Vancouver

The Hotel ensures successful events with complimentary:

• On-site technician
• Lecterns with light & sound control
• Overhead projectors, video players
• Stands, carts, easels, flipcharts
• LCD colour display panel
• PCs and peripherals

Meetings and events at Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver promise an ambience of exclusivity and privacy for groups of any size. The Hotel's 2,405 square metres (25,833 square feet) of distinctive and adaptable space includes 12 function rooms and the Park Ballroom, all equipped for the most advanced presentations and staging. Cutting-edge meeting room technology includes T1 high-speed Internet access, simultaneously available ISDN lines, in-room telephones, temperature controls and rheostat lighting. Four Seasons also offers a one-of-a-kind landscaped outdoor terrace overlooking the city's downtown.

Superb cuisine – freshly prepared and beautifully presented – is evident on every table. Four Seasons service ensures that everyone, from the planner to the guest or delegate, enjoys individualized attention to the most telling detail.

We bring the food, service and ambience of Four Seasons to any location you select. We excel in pleasing individual tastes with customized menus – prepared at the location site, if possible. Elegant table settings are provided, with every element thoughtfully chosen. Rely on the impeccable, unobtrusive service for which Four Seasons is renown.

Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver is the only hotel in Vancouver that offers a dedicated kosher kitchen, making us a particularly welcoming venue for the Jewish community. To oversee the preparation of all food, a specially qualified supervisor of kosher laws is on hand for each event. In keeping with Four Seasons reputation, the kosher menu adds delicious imagination to traditional specialties. For further details, please contact our catering manager.

Audiovisual services play an important role in the overall success of your event. Our partner, Swank Audio Visuals, maintains an office on property and offers the technical expertise and equipment necessary to flawlessly deliver a spectacular event. Their services include, but are not be limited to:

• Experienced staff and professional technicians 
• 3D designs and on-site renderings through SwankDraw 
• Event consultation and show supervision 
• LED, decorative and intelligent lighting 
• Superior sound systems 
• Video conferencing, webcasting and event archiving 
• Technical and creative set design 
• Computer data display 
• Projection specialists 
• Audio and video recording and duplicating

Our conference service managers will be happy to assist with setting up any type of music or entertainment for your meeting.

The Hotel features a full-service shipping and receiving office. All packages should be sent to the attention of the conference service manager. They will be stored in a separate conference storage area. Limited space is available for the storage of large items. Please time shipping to the date of your arrival and allow for additional time for customs clearance if your shipment is entering Canada from abroad.

Receiving dock

Please contact the receiving department or your conference service manager for special arrangement for delivery of oversized packages or environmentally sensitive equipment.

Post-conference shipping

Shipping of post-conference materials may be coordinated through your conference service manager.

Maintenance

The engineering department is available 24 hours a day for general assistance with lighting, room temperature control and minor repairs.

Your conference services manager can help accommodate your group’s special requests. For detailed information, please contact the Hotel directly. In addition, we recommend the following destination management companies:

Cantrav Services Inc.

Telephone: (604) 708-2500

Fax: (604) 879-0950

Destination Planners, Inc.

Telephone: (604) 687-0700

Fax: (604) 687-1711

Pacific Destination Services

Telephone: (604) 685-2205

Fax: (604) 688-6972

Rare Indigo

Telephone: (604) 732-6644

Fax: (604) 732-6665

TBA Global Events

Telephone: (604) 689-3448

Fax: (604) 689-2245

Max West Marketing Inc.

Telephone: (604) 899-1070

Fax: (604) 899-1071

Special arrangements can be made for clients to purchase welcome amenities for their VIP guests.

The following are examples of on-site and off-site spousal programs. The Hotel would be pleased to assist in organising a program to fit your needs and budget. Some ideas may include:

• City highlights tour
• Cooking class or demonstration
• Blo University
• Helicopter tours
• Golf

Other activities:

• On wheels – Rent bicycles or in-line skates and wheel around the green trails or sea wall of Stanley Park
• On water – Charter a sailboat and head out to English Bay. Or fish for salmon on beautiful Howe Sound. Watch for seals sunbathing on "The Rocks"
• Golf – Picturesque University Golf Club, 30 minutes from the Hotel, to Westwood Plateau Golf & Country Club, 45 minutes away
• Touring – The natural beauty of Grouse Mountain to atmospheric city neighbourhoods such as Gastown
• Shopping – 100 shops at Pacific Centre (right at the Hotel), Robson Street (fashionable boutiques and restaurants, a block away), Granville Island (our waterfront Farmers Market)
• Day trips – From the gardens of Victoria to the all-season mountain resort of Whistler
• Nighttime – Cocktail cruises to waterfront restaurants; creative theme parties on the Hotel's pool deck; dinner atop Grouse Mountain, at the Vancouver Aquarium, False Creek Yacht Club or Capilano Suspension Bridge – the venues are endless!
• Nightclubs – The Roxy, Commodore, The Plaza, Au Bar, Crush and Ginger 62, Caprice, Republic and Pop Opera – all within walking distance of the Hotel

Vancouver offers many exciting places to visit and fun activities for the whole family to enjoy, including:

• Stanley Park
• The Vancouver Aquarium
• Science World/OMNIMAX Theatre
• H.R. MacMillan Planetarium
• Museum of Anthropology, with its large Haida collection
• Baseball, football and hockey games
• Capilano Suspension Bridge and Park
• Local neighbourhoods such as Chinatown and Gastown
• Granville Island Market
• Shannon Falls, North America's 3rd-longest in the province
• Skiing, snow tubing or snowboarding at Whistler Mountain, Cypress Mountain or Mount Seymour
• Boating, windsurfing, canoeing, kayaking at Blackcomb
• Biking or in-line skating
• Zip trekking at Grouse Mountain

Our Concierge is pleased to help arrange children's activities or babysitting services.

Discover flexible spaces that adapt perfectly to your meeting goals, along with technology that accommodates the most demanding presentation and communication requirements. Experienced Four Seasons support is on site to promptly respond to every need.