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Shangri-La unveils tony screening room for VIP travellers.

New downtown Vancouver, BC, hotel sports a pretty nifty meeting space for the biz jet set—or anyone, really, who wants to put on a good show.

by Michelle Pentz Glave 6 November 2009

If wowing clients is on your meeting agenda, you might want to consider booking that next VIP meeting—or board retreat—at downtown Vancouver, BC’s new Shangri-La Hotel, the luxe Asian resort and hotel group’s first foray into North America.

The up-market, 119-room Shangri-La—an environmentally sustainable complex that opened in January—recently unveiled its Blue Moon Theatre, a private, 36-seat screening room. The hotel says it’s “the only one of its kind in a Vancouver hotel and unique among meeting venues in Canada.” Of course it features cushy seats, tony design and surround-sound. (Available for corporate affairs or special events; i.e., Hollywood-style wedding, anyone?)

The biz crowd can also tap into Shangri-La’s Library (fireplace, the classics on the shelves) and a sixth-floor outdoor terrace that spans an entire city block. No nasty fluorescents here: the three adjacent meeting rooms (in all, 418 sq m, or 4,500 sq ft) are lighted by floor-to-ceiling windows. And don’t forget the truffle-oil-drizzled popcorn, courtesy of star-chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s onsite MARKET By Jean-Georges restaurant. Let the show begin!

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