https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/interactive-map-vancouver-beaches-e-coli-advisories-2024-9130797
Despite Vancouver being cold, depressing & damp for half of the year, the urban beaches should be in better shape. Plus, there should be a lot more hotel rooms in the metropolitan region.
Fortunately, other urban beaches around the world realize that it hurts their tourism business if they have crappy beaches.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfers_Paradise,_Queensland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfers_Paradise,_Queensland#Sport_and_recreation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfers_Paradise,_Queensland#Transport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Beach,_Florida
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_Isles_Beach,_Florida
https://www.miamiandbeaches.com/things-to-do/beaches
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waik%C4%ABk%C4%AB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheraton_Waikiki_Hotel This hotel isn't 64 stories, it only has 32, but it has over 1600 rooms. Vancouver has been very reluctant to have wide buildings like this.
| Number of rooms | 1636 |
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| Number of suites | 131 |
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| Number of restaurants | 2 |
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Sheraton_Waikiki_from_Waikiki_Beach.jpg In Vancouver, its tough enough just to have a
hotel with 700 rooms.
https://www.cntraveler.com/hotels/united-states/honolulu/hyatt-regency-waikiki-resort---spa Over 1200 rooms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_Seattle 1260 rooms.
It's been very difficult for Vancouver to think, plan & build on a big scale. Especially, with some of the most restrictive building limits around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_Vancouver 650 rooms. Despite not being close to a beach, there should have been a provision to have a 2nd tower next to the Hyatt_Regency_Vancouver. Or, enough space to double the width of the existing building. Or, add about 20 floors to the single hotel tower. If the Royal_Centre complex was always going to just consist of 2 towers, then the office tower & the hotel tower should have been designed to eventually add another 20 stories. Not a problem for Seattle or Calgary, because they are allowed to be proper big cities.
https://www.hyatt.com/hyatt-hotels/en-US/yvrph-hyatt-vancouver-downtown-alberni Only about a quarter of Vancouver's tallest building is a hotel.
Cleaner beaches and more support for tourism would be of great benefit to Vancouver & BC. Especially, for taller & wider hotels, but that's what a big city would do. Vancouver is still a small-minded city that occasionally likes to pretend that its grown up.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Metro+Vancouver+beaches
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=hotel+rooms
