Chilliwack Motor Inn
An owner-run place to stay, near the Cottonwood and Chilliwack Mall cluster.
View details
Hotels
Rainbow Motor Inn
About Rainbow Motor Inn
A place to stay near the Cottonwood and Chilliwack Mall cluster.
Yale Road is the old highway through Chilliwack, the route that carried through traffic before the freeway took it away, and the motor inns strung along it are a leftover from that arrangement. Rainbow Motor Inn is at 45620, in the retail belt around Cottonwood Centre and Chilliwack Mall rather than out at a Highway 1 interchange, which is where most of the city's rooms have ended up.
That distinction is the whole point of this section of the directory. The bulk of Chilliwack's accommodation is national brands at the freeway exits and none of those appear here. What is left is the independent side, small but genuinely local: family-run motels, a few inns, riverside and rural places out toward Vedder Crossing and the Chilliwack River valley, and bed-and-breakfast operations in the farming neighbourhoods. The demand behind all of it is seasonal and largely outdoor. Cultus Lake, the Vedder fishing runs, Mount Cheam and the campgrounds up the Chilliwack River valley fill rooms through the warm half of the year and empty them again after, so August is a book-ahead month in a way that February is not.
A phone number and a website are both published for this one, which puts rates, room types and availability a call or a click away and makes anything written here redundant on those points. What the address is worth saying is this. A motor inn in the middle of the Sardis retail district is a different proposition from a lodge up the valley: it suits someone in town for errands, a hospital appointment or an overnight stop on the way east, rather than someone who came for the river and wants to be near it at six in the morning. That is not a criticism of either. It is just the first thing to settle before booking.
Visiting Rainbow Motor Inn
Getting there
In the Sardis neighbourhood of Chilliwack.
Get directions (opens in a new tab)Keep exploring
More places near Sardis
Other hotels and nearby businesses in the Chilliwack directory.
Coast Chilliwack Hotel by APA
An independent place to stay in the old commercial grid around Five Corners.
View details
The Royal Hotel
An owner-run place to stay, in the downtown, within walking distance of Five Corners.
View details
Vedder River Inn
A place to stay on Vedder Road, in Vedder, between the Sardis malls and Vedder Crossing.
View details
Charis Camp and Conference Centre
An owner-run place to stay, up in the Eastern Hillsides.
View details
From the blog
Chilliwack guides and stories
Longer reads from the editor, with the places worth a detour linked inside them.
Hiring a trade in Chilliwack when half the results are not from here
Search for an electrician in Chilliwack and most of what comes back is a Metro Vancouver company with a Chilliwack landing page. Here is how to tell the difference.
Read the guide
The twelve Chilliwack neighbourhoods, and what each one is actually like
The City defines twelve. Three of them hold two thirds of the population and almost all of the shops. Here is the honest version of each.
Read the guide
Chilliwack eats in three separate places, and only one of them is obvious
The drive-throughs on Luckakuck are the visible half of eating here. The interesting half is downtown, out on the farm roads, and in the strip plazas nobody photographs.
Read the guide
Keep the directory honest
Own Rainbow Motor Inn?
Claim the listing to confirm your details, add your hours and photographs, and keep what people find accurate.