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Any recommendations for a night before cruise hotel in Vancouver? We will be arriving there in August.
You didn't specify a budget.... I like unlimited budgets!

 

From another post... I think you are looking for August 17 to 18th. Here are some USD rates of popular hotel recommendations on this forum with availability on booking.com

 

  • $83 YWCA
  • $152 Days Inn » 3 blocks from cruise terminal. Check reviews for potential issues.
  • $188 Empire Landmark » great restaurants nearby. Check reviews for potential issues
  • $194 Blue Horizon » popular budget/value forum choice. Great restaurants nearby
  • $199 Best Western Plus Sands
  • $207 Holiday Inn Vancouver Downtown
  • $217 Rosedale » offers suites!
  • $224 Century Plaza
  • $228 Metropolitan
  • $239 Residence Inn Marriott
  • $239 Carmana
  • $262 Delta » 5 blocks away with suites!
  • $268 Georgian Court
  • $275 Auberge » 3 blocks from cruise terminal
  • $296 Hotel Blu
  • $314 Westin Grand
  • $320 Marriott Pinnacle » 5 blocks from cruise terminal
  • $322 Hampton Inn downtown » popular with Hilton point collectors
  • $344 Opus Hotel
  • $345 Sutton Place » great choices with restaurants and shops nearby
  • $367 Sheraton Wall Centre
  • $368 Grande Residence Sutton Place
  • $371 Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront
  • $382 Pan Pacific » You get to sleep on top of the cruise terminal
  • $397 Hyatt
  • $434 Westin Bayshore
  • $436 Shangri-La
  • $479 Fairmont Vancouver
  • $544 Four Seasons
  • $562 Fairmont Waterfront » you sleep across the street from the cruise terminal
  • $607 Rosewood
  • $637 Fairmont Pacific Rim

 

Love that Pan Pacific price compared to the nearby Fairmont prices! Otherwise, I like the Rosedale or Delta for the larger rooms.

 

August is tourist season.... I recommend securing your hotel rooms now instead of waiting to watch rates go up.

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We have researched the same thing and also going in August. We ended up booking the Pinncale Hotel Vancouver on West Hastings St through AAA because we didn't want to spend a lot. The reviews seemed pretty good and it's within walking distance of the pier.

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We're staying at the Auberge in June. Chose it for the close proximity to the cruise terminal and everything downtown. We got a king executive suite with harbor view for 3 nights....$758 (including tax & fees). Thought that was pretty good! It looks like a beautiful hotel and the bellmen will actually help you get your luggage to the cruise terminal to check in. So looking forward to spending a few days in Vancouver prior to cruising!

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The Pan Pacific or the Fairmont or the Hilton or the Sheraton are all close to the pier.

That's a pretty broad definition of 'close' there zqvol! Nearest Hilton isn't even in Vancouver - it's in Burnaby at Metrotown, 12km away. Sheraton Wall is close to the pier in the sense that most downtown hotels are (1.2km). 2 of the 3 Vancouver Fairmonts are within 3 blocks, the other a little closer than the Sheraton, and Pan Pacific is literally on top of the pier.

 

Personally I'd say that almost any downtown core hotel is within most folks definition of close (a mile or less), and literally all of them will cost you les than $15 by cab if you can't or don't want to trundle your luggage OP so pick one based on points or price rather than proximity.

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While I also like the Sutton Place, the Pan Pacific can't be beat for its location for cruises leaving from Canada Place. We stayed at the Pan Pacific several years ago and it was just so convenient to have a hotel bellman pick up our suitcases from our hotel room to be delivered to the cruise terminal porters.

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Any recommendations for a night before cruise hotel in Vancouver? We will be arriving there in August.

 

We spend a week at the Metropolitan Hotel that is about 6 blocks from the cruise terminal, it was very nice and the price was great. If you are staying more than one night, I would recommend this hotel.

 

After taking a Canadian Rockies Bus tour prior to our cruise to Alaska, we stayed at the PanPacific that is located at the cruise terminal. It is wonderful and you can check you luggage with the hotel concierge that goes directly to the ship.

Note, however, that we paid a bit over $300 US per night at the PanPacific.

 

We paid less than half that per night at the Metropolitan.

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If your flight arrives in the late evening, the train that goes into the city (terminal very close to cruise terminal) includes an extra charge. In that case, a taxi is best. Taxi was not expensive.

 

If your flight comes in during mid day, consider taking the train into the city.

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There are a lot of great ideas for hotels near the port but my question is....what hotels have transportation from airport to hotel and also to port. Do any hotels have shuttles from airport to hotel?

 

How is transportation from the airport to hotel? Taxi, shuttle?
None of the downtown hotels have shuttles.

