The Westin Bayshore

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Location1601 Bayshore Drive
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6G 2V4
Coordinates 49°17′35″N123°7′46″W / 49.29306°N 123.12944°W / 49.29306; -123.12944 Coordinates: 49°17′35″N123°7′46″W / 49.29306°N 123.12944°W / 49.29306; -123.12944
OpenedMarch 27, 1961
Website
westinbayshore.com

The Westin Bayshore is a hotel overlooking Coal Harbour in the Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Coal Harbour Neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Coal Harbour is the name for a section of Burrard Inlet lying between Vancouver, Canada's downtown peninsula and the Brockton Peninsula of Stanley Park. It has also now become the name of the neighbourhood adjacent to its southern shoreline.

Vancouver City in British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, up from 603,502 in 2011. The Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2,463,431 in 2016, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada with over 5,400 people per square kilometre, which makes it the fifth-most densely populated city with over 250,000 residents in North America behind New York City, Guadalajara, San Francisco, and Mexico City according to the 2011 census. Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada according to that census; 52% of its residents have a first language other than English. 48.9% have neither English nor French as their first language. Roughly 30% of the city's inhabitants are of Chinese heritage.

British Columbia Province of Canada

British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. With an estimated population of 5.034 million as of 2019, it is Canada's third-most populous province.

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Description

The hotel has 499 rooms, and is located in two buildings, one of which was formerly a low-rise building built in 1961 and one is a newer tower built in 1970. [1]

History

The main wing of the hotel opened as The Bayshore Inn on March 27, 1961. [2] It was the first hotel constructed from scratch by Western International Hotels, [3] which had previously built its business on assuming management of already operating hotels up and down the West Coast. The tower wing was added in 1970. [2]

On March 14, 1972, the world's most famous fugitive billionaire, Howard Hughes, moved into the hotel. [4] The eccentric business magnate lived in the hotel's three-room, top-floor penthouse for 6 months, and was never seen outside of his room, despite the media's best attempts to photograph him.

Howard Hughes American billionaire aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an influential figure in the aviation industry. Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by a worsening obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from a near-fatal plane crash and increasing deafness.

The Bayshore Inn was renamed The Westin Bayshore when the hotel chain was renamed Westin Hotels in 1981.

The hotel complex was sold for redevelopment in November 2015 for $290 million, which represented the largest single-asset sale in Canada in 2015 and a record for a Vancouver hotel on both a per-key and gross-value basis. [5] [6]

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