We invite you to meet our General Manager, Bill Thompson! Previously working with the hotel for 17 years and evolving into the role of Director of Operations, Bill is no stranger to the Best Western Plus Chateau Granville Hotel & Suites & Conference Centre!Read More >>
Vancouver is one of the most sustainable cities in North America, it has a goal for 2020 to become the greenest city in the world. With this deadline approaching, Best Western Plus Chateau Granville Hotel & Suites & Conference Centre has been successfully implementing many environmentally friendly features in our guest rooms to support this initiative over the years. We loved to see an increasing number in both leisure and business travelers becoming seriously concerned about their impact on the environment. Being a sustainable hotel, we live and breathe our green policy on a daily basis. Read on to see why our main focus in our guest rooms remains green and eco-friendly.
Exploring Vancouver’s biggest attractions can mean spending a hefty chunk of your budget on entrance tickets. What if we told you there’s a lifetime of fun to be had without ever handing over a cent! You will then enjoy this list of Free Things to do in Vancouver.Read More >>
The Vancouver Sun Run start line will accommodate close to 50,000 enthusiastic runners! This Sunday April 14th, 2019 marks the 35th annual run. It is Canada’s largest 10K road race promoting a healthy and active lifestyle for all participants.Read More >>
Every year, World Water Day highlights the importance that water has in our lives. It acts as a call to action to recognize that fresh water is not something to take for granted.
March 22nd is marked as World Water Day. We thought it would be great to share with you, just a few of the many initiatives we follow, to help save water on a daily basis at the Best Western Plus Chateau Granville Hotel.
For longer stay over guests, we have appropriate signage to keep guests informed that their linen is changed every third day,unless requested otherwise. We also encourage our guests to re-use their towels throughout their stay. Fresh towels are provided upon request. This process has helped us to drastically reduce water consumption.
We use eco-friendly laundry products to optimize our laundry process by using less harsh chemicals for the environment. We offer make up towels in all guest rooms to avoid the constant use of bleach in our washing process.
This program runs through EcoLab and allows us to optimize our laundry process by combining the elements of low temperature and a smart wash process with reduced wash steps. The Aquanomics program helps us to improve operational efficiency of our laundry by reducing our water and energy usage by up to 40%. We use aquanomic laundry products such as low temperature detergents and de-stainers which help us to adopt a smart and efficient laundry operation, thus taking us one step closer to achieving our green goals.
By developing a green policy, it let’s our staff live and breathe our green initiatives on a daily basis. We offer constant and continuous staff training to ensure that the team is committed to our green objectives and our water management plan through staff meetings and notice boards.
As with our employees, we must educate our guests about the importance of saving water. With simple behavioral changes, such as reducing the number of towels a day or closing the taps when they are not being used, we can make improvements and involve guests in our water management system that takes care of the environment and is sustainable over time.
On this World Water Day 2018 we encourage you all to understand the fragility of our environment and the importance of its protection. We leave you with this final thought
Let’s be wise in using water, “keep it for nature, and nature will keep it for us”
Happy World Water Day