  • Budget $31 to $35 ($27 USD) for a cab as the best choice for the 35 minute ride.
  • There is the subway for $9 downtown ($4 evenings and weekends), but depending on which hotel you are staying it.... it can be a significant walk, especially with a luggage drag and sharing the train with the locals on a crowded train. If you are arriving after 7pm... I recommend the cab. The trains come by once every 20 minutes.... after fighting with the ticket machine.... you don't want to wait 20 minutes for a train.

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If your flight arrives in the late evening, the train that goes into the city (terminal very close to cruise terminal) includes an extra charge.

You've got the wrong end of the stick on the SkyTrain AddFare papa. It's not TIME - it's DIRECTION that dictates whether you pay it.

 

Every inbound fare, from YVR to downtown, has a $5pp charge added regardless of time. Outbound travel, downtown to YVR, never has the fee added.

 

Only the base ticket varies with time - and that's cheaper in the evenings (and weekends), not more expensive, as the 3 zone system all costs a single zone fare in offpeak times (6:30pm> weekdays, all day weekends and holidays).

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None of the downtown hotels have shuttles.

  • Budget $31 to $35 ($27 USD) for a cab as the best choice for the 35 minute ride.
  • There is the subway for $9 downtown ($4 evenings and weekends), but depending on which hotel you are staying it.... it can be a significant walk, especially with a luggage drag and sharing the train with the locals on a crowded train. If you are arriving after 7pm... I recommend the cab. The trains come by once every 20 minutes.... after fighting with the ticket machine.... you don't want to wait 20 minutes for a train.

Clarifications/corrections:

 

  • SkyTrain evening/weekend inbound fare is $7.75pp, not $4
  • Crowded? Irrelevant - YVR is the FIRST station on the Canada Line and the only people able to use it are folks who were at YVR. The only locals you're fighting for space with are fellow-flyers - and unless they're coming back from vacation, they'll be business travellers with minimal luggage - and an occasional employee. I literally always have a choice between multiple seats on SkyTrain at YVR regardless of the time of day - the only hassle is getting the front seat so you can pretend to drive the train;-)

That said, because of the inbound Addfare $5 - if you are going TO the airport, the prices above are $5 less - a fixed-rate cab can definitely be the best value option, even if it isn't necessarily faster. If you have 4 people, cab is pretty much always the best deal - and even for a couple, the price difference may well be worth it for the added convenience of door-to-door service.

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None of the downtown hotels have shuttles.

  • Budget $31 to $35 ($27 USD) for a cab as the best choice for the 35 minute ride.
  • There is the subway for $9 downtown ($4 evenings and weekends), but depending on which hotel you are staying it.... it can be a significant walk, especially with a luggage drag and sharing the train with the locals on a crowded train. If you are arriving after 7pm... I recommend the cab. The trains come by once every 20 minutes.... after fighting with the ticket machine.... you don't want to wait 20 minutes for a train.

 

Thank you...since we are new to this, a taxi seems the easiest way to travel.

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You've got the wrong end of the stick on the SkyTrain AddFare papa. It's not TIME - it's DIRECTION that dictates whether you pay it.

 

Every inbound fare, from YVR to downtown, has a $5pp charge added regardless of time. Outbound travel, downtown to YVR, never has the fee added.

 

Only the base ticket varies with time - and that's cheaper in the evenings (and weekends), not more expensive, as the 3 zone system all costs a single zone fare in offpeak times (6:30pm> weekdays, all day weekends and holidays).

 

We flew in late and according to the SkyTrain website, there was an additional charge for late in the evening. The additional charge didn't make it smart to take skytrain, we took a taxi.

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Can you provide us with a link to the Skytrain website showing the extra charge at night.

As Martincath correctly states all inbound trips from the airport to Vancouver have the extra $5.00 fee added regardless of the time of day. It has been that way since the Canada Line started service back in 2010.

 

Cheers!

 

Dennis

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We flew in late and according to the SkyTrain website, there was an additional charge for late in the evening. The additional charge didn't make it smart to take skytrain, we took a taxi.

It really, truly, honestly did not, and never has - if you arrived at 5am or 5pm, the charge would have still been there because you were heading into town.

 

If you peruse an internet archive site, you can review literally every iteration of the Translink website back to before the Canada Line existed - the only mention of AddFare that ever made it beyond consultation was $5 inbound (and the only competing policy was $2.50 both ways instead).

 

Even really early draft papers never mentioned an evening fee, as it's against every fundamental principle of transit planning to charge extra at quieter times - every transit system in the world with time-based variable pricing charges more at the busiest times/less at the quietest to encourage folks to travel offpeak and spread the load.

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