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wheezo
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my friend and i are planning to spend a night in vancouver and we are thinking getting a cheap hotel room in the downtown area. any ideas? - Tue, 1 Jul 2003 4:44am
The Ref
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There aint' no such thing as a cheap, decent hotel/motel room in downtown Van. For good rooms at a pretty good rate, try the Ramada on Broadway. It's right above the Fairview Pub, used to be home of some pretty good blues.

Other then that, your looking at dives. There are several in the gastown area, one above the lamplighter pub (great party place)that's pretty cheap, the balmoral (a real dive)is another, all the cheap one's are gonna be filled with drunks and junkies so watch your shit...could disappear! - Tue, 1 Jul 2003 10:32am
colin
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the ywca by b.c place is quite resonable and only a hop, skip and a jump from robson st. They also have a discount if you are a student or a Y member - Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:43am
ML7Mike
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City Centre Motel - Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:23pm
ROSS B AY
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yeah dude the city centre! brawlers and hoosegow stayed there last year and just mangled it! within crawling distance of the cobalt too. they ask no questions and leave you (us) alone. they'll call the fuzz before they bang on yer door! you need a credit card though..... - Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:25pm
Ty Stranglehold
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That was some funny shit.
I awoke on the floor to hear

"I'm Dustin Schwam and welcome to Jackass. Today I'm surfing off Tyler"

Whipped my head up in time to see Dust swan diving off of the bed towards me. I straight arm caught him in mid air and threw him across the room. - Wed, 2 Jul 2003 1:33am
Gene Vachon
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CN Bacpackers Hostel near the bus station,..its clean,secure,cozy,doobie friendly and has a common room worthy of an all out jam session....great place. - Wed, 2 Jul 2003 11:58am
Inktvis
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There's many cheap/reasonably found places in Vancouver, just not alot of cheap hotels but plenty of Hostels. You can get a nice private room with two beds. At the St.Clair Hotel you can get a double room for $35, they are friendly and good.

Here's a URL to a Vancouver Hostel database. Have a good time!

http://www.hostels.com/ca.bc.va.html - Wed, 2 Jul 2003 3:58pm
XY-SATAN
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Hey ML7Mike is City Centre Motel the place where Ed and James put the hole in the wall and we knocked the fucking TV off its stand like 10 times till we just left it on its side on the floor ? Boy was I surprised that it still worked ! LOL !

And lets not talk about the crack hoe Ed brought back !

Fuck I love Van ! - Wed, 2 Jul 2003 6:41pm
jay brown
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Ah yes the city centre, I remember when we all stayed there. Me and my girlfriend got a room of our own, and we didnt tell Dustin which room we were in. That way when we were done partying we ran back to our room and had no drunk freaks kicking down our door. I heard all the stories in the morning. - Wed, 2 Jul 2003 7:58pm
ML7Mike
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Ya Lance, thats the one.. Ive spent many an out of control night there.. After screaming at the top of my lungs at 4am and threatening to kill that ho if she didnt leave, the manager finally came down and asked politely if Id stop yelling..

Then there was the Motel we rented across from Studebakers during The Haunted show. After the show, the whole band and crew ended up in our room, with a bunch of other people, and we proceeded to drink and drug till the sun came up.. of course the room was totalled. The next day, we saw the maid on her way, we slipped out, as we got into the vehicle she entered our room... As we went around the courtyard and out on to Kingsway, she went running out to the office.. the look on her face was priceless.. - Wed, 2 Jul 2003 8:26pm
chris p bacon
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for fuck sakes stay away from hastings i once made the mistake of asking a cabbie to take me to the cheap hotels he let me out at main and hastings by the time i crossed the street ,i was jacked by the cops and pickpocketed of my wallet dont believe that shit about the y those cocksuckers
will burn u 2 the fucking zombies around hastings r hillarios they only know 3 words rock, powder, down i agree hostels r cool but dont leave your shit even for a second - Thu, 3 Jul 2003 2:50pm
wheezo
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it seems like the threat has retitled itself to "the best hotel stories in vancouver" - Thu, 3 Jul 2003 4:20pm
Spark
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went to a AWT gig (I know, pretty lame to go to van to see a band from your own hometown) and stayed down the street from the astoria. all dem hotels on that stretch are sleazy but cheap - Thu, 3 Jul 2003 8:42pm
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