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Vancouver was founded as “Gastown” by an Englishman with a penchant for beer and storytelling. Today Gastown is a historic section of the Canadian metropolis, and the lively pubs still reflect the area’s former status as a sort of community drinking center. The city’s forests, grand parks, and impressive suspension bridge beckon travelers to explore them, as do the city’s shops and museums. Relive the glory of the 2010 Winter Games with visits to Olympic venues and the marvelous Olympic Cauldron.
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1. BC Water Bikes
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 34 reviews
Rentals and private tours offered daily from early May- Sept 30th. Safe and fun for everyone, Water Biking might just be the coolest activity to hit Vancouver & BC. As long as you can reach the pedals, you are good to go! Whether it is for fun or for fitness, Water Biking allows you to get on the ocean, lake or river, from a whole new perspective, and without getting wet. Unless you want to of course. *Accepting Group Bookings now for our 2019 season!
2. Kitsilano Beach
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4.5 based on 777 reviews
This is one of Vancouver's most popular beaches offering panoramic views of downtown Vancouver, Burrard Inlet, and the North Shore Mountains. Surrounded by park land, restaurants, and beautiful people, it's the quintessential Vancouver beach experience.
Reviewed By 690sf - Vancouver, Canada
Kits Beach has just been ranked by Lonely Planet as one of Canada’s top ten beaches, and one of B.C’s top three beaches. Chesterman Beach, Tofino, on Vancouver Island, gets best surfing beach, another up island for most remote and Vancouver’s Kits Beach as best urban beach. Kits Beach, a nice stretch of beach easily accessible to a good number of neighborhoods, as well as to downtown Vancouver, also has a lot going for it around it. Public tennis courts, public basketball courts and beach volleyball. It also has good parking; it is close to the cycling path and the seawall route. It also offers a great view across the inlet to the mountains, still heavily capped in snow. In addition, there is Kits Boathouse, very close to the beach to pop in for a meal or a beverage to warm up with on these chilly April days. I did just that this first Sunday of April. Under the management of GM, Doug, and his assistants, Dave and Ed, one gets good welcome from all, from hosts, to bartending and serving staff, as well as fine plating and food from its kitchen. I was welcomed by veteran bartender, Britney, who also serves the lounge area. I was delighted by a great dessert of molten chocolate lava cake with a special raspberry and caramel sauce instead of it usual ice-cream, as it was just too chilly for this cool day in its patio area, the only place restaurants are able to seat people with the new restrictions. BH chef, Cush, kindly made that adjustment for me. As the photo below shows, it was well-combined. And as the other photo shows, one can get a great view of the highly-rated Kits beach from the BH patio. Other bartenders — Donna, Emma, Adam, and Heather, also give good service and warm welcome. It is open seven days a week, as is Kits Beach, of course Posted by S Fuller
3. Kitsilano Showboat
4. Vanier Park
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 68 reviews
Located close to downtown, this park is a popular place to fly a kite.
Reviewed By sharedvision - San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
This park is an adventure in exploring the fabulous green space of Vanier Park with multiple other opportunities—visiting the Museum of Vancouver, the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, The Vancouver Maritime Museum , the Bard On The Beach Shakespeare Festival and use of the public boat ramp all adjacent within the Vanier Park area..now to the outstanding green space that the visitors can participate in—watching kite flying, experience waterfront marine boat activities, many photographic opportunities of the North Shore Mountains,Downtown Vancouver , and participating in viewing The Gate To The Northwest Passage sculpture to commemorate Captain George Vancouver arrival to Burrard Inlet in 1792 from the many stunningly visual perspectives...Oh and might I add that Granville Island is just a short stroll or bike ride away..yes you cannot do all this in just one visit..
