I had to come to UBC for a conference this summer, and booked early enough to get a dorm room at the UBC residences. While UBC is a lousy location vis-a-vis the airport or downtown, if you need to be at the university, it's obviously very convenient. It's also super-cheap: I paid $30 a night for a single room, although the bathroom was communal.
The real bonus was the full buffet breakfast that was included with the room rate. I was able to stuff my face on pancakes, cereal, sausage, bacon, and the like every day, and skip lunch. I even ran into a kid who dropped a course I had taught the year before, and now worked there. Small world.
Free internet was also included while I was there, although the wireless was only in the central building of the complex. You can get internet in the rooms, apparently, but you have to bring your own network cable to connect with. read more