Vancouver: Easy/Cheap way to get to pier from airport?

[fstuff1]

taking an alaska cruise later this month from Vancouver.

Easy as calling Lyft?

 

[casofilia]

There is a Skytrain that will take you to Waterfront Station, almost next to Canada Place, in about 30 minutes for about CAD10.  It is more expensive than a normal journey on Skytrain as there is a special charge for leaving YVR to pay for the link.

 

Look at https://www.google.co.nz/maps/dir/Waterfront+Station,+601+W+Cordova+St,+Vancouver,+BC+V6C+2R6,+Canada/Canada+Place,+Canada+Place,+Vancouver,+BC,+Canada/@49.2872035,-123.1152095,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x548671780b92ff0f:0xa86a935aaf27902c!2m2!1d-123.1115642!2d49.2859524!1m5!1m1!1s0x5486719d24e2e021:0xb7057fe085c86109!2m2!1d-123.1111209!2d49.2888248!3e2?hl=en

[www3traveler]

Transfer from Norwegian

[Jldevlin]

Take the skytrain ....fast and easy ...we dont have Uber or Lyft yet ...

[hallux]

Another vote for SkyTrain.  Short walk to the station from Canada Place (DON'T take the first street-level entrance as it's for the wrong line, go around the corner to Waterfront Station), smooth ride, inexpensive.

[Newleno]

if you are mobile, sky train is the answer without a doubt

[zqvol]

Personally I would not fool with the Skytrain. Lyft or Uber or even a cab are much better options IMO, especially if you have a large piece of luggage. For a party f 2 you might save $10 or $15 by taking the skytrain, but to me it is not worth the effort to handle your luggage.

[Jldevlin]

29 minutes ago, zqvol said:

Personally I would not fool with the Skytrain. Lyft or Uber or even a cab are much better options IMO, especially if you have a large piece of luggage. For a party f 2 you might save $10 or $15 by taking the skytrain, but to me it is not worth the effort to handle your luggage.

We dont have Lyft or Uber ...so it is NCL transfers,skytrain or a cab ....

[zqvol]

Just now, Jldevlin said:

We dont have Lyft or Uber ...so it is NCL transfers,skytrain or a cab ....

 

Then for me it would be a cab. (BTW that is what we always do in Vancouver anyway.)

[pbenjamin]

9 hours ago, www3traveler said:

Transfer from Norwegian

 

We did that.  It seemed like an easy alternative, $15 PP USD.  We didn't want to lug our luggage over to the train station and we didn't have enough time before the flight to do any site-seeing.  It may have been an atypical bad day, but it was awful.  We were crammed into a room with little or no air conditioning.  We waited for what seemed like 45 minutes before we were able to get on a bus.  The bus ride itself was fine.

[valleyvillage]

We took a cab, about $50.00. Wonderful driver.

[cruisequeen4ever]

The SkyTrain is your answer. You’ll have to lug your luggage a ways, but the cost is unbeatable at around $8 pp from the airport and around $5  from the cruise terminal.

[SpeedDaemon]

Another vote for SkyTrain. Was there for a conference (convention center is right next to the cruise terminal), and SkyTrain was cheap and easy. It's also faster if there's any traffic.

[YVRBassElectric]

A couple of years ago we lined up for more than 1/2 hour for a cab in Vancouver and there was only one ship in port.

 

We were just in Vancouver with 3 ships in port and waited 15 minutes for the elevator. 

 

If you can handle your luggage the Skytrain is the way to go, if you can't do an NCL transfer.

[aero777]

On 7/12/2019 at 3:03 PM, YVRBassElectric said:

A couple of years ago we lined up for more than 1/2 hour for a cab in Vancouver and there was only one ship in port.

 

We were just in Vancouver with 3 ships in port and waited 15 minutes for the elevator. 

 

If you can handle your luggage the Skytrain is the way to go, if you can't do an NCL transfer.

On the Skytrain do you stow your luggage or do you stand/sit with it?  Thanks.

[kodesthemoose]

46 minutes ago, aero777 said:

On the Skytrain do you stow your luggage or do you stand/sit with it?  Thanks.

 

There isn't anywhere to stow your luggage so you will have to stand or sit with it (a very common sight on the skytrain)

[K_e_short]

I am choosing to use the sky train because I think it's a cool experience. I'm from Ottawa and we don't' have any train service. 

 

[WanderlustJourney]

Canada Line (SkyTrain) is awesome to the Vancouver Airport. As others have already mentioned we don't have Lyft or Uber yet, it's now been approved, however it won't be an option until Mid-September 2019.

Edited July 17, 2019 by WanderlustJourney

[martincath]

On 7/15/2019 at 1:27 PM, aero777 said:

On the Skytrain do you stow your luggage or do you stand/sit with it?  Thanks.

On the Canada Line - the one between airport and pier - you are supposed to stow your bags under your seat (every seat actually has space underneath, as well as extra legroom, to enable this); on the other lines basically you shouldn't take any bags that don't fit on your lap as there's no space whatsoever for them, it's a 100% Commuter-focused service except for the airport line (which uses completely different vehicles).

On 7/15/2019 at 2:14 PM, kodesthemoose said:

There isn't anywhere to stow your luggage so you will have to stand or sit with it (a very common sight on the skytrain)

Correct in the sense that there are no separate luggage racks (because you're meant to keep your bags under your seat) but just like on all other forms of local transit leaving your bags sitting in the aisle, on a seat, or blocking access to a door or a wheelchair/bike spot is against the bylaws. Plenty folks do it as enforcement of said bylaws is rare on SkyTrain due to the automated trains rarely having any Translink staff onboard, but it's still a breach of Wheaton's Law and bad karma - since cruisers are virtually always boarding at the start of the line you shouldn't have any problem getting a seat and sliding your cases under before you sit down.

[Bronx12]

We opted for a taxi, $40