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As soon as I entered my room at the Fairmont I knew there was a problem. It was warm, and I knew from past experience that it would stay warm to hot (for me). Only the more recent Canadian hotels have their air-con able to be set to 'cool' during winter; mostly the aircon just blows air at ambient temperature. In the case of the Fairmont, the thermostat told me that the temperature of the room was 23 degrees when I went in, and towards the evening it got up to 25 and a bit. This is because the building is just a big warm block of concrete and the room heats accordingly. I like my room at about 20-21 degrees and find it hard to sleep above that (I'm from Tasmania, remember
).
I went down to reception to see if there might be another room available the next day. they were most sympathetic and helpful and said there was a delux room on the top floor
, at a corner which had 2 windows, and therefore the chance of a cross-breeze. I knew already that open windows only allowed air to go out, due to the overall pressure in the building, but it sounded a better room than I had, so that was fine.
Here is the lift lobby and my original room:
![YVR9.jpg YVR9.jpg](https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/data/attachments/34/34915-90232cc482d8e6b7b1870affc8a61f61.jpg?hash=kCMsxILY5r)
and the second room, and bathroom. As I mentioned, all pretty old fashioned, but comfortable and the plumbing was OK. And, happy days, it was at an even 19 degrees, so that was a great result.
![YVR10.jpg YVR10.jpg](https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/data/attachments/34/34916-62660005192471e9b5020d33942da41e.jpg?hash=YmYABRkkce)
The view out the 2 windows. Somewhere in the gloom of the LH pic is the harbour (its been raining solid since I arrived). I like the Fairmont reflected in the adjacent office building in the RH pic.
![YVR11.jpg YVR11.jpg](https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/data/attachments/34/34917-6bf4c4348a2d4ce15d0af92559fe8162.jpg?hash=a_TENIotTO)
![Smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png)
I went down to reception to see if there might be another room available the next day. they were most sympathetic and helpful and said there was a delux room on the top floor
![Big Grin :D :D](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png)
Here is the lift lobby and my original room:
![YVR9.jpg YVR9.jpg](https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/data/attachments/34/34915-90232cc482d8e6b7b1870affc8a61f61.jpg?hash=kCMsxILY5r)
and the second room, and bathroom. As I mentioned, all pretty old fashioned, but comfortable and the plumbing was OK. And, happy days, it was at an even 19 degrees, so that was a great result.
![YVR10.jpg YVR10.jpg](https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/data/attachments/34/34916-62660005192471e9b5020d33942da41e.jpg?hash=YmYABRkkce)
The view out the 2 windows. Somewhere in the gloom of the LH pic is the harbour (its been raining solid since I arrived). I like the Fairmont reflected in the adjacent office building in the RH pic.
![YVR11.jpg YVR11.jpg](https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/data/attachments/34/34917-6bf4c4348a2d4ce15d0af92559fe8162.jpg?hash=a_TENIotTO)