Things to do at Vancouver BC

[mekaakaa]

I will be going to Vancouver from June 15 - June 25 and was wondering if there any suggestions on what I should go check out or do? I will be taking a tour (June 17 - June 21) going to different location such as Banff etc.

Any suggestion will be great :)

[icedtee]

The usual touristy stuff:

-Go up Grouse Mountain via Gondola
-Capilano Suspension bridge
-Stanley park in downtown
-Try out one of many different types of restaurants
-Take a day trip out to Whistler

Other stuff:
-Check out the Richmond night market
-Go see some local stand-up comedy/music shows
-Whale watching
-Fishing
-Take a day trip south of the border for some shopping

[pmc]

Base jump of the suspension bridge :)

Aquarium

[frogger]

The usual touristy stuff:

-Go up Grouse Mountain via Gondola
-Capilano Suspension bridge
-Stanley park in downtown
-Try out one of many different types of restaurants
-Take a day trip out to Whistler

Other stuff:
-Check out the Richmond night market
-Go see some local stand-up comedy/music shows
-Whale watching
-Fishing
-Take a day trip south of the border for some shopping

AFAIK, the Richmond night market is not happening this year due to a lease expiry. I was planning on checking it out this weekend but...

[mekaakaa]

The usual touristy stuff:

-Go up Grouse Mountain via Gondola
-Capilano Suspension bridge
-Stanley park in downtown
-Try out one of many different types of restaurants
-Take a day trip out to Whistler

Other stuff:
-Check out the Richmond night market
-Go see some local stand-up comedy/music shows
-Whale watching
-Fishing
-Take a day trip south of the border for some shopping

Great, thanks for the advised and i will for sure look into it all.

[mekaakaa]

AFAIK, the Richmond night market is not happening this year due to a lease expiry. I was planning on checking it out this weekend but...

Really..... my friend who live in richmond BC told me it started last friday... are you sure it cancel? it will totally suck if it did got cancel because i was looking forward to going there for the food lolz

[bokchoy]

The night market did open last Friday (I went) but it may not have food stalls by mid-June.

Not really worth it because of the low quality goods.

[superbooos]

Check out the nice gardens they have there:

- UBC Botanical Gardens
- Nitobe Memorial Japanese Gardens
- VanDusen Botanical Gardens
- Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Chinatown, Gas town, Granville Island

[icedtee]

AFAIK, the Richmond night market is not happening this year due to a lease expiry. I was planning on checking it out this weekend but...

A new owner took up the lease so it is open now.

Other things to do:
-Make it a beach day at spanish banks/jericho beach
-Casinos: River rock/Edgewater
-Clubbing

[Mgz]

bump

doing the same thing from July 17 to July 23. Thanks for all of the suggestion so far.

I also want to check out the all you can eat sushi stuff? (Edmonton BLOWS) can anyone recommend a decent AYCE sushi restaurant in vancouver?

also is there a cheaper way than the pacificcoach something to go from Vancouver to Victoria ?
http://www.pacificcoach.com/Schedule/FromVancouver/Current

[GangStarr]

Banff is pretty far from Vancouver.

I would take a trip up to Whistler, and do some downhill biking. They rent you the bike and you take the chair lift up with the bike on the back. Nice pleasent ride down in a proper full suspension bike.

Whistler is beutiful.

I also recommend whale watching. I did it while in Boston and its a cool site if you've never seen it before.

[originalnutta]

So you decided to go to vancouver, without knowing what to do there?

Banff is about 7 hours away. But it's a great drive.

Search this forum for what to do in Vancouver, then check out lonely planet thorntree forums.

[Cospa]

Banff is actually in Alberta so it's quite far, Whistler would be a good alternative though

[redrage]

There are quite a few AYCE sushi places around Vancouver. I think overall the quality is decent...there isn't one that I can think of that is exceptional compared to the others. Here are some places that I could think of off the top of my head. You can read ppl's reviews and see the addresses at dinehere.ca (http://dinehere.ca/)

Vancouver
BC Sushi
Shabusen (sushi & Korean BBQ) - They have two locations. The one downtown had a fire recently so I'm not sure if they have reopened
Fish on Rice
Ebei
Kingsway Sushi

Richmond
Ninkazu / Tomokazu
Richmond Sushi
Aji Toro
Shota