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  1. At least when you embark the marathon mess will be over but you are actually near ground zero on Sunday May 5, 2024. You are in the chute area for the finish of the race. If you are going to change get a hotel that is east of Burrard. I am a long time volunteer with the Marathon - this will be my 18th year of volunteering and believe me it is real zoo - even to cross the street you sometimes have to walk a whole block to get around the barricades. Hope this helps. Dennis
  2. There are three Fairmont's in the downtown core but they are fairly close to each other so it won't make a big difference where you start your tours from. The #1 attraction is Stanley Park and it's only about a 1KM from Canada Place and you can walk there from the pier along the promenade. After that it's a crap shoot as to which is next so I will throw out them out and I am sure my fellow poster MartinCath will be along with more details. Granville Island, Grouse Mountain, Gastown and Chinatown, Capilano Suspension Bridge, Shipyards across harbour from pier, Van Dusen botanical garden, Queen Elizabeth Park, West End of Vancouver and English Bay. Hope this get you started
  3. One thing - you mentioned you are sailing the first weekend of May - is that the May 3- 5 weekend. If so that the weekend that the Vancouver International Marathon and over 18,000 runners will converge on Canada Place to pick up their race kits etc. and then on the morning of May 5 will finish the race just to the west of Canada Place. Thankfully you are staying at the Pan Pacific so other than been busier than usual shouldn't affect your getting on the ship. There is a food court in the waterfront center across the street from the Pan Pacific which you can access from Canada Place - no need to go outside - there is an underground connection. I will arrive on the Bliss on April 5 but we are the only ship in town that day so I won't be able to give you much help. Hope this helps you somewhat.
  4. Yes you can walk from the cruise port to the Park or vice-versa. I would suggest that you take the bus to the park and then start a slow walk along the seawall back to the cruise port. This picture will give you an idea of what there is to explore as you walk from the cruise port to the park. The green in the upper right of the picture is the Park. Hope this helps a little. This picture was taken at the Convention Center - next door to the cruise port and looking west to Coal Harbour and the Park.
  5. Wonder if this might not be another native run development - much like what has been done at Icy Strait Point. And just exactly where on the inside passage is it located or what "big town" is it close to.
  6. While more expensive an 8 year old might like the offerings that Disney Cruise Lines has to offer.
  7. NCL docks in downtown Skagway like all the other cruise lines - think you might be mixing up Skagway with Ketchikan where NCL docks at Ward's cove which is several miles from downtown. While 7AM is the time noted as arriving - the ship has to be cleared by the local authorities before anyone can disembark. The private tour operators are well versed in arrival times etc. Dennis
  8. Yes that quite the hockey game. I was there selling 50/50 tickets and was joking before the game that if you wanted to silence the Leafs fans all you had to do was score three fast ones on them - well that did happen but we let them back into the game but ended up victorious after the big stars woke up in the 3rd period.
  9. Yes - it shouldn't be a problem. Customs at Vancouver - at least based on my experience is a formality - they collect your custom decoration, look at it, might ask a question or two and you are on your way. You then exit the secure area and walk a short distance to where the buses are waiting to load - about a two or three minute walk. Hope this helps. Dennis
  10. and me getting off a midnight and having to use transit to get home in Surrey would be a challenge. Dennis
  11. Martincath - the poster is likely talking about the Bliss cruise that arrives in Vancouver at 11PM on April 4th - I am on that cruise - it is likely that the arrival time is based on the tides to allow us to sail under the Lion's Gate bridge. I too was wondering just what the procedure would be but we are in Victoria the day before so customs and immigration should be taken care of there. So far nothing from NCL about how this will be handled. This is not new - similar circumstances in previous year's when the Bliss has come into Vancouver. Hopefully someone who has experienced this in previous year's will see these posts and response.
  12. Thanks for the write up - I will be stopping in all three of those ports in late March - have been to Cabo several times and PV once but never to Mazatlán so you have given me some ideas what to do at that port.
  13. This is interesting - when I cruised around South America in 2013 I needed a Visa - fortunately there was a Brazilian consulate in Vancouver and was able to get it in fairly short order. Which poses the question - did they get away from needing visas and are now re-introducing the need for them.
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