Tweedy

It's not a bad location. You are still close to everything downtown. You can walk down the hill and take the water taxi over to Granville Island.

With priceline, it's a gamble as to whether two beds are available. I think availability depends on the time of year and how full the hotel is.

Granville Island is a larger scale of the Lonsdale Quay. Same idea though.

My questions:

1)Can we walk to all these places? If not' date=' best way to get there?

2)When would be the best time to go to these places?

3)Where to eat lunch and dinner on Thursday? Under $20/per-local type cuisine preferred. (we were set to go to Steamworks but read bad reviews about food reheated etc. probably will go for beer though)

4) If we went to a White Spot, which one? Also read bad reviews about one near Stanely Park?

5) Any other suggestions are most welcome. (shopping is ok if for unique things, no $$ this trip for fashion :) )

 

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You can get on one of the tours from Canada Place... either Vancouver Trolley or something similar that will allow you to hop on and off at your leisure. They do go to the places you've mentioned.

 

Canada Place, Stanley Park and Gastown are within walking distance of the Renaissance. There is a beautiful seawall to walk along. Tourism BC is located at 200 Burrard Street and is only a couple of blocks up from your Hotel by Canada Place. You could also catch the seabus from the Waterfront station and sail on over to the North Shore and visit Lonsdale Quay to get a different perspective of Vancouver. (www.translink.bc.ca)

 

For Food, there are a couple of new restaurants that have opened in the last year: Cactus Club (Burrard and Dunsmuir), Joey's Grill (Burrard and Pender) and Elephant & Castle (Burrard and Hastings). The Elephant & Castle is located on the main floor of the historic Marine Building and the food is quite good and can be busy on a Friday evening. The E&C would be my choice. The Water St Cafe in Gastown is good food as well.

This is on the Norwegian Sun sailing back under the Lion's Gate Bridge into Vancouver Harbour early morning.

This picture was taken on the Norwegian Sun:

This is the Golden Princess at Canada Place, Vancouver, BC on Friday, May 9

This is the Mercury docked at Canada Place, Vancouver on April 2, 2008 - first cruise ship of the season.

SakeDad;

Those are fantastic photos!!!!! I especially like the photo with the side of the ship and people.