Bella Coola Valley Inn

Nice enough place in a very small town. Clean rooms, comfortable beds. The restaurant downstairs is pretty good. Wifi is decent but not great (rarely is in remote communities from my experience). You can stream movies but they aren’t setup to support heavy data usage for work or play.

Family run business. Friendly and accommodating. Rooms were fine, great shower pressure. There is a restaurant and bar attached that was great to have. Food was quite good. I’d recommend booking for sure.

So we booked the room a while ago looking for a dog-friendly space. To their credit, it is dog-friendly. What we were not prepared for is the dog-friendly rooms come with urine stains on the carpet from previous visitors, the damaged fire protection equipment, and the vacuous and inattentive desk guy. Considering the premium room price, it's not a repeat experience. Up your game, spend a few hundred on vinyl plank flooring, and upgrade the 1970s furniture. Full disclosure, I paid for 2 nights despite having to leave after the first. Totally on me. I could have canceled but was hedging in case an unplanned departure could be avoided. Totally on me.

The attached restaurant is great. The rooms, not so much. Beds are rough. Nightmare to take a shower longer than 5 minutes because the shower head pulverizes you with pressure, and soaks the floor near the tub due to the ricochet of water bullets. You can’t even change the direction of the shower head to prevent it from happening and try as you might to close the shower curtains they shan’t stop the flooding. No microwave in rooms to heat up some self-bought breakfast in the AM since they don’t provide any, just one microwave in the lobby but obviously no plates or cutlery to make it any easier. The super 8 at 100 mile house that I stopped at on the way here had better beds, complimentary breakfast, microwaves in the room, and a better shower, and I honestly never thought I’d prefer 100 mile house to anything. The little things just add up too after all that, like lack of netting on windows so you can’t open them up for fresh air (which you definitely want considering the stuffiness) unless you want a mosquito in your ear, and lack of ANY counter space on the bathroom sink for toiletries. Yes, I definitely want to be juggling my face moisturizer, body lotion, hairbrush, and toothbrush after mopping up the puddle I made with a towel because I felt bad. The constant buzzing from the outdated fridge is also super sick. Oh yeah, AND the internet sucks. Obviously you’re not coming here for the wifi, but geeze I can’t even scroll on my phone without buffering after all that. A funny detail is having the lights for the bathroom and main room light next to each other, so that I can flash bang my father awake at 1 am instead of taking the quiet, inconspicuous pee like I had hoped. This doesn’t affect the rating, it’s just funny.

It’s too bad I can’t rate the restaurant separately from the Inn. I was very happy with the menu selection as well of the quality of in-house made food. Everything we ordered was fantastic! The room was clean but stuffy and heavily scented with air freshener type smells. There wasn’t a screen on the window so if we wanted fresh air, we had to risk bugs getting in. There was an air conditioning unit but it kept shutting off after a few minutes. There was also a ceiling fan, but we could only get it to operate when the light was on. Beats sleeping out with the beats i guess.

Great stay in Bella Coola! Rooms are clean an comfortable. Location is central, directly across from a gas station and grocery store. And the restaurant downstairs is incredible! Delicious food and great service.

Very dated but seemingly the best in town. Large residential area for First Nations people nearby. Largish room with view. The best thing about the Inn was the restaurant open for lunch and dinner with a variety of delicious options. Perhaps Hagensborg could offer better options for accommodation. Recommend Carol’s for lunch spot too.

We chose this lodge partly due to reasonable charges and also that there was a restaurant inside. There weren't many to choose from since it was the height of tourist season. The hotels we checked had only availability on second floor and there was no elevators. The room was adequate, mattress quite thin and the A/C worked well. We were able to manage the 22 steps up the fairly narrow staircase to the rooms. One of us is disabled so it was a chore. We needed to leave one day early and were not offered a discount even though it was due to wildfires affecting our home in the Okanagan. One plus was the very good service and food offered in the restaurant.