Fraserview Hall

I really didn’t know these places existed in Vancouver, the other cities, like Richmond, Surrey, yes, but not right in Vancouver. Coming here for a friend’s work function I knew it was going to be a big event for clients and the such for Christmas, but how many people were going to be there, I had no clue, all that was given to me was the address and to be there. When I arrived I saw a massive slew of people dressed up in ball gowns and suits and I knew I was in the right place. If you need to know where this is, it’s South on Fraser and Marine Drive, you really cannot miss it.
When you reach this two storey building there is a nice reception area, then there is a stairway that leads you to the main space you should be, which is upstairs, and when I arrived upstairs this place was massive. Spanning from Fraser street all the way eastbound when my friend who invited me to this event said there was 1,000 people, this place easily sat that, and more. If you needed a place that could fit as much people as possible and still wasn’t a stadium and you didn’t want to leave Vancouver, well you are in luck, here it is.
I saw a dance floor (middle area), huge round tables placed everywhere, multiple washrooms on each far end to accommodate the space. A big screen was set up for this party, with microphones and speeches, and I have to say, as I was not sitting near the centre, that the acoustics of this place were pretty good, no screeching sounds, no garbled speakers, but that you could hear, which is pretty good. The dinner was set up buffet style and once the food was announced people were in a line going to satisfy their stomachs. I decided to wait and I know that some took about 30 minutes to get their food, but I will repeat that there was 1,000 people. Also there was a nice big bar on the far end that I saw that built another lineup.
The one thing that this place is lacking is parking, luckily at night we were all parked at the next businesses lot, and that you can park on the street, but depending on the weather and if you are bringing a lady in a beautiful dress and heels, the drop off point is not the greatest. If you are hosting some huge event with the need to run a dinner for people, and do not want to go far, this maybe your place, they had enough servers for this event, and even though it was a buffet they cleared the plates pretty quick, so the venue knows how to staff this place as well.