Vancouver cruise port to airport

[bluesifi]

Hi, looking for advice.  We are on Edge cruise in September, which is scheduled in port at Vancouver at 6am.  We are in suite and hope to use the benefit of disembarking early, but will we have enough time to get a 13:30 flight to vegas, or will be be cutting it too fine, and should we look for later flight.  Note we are from UK so will have to go through immigration

[cruiseryyc]

Even though the ship is scheduled to arrive at 6:00 a.m., I doubt Canadian Immigration officials will be onsite until at least 7:00 a.m.  Everyone will have to go through Canadian Immigration getting off the ship.  

 

That flight time should be okay, it's the earliest I would suggest someone book a flight.  Its about a 45 minute cab ride from the port to the airport, then you'll be going through US Immigration at the Vancouver airport.  That's where being from the UK might slow you down.  As long as you are at the airport about three hours prior your flight, you should be okay.

 

So I guess its about your risk tolerance if you book a later flight or not.

 

 

[martincath]

A 1:30pm flight is late enough that every cruiseline would sell you a flight at that time - and their shuttles are by far the slowest way to get to YVR!

 

I agree that a 6am arrival won't see you off the ship any quicker than a 7am one due to CBSA hours at the pier, and having to do US Preclearance as a Brit could make the process a bit longer - be sure to get your ESTA organized before you come over! - but 3 hours early is trivially easy to manage even on a really busy 3 ship day. In fact you might not even be allowed to drop your checked bags if you arrive too quickly and it's a busy day, as only so many bags can be held for screening by CBP so if you actually roll in before 10:30am you may have to wait until then!

 

Since you plan to self-disembark, you are definitely physically capable of getting your bags to SkyTrain so you absolutely should do that - with no traffic and automated trains, travel time almost never goes more than seconds beyond the scheduled 26min trip from Waterfront to YVR. Even if you just miss a train, the next one to YVR departs in <7mins midweek, <15mins weekends, and it's maybe a 10min walk from the pier. Tappable Visa/MC cards mean you can even skip the time to use a ticket machine - unless you're >65 or 13-18 and want a Concession fare the pricing is the same for a regular adult fare and tapping the gates directly.

 

Just walk out, turn left, ignore the first entrance on Howe (wrong platform!), hang a left onto Cordova, head inside the big and obvious station building a wee but down street, platform is right under the lobby you enter this way. Map.

[bluesifi]

Thank you for the response, will go with the 13:30 flights.   We do intend to self-disembark and walk to SkyTrain as seems the cheapest and quickest way to airport.  US ESTA all sorted and approved.