Reviews for Howard Johnson, Vancouver, British Columbia
18 reviews, average.
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Overall Rating: 
[ / 10 ]
Date visited: Mon 01 Aug 2011
Friendly, clean, good location.
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Positives: The price and location.
Negatives: The room was very small.
Overall Rating: 
[ / 10 ]
Date visited: Wed 12 May 2010
VERY old and outdated. I have stayed in Howard Johnson's before and this is not a typical Howard Johnson as it was originally a privately owned hotel which must be at least 70 years old. There is a .....
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Positives: Gated parking.
Negatives: The very strong oder in the hallways.
Overall Rating: [ / 10 ]
Staff [ 4 / 10 ]
Location [ 6 / 10 ]- Cleanliness [ 1 / 10 ]
Date visited: Mon 02 Jun 2008
I have never had a problem, but this hotel is most definitely not the kind of hotel I expect to. Our room was horrible. For $ I expect to at least be comfortable in the room. We were on a trip of a .....
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Positives: Check out.
Negatives: Just about everything.
Overall Rating: 
[ / 10 ]
- Staff [ 10 / 10 ]
Location [ 5 / 10 ]- Cleanliness [ 10 / 10 ]
Date visited: Wed 26 Mar 2008
Nice hotel in nice and safe area. Mini mall is just 5 minutes walking and you can buy many thinks there (food, drugstore, liquor store). Every Saturday hotel offering Salsa party for $10 (until 2 am) .....
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Positives: Salsa party which is every Saturday in hotel club. Excellent + hotel night club.
Negatives: Not offering breakfast.
Overall Rating: [ / 10 ]
Staff [ 9 / 10 ]- Location [ 5 / 10 ]
- Cleanliness [ 5 / 10 ]
Date visited: Wed 19 Sep 2007
I'm fine with the hotel.
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Positives: Friendly staff.
Negatives: Very small rooms. Very thin bath towels.
Overall Rating: 
[ / 10 ]
- Staff [ 6 / 10 ]
- Location [ 4 / 10 ]
- Cleanliness [ 3 / 10 ]
Date visited: Tue 18 Sep 2007
I was not at all impressed with the hotel rooms. Things like shower mat were missing. The sheets were not that clean either. They did not meet the expectation for the price I paid.
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Positives: The view was good.
Negatives: The hotel room was not something I expected for the price I paid. The rooms were missing some of the necessary amenities.
Overall Rating: [ / 10 ]
- Staff [ 1 / 10 ]
- Location [ 5 / 10 ]
- Cleanliness [ 5 / 10 ]
Date visited: Sun 02 Sep 2007
The room is too small, no refrigerator, and no free internet.
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Positives: Nothing.
Negatives: No refrigerator and internet is expensive.
Overall Rating: [ / 10 ]
Staff [ 7 / 10 ]- Location [ 3 / 10 ]
- Cleanliness [ 4 / 10 ]
Date visited: Thu 05 Jul 2007
This was a dreary place. The room was clean and not bad, though more cramped than most. The location is on busy streets with no grounds or even bushes. Side doors were locked and then eventually .....
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Positives: The room was quiet.
Negatives: Lobby area was unattractive and cramped, hallways had a heavy floral deodorizer smell, the outside was dreary, depressing place
Overall Rating: [ / 10 ]
- Staff [ 7 / 10 ]
Location [ 2 / 10 ]- Cleanliness [ 7 / 10 ]
Date visited: Wed 10 Jan 2007
The room was pretty small and cramped but I feel like I got what I paid for. The decor in the lobby was extremely tacky, but I loved it. I stayed there on new years eve with a group of friends and .....
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Positives: The front desk staff was very friendly.
Negatives: It was not located downtown; it was about a ten minuet cab ride or an hour and a half drunken walk from Granville.
Overall Rating: [ / 10 ]
- Staff [ 3 / 10 ]
- Location [ 7 / 10 ]
- Cleanliness [ 2 / 10 ]
Date visited: Thu 04 Jan 2007
We used to stay in this place before in our travel through be and let me tell you, it went from fare to worth over the year. Good location to access city's attractions and fare prices - might be a .....
