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Where to eat and stay in Nanaimo

229 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels in Nanaimo, British Columbia — compiled from open data and public registers. Free to search, and no venue pays to appear.

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We hold 229 venues in Nanaimo — 201 places to eat and 28 to stay. That makes it the 10th-largest of the 799 towns and suburbs we cover in British Columbia, carrying 2% of the region's venues.

Of the places to eat, 20% are cafés against a national figure of 19%. That is close to the New Zealand norm — Nanaimo eats roughly the way the country does. The full split is 41 cafés, 95 restaurants, 46 takeaways, 7 bars and 12 pubs.

127 of the 201 eating places carry a cuisine tag. The most common are pizza (19), burger (19) and coffee shop (19). Relative to the rest of the country Nanaimo is unusually strong on seafood, fish and chips and korean — those appear here at a higher rate than the national average.

On the practical detail: 126 publish opening hours (55%), 7 are recorded as step-free, 10 have outdoor seating and 9 flag vegetarian options. Coverage here is better than the 21% national average, so the hours below are more reliable than most.

For a bed, Nanaimo runs to 28 listings — 10 hotels, 9 motels, 1 b&bs and guest houses, 1 hostels and 7 holiday parks and campgrounds. Hotels dominate, at 36% of the town's accommodation.

Places of a similar size — Kelowna (229), Brossard (241), North Vancouver (217) and St. John's (246) — average 9% accommodation. Nanaimo runs at 12%, much the same, so on this measure it behaves like its peers.

All of this is derived from open data rather than collected from listings sites: OpenStreetMap for the venues, public registers for verification. 25 of the 229 venues in Nanaimo carry at least six recorded attributes and so have a page of their own; the rest are listed here, because a page with only a name and a map pin on it would be worth nobody's time. A blank field means unrecorded, not absent. Nothing here is scraped from a commercial directory, no venue has paid to appear, and we publish no ratings or reviews of our own.

Cafés in Nanaimo (41)

Restaurants in Nanaimo (95)

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Takeaways in Nanaimo (46)

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Bars in Nanaimo (7)

Pubs in Nanaimo (12)

Hotels in Nanaimo (10)

Motels in Nanaimo (9)

B&Bs and guest houses in Nanaimo (1)

Hostels in Nanaimo (1)

Holiday parks and campgrounds in Nanaimo (7)

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