Marriott Vancouver

Friends & Family, Welcome to the travels and tales of DMason. Through photos, links and video of my current and past destinations in and around Sapporo, I will try to put into perspective the fascinating culture and traditions I am experiencing on a ...

... Chinatown.   Today was cool, but the sun shined most of the day. Tomorrow we are off to Victoria on Vancouver Island for 2 nights. We are keeping well, sometimes exhausted, all the time enjoying ourselves. Hope you are all well. ...

Ships log;- 7.00am Safely docked at Canada Place 8.00am Vancouver weather: Sunny 20 degrees C Total mileage this voyage Vancouver - Juneau          763nm       17.7 knots ...

... a day bus pass about $7 and went by bus to the bay then caught the Sea Bus across, then another bus to Grouse Mountain, Vancouver's highest mountain.   Paid about $35 and took the Skyride up the mountain. Arrived in time to view the Birds in ...

Enjoyed a morning Vancouver city tour - Stanley Park where the Totems are, drive through Gas Town and the markets.  We took an optional tour to Capilano suspension bridge and the fish hatchery.  Dinner that night was courtesy of Trafalgar and ...

... Tokyo Hotel at 11.30am had lunch and took the 1.40pm Airport Limousine bus to the Airport where we boarded the 6.05pm JAL flight to Vancouver arriving at 10.25am 24/08/08.  We crossed the International date line, it was a 7hr 45min flight.  Had ...

... Harbour.  What a view! After getting ready we headed out towards the Gastown district.  As the birthplace of Vancouver, Gastown was initially a settlement that sprung up around a tavern founded in 1867 by sailor and gold prospector Gassy Jack ...

... is ONLY a local Atlanta station.  They don't even get that station in South Carolina, yet somehow its up here in Vancouver...weird.  Tomorrow we have some museums and such planned and then Saturday is our big event...we're not going to tell ...

... views of the harbor, mountains, and Stanley Park. I would like to say that it was convenient but really nothing would have been. Vancouver was much to big. There were some restaurants along the water but we found them a bit pricy. A few streets up on ...

We arranged to arrive a bit early in Vancouver two days ahead of our sailing. We had heard wonderful things about this city and did not want to rush the experience.   Thanks to some hotel frequent sleeper points, we were able to stay at a ...

... - so easy for the morning.  Checking in for our 2 PM flight to Seattle and then on to Honolulu.  Made it to Vancouver on the 3 PM ferry, smooth sailing and then took a cab to the airport and checked into the Fairmont at the airport - you ...

Sometimes you just need to go home to get a bearing on where you really are ...

... in Swindon (see Rob that hellish time you had in Swindon did eventually bear fruits!!). We booked ourselves into the Marriott, Harbourside in downtown Vancouver. The room was massive and it was lovely to get a luxurious hotel for a change complete with a ...

... ? We took another walk around town and even thought about getting another Hoegaarden at ten AM but decided against it. We reluctantly checked out and headed back up the road to Vancouver. But we had one more stop before we went back to the "city of ...

... , Chicken sandwiches...its so good. We browsed the gift shop and joey got some ear warmers.  The temperature difference from Vancouver to Grouse Mountain felt like it was about 10-15 degrees.  It was FREEZING up there!  We checked out ...