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Richmond's biggest resort: hotel rooms and suites above a casino floor, a theatre that pulls touring acts, a marina and restaurants including Gordon Ramsay Steak. Bridgeport SkyTrain is at the door, so downtown is about 20 minutes away.
Bridgeport station is the reason this property works the way it does. The Canada Line puts downtown Vancouver about twenty minutes away and the airport a short ride in the other direction, and the resort sits essentially at the station door on River Road. For anybody flying in and out, or coming to Richmond for a show without wanting to drive home afterwards, that geography does more work than any list of amenities.
The property combines hotel accommodation, a casino floor, a theatre that draws touring acts, a marina on the river and several restaurants. Richmond does not have many hotels at this scale outside the airport strip, so it ends up absorbing a wide range of roles. The wedding block booking. The out-of-town family. The concert night and the overnight layover. Few buildings in the city serve that many unrelated purposes at once.
The location deserves an honest read. You are on the north edge of the island among highway ramps, warehouses and the river, with no neighborhood to wander out into afterwards. Everything you do is either inside the building or one train ride away. That suits a short stay very well and a family holiday considerably less, and anybody wanting to see the food side of Richmond will be riding a couple of stops south to Aberdeen to find it. Bridgeport is a transport node rather than a place, which is exactly why the resort was built there.
In the Bridgeport neighbourhood of Richmond.
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Hotel on Alexandra Road, in the middle of the Golden Village restaurant strip, so dozens of Chinese kitchens sit within a five-minute walk. Convenient for visitors here to eat their way through Richmond rather than to catch a plane.
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The casual burger counter at River Rock, serving smash burgers, buttermilk fried chicken tenders, fish and chips and poutine. It keeps casino hours, which makes it one of the more reliable late-night bites in Bridgeport.
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Polished Cantonese seafood restaurant beside the hotel at River Rock, a short walk from Bridgeport Station. Careful dim sum, live seafood, and a quieter and more formal room than the No. 3 Road crowd. Popular for business lunches.
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Family-run transmission specialist on Smith Street trading since 1975, rebuilding and repairing both automatic and manual gearboxes for domestic and imported cars. This is where other Richmond shops send transmission work.
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A compact French-Asian bakery on No. 3 Road known for laminated pastry with unexpected fillings like yuzu and masago, and for sea salt buns that regularly sell out. Small counter and short hours, so it is worth timing your visit for the morning bake.
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