After I got to my room, I tried on the robe embroidered with 'TRUMP,' along with the 'TRUMP'-branded shower cap, in my marble-tiled bathroom. When I arrived to check in, I gawked at the two Lamborghini Diablos parked in front of the hotel entrance. I'm paying nearly $300 per night to stay in one of the 147 five-star hotel rooms in the tower. All over the outside of the property, there are large white bloblike sculptures, as if a giant sneezed. Below the condos, the hotel occupies the first 15 floors. It's 7:30 p.m., but I see very few lights on the higher floors, and I wonder who lives in the darkened condominiums in the upper parts of the tower. For someone like Donald Trump who is obsessed with superlatives, it must be tough to have your name emblazoned on the second-tallest building in Vancouver.įrom where I stand, the Trump International Hotel & Tower is not particularly welcoming. Which means that the Living Shangri-La is the tallest building here. But then I glance across West Georgia Street, at the Living Shangri-La tower, rising 62 stories but standing 659 feet tall. If you're impressed by tall things, the Trump tower is pretty tall. It's just after dark in Vancouver's downtown financial district, on a chilly autumn evening, and I'm gazing up at the twisting, triangular, neo-futurist Trump International Hotel & Tower, rising 63 stories and 616 feet into the air.
