• The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver is a historic hotel in Canada designed to look like a castle. • The property has been featured in many films and shows, like "50 Shades of Grey" and "The X-Files." • I spent one night in a standard room at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver for $320.
From 2005 to 2008, Disney Channel's "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" was my favorite TV show on air. So you can imagine my excitement when I found myself standing in front of the Tipton Hotel 20 years later.
Except it wasn't the Tipton Hotel — the fictional hotel's exterior is actually the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, in British Columbia, Canada.
Commonly known as "the Castle in the City," the landmark hotel has a Châteauesque architectural style reminiscent of the French Renaissance — a stark contrast to the surrou