Hyatt Regency Vancouver

Hi all, Vancouver was great. The first day we arrived it rained hard and the locals told us it had been like this for two weeks. So we found a bar called Earls and had a few drinks. This place had only been open for 2 days and we got talking to a couple of the bar staff that told us what to do and where to go. Much to our delight the next day was great, no rain just glorious sunshine, so we decided to do a hop-on hop-off bus tour of the city. This is the view from the Hyatt hotel. Our first s...

I traveled to Vancouver from February 4th to February 10th. I watched Four Continents Figure Skating Championships. Many famous skaters participated in it. I got front row seats. So I excited it very much. The winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver next February. So there were different kinds of Olympics goods in some souvenir shops in Vancouver.

On the 30th we finally found a campsite around 10:30pm. It was getting a little scary because we were in such a rural area. But everything worked out, we got a good nights rest an then woke up early the next morning to continue our drive to Vancouver. One good thing about driving so long the night before was that we were that much closer to Vancouver.

We arrived in Vancouver around 11:30 am and checked into an amazing hotel right down town (Thanks Jennifer!!!). Turns out July 1st is Ca...

We landed around noon on Aug 20 (BC time) and checked into the hotel and then called Dustins Host Family....well you don't get a very big room...and maybe we might need to spruce it up with new blankets and home accessories ....anyway check out the house and the room!

We also did some quick site seeing around Vancouver and Granville island....its a beautiful city!

Friday morning and we're up and at em! First we headed back to Granville Island to see Emily Carr University and had lunch on Granville Island...its quite a busy little spot...lots and lots of artisty things and shops....oh and a brewery right on site...yes well we had to check that out!

After lunch we headed to Lynn Canyon...its a provincial park with a suspension bridge...we hiked for about 4 hours.....we looked for a giant pine cone for Tyler but all we could find were these giant s...

We rented bicycles and spent the day biking around Stanley Park ....lots and lots of trails....

then back to the hotel...via the dark side of Vancouver....Dustin was able to see the colourful people waiting in line for the soup kitchen to open...

Vancouver has no recycling pop cans, juice containers or liquour bottles hanging around because there is a deposit on almost everything....the street people are quite thorough at cleaning up....

We booked a hotel in Vancouver for two nights so we could explore Vancouver before our cruise. We arrived at the Vancouver airport in the afternoon and took a taxi to our Hyatt hotel. After, relaxing for a bit we decided to walk out and explore the city a little bit. We first stopped by the concierge desk to inquire about how to get to Stanley Park the following day, and found that a free shuttle stopped at the hotel to bring guests to the park. After, we wondered about the city and ended up ...

Today, we took the free shuttle from our hotel to Stanley Park. The shuttle dropped us off pretty close to the Vancouver Aquarium, which was our first stop in the park. The aquarium was very nice featuring Beluga whales, dolphins, otters, jelly fish, frogs, butterflies, alligators, etc. We probably spent a good 4 hours here and then hopped on a free Stanley Park shuttle to see the rest of the park. The park is really big and the shuttle has 14 different stops, of which we only stopped at two...