Parq is the most design-led casino-hotel in the country: a downtown Vancouver complex with two hotels — a JW Marriott and the boutique Douglas, around 500 rooms between them — over a stylish casino, a rooftop park and a dozen restaurants, beside BC Place.
Parq's floor is style-led where River Rock's is vast — a smart, contemporary room of table games, a poker room and slots, designed as part of a luxury complex rather than a hall on its own. It is the downtown choice: less about scale, more about a polished evening in the middle of the city.
Two hotels share the building — the full-service JW Marriott and the boutique Douglas, around 500 rooms combined and both genuinely high-end. You pick the style that suits you and stay a lift-ride from the tables, the restaurants and the rooftop park.
The dining is the headline — roughly a dozen restaurants and bars — alongside a spa, a large event space and a landscaped park six storeys up. For a city break, nothing else in Canadian casino-hotels offers this much on one site.
Parq sits downtown beside BC Place, steps from the seawall, Yaletown and transit. You pay city prices, but you are in the heart of Vancouver with a casino downstairs — the pick for travellers who want the city as much as the gaming.