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Opus Vancouver Celebrates Pride and Wants You To Propose, Too

Where: 322 Davie Street, Vancouver, Canada, V6B 5Z6

The Vancouver Pride Parade might only happen on August 2, but the Opus Hotel in Vancouver has Pride-related deals happening for much longer — how festive!

The Pride 2009 Package runs from July 18 through to August 10 and includes a Superior Queen room (yes, they made it a queen room intentionally) and a "special welcome indulgence", plus a $50 credit to use in the Opus Bar or, if you need a bit more privacy, on your room's minibar.

And the final bonus: while you're out enjoying some Pride festivities, room service will be visiting you to add an "extra special pride downturn" to be there waiting for you. We don't know what these special additions are but if you stay there, please let us know, because we sure are curious.

You can take the romance of Pride a bit further if you like, because the Opus also has a Propose on Pride package as well. This one includes a bottle of champagne to toast your proposal (assuming it works out well), and breakfast for two in bed the next morning, finishing off with a late checkout of 2pm. Package costs vary according to the date so check directly with the hotel, but you're looking at upwards of C$320 a night.

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Let Everyone Know You're Staying at The Opus

Where: 322 Davie Street, Vancouver, Canada, V6B 5Z6

Frequent on-the-ground Vancouver hotel spy Chrispitality helpfully demonstrated in his Flickr photo that when you ride in the BMW at The Opus Hotel Vancouver, everyone in town will know where you're staying.

Since this picture was snapped back in 2006, we thought we would just check-in to see what sort of series the hotel is driving these days. Indeed the hotel's car is still a 7 Series BMW that offers complimentary rides to "all downtown locations including all cruise ship terminals, 7 days/week subject to availability."

While we have no qualms about broadcasting our hotel when riding around in town, we imagine Twilight vampire Robert Pattinson, currently in town to shoot the "New Moon" sequel, would probably not do the same.

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Pierre in the Opus Lounge with the Vodka Bottle: Opus Montreal Jacks the 'Clue' Boardgame?

Where: 10 Rue Sherbrooke E, Montreal, QC, Canada, H2X

Do any of these characters sound like you?

They range from Manolo-wearing fashionista "Susan", to Euro-chic "Pierre", a Parisian designer. Rounding out the roster is "Mike", a hard-working and hard-playing New York doctor; Londoner and party-boy musician "Billy"; and "Dede", the resident method-actress diva.

If your answer is yes, then you're the kind of guest who will find a happy home in the soon-to-be-transformed Opus Hotel Montreal. (To us, this sounds a lot like some other people we know--Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlet, Professor Plum, etc.)

The re-design of the old Hotel Godin has a pretty unique concept: these five fictional characters are the five "muses" who will inspire the design and vision for the Opus Hotel of the future.

Of course, while the Opus Hotel is hoping that their five character design method is going to appeal to a whole lot of customers, they're also frank enough to admit that it might not appeal to everyone. This whole not-keeping-everybody-happy theme seems to be drifting around a lot these days: think Stephen Brandman's comments on bloggers not being their customers.

While we aren't sure if we are more Euro-chic like Pierre or method-actress like Dede, we'd like to think we could fit into the Opus, but begrudgingly like the fact that they won't try to bow to absolutely everyone's desires and become a standard hotel that just anybody could check in to.

The planned transformation at the Opus will last about six months, culminating perhaps with the opening of the Opus Bar and Vodka Bar--possibly in April 2008. The five characters will apparently be inspiring the vivid color schemes and individual fabric touches in the different kinds of rooms, as well as providing the basis and inspiration for a collection of black and white photography.

Let's wait and see if decorating your hotel based on the personalities of five people who don't even exist works out.

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