Luxury Vacation Rentals for Vancouver Olympics 2010

Vancouver 2010

The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics are gearing up, the stage is set, and hotels across the entire city are fully booked for the month of February. If you're heading to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics, then you'll need to make sure that you line up your accommodation early, as even most of the Vancouver Vacation Rentals are beginning to fill up.


Finding a Luxury Vacation Rental in Vancouver

So how do you find the right place to stay at the right price for your trip to Vancouver?

Since all the hotel rooms are already full, the city has turned to home owners to make up for the short fall in hotel based accomodation. Owners with small to large properties are offering them up as short term vacation rentals to meet the demand that the city will have for the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics.

It's very important that you protect yourself when renting an accomodation for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Be sure to rent only from a company that you trust and either use an escrow service for payment, or a verified payment system like PayPal that can protect your payment.


Where in Downtown Vancouver should I Rent for the Olympics?

If you've never been to the city of Vancouver and you're heading there for the 2010 Winter Olympics, you'll want to make sure that you secure a vacation rental that will be close to the events that you'll be attending.

In downtown, events are being held at both BC Place and GM Place which are both located on the southern end of the downtown core, also known as Yaletown. Since downtown Vancouver isn't a very big place (nothing like New York, Toronto, or other big cities you can think of), even if you secured a Vancouver Olympic Condo Rental at the northern end of the downtown area, it still would only be approximately a 15 or 20 minute cab ride to the events. However, since there are slated to be more than an additional million people in downtown Vancouver, being even 20 minutes away by cab from a venue might take three or four times that amount of time to get there as cabs are scarce as it is in Vancouver.

The best place, then, to secure a vacation rental in Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics would have to be in the Yaletown area, where both stadiums are located. Known to many as Vancouver’s little Soho, Yaletown has experienced a revival in the past several years to emerge as downtown’s trendiest residential neighbourhood for urban professionals. Impeccably hip, Yaletown is brimming with quality restaurants, boutiques, and galleries. It is a neighbourhood to see-and-be-seen.