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This place is right across the street from Yorkdale Shopping Centre (great if you love retail shopping) and a few blocks north of Orfus Road (great if you love discount outlet shopping). It's a bit away from downtown, but it's near the Yorkdale TTC station, so you can easily take public transit downtown if you don't have a car (will take about 30 minutes from Yorkdale Station). Driving downtown will take you at least 45 minutes to an hour since there is always traffic in Toronto.
The location is a bit weird because you have to drive through a car dealership to get to the hotel. However, the actual hotel is very nice. There are two towers (the east tower and the west tower). I've stayed in both and they are equally nice. The lobby has free ice cold lemon water and grapefruit water 24/7. They don't always have them but on our most recent stay they had free cookies at the front desk in the late afternoon (chocolate chip, white chocolate macadamia, and oatmeal - yum!). From my experience with the Holiday Inn chain, Wednesdays are usually the day they have freebies like cookies, ice cream, etc. Our most recent stay was a Wednesday.
The staff are really nice and the rooms are clean. It's not luxury accommodations, but the rooms are very functional and not too dated. There's free WiFi which is really good during non-peak hours but a little spotty during peak hours.
There's a restaurant inside the hotel in the atrium and some of the balconies of the guest rooms look out onto the restaurant (like when you step out onto the balcony, you're not actually outside, but in the atrium), which is a little weird, but also interesting. There's also an indoor tennis court and swimming pool near the restaurant. I've never eaten at the restaurant but have had drinks there. Their pina colada is good (although a little too sweet). They also give you a complimentary basket of kettle-cooked chips at the bar.
We grabbed breakfast at the Seattle's Best kiosk which is inside the hotel across from the restaurant. It was good but as expected, very expensive - $3.50 for a little muffin, $5.95 for a small cup of yogurt with fruit and granola, and $3 for a bottle of orange juice. We were pressed for time that morning, otherwise we would have wandered south on Dufferin, where there are lots of places to eat for much less. There's always Tim Horton's in Yorkdale as well :)
I like the Holiday Inn Yorkdale, I would recommend it to anyone traveling to Toronto as long as you don't NEED to be downtown for most of your stay.
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