Pan Pacific Vancouver Christmas Wish Breakfast 2009
If there is one event that truly kicks off the holiday season in Vancouver, it’s the annual Pan Pacific Vancouver Christmas Wish Breakfast, the largest toy fundraiser in the Lower Mainland.
Back for its 23rd year, the Pan Pacific Vancouver Christmas Wish Breakfast is an epic toy drive that attracts thousands. On November 30, between 6am – 9am, you can enjoy a free festive breakfast at the luxury hotel’s Cafe Pacifica Restaurant in exchange for an unwrapped toy or cash donation. Last year, the event collected 26,000 toys and over $25,000 cash, all benifitting the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau.
“The Pan Pacific Vancouver Christmas Wish Breakfast kicks off the holiday season in our city,” says Tim Tindle, Pan Pacific Vancouver General Manager. “The outpouring of generosity is astonishing and our entire team is always so thrilled to host the thousands of generous people that pour through our doors. Sharing the energy and excitement of giving during the holiday season is the best way to get into the festive spirit of Christmas.”
Along with the delicious hot breakfast, the morning’s festivities include live broadcasts from the hotel with Global BC, JackFM, FunFM and News 1130, plus live entertainment. Free parking for all attendees will be provided by Vinci in the underground parking of Canada Place.
Don’t miss this wonderful Vancouver tradition that is both a chance to give generously to those in need and a fun, unique way to herald the beginning of the holiday season. And, if you’ve been before, please share your experiences in the comments!
The Pan Pacific Vancouver Christmas Wish Breakfast is on Tuesday, November 30, 2010, from 6am – 9am.
4:48 pm
It is not donating if you get a free breakfast. It isn’t even a free breakfast. You are simply exchanging a product for a product=commercial transaction. Could we all consider simply giving money and/or time to help people who need it – you know take care of our community without having to get something in return? What if the restaurant simply donated the money to the charity and people brought down their donations without any need to receive breakfast in return? What if we simply looked at sharing with others because we can?
5:31 pm
@Thinking
If the food is donated as well as the staff’s pay, then the toy should be considered a donation. I work for a non-profit charitable organization so I would know. I’m not claiming this is how this particular event is run but at least leave room for that possibility.
Fundraising is especially difficult these days and not as simple as you make it out to be.
6:19 pm
I removed the part of the headline that read “- Free Breakfast for an Unwrapped Toy” because it seems to have caused some confusion. (My mistake; I added it just to generate attention for this great cause.)
The Pan Pacific Vancouver and its partners are putting on a buffet breakfast to say thank you for donated toys and cash gifts to the charity Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau. It’s not a commercial exchange; sorry if my language was misleading. This is a wonderful charitable event that generates toys for underprivileged children, surely a very worthwhile cause.
Hope that clarifies!
6:30 pm
“it’s not a simple as ‘i’ make it out to be? Maybe it isn’t as complicated as you make it out to be. I know one fact for sure, many people I am connected to feel exactly as I do, so you can cling to your perception or you can hear what people are saying and understand what they intend. There isn’t a day that goes by that some non profit isn’t on the street, in my snail mail, in my email, on my voice mail, or on Twitter with yet another scheme for ‘donations. Since no one can donate or volunteer for the gad zillions of non profits out there some of us are choosing non profits that we can determine are devoting all efforts to the purported cause. We don’t want or need resources to go into providing anything in return, we want the money to go directly to the people who need it. Having spent countless volunteer hours working for non profits over the years I have a pretty good idea of what the status is, I also, understand how the ‘people who care’ feel about the trend lately.
1:48 pm
Give it up would you.
Get up early & take your unwrapped gift down to the Pan Pacific Hotel & witness how great a “donated event” this is.
Everyone is there from emercancy services to local media.
If they all did’nt think it was charatable cause then I would expect they would simply not show up year after year to this “giving event”
Merry Christmas to you!!!!!
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6:24 pm
Sean Rodgers, you are hilarious, bossy, but hilarious.
I appreciate the fact that Dana understood my point and so very graciously changed the headline and explained the premise. But you, Sean, you made me laugh, and I always appreciate that.
Now, I could obey your commands if I tried hard, but it just isn’t my thing. I will get up when I feel like it, I will buy and donate in whatever form and time frame I think will be the most likely to bring a little happiness to someone else and I will state my thoughts reflecting that we might be better served as humans if we could return to the idea that we can help out other people when they need it without thinking we have to get something in return. It is a basic tenant of community that seems to be buried behindmthe what is in it for me syndrome lately.
10:15 pm
You need a hobby! You’re polluting the page.
10:13 am
I agree, it is best to keep the overhead down so that as much money as possible can go to those in need, but without these events, how do you propose to create awareness for each individual cause? I don’t understand what is wrong with bringing people together for a good cause? Are we so hooked on our computers and blackberrys that we don’t want to leave home, even for a good cause? I think it is fine to just donate money if you want to do it that way, but why be upset with and judgmental towards those who enjoy the community aspect of giving? Doesn’t it make sense to bring people together with similar interests?
Who knows what great things may come from the connections that are made at charitable events.
11:27 am
I am the Pan Pacific Vancouver’s PR Manager and just wanted to let you know staff volunteer their time, and the hotel and their food and beverage partners donate the supplies to provide the breakfast. This will be my first year with the event (although it is in its 23 year) and we are all very excited to welcome everyone to the hotel Nov 30! Have a great week and see you soon.
12:25 pm
Thanks Michelle for stopping by and explaining that everything is donated to the breakfast, including supplies and the staff participation. (Really great gift from the staff!) I’m really looking forward to the event.
8:54 pm
Amusing that you remain anonymous ‘Thinking’. Please give a thought for what you’re spending your time arguing against and go fight a better fight.
I for one will be very happy to join in the season of giving with or without the breakfast for which I probably won’t have time before work.
I happen to be one of those children who got my christmas toys from charity 20 years ago, and I hope events like this keep happening year after year. Whether it is an ‘exchange’ or not.. someone gets a breakfast, someone else gets a toy.. not really that much pain eh? I say the Pan Pacific is being the most charitable.
Merry Christmas!
9:51 pm
“Thinking” hasn’t put a lot of thought into his/her words and that’s pretty common to those who really just pointlessly rant about things where people are trying to do some good even if its not considered charitable in your mind. If you actually come out and see the exchange of these toys and the premise behind all what you consider is just a commercial exchange of goods and services then maybe you won’t judge based on the word choice of the writer. Maybe you’ll actually see what these events truly bring out to those in need and see those wonderful kids smile ear to ear. Or you can go back to trolling online to see what other stories you can trash … but happy holidays loser!
12:12 am
If everything is donated: food, beverage, time, may I ask why the breakfast isn’t given to the homeless?
All the people who donate can afford a breakfast, yet they get breakfast for donating..
I donate and don’t expect anything in return, other than the idea that my gift ( money, item, etc ) is given to the less fortunate. If I donate a toy or money, can I also have the option of my portion of breakfast be given to someone less fortunate?
Can I take a small breakfast in a carryout container and give it to someone on the street or is that not allowed?