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The Fairmont Pacific Rim Bathrooms Have a Medal-Winning Killer View

Where: 1038 Canada Place, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6C0B9

The Winter Olympics may be over, but let's not forget about Vancouver. After seeing this photo taken from a bathroom at the new Fairmont Pacific Rim, we're ready to hightail it up to Canada just to plunk ourselves down in this tub.

The hotel hosted numerous Olympic athletes and other VIPs last month, and opened to the public on March 1st. So far it seems to be getting great reviews, and we can see why. Apparently most of the 377 rooms have similar views of the harbor and North Shore Mountains. (Not all rooms have the 'deep soaker jetted tubs', though, so make sure to request it if you want to replicate what you see here.)

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The Poetic Writing's On the Wall at the Fairmont Pacific Rim

Where: 1038 Canada Place, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6C0B9

Fairmont Pacific Rim made the news at the start of the 2010 Winter Olympics for its anti-bottled water stance but the brand-new hotel is also making an impact from street level. That's because its entire exterior is covered in two-foot high stainless steel letters (in Helvetica bold font) that repeat the text:

lyingontopofabuildingthecloudslookednonearerthanwhenIwaslyingonthestreet...

(If you can read nonsensical Twitter hashtags then we think you can figure this one out.)

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Fairmont Pacific Rim Encouraging Olympics Guests to Drink Tap Water

Where: 1038 Canada Place, Vancouver, ON, Canada, V6C0B9

We're not sure we've ever seen a hotel steer guests away from buying bottled water from the hotel mini-bar but we like it. The brand-new Fairmont Pacific Rim in Vancouver has begun selling a stainless-steel portable water container with the Fairmont logo in the mini-bar with a little tag attached that says "Free Refills."

The goal is to get guests to buy the container and use the city's tap water to fill up instead of buying plastic water bottles, much to the dismay of Olympics sponsor, Coca-Cola who will be selling their Dasani water bottles all over town.

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