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Plans to build highrise hotel on downtown Kelowna waterfront moving ahead
It’s been a long time coming but Westcorp is moving ahead with its proposed 33-storey…
Kamloops hotel industry healthier than Kelowna’s following pandemic
Kamloops hotels were close to full occupancy last summer and more rooms were occupied by…
Kelowna’s Ramada Hotel for sale for $32 million
One of Kelowna’s best-known hotels is for sale. Royal LePage Kelowna realtor Tony Sprovieri has…
Rocky Mountaineer buys Kamloops hotel for staff accommodation
Invictus Properties has acquired Scott’s Inn and Restaurant in Kamloops. It's the same company that…
Why almost every hotel in Okanagan, Kamloops is worth more than Kelowna’s Ramada
Kelowna’s Ramada Hotel and Conference centre is a big, sprawling, prominent, long-standing feature of the…
After 25 years, Kelowna hostel to be replaced with apartment building
After 25 years in a big old house on Pandosy Street, the Kelowna International Hostel…
Founder of Kelowna hostel changed it from a crack house into ‘pure joy’
It was with “incredible optimism and obliviousness” that Crystal Flaman and her former husband bought…
Can’t afford a home? Buy this historic Midway hotel
This two-storey historic hotel on the main drag of Midway is for sale for $250,000,…
$41.5 million deal likely biggest hotel sale in Kelowna’s history
Kamloops-based Mundi Hotel Enterprises has made what is likely the most expensive hotel purchase in…
The 1908 murder of the owner of the historic Midway Hotel
The two-storey Midway Hotel was built in 1900 and has served as a main hub…
Airbnb doesn’t compete with Kamloops, Kelowna hotels but still stalling recovery
In the past year, the number of short-term rentals in the Thompson-Okanagan region has grown…
Kamloops hotels fared better than the Okanagan’s in 2023
Two consecutive years of high occupancy are triggering interest in building more hotels in Kamloops.…
Two new hotels proposed for Kelowna
Earlier this week, the Mark Anthony Group filed an application for a 12-storey hotel in…
Okanagan bees check-in to custom-built hotels
OKANAGAN – Even bees like to put of the ritz from time to time. They…
Downtown Kelowna hotel project isn’t just six storeys higher — it’s almost twice the height
KELOWNA – After a decade of planning, it still hasn’t got a real name but…
FLOOD WATCH 2017: Potential Kelowna tourists put off by flooding concerns
KELOWNA – The national and provincial media coverage of the Okanagan flooding may be playing…
Courtyard by Marriott hotel coming to Kelowna
KELOWNA – After rejecting the previous proposal, council unanimously approved a six storey Marriott hotel,…
Another delay for 26-storey downtown Kelowna hotel
KELOWNA – Construction on the large Westcorp hotel in downtown Kelowna will be delayed for…
Kamloops police searching for man behind Instagram scam
KAMLOOPS - Police are on the lookout for a man accused of illegally obtaining a stay and food at a Kamloops hotel by pretending to be an Instagram advertising executive. The man stayed at a hotel and ate for free by promising to promote the business on the phone photo sharing app Instagram, but he...
Firefighters douse flames at Kelowna hotel
KELOWNA — Firefighters knocked down a blaze in an out-building of a Kelowna hotel but say they don't know how it started. Around 8:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9, Kelowna Fire Department got numerous calls about a fire at Kelowna Inn and Suites. They found flames coming from the roof of a pool building. It wasn't...
Green light for 24-storey hotel downtown
KELOWNA – After 15 years, Westcorp Developments has finally been given the final go-ahead from…