What To Expect

Day 1: Vancouver
• Stanley Park

  A luscious temperate rainforest in a urban setting, the most beautiful urban park in North America. Learn its history. Visit the Rose Garden, Totem Poles at Brockton Point, enjoy majestic views of the North Shore at the lookout at Prospect Point.

  Duration: 3 hours

  Admission Included: YES

• Granville Island

  Visit this iconic cultural hub of Vancouver, with its rich heritage and stories of this once manufacturing hub turned tourist attraction. Visit its Public Market, artists studios, antique shops. Stop to enjoy street performers. Pick up some delicious food and drinks.

  Duration: 1 hour

  Admission Included: YES

• Queen Elizabeth Park

  Queen Elizabeth Park is Vancouver’s horticultural jewel. View beautiful floral display and spectacular views of the park, city, and mountains on the North Shore. The 52-hectare park is home to the stunning Bloedel Conservatory. There is also a gorgeously landscaped quarry garden, the arboretum with its collection of exotic and native trees, sculptures including one by internationally renowned artist Henry Moore, and diverse recreational offerings such as tennis, lawn bowling and pitch & putt. The park is also the perfect setting for fine dining at Seasons in the Park, a picnic or stargazing!

  Duration: 1 hour

  Admission Included: YES

• Chinatown

  Vancouver Chinatown is the second largest in North America, after San Francisco's. Learn about its rich cultural history, the contribution of the Chinese community to the building of the Trans Canada Railways, the Canadian Pacific Railway.

  Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

• Gastown

  This is where it all began for Vancouver. Gastown was Vancouver’s first downtown core. It is named for “Gassy” Jack Deighton, a Yorkshire seaman, steamboat captain and barkeep who arrived in 1867 to open the area’s first saloon. View the famed Steam Clock in the heart of Gastown.

  Duration: 30 minutes

  Admission Included: YES

Day 2: Victoria

• A beautifully manicured garden, with separate themed garden - the Rose Garden, the Japanese Garden, the Sunken Garden, a former quarry turned to a beautiful landscaped garden.

  Duration: 2 hours

  Admission Included: YES

• Empress Hotel National Historic Site of Canada

  Visit this famous hotel, and its adjacent harbour front, and the BC Legislative Building (BC Parlament), and historic Bastion Square.

  Duration: 2 hours

  Admission Included: YES

• Victoria’s Chinatown National Historic Site

  Visit Canada's oldest Chinatown, dating back to the 1850's, a gateway to the BC Interior and Fraser Valley Gold Rush. Stroll through its iconic narrow Fun Tan Street. Learn its rich history.

  Duration: 45 minutes

  Admission Included: YES

• Craigdarroch Castle

  Visit historic Craigdarroch Castle, build by a coal magnate Robert Dunsmuir.

  Duration: 45 minutes

  Admission Included: NO

Day 3: North Vancouver
• Deep Cove

  A quaint little village by Indian Arm, a fiord formed 10, 000 years ago during the last Ice Age, stroll in the village, enjoy a cup of coffee and pastries in one of the coffee shops, and take a walk along the marina, with great views for photo ops.

  Duration: 1 hour

  Admission Included: YES

• Capilano River Regional Park

  Visit the Capilano River Regional Park, and its attractions: the Cleveland Dam, the spillway, the canyon, spectacular view of the Lions (twin peaks of North Shore Mountains).

  Duration: 45 minutes

  Admission Included: YES

• Capilano Salmon Hatchery

  Visit the Capilano Salmon Hatchery and its Interpretive Centre for an educational tour to learn salmon life cycle; and enjoy beautiful view of the Capilano River Canyon.

  Duration: 45 minutes

  Admission Included: YES

• Capilano Suspension Bridge Park

  Capilano Suspension Bridge Park, experience the Cliffwalk, and Treetop Adventure; visit the Story Centre to learn about the suspension bridge history; and Raptors Ridge to learn about the raptors and wildlife conversation.

  Duration: 2 hours

  Admission Included: NO

• Grouse Mountain

  Visit Vancouver's premier ski resort. Ride the Skyride to the top of Grouse Mountain. See the Grizzly Bears - Grinder and Coola, watch lumberjacks put on their fun shows, learn wildlife conservations, skii (winter).

  Duration: 2 hours

  Admission Included: NO

Day 4: Whistler
• Britannia Beach

  Stop at Britannia Beach, learn the history of the once largest copper mine in the British Empire.

  Duration: 30 minutes

  Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

• Shannon Falls Provincial Park

  Visit and trek up the 3rd highest waterfall in BC - 300m. Historically, a brick making spot, and later a site for beer brewing!

  Duration: 30 minutes

  Admission Included: YES

• Brandywine Falls Provincial Park

  Visit the famed horseshoe shaped waterfall, and view the nearby Daisy Lake and the Black Tusk, an extinct volcano.

  Duration: 30 minutes

  Admission Included: YES