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Positives: Location is good and easy to access city's attractions.
Negatives: Cheap room setting, no sense of cleanliness, bad smell, careless staff, stains all over the place.
Overall Rating: [ / 10 ]
- Staff [ 6 / 10 ]
- Location [ 8 / 10 ]
- Cleanliness [ 6 / 10 ]
Date visited: Wed 18 Oct 2006
The worst of the experiences I've had. The TV did not work and was not fixed on request. When anyone used the shower a loud whine disturbed us. It was old fashioned, a small room and only barely met .....
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Positives: It was fairly convenient.
Negatives: TV did not work, pipes cause a whine, old fashioned.
Overall Rating: [ / 10 ]
- Staff [ 9 / 10 ]
- Location [ 7 / 10 ]
- Cleanliness [ 7 / 10 ]
Date visited: Tue 17 Oct 2006
Good Value if reserve before arrive.
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Positives: Good Location. Not expensive.
Negatives: Old. Not safe area.
Overall Rating: [ / 10 ]
- Staff [ 8 / 10 ]
- Location [ 5 / 10 ]
- Cleanliness [ 6 / 10 ]
Date visited: Wed 06 Sep 2006
Public transportation was important on this trip. A short walk to the B-line to UBC, buses downtown frequent. Unfortunately, both trips were a little long. I should have stayed near Robson downtown. .....
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Positives: My floor was reasonably clean, as was the room. Nice view of the mountains.
Negatives: A little remote for a tourist, too many drunks outside Friday and Saturday night.
Overall Rating: [ / 10 ]
- Staff [ 6 / 10 ]
- Location [ 3 / 10 ]
- Cleanliness [ 2 / 10 ]
Date visited: Wed 30 Aug 2006
This hotel is NOT located in downtown Vancouver, like they claim it is. The room itself was very cramped and very dirty. We filled the bathtub only to find that it was full of pubic hair and dead .....
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Positives: The hotel staff was nice.
Negatives: It was very dirty, and very noisy I got almost no sleep the whole weekend.
Overall Rating: [ / 10 ]
- Staff [ 6 / 10 ]
- Location [ 2 / 10 ]
- Cleanliness [ 2 / 10 ]
Date visited: Thu 24 Aug 2006
Older hotel in need of renovation, mold on tub.
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Positives: It was available.
Negatives: The neighborhood was seedy, and we did not feel safe.
Overall Rating: [ / 10 ]
- Staff [ 7 / 10 ]
- Location [ 7 / 10 ]
- Cleanliness [ 8 / 10 ]
Date visited: Thu 17 Aug 2006
Not a bad value for the rate, but I would not stay there again unless I had a great rate for the night. Too far from downtown or Kitsilano, looks grungy, and slow elevators.
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Positives: Best rate I could find in Vancouver for the weekend. Quiet, clean, free parking.
Negatives: Far from downtown, outdated - looks grungy from the outside, hard to get to parking area.
Overall Rating: [ / 10 ]
- Staff [ 5 / 10 ]
- Location [ 5 / 10 ]
- Cleanliness [ 5 / 10 ]
Date visited: Wed 05 Jul 2006
The Howard Johnson on Kingsway, the old Baltimore Hotel, has undergone a recent cosmetic renovation. The staff are helpful, if not very friendly. The restaurant service is not to be used due to the .....
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Positives: Convenient to where we needed to go.
Negatives: Restaurant smelled of mold and mildew and could not eat there.
Overall Rating: [ / 10 ]
- Staff [ 2 / 10 ]
- Location [ 1 / 10 ]
- Cleanliness [ 3 / 10 ]
Date visited: Tue 27 Jun 2006
Take this of your list of hotels this is without question a very bad value and did not have any of the things.
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Positives: Easy to find.
Negatives: No continental breakfast as stated, large burn in rug, restaurant not open, room smelled, dried blood on sheets.
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Howard JohnsonVancouver
British Columbia
V5T 3J7
Canada
- (604) 872-5252 ( Telephone )
- 604-874-3003 ( Fax )
- 800-663-5713 ( Tollfree )
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