Fodor’s guidebook makes Yaletown the new East Vancouver

[SpongeG]

Fodor’s guidebook makes Yaletown the new East Vancouver

Yaletown condo owners may be slightly distressed to learn that they’ve bought real estate in East Vancouver. Kitsilano residents may be surprised to find out that they actually live in South Vancouver. And those who reside in the cheaper rent areas may call Saigon home.

The new Fodor’s Vancouver’s 25 Bestlays out a geographically twisted version of our city in both its maps and attractions, which are categorized by area. “Saigon” is the area of Vancouver near Kingsway between Fraser and Knight. Yaletown is written up as a highlight of East Vancouver, which, according to Fodor’s, means the area downtown east of Granville Street that includes Gastown and Chinatown.

Highlights of South Vancouver include Granville Island and the Museum of Anthropology at UBC. The actual South Vancouver doesn’t make it onto the map…maybe it’s floating somewhere around Steveston?

Commercial Drive residents will be amused to learn that the book’s sole mention of their ’hood is a couple sentences that call it a “gritty area” that is “too far east for most visitors, but it is one of the city’s emerging quarters” with shops and restaurants.

So if you see a hapless tourist wandering Marpole looking for Kits beach, have mercy--give ’em a ride back to East Van, where they belong.

http://www.straight.com/article-2469...east-vancouver

[johnjimbc]

Fodor's dominance in travel guides has always confused me. I just don't find them that enlightening. The fact that they are also just plain wrong doesn't really surprise me at all.

[osirisboy]

what do the mean by "Vancouver’s 25 Bestlays"

Is it just me or does it sound like they are going to list the 25 best places in vancouver to get laid?

[SpongeG]

i think it was a typo in the article - it should have been ...25 best lays out a....

[AlexYVR]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

Fodor’s guidebook makes Yaletown the new East Vancouver

“Saigon” is the area of Vancouver near Kingsway between Fraser and Knight.

http://www.straight.com/article-2469...east-vancouver

. . .I find that mildly hilarious. Who knew I lived in Saigon? On the other hand, I AM impressed that Fraser-Knight (aka The Abyss) warranted a neighbourhood name while all Commercial Drive got was 'too far to care about.'

. . .maybe Fodor's does have it right, after all. . .

[duener]

Originally Posted by osirisboy

what do the mean by "Vancouver’s 25 Bestlays"

Is it just me or does it sound like they are going to list the 25 best places in vancouver to get laid?

That's what I thought... I guess it should go like:

1. the Roxy
2. Roosters
3. Surrey
4. Upstairs in the no. 5
etc...