Travelling to Vancouver?

Our routes, not a list of everything. Places that have been there for centuries: no opening times or prices, which go stale.

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   Vancouver in a day

   9 hStanley Park isn’t a designed park like Central Park: it’s the forest that was already there, and they left it. Four hundred hectares of rainforest inside the city.The seawall · Inside Stanley Park · Granville Island · Gastown and the 1977 clockRead the full guide
2. 02

   A weekend in Vancouver

   18 hYou can ski in the morning and walk the beach in the afternoon, and it isn’t brochure copy: the ski hill is half an hour from downtown on a city bus.Saturday: Grouse or Cypress · Saturday: the beach, the same day · Sunday: Victoria by ferry · Sunday: the Sea to SkyRead the full guide
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   What to see in Vancouver

   It’s the only major North American city with no freeway through downtown. Not an accident: residents killed it in the seventies, which is why you can walk here.Stanley Park · The seawall · The city with no freeway · The Museum of AnthropologyRead the full guide
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   Eating in Vancouver

   There’s more good sushi here than in almost any city outside Japan, and the reason is geographic: same ocean, same fish, and a hundred and twenty years of community.Salmon, and the five of them · Sushi · Richmond, which is China · Granville marketRead the full guide
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   Where to stay in Vancouver

   Downtown is the densest residential neighbourhood in North America, which means here you can sleep downtown and still have life at nine in the evening.West End · Gastown and Yaletown · Kitsilano · Mount PleasantRead the full guide
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   Day trips from Vancouver

   The Sea to Sky highway climbs from sea level to snow in two hours, hard against a fjord. The destination doesn’t matter: the road is the trip.Whistler and the Sea to Sky · The Capilano bridge, or the other one · Victoria and the Gulf Islands · The Okanagan valleyRead the full guide
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   From Vancouver airport to the centre

   The SkyTrain surcharge is only charged LEAVING the airport, not going to it. So the return trip costs a normal fare, and almost nobody knows.The Canada Line · The taxi, and when it paysRead the full guide
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   Vancouver: practical tips

   It rains around a hundred and sixty days a year and it almost never snows. Nobody uses an umbrella here, and winter isn’t cold: it’s grey and wet, which is worse.The rain jacket, not the umbrella · Unceded territory · The price, the tip and the smell · Mobile dataRead the full guide

The real options, with what actually decides it: which terminal it leaves from and where it drops you. Fares and timetables live with the operator, who keeps them current.

• MetroCanada LineWaterfrontThe driverless SkyTrain runs from the airport to downtown with no changes.·Fares and timesTransLink
• TaxiDowntownAirport taxis charge set zone fares by destination. With the SkyTrain this direct, they’re for heavy luggage.·Fares and timesAeropuerto YVR

Before you fly, or on the layover. Pay per visit, whatever airline.

• SkyTeam Lounge (International Departures)from €29.00
• Plaza Premium Lounge (International Departures)from €37.60
• Plaza Premium Lounge (US Departures)from €39.35
• Plaza Premium Lounge (Domestic Departures)from €39.35

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