YVR to Hotel transportation

[shiner6]

We arrive at YVR around 10 pm.  A family of 6 requiring easiest transport to River Rock Casino Hotel, Train or Taxi? 

[Coquitlam Cruiser]

SkyTrain is really easy from the airport to the hotel. Stop is adjacent to the River Rock.  

[martincath]

Agree SkyTrain will be very easy - but even though six people means two cabs if you're all Adults but not Seniors 2 cabs will actually cost a little less... It's $20 per cab to the River Rock, so $40+tip total and on a short ride like that more than 10% is a very generous tip given the Fixed Fare Zones pad the locations near the airport heavily (it would have been about $10 on the meter back in the day). If everyone is paying the full rate on SkyTrain t adds up to $48.30!

 

If the family includes kids, be aware of the new age categories since any pre-Covid Vancouver visit - kids under 12 are now free on any Translink service all the time. For everyone else, you'll be paying around $7-8pp (always a single Zone fare that time of night, kids 12-18 now all get Concession Fares as do >65s, saving a buck but the $5 per ticket AddFare more than doubles the fare...)

 

That late at night trains run only every 20mins - so even with a couple of free kids in the equation, I'd seriously consider joining the cab queue rather than wait for the train.

 

Next day, coming downtown? SkyTrain, absolute no-brainer - you are off Sea Island so no Addfare applies, so even with 6 full rate fares on a weekday paying for 2 Zones the total cost is a significant saving at $4.35pp ($4.45 after July 1st) and given how close the station is to the hotel you'll arrive quicker than by cab also.

[shiner6]

Thank you!   Yes, your information is extremely helpful!! 2 taxi's to the hotel, then sky train to the cruise terminal it is!!

[Cruisin Kay D]

Can someone explain the pricing for a taxi from YVR to city (Blue Horizon hotel)?   3 couples (likely each couple will go in separate taxi because we are using different airlines and arrivals at different times.   

 

Can someone explain the pricing for a taxi from hotel to Canada Place to get the ship?   

[em-sk]

9 hours ago, Cruisin Kay D said:

Can someone explain the pricing for a taxi from YVR to city (Blue Horizon hotel)?   3 couples (likely each couple will go in separate taxi because we are using different airlines and arrivals at different times.   

 

Can someone explain the pricing for a taxi from hotel to Canada Place to get the ship?   

 

For Taxi from the airport there is a zone map.  Your hotel is in the downtown zone, so $32 per trip.

  

https://www.yvr.ca/-/media/yvr/documents/transportation/yvr-taxi-zone-fares.pdf

 

The Hotel to Canada Place is very close.  That trip does not have a fixed price, so it would be based on the meter  I would expect the cost to be less than half that. It is around a 5 minute drive assuming light traffic.  Perhaps 10 minutes in heavy traffic. 

 

It is about a 15 minute walk.  

 

If you are into Uber or Lyft both those services also operate in Vancouver. 

 

Skytrain is the subway system.  That will take you from the airport to the downtown core. However your hotel is a few blocks away from the nearest station, so likely not the best option for you.

 

 

 

[martincath]

Your link is out of date @em-sk - the prices went up in April. The name of the doc changes, but YVR is terrible about not deleting redundant info from their website so your link will likely keep working for years!

 

The new price is $34 - but that link will also become redunant at some point, so I always just point at the taxi page itself, as whatever is the most up-to-date PDF will be clearly linked.

 

@Cruisin Kay D Taxi Fare Finder is very useful for metered fares in many cities all over the world - as long as the jurisdiction has set rates and traffic maps their algorithms are very reliable, giving you the expected rate in typical traffic but also light/heavy. Any cruise morning I'd assume heavy traffic - mostly in the bottleneck of the last block as entry into the pier is a single ramp and dependent on 'one out, one in' as soon as the available cab pickup spots are filled.

 

In theory at under a mile, the meter should be close to $10 as you turn onto Canada Place, but expect at least another couple of bucks to tick away as you crawl the last hundred yards.

[Cruisin Kay D]

Martincath:  THANKS!!   If incoming flights are hopefully on time, all 6 of us will be going to hotel together.  Should we plan on using a van-taxi or should I look at booking a limo-type service?   Can 3 plus luggage fit into most taxis?  Or should we plan on each couple using their own taxi?

[martincath]

14 hours ago, Cruisin Kay D said:

Martincath:  THANKS!!   If incoming flights are hopefully on time, all 6 of us will be going to hotel together.  Should we plan on using a van-taxi or should I look at booking a limo-type service?   Can 3 plus luggage fit into most taxis?  Or should we plan on each couple using their own taxi?

2 cabs, 3 pax each on cruise day will be fine even if they are all the most common Priuses - there are almost no 6 seater cabs in the city, I've seen literally two ever. Both were Yellowcab, so you could try giving them a call (all the taxi apps only allow 4 seats to be guaranteed). At YVR, cabs are assigned first-come, first-served in the queue - so if all your flights do arrive on time you could take 2 cabs rather than 3 to the hotel as well, but even if you get lucky with a minivan odds are vanishingly small they'll have more than 4 pax seats.

 

The main reason any company runs van taxis at all (as they are much more expensive to fuel, but must charge same rates by law) is they are legally required to provide a minimum % of accessible cabs per fleet for wheelchair users - so minivans have the middle seats removed, giving space to tie down a motorized wheelchair securely, and if you request an Accessible cab you'd be sent one of those. That still only leaves 4 regular pax seats so they are still effectively just 5 seat vehicles even if a chair/scooter user is short enough to ride it into the cab.

 

If Aerocar have started up again at YVR, or a new franchisee has replaced them with a similar fixed-rate limo service, then splitting one limo ride isn't much more than 2 cabs and it would be more stylish - once you move beyond 4 pax towncars it's usually ~7 pax SUVs with two benches plus front passenger which run about $90 to the BH rather than the $68+Tip for 2 cabs. Stretches accommodating 10-12 the price jumps up to ~$120. If you compare that to each couple taking their own cab, maybe arriving in real style is worth the extra spend...? 😉

Edited June 21, 2022 by martincath

[Cruisin Kay D]

Thanks for this information!!