A huge soaker tub dominates a corner of the bedroom there's a sitting area with desk walls adorned with hunting scenes a bar bathroom in Italian marble with shower Gilchrist & Soames products and spacious balcony (all bedrooms have them) overlooking the square. The decor of our deluxe executive bedroom is in muted beige, carried through to the furnishings in beige and rust. The results everywhere are memorable: we're left with the impression of traditional English country house elegance. We're told she took over what was the Mayfair Apartment Hotel 28 years ago, gutted it, moved in personal collections of antiques and art for public areas, and commissioned custom-designed furniture from craftsmen. Its remarkable, Greek-born proprietor, grandmother Eleni Skalbania, was the general contractor and designer for a makeover of the hotel, relying only on her natural sense of colour and texture. The 83-room downtown hotel is a member of the exclusive Relais & Chateaux. On the fringe of the square is the beautiful, old former provincial courthouse, now the Vancouver Art Gallery. That and, as we find next morning, the warmth and intimacy of this boutique, family hotel and its environs, where the locals sprawl in the sun on what look like oversize bean bags around Robson Square, with its gardens and waterfalls.
We arrive at Vancouver's Wedgewood Hotel & Spa near midnight, tired and jaded after 20 hours of flights and delays, but are immediately revived by the spectacle of hundreds of miniature lights wreathed through the maple trees lining the hotel's entrance. John Coleman joins the celebrity line-up who have experienced the splendours of one of Vancouver's premium boutique hotels.
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