5. Kitsilano Pool
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4.5 based on 322 reviews
Reviewed By 690sf - Vancouver, Canada
Nothing marks the beginning of the summer season in Vancouver like the opening of its Kitsilano Pool. This year, of course, it is different. Perched between land & ocean, it is there for all to see, giving a flavor to the neighborhood with its opening, exciting swimmers & non-swimmers alike, as well as welcomed by eateries close by, such as the wonderful Kibune Sushi, The Boathouse,The Local & Nook, which see a nice uptick in business with its opening each May on Victoria Day long-weekend. This year with the pandemic its long-awaited opening will be July 13. Things will be quite different this year, of course. For one, swimmers will have to arrive “swim-ready”, as the change rooms with its showers, will not be open but the washrooms will still be available. The pool is only accepting non-contact payment so no cash or passes. To ensure safety & social distancing, admission for lap swimmers will be on a 45 min basis & 90 min for others. Reservations can be done online or on a drop-in basis. Lanes have also been made larger. So a Brave New World at this venerable Kitsilano institution, but given its spectacular location & its glorious long lengths one can swim alongside the ocean, not much can spoil the experience of visiting this magnificent pool. I have been swimming at Kits pool since 1988, shortly after arriving here as an immigrant. My then teenage & champion swimmer son joined me there as a regular lap swimmer until we moved to UBC to do our respective degrees at the opposite ends of the titular spectrum, swimming there until we returned to Kits. My two grandchildren love to swim at the pool when they come for visits, so we are now three generations in. I have also taken visiting friends to swim at Kits & all have been impressed. An enthusiastic & committed life/long swimmer, I have swum around the world in many great places but the Kits pool remains top of the list. Posted by S Fuller
6. Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival
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4.5 based on 477 reviews
Each year Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival runs from June to September in a spectacular waterfront setting in Vancouver. Enjoy Shakespeare’s great comedies, romances and dramas in modern theatre tents, performed against a spectacular backdrop of mountains, sea and sky! 2021 SEASON UPDATE: With regret, we have made the decision not to proceed with an in-person Festival this summer, because of the impact of the pandemic’s third wave on our unique production and presentation model. For more information and plans for our digital season, please visit: bardonthebeach.org/whats-on/status-update-the-2021-season/
Reviewed By 690sf - Vancouver, Canada
Bard on the Beach Founder & Artistic Director, Christopher Gaze, has this month release a YouTube clip in which he tells viewers of the difficult decision taken to cancel the Shakespeare Festival’s 31st season. Gaze, standing in the place at which the tents are usually pitched, notes to viewers how painful the decision to cancel this year’s schedule is, but promises the white tents — long associated with BontheB runs at Kitsiilano’s Vanier Park — will rise up again next year. The plays selected for this year’s run will be transferred to next year, & include Midsummer’s Night, Henry V, Love Labours Lost & Paradise Lost. Patrons may either transfer tickets purchased to next year’s summer run, get a refund or donate the sum to support the non-profit, which has been entertaining audiences for 30 years. I attended the first season in 1990, happy the performances were staged a nice, pleasant short walk from our then home on Kits Point, & have since attended most of BotBsummer seasons over the past three decades. The first performance I attended with my husband, others sometimes with friends as well, & after my husband decided fairly early on he was not up for any more - adding with a straight face, as he knew how so many of them ended- I started going with friends who had the affection I had for the Bard, & happily was afforded the opportunity to attend a good few with a friend who worked with a theatre organization & received complimentary tickets. After much persuading, I got my husband to relent & attend Tom Stoppard’s R&G with me which BotB was staging. I guess he did not know how the play ended! BotB did a wonderful job. Stoppard’s plays are always such a pleasure to see & hear. My husband, too, enjoyed it. I love seeing Shakespeare outside,& loved going to Shakespeare performed in Regents Park in London, when I worked there or later on on longer research trips or visits to friends in a city which still remains my favorite. I have also been delighted by Gaze’s performances outside of the non-profit tents. Once when Cheesecake Etc. owner, Michael, held a special soirée at which Gaze did an informal performance, & at a friend’s birthday party, held at the wonderful Jolly’s Indian Bistro on 4th at Bayswater, where Gaze stood on a chair & paid tribute to her in a delightfully theatrical way. It was a fun-filled night, equally filled with delicious food prepared by Jolly, at his restaurant, which has long been a neighborhood favorite, & now, in these tough times for all in the food industry, is open from 5 p.m to 9 p.m, for pick up takeouts, as well as through the various delivery services operating in Vancouver. I plan to take my two wonderful grandchildren to BotB in 2021. Henry V is one of my best plays. Posted by S Fuller
7. Vancouver Maritime Museum
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 295 reviews
For over fifty years, the Vancouver Maritime Museum has celebrated the profound significance of the ocean and waterways of the Pacific and Arctic. Located in on the waterfront in stunning Vanier Park, the Maritime Museum's featured attraction is the St. Roch, a National Historic Site and RCMP vessel that was the first vessel to circumnavigate North America and the only link between distant communities in the Canadian Arctic in the early 20th century. The museum also has extensive galleries of model ships, including a particularly fine bone model of the French warship Vengeur du Peuple which was built around 1800 by French prisoners of war, a Children's Maritime Discovery Centre, a recreation of the fo'c'sle (forecastle) of Vancouver's ship Discovery, an extensive collection of maritime art, the boiler of the Beaver which was the first steamship in the Pacific Northwest, and many more wonders and treasures.
