The hotel is wonderful. It has been a long time since I have stayed in a Vancouver area hotel that wasn't in desperate need of a deep cleaning and some important updates. The room was clean. As well as all of the linens. The beds and pillows were on the firmer side. I did not realize the hotel had a pool when I booked it, so we did not use it, but it looked in good shape. Despite being so close to everything in the city, when the room's window was closed the room was very quiet. The only downside (outside of the hotel's control) is the construction across the street. It made navigating around and parking, tricky. They started construction noise at 8am. Overall I was pleasantly surprised by our experience at Hotel Blu and would stay again.