Vancouver - Best place to park, stay, and cruise?

[econprofessor]

Hi,

 

We are on a B2B cruise out of Vancouver in August.  As we live in Southern Oregon, we will be driving to Vancouver the night before the cruise.  Any recommendations for a park, stay, and fly hotel?  We have been to Vancouver many times (loved it), so we don't really feel the need to spend extra days there.  We don't want to spend a fortune as we will be arriving into the Vancouver area in the late afternoon / early evening.

 

Thank you!

[Woody14]

Parking in Vancouver is stupid expensive especially in the downtown area where the port is.   Most people have found the longterm lot at the airport is the best deal.   You can get from the airport to downtown, for the port or if you are staying there, by flat rate taxi fair or by the skytrain (transit).

 

[Glaciers]

We’re doing the same thing in May and will be driving up. I posted this question on the Vancouver forum of Trip Advisor as well as here. We’ll be parking at the long term lot at the airport for $170 for two weeks and taking the sky train in from the Templeton station, that Woody mentioned, near the lot. We wanted to stay downtown.

https://www.yvr.ca/en/passengers/parking-yvr

 

One of the threads regarding this recently indicated that a poster found a hotel in Richmond for $395 that includes 14 nights of parking.  Not sure of the hotel and it might have been on the Princess board.

[em-sk]

9 hours ago, Glaciers said:

We’re doing the same thing in May and will be driving up. I posted this question on the Vancouver forum of Trip Advisor as well as here. We’ll be parking at the long term lot at the airport for $170 for two weeks and taking the sky train in from the Templeton station, that Woody mentioned, near the lot. We wanted to stay downtown.

https://www.yvr.ca/en/passengers/parking-yvr

 

 

One of the threads regarding this recently indicated that a poster found a hotel in Richmond for $395 that includes 14 nights of parking.  Not sure of the hotel and it might have been on the Princess board.

 

If you pre-book on the YVR website it is $153.50 per week (CDN).  

 

There are discount codes you can get when you a discount code from TravelBestBets or some of the the others sources that will take another 10-20% off.  Those come and go.  

 

I would google for travel best bets and YVR parking discount code

Edited March 24, 2022 by em-sk

[Glaciers]

26 minutes ago, em-sk said:

 

If you pre-book on the YVR website it is $153.50 per week (CDN). 

 

We pre-booked at YVR and it was $169.25 for 15 days.

[3JCruiser]

On 3/23/2022 at 9:08 AM, Glaciers said:

One of the threads regarding this recently indicated that a poster found a hotel in Richmond for $395 that includes 14 nights of parking.  Not sure of the hotel and it might have been on the Princess board.

 

Sounds like  Holiday Inn Express on Bridgeport Road, they have park and fly rates 

[econprofessor]

Thank you.   The rates are indeed lower by the airport.  I found a Park N Fly at the Airport Sheraton.  It includes 21 days free parking.

 

 Vikki

[xlxo]

Do inquire also about how secure the lot is and vehicle break-ins, especially when you are driving up with out of province license plates.

 

Some will leave their vehicle with impound lots for the added security.  Drake advertises offering cruise ship parking.

 

 

[Straitlover]

Another option would be to do two one-way car rentals if you don't want to worry about car security. I know in 2021 car rental rates were high, not sure if they have started coming down or not.