Reviewed By tonyl255 - Vancouver, Canada
Great history of maritime and boating ,amazing to walk around inside The St Roch ,lot of pictures and displays ,need more them hours visit ,also fabulous views of Vancouver .
8. Museum of Vancouver
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4.0 based on 301 reviews
The Museum of Vancouver (MOV) connects Vancouverites to each other and connects the city to the world. An enthusiastic civic advocate, MOV is dedicated to encouraging a deeper understanding of Vancouver through stories, objects and shared experiences.
Reviewed By pendrell - Vancouver, Canada
What a lovely place to spend some time. Rain or shine it's a great visit and well worth the money. The Space Centre area is wonderful as well. Definitely do that along with your visit to the main part of the Museum. Only downfall was unruly school children, running and shouting and bumping into themselves and narrowly avoiding public. They need to be controlled. Totally unacceptable behaviour. Where were the teachers and where were the Museum personnel.?? Other wise it was truly great.
9. Hadden Park
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4.0 based on 12 reviews
Reviewed By 690sf - Vancouver, Canada
I did not know there was a place called Hadden Park even though I went to this park frequently, only later finding out t was so named. Most Vancouverites know of Vanier Park on Kits Point, manly because of the Space Centre & Vancouver Museum located on it. Hadden Park abuts it, & seems to have been overshadowed by Vanier Park. Hadden Park, named after Englishman, Harvey Hadden , who previously owned it before he donated it to the city, is a great place to view the ocean & mountains across the inlet, even now in the more rainy months. So how after all these years of being in this park called Hadden Park, did I get to know its name? My son, when visiting Vancouver, took an iphone picture of us playing in the park. When adding it to my collection of iPhone pics, the name popped up as its location. Being English, I am more used to the name being spelt Haddon but love generous philanthropists however they are named. Hadden Park gives lots of joy to strollers, runners & children alike. Thanks Harvey Hadden. Posted by S Fuller
10. HR MacMillan Space Centre
Overall Ratings
3.0 based on 206 reviews
The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre will be open on select dates for special programming. Visit the “Upcoming Events” page on our website for a full listing of virtual programs and workshops.
Reviewed By 690sf - Vancouver, Canada
In my experience, if one really wants to enjoy something, do it with children. While I have long considered this proposition, I know this surely to be true now having done many things with my two wonderful grandchildren. One of the things we did together & which was so much fun, was visiting the H.R. Macmillan Space Centre at Vanier Park on Kits Point. Established in 1968, it is housed in an iconic building, adjacent to the Observatory Centre, an add-on which is open to the public to view the heavens on clear nights, It, along with Science World —- which I also visited happily with my gorgeous grandchildren— are two wonderful learning resources to take children to in Vancouver. If you have not visited, do so as soon as it & Science World reopen. Hopefully they will open again soon, & before the end of the summer holidays, which is a good time to take these informative & fun learning excursions. The Space Centre —.along with its various exhibitions —has interactive viewings, as well as talks throughout the day. Science World, too, has talks. Good to find out when they are, so one can gear one’s visit to the schedule. Posted by S Fuller
