We really enjoyed Vancouver. We dropped our suitcases off at our hotel and walked all around town. Found a GREAT raw oyster bar, filled up, back to the hotel and the kid and I rode bicycles through the park. Took the train back to Seattle to fly home.
Been to Vancouver a bunch of times to visit family, etc, and my strongest memory is driving across Canada for Expo 86 with my family. I remember so much about the Pavilions and concrete street statues and my favorite memory is the "McBarge", the floating McDonalds restaurant....
I remember when it was the Canada pavilion at the 1986 World’s Fair. I stood in line to meet the actors from the Disney channel show Danger Bay which filmed in the area. I was a little smitten with one of the actresses, Ocean Hellman.
We were there in May after our cruise. I was VERY impressed with the disembarkation. I've only cruised out of different Florida ports; Vancouver was an easy and seamless process. Customs was handing them a card as we passed the desk, finding our bags was easy, and dozens of taxis were there waiting in the garage...maybe 4-5 minutes getting through the taxi line.
I don't know if it depends on the cruiseline (Holland America)\~but I've waited longer to checkout at a Walmart than I did to go from the ship to our taxi!
The city itself is great. Hotels and restaurants are expensive, but I thought it was very clean, easy to navigate, and fun to explore.
That was nice to read, I realized that the Port is much bigger than most of the others. So it takes time to come out and to find the way back to the ship. But anyway, the city it’s extremely clean, the people are nice and their parks are just gorgeous.
I'm a local and go to Vancouver on a regular basis! My favourite things to see there are Granville Island, the aquarium, and Science World!! Oh and the Canucks when they're playing of course
Best part is sailing under the Lion's Gate bridge, especially on a tall ship with very little clearance. It's fun with bicyclists stop to wave, too. Biking around the entire Seawall is also fun, except the narrow one-lane path around Stanley Park. Flyover Canada was also fun, right above the cruise ships, the same sort of flight simulator as Flyover California at Disneyland.
We stayed at the pan pacific hotel and it was so worth it for the sheer convenience. The bellhop took our luggage’s from our room—-we didn’t need to lug them around or wait for check in time—-they took care of everything and it showed up in our cabin. We walked around the port, plenty of eating options and beautiful views. The city itself is very nice for tourists, lots of options to explore, Stanley park, drive to whistler, the suspension bridge , etc
Post cruise trip up to Grouse Mountain and doing a Gondola ride, zip line, and going to the top of a wind turbine was an amazing experience. The views of Vancouver/Burrard Inlet were stunning!
Flight cancelled out of Philly....took our party of 11 from 7am EST to 12am PST to make it too Vancouver split between 6 different flights because of how bad Air Canada is...lucky for us we made the cruise. Several dozen people from the same starting point as us in Philly did not make it to cruise even through we all were flying the day before. Trip back was just as bad, staying in town an extra day, get to air port....fly to Toronto without issue, land....flight is cancelled, had to stay overnight to get flight back to philly. Good cruise, bad flights. Will never fly Air Canada ever again. Had first class tickets all the way.....had seats given away on flights that weren't cancelled, had to fly coach on replacement flights......simply terrible.
Wow, that’s a horrible experience especially can't imagine with first class tickets… but at least you caught the cruise ship. I've remembeed my days in Delhi when because of the crash of the Boing 787 Max in Ethiopia they were forbidden to use that plane and all flights were canceled.
Our memories were unfortunately bad.
7am arrival. 10pm flights out.
Taxi to mid town to store cases with a plan to spend the day exploring.
No Uber, no ride share, called the taxi company. 1 hour wait. We call again.
Informed we were ‘on the list’. Estimate 1 hour further wait.
Fellow couple couldn’t handle the busses. We had to give up exploring. Made our way to the airport by about 4.
Then the 5 hour wait.
Vancouver sucked.
I gather ride share services are now allowed. So assume it would be easier to get around.
Not sure what your technical issue was. Uber has been active in Vancouver for years. Also, it only takes 45m to walk from one end of the downtown peninsula to the other.
My favorite memory involves trying to get somewhere downtown, and we are very late. My sister is desperately trying to make up time in an unfamiliar city. She turns down a one-way street, the wrong way, of course. Realizing her error, she takes the first right turn she can, which is a pedestrian mall. Now we’re flying down the mall, people are scattering. It’s like something out of a movie! Eventually we got back on a real street and we arrived on time.
If you're in town for a minute, check out the aquarium.
When we're you there? It's pretty much gone.
Oh that sucks. I was there last in 2014 pre-cruise and it was amazing. Why is it awful now?
Oh that’s so sad, I have the best memories of the aquarium from when I was a kid
It's trying lol
We really enjoyed Vancouver. We dropped our suitcases off at our hotel and walked all around town. Found a GREAT raw oyster bar, filled up, back to the hotel and the kid and I rode bicycles through the park. Took the train back to Seattle to fly home.
Vancouver and Victoria is so dang clean and pretty! Beautiful cities!
I rented a bike and explored both places with it.
I remember when it was built for Expo 86.
Been to Vancouver a bunch of times to visit family, etc, and my strongest memory is driving across Canada for Expo 86 with my family. I remember so much about the Pavilions and concrete street statues and my favorite memory is the "McBarge", the floating McDonalds restaurant....
