Question about priceline Vancouver areas

[crazycath]

1. City Hall - Downtown Vancouver South –

 

2 Coquitlam - Burnaby –

 

3 Delta –

 

4 Downtown Vancouver –

 

5 Langley –

 

6 North Vancouver –

 

7 Surrey - Pitt Meadows –

 

8 Vancouver Int'l Airport (YVR) –

 

Which Priceline area is closest to the cruise terminal?

 

Thanks for your help

 

Cathy

[Putterdude]

It will be Downtown Vancouver and good luck, we have been hearing of some great deals this year.:)

[crazycath]

Thanks for your quick response

 

Cathy

[scottbee]

Distance from Canada Place (Carnival/HA/Norw)

 

1 City Hall - Downtown Vancouver South : 3 miles

2 Coquitlam - Burnaby: 10-20 miles

3 Delta: 20 miles

4 Downtown Vancouver: 1-2 miles

5 Langley: 35 miles

6 North Vancouver: 2-8 miles

7 Surrey - Pitt Meadows: 35 miles

8 Vancouver Int'l Airport (YVR): 15 miles

[crazycath]

Thanks!!

 

Cathy

[Kaileygirl]

One great resource website for either bidding on Priceline or booking on Hotwire.com is www.betterbidding.com. They have lists of hotels which generally partcipate or others will share which hotel they have won.

 

For example, we bid on a 4* downtown Vancouver on Priceline and got the Westin Bayshore for $102 per night. Other bidders had "won" the same hotel, so I was pretty sure that's what we'd get. Very happy with the process.

[tulips*n*truffles]

I used priceline a while back and got the Westin Bayshore for $92 for one night in June. Was SUPER happy with that!! :-)

[Putterdude]

$92 to $102 are very good prices for the Bayshore....it is a very good hotel and I am sure that you will be very happy there.

[springfire]

I see some deals on west vancouver in hotwire, would that work for a cruise and would I be able to use public transportation.

[Urban trekker]

Is it West Vancouver or Vancouver West because there is a big difference in those areas - PD knows the codes better than I so he can clarify it for you.

 

Our downtown area is very compact and most of the hotels would be less than a mile to the Canada Place - if you are sailing from Ballantyne Pier you are further away and there is no accommodation close by.

 

We have an excellent bus system with very frequent service in the downtown core.

 

Cheers

 

Dennis

[Putterdude]

You would want to bid on Downtown Vancouver West. As Ut has indicated, most of the downtown hotels are with a mile of Canada Place and for the most part you could use transit. For Ballantyne your only option is a cab. A cab fare from a downtown hotel to CP should be $10 and to Ballantyne about $15.

Ut, I don't think that there are any hotels left in West Van except for the motel in Horseshoe Bay that trades on folks who have missed the last ferry.

[Urban trekker]

That's what I figured but because I haven't used Priceline I wanted to be sure that the person got the right information - one thing I can never figure out is just where is the boundary of North and West Van - is it the river or Capilano road or something in between.

 

Cheers

 

Dennis

[Cruise_More_Often]

Wow! Has Priceline better defined the Vancouver areas? Last year I bid on what I thought was Downtown and got a hotel across the street from City Hall, which is NOT Downtown. We ended up really liking the hotel (Plaza 500) and the location, which forced us to walk and use public transportation.

[Putterdude]

That's what I figured but because I haven't used Priceline I wanted to be sure that the person got the right information - one thing I can never figure out is just where is the boundary of North and West Van - is it the river or Capilano road or something in between.

 

Cheers

 

Dennis

 

I have always believed it to be the Capilano River but have never studied a map really hard. I just can't think of anything on the east side of the river that isn't in the Dist of North Van or visa virsa.