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Recreation Inn and Suites
About Recreation Inn and Suites
Travellers who arrive in Kelowna by car generally want three things from a room: easy parking, a bed away from road noise, and a base that does not add half an hour to every outing. Recreation Inn and Suites answers those from 1891 Parkinson Way, on the Dilworth side of the city, set back from the main arterial while staying close to it.
Suite style accommodation usually means more floor space and some cooking capacity, which changes the arithmetic of a longer stay or a family trip. When you call 250-860-3982, ask whether a unit has a full kitchen or a bar fridge and microwave, whether there is laundry on site, what the parking is like for a truck or a vehicle carrying a rack or trailer, and what the cancellation window looks like. Groups in for a tournament or a course should ask about holding several rooms together rather than booking them one at a time. Start at recreationinn.com.
Then there is the city itself. Kelowna is the service centre for the whole Okanagan, with the hospitals, the university campus in the hills to the northeast, the college and the airport all here, so a good share of the people staying are in town for work, treatment or study rather than for the beach. Everything is a short drive rather than a walk: downtown and the waterfront parks one way, the Pandosy and Lower Mission beaches another, wine country spreading out in several directions. Summer fills the city and the roads with it, so book early for July and August.
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In the Dilworth neighbourhood of Kelowna.
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