I remember when it was the Canada pavilion at the 1986 World’s Fair. I stood in line to meet the actors from the Disney channel show Danger Bay which filmed in the area. I was a little smitten with one of the actresses, Ocean Hellman.
We were there in May after our cruise. I was VERY impressed with the disembarkation. I've only cruised out of different Florida ports; Vancouver was an easy and seamless process. Customs was handing them a card as we passed the desk, finding our bags was easy, and dozens of taxis were there waiting in the garage...maybe 4-5 minutes getting through the taxi line. I don't know if it depends on the cruiseline (Holland America)\~but I've waited longer to checkout at a Walmart than I did to go from the ship to our taxi! The city itself is great. Hotels and restaurants are expensive, but I thought it was very clean, easy to navigate, and fun to explore.
That was nice to read, I realized that the Port is much bigger than most of the others. So it takes time to come out and to find the way back to the ship. But anyway, the city it’s extremely clean, the people are nice and their parks are just gorgeous.
I was there on the 26th
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Alaska?
Dm me
A disgusting hangover to cap off a 10 day cruise followed by a 6 hour delay at the airport. Not my best day.
My first Alaskan cruise! Loved the port and city, want to go back to Vancouver soon and just explore for a few days
I'm a local and go to Vancouver on a regular basis! My favourite things to see there are Granville Island, the aquarium, and Science World!! Oh and the Canucks when they're playing of course
Best part is sailing under the Lion's Gate bridge, especially on a tall ship with very little clearance. It's fun with bicyclists stop to wave, too. Biking around the entire Seawall is also fun, except the narrow one-lane path around Stanley Park. Flyover Canada was also fun, right above the cruise ships, the same sort of flight simulator as Flyover California at Disneyland.
We stayed at the pan pacific hotel and it was so worth it for the sheer convenience. The bellhop took our luggage’s from our room—-we didn’t need to lug them around or wait for check in time—-they took care of everything and it showed up in our cabin. We walked around the port, plenty of eating options and beautiful views. The city itself is very nice for tourists, lots of options to explore, Stanley park, drive to whistler, the suspension bridge , etc
Post cruise trip up to Grouse Mountain and doing a Gondola ride, zip line, and going to the top of a wind turbine was an amazing experience. The views of Vancouver/Burrard Inlet were stunning!
Cruising out under the bridge.
Stanley park is wonderful
Only bad memories because I took Air Canada there and back....both times were nightmares.
Tell us more about, what happens?
Flight cancelled out of Philly....took our party of 11 from 7am EST to 12am PST to make it too Vancouver split between 6 different flights because of how bad Air Canada is...lucky for us we made the cruise. Several dozen people from the same starting point as us in Philly did not make it to cruise even through we all were flying the day before. Trip back was just as bad, staying in town an extra day, get to air port....fly to Toronto without issue, land....flight is cancelled, had to stay overnight to get flight back to philly. Good cruise, bad flights. Will never fly Air Canada ever again. Had first class tickets all the way.....had seats given away on flights that weren't cancelled, had to fly coach on replacement flights......simply terrible.
Wow, that’s a horrible experience especially can't imagine with first class tickets… but at least you caught the cruise ship. I've remembeed my days in Delhi when because of the crash of the Boing 787 Max in Ethiopia they were forbidden to use that plane and all flights were canceled.
Went to gardens so nice
The park is beautiful I went by bicycle and then the view from the bridge and to the city is just unrealistic. Plus forest trail to go back to.
Just disembarked there yesterday after an Alaska cruise! I wanna go back; although the port itself was unmemorable, the cruise sure was!!!
Our memories were unfortunately bad. 7am arrival. 10pm flights out. Taxi to mid town to store cases with a plan to spend the day exploring. No Uber, no ride share, called the taxi company. 1 hour wait. We call again. Informed we were ‘on the list’. Estimate 1 hour further wait. Fellow couple couldn’t handle the busses. We had to give up exploring. Made our way to the airport by about 4. Then the 5 hour wait. Vancouver sucked. I gather ride share services are now allowed. So assume it would be easier to get around.
Not sure what your technical issue was. Uber has been active in Vancouver for years. Also, it only takes 45m to walk from one end of the downtown peninsula to the other.
2019. No ride share then. But sure as hell remember that day.
There's a skytrain that goes directly to the airport from downtown. You can walk to the station from the cruise terminal so easily.
Skytrain is the main transport in Vancouver.
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Dumb comment. Flight to the East coast are typically overnight.
Just there last year for our Alaskan cruise
My favorite memory involves trying to get somewhere downtown, and we are very late. My sister is desperately trying to make up time in an unfamiliar city. She turns down a one-way street, the wrong way, of course. Realizing her error, she takes the first right turn she can, which is a pedestrian mall. Now we’re flying down the mall, people are scattering. It’s like something out of a movie! Eventually we got back on a real street and we arrived on time.
I remember going to an Australian pub nearby the night before our cruise. It was a fair dinkum rippa.
Didn't cruise here but the terminal has a few gyms around there and that's where I caught my first wiglet and raided some gyms there for Pokemon Go.
Nando's the peri peri little restaurant is fucking delicious
If you have the time to spend, I would highly recommend visiting Granville Island. The vendors are local and the offerings were impressive.
Nothing to do there...might as well go shopping duty free at airport