�As the old saying goes - you are only as good as the company you keep - and we are proud to now be affiliated with such remarkable hotels as The Little Nell in Aspen, the Biltmore in Phoenix and the Silverado Resort in Napa Valley,� stated John Nicholson, Listel Vancouver�s General Manager since 1993. �We are very proud of the Four Diamond facilities and service we have offered since our opening in May 1986 and we are passionate about surpassing our previous standards, however high. As an elegant small hotel, operating independently from the constraints of a chain environment and with the blessings of our ownership, we have the good fortune of being able to evolve as rapidly as our clients� needs and tastes. We are convinced that new ideas such as The Gallery Floors will guarantee our competitiveness well into the millenium.� 

The hotel completed a full redesign of almost half of its guestrooms in the spring of this year. The Gallery Floors at Listel Vancouver curated by the Buschlen Mowatt Galleries, is an original concept in the hospitality industry. Each of the rooms on these two floors has been designed as an individual gallery featuring original and limited edition works by artists such as Bernard Cathelin, Z.Z. Wei, Helen Frankenthaler and Yehouda Chaki amongst others. The rooms themselves epitomize comfort, chaise lounges tucked into bay windows and traditional cherry wood furnishings all work in concert to complete these rooms; the effect is attractive, comfortable and unequivocally interesting.

The name of the hotel�s restaurant will continue to be O�Doul�s Restaurant & Bar. The room has been a Vancouver dining tradition since the early 1960�s when it opened as a popular café. 

There are very few genuine Vancouver-ites unfamiliar with O�Doul�s Sunday brunch and, now, live Jazz weekends. The new décor (since the complete renovation in 1996) is evocative of the days of discovery, an old World twin-hemisphere map adorns the atrium ceiling and compass roses help you get your bearings. The food is an exploration into the rich flavours and bountiful harvest of this abundant coastline and the fertile Fraser Valley delta.