surry
 

does anybody know any cheap clean motels to stay in
thanks

Re: surry
 

where's surry? Do you mean Surrey and if so do you mean Surrey the county in the UK or Surrey the district of the greater Vancouver area? If so then the more details you can provide the better the response you'll get

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Why Surrey? I'd be very careful where you stay, especially in North Surrey avoid the King George Highway, Whaley and Newton.

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Are you looking per night or per hour?

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:rofl:

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:thumbsup:

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Hi Chris, Surrey always gets a bad wrap but there are lots of good places even in North Surrey (awful lot of millionaires for it to be that bad!). try Travelocity.ca for hotels in the area. I just checked the Guildford Sheraton on 104th and its coming up for $135/night at the moment - not bad for a good quality hotel. There is many more depending on you budget and requirements. We stayed at the Sandman Inn at Guildford with no problems for 8 weeks when we first arrived in Canada waiting for our house to be finished.

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Are we sure op means Surrey GVA?? -assume he does - oink - l like yr comment ;)

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Hi thanks for your help, im landing mid september so i was just looking for a convenient place to base myself for a week or two, surrey looked central for that area, i didnt really want to stay in vancouver as i cant afford to live there.

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Chris, I would suggest you do a search of the forum to find what others have said about Surrey. There's a reason it's affordable!

:)

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I know several people who live in the Guildford area of Surrey. Good, honest, hard working people. It's not where I choose, or would consider choosing, to live but it's not all gangs and crime. That said, there is a significant amount of crime in that area and it reminds me very much of some of the grimmer parts of the UK.

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North Surrey is the problem, some areas are actually very nice (Crescent Beach for instance), Cloverdale also not bad. But the areas to the north should be avoided like the plague.

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Surry isn't very near Wistler!!

Sorry, I couldn't resist that one.

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He said he was Surry what more do you want? ;)

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Stick to Vancouver your geography sucks. Keep the riff raff in south Surrey/Cloverdale and Downtown....! Newton and Whalley not so good but many other places are a great place to live. Best kept secret around.

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Depends what floats ya boat I guess. Not an area that I would go for, in fact one I'd avoid altogether, but then a lot more affordable than South Surrey.

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I recently moved from White Rock, BC and i can say, hand on heart, stear clear of surrey......... its not the nicest place to stay. Try Creswcent Beach, it is most definately beautiful, and its not far from the highway 99 into the city, you can either go over the Alex Fraser Bridge into the city or through the tunnel, takes roughly about 35 - 40 mins to get to the city depending on the traffic. South Surrey, however is really lovely, and there are some nice little hotels there, but cant think of any off the top of my head......

Vancouver is most definately expensive, i also lived in Kitsilano for a while, which is definately expeensive also...........

My advice for what its worth is try White Rock, Crescent Beach, (Langley is nice but a bit far) Cloverdale has really nice areas too.

Hope that helps

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I think what matters is where you want/can afford to live once you get here. Look at some real estate listings: www.remax.ca is one. If you want to live around Surrey, then great, but otherwise what is the point in basing yourself there? I don't like Surrey, but some areas of S.Surrey are nice and further East around Langley etc, can be good if you want something more rural. If you want to live close to town, but can't afford to be downtown, maybe look at N/S/East Van. Still not cheap mind.

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days inn on king george is a nice hotel to stay at, reasonably priced and has been refurbished recently....next to sky train station which comes in handy for trips to downtown...

MR79

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thanks that was really helpful:)

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As I said keeps the riff raff out. Not many Brits there either which makes it even better:thumbup:

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Maybe this is telling you something. There has been no shortage of riff raff each time I've been there. That's what keeps many of the folks who can afford South Surrey away I believe.