How mobile are you going to be, James? You're the one flying in to the city, so that will be a big factor. On UBC campus (reasonably accessible by bus) we could get spaces either at the Libraries or the SUB (student union building). A group I'm an occasional attendee with meets at the cafeteria in Sears at Metrotown in Burnaby, which has a skytrain station so again is quite accessible via transit but on the east end of town rather than the west. Ray and I are in Richmond - south of town - so we'd be happy to find some place close to us; I would even offer to host it at my house (though there is a chance my family and I will be moving in April-May.) Anywhere not very loud is good for me, I suppose. Amgine