so and been replaced by cards you slide. Then there was the issue of parking. The parking lot was next to the building on an above ground lot that was surrounded by a fence. (Note: The 25-30 junkies were within striking distance of the lot.) That was all the security the lot had was a fence and that didn't make me feel that my car was going to be very secure, belongings inside or not. Lastly, there was the room itself. Horrid... the cover on top of the bed might as well have been given free to the salvation army or donated to the junkies across the street. It had a stench, undescribable, and it wasn't cigarettes. Just a stench... We made the decision to inform the front desk warden, er clerk, that we would be seeking alternative accomodations and ended up spending a bit more money, but for the kind of hotel that you come to expect when making reservations. I don't necessarily fault the Budget Inn's staff....just whoever owns it. It doesn't belong in the ranks of the elite 2 star properties or on the internet pages of expedia, hotwire, or orbitz.
Don't Stay Here!
we ended up cancelling our reservation and stayed at a gorgeous, 4-star hotel in downtown Vancouver for $30 LESS than what we payed for our 1 night at the Patricia. Book online last minute and you will get a REAL deal.
You get what you pay for.
A Nice Hotel in a Not-Nice Neighbourhood
The hotel is a super deal, cheap, clean, secure, and we had a beautiful ocean view from our room. We had a "budget room" which supposedly has less of a view than the standard rooms, but the view was great anyway. The budget rooms are small but clean and everything works. I would definitely stay here again.
That said, I wouldn't recommend it to everyone, simply because of where it is. The area is on the edge of Chinatown, which is nice, and near downtown, which is convenient. However, drug addiction and prostitution are common in the street outside. Now the thing to realize here is that these are businesses, and if you're neither buying nor selling, then these business people have nothing to do with you. We had no trouble of any kind during our stay. No one hassled us on the street, and other than a couple of friendly offers to buy a rock, no one even spoke to us.
We walked in and out of the area at all times of day and night with no trouble, this is a neighbourhood given to "victimless crime", not to violence. If you have a compassionate heart, staying here might make you sad ... the young ones and the old ones will break your heart. But we found it safe, interesting, inexpensive and convenient to all we had to do in the city.
For reference, I'm a 30-year-old woman ... I walked freely by myself around the area with no problems ... and we're both from a northern Canadian community, we're not from the suburbs but we aren't ghetto kids either. Overall I gave the hotel an "average" rating but that's balancing the excellent points of the hotel with the qualifying factor of the neighbourhood, which isn't for everyone.
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