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The Riviera Motel
About The Riviera Motel
Osoyoos packs its downtown, its beaches and its motel strips into one stretch along the lakeshore, which is why an address like 6004 Maple Drive puts you inside the town rather than out on its edge. The Riviera Motel sits there, in the Downtown Osoyoos area, at the bottom of the valley where the Okanagan gives way to sagebrush, bunchgrass and the border.
Motels earn their keep on the plain things a road traveller wants first: parking near the door, a room reached without a long walk, and a check in that still works when the drive ran longer than planned. The details that differ from one property to the next are the ones worth raising on the phone. Ask about the mix of beds if you are travelling with children, whether a fridge or kitchenette comes with the unit, how the air conditioning copes with a hot valley afternoon, and how pets, boats and trailers are handled in the parking area. Ask too about the season you are aiming for, because a July weekend in this town and a quiet week in late autumn are not the same proposition at all.
Calls go to 250-495-6551, and rivieramotel.ca is worth a look first if you would rather see the room types before you dial. Osoyoos is small enough to read in a few minutes once you arrive, with warm shallow water on one side and vineyard benches climbing the dry hills on the other. Plan the warm months well ahead, since the beaches fill with families who come back to the same sand year after year, and leave time in the itinerary for the desert interpretive sites that most first time visitors do not expect to find in Canada.
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In the Downtown Osoyoos neighbourhood of Osoyoos.
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