Shore Excursion: Pre-Cruise Vancouver City Sightseeing Tour with Port Drop Off
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Vancouver, Canada
- 3 hours 30 minutes (approx.)
- Pickup offered
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Make the most of your stopover in Vancouver on a half-day city sightseeing tour that takes care of the planning for you. Relax as you travel by coach to top attractions such as Gastown, Robson Street, Granville Island, and Chinatown. Learn about the city's history from your guide and explore before being transported to the cruise terminal. You won't have to book additional luggage storage as you sightsee, either.
- See many of Vancouver's highlights even if you're short on time
- Enjoy hassle-free transportation to your port
- Take in the views of English Bay and Vancouver Harbor
- Cover more ground on a bus tour and relax while you sightsee
What's Included
- Hotel pick-up / port drop-off (Please call to arrange hotel pick-up)
- Local guide
- All taxes, fees and handling charges
- Food and drinks, unless otherwise specified
- Gratuities
Meeting and Pickup
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Pickup details
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Start time.10:00 am
Itinerary
Climb aboard the coach for a guided trip, beginning with historic Gastown. Cruise down cobbled streets and take in the atmospheric 19th-century architecture on your way to Chinatown.
Skip across the water to Granville Island, where you’ll have time to explore the colorful Public Market. Browse eclectic stalls selling art, handmade goods, coffee and a range of delectable foods—a great place to buy lunch!
Worry-free Shore Excursion:
We will ensure your timely return back to the ship in Vancouver for this activity. If your ship is delayed and you are unable attend this activity, your money will be refunded. See our terms and conditions for full details.
Please note: You must include hotel information at checkout and call tour operator ahead to confirm. Your luggage will be transported with you, so no need to store it prior to the tour.
Skip across the water to Granville Island, where you’ll have time to explore the colorful Public Market. Browse eclectic stalls selling art, handmade goods, coffee and a range of delectable foods—a great place to buy lunch!
Worry-free Shore Excursion:
We will ensure your timely return back to the ship in Vancouver for this activity. If your ship is delayed and you are unable attend this activity, your money will be refunded. See our terms and conditions for full details.
Please note: You must include hotel information at checkout and call tour operator ahead to confirm. Your luggage will be transported with you, so no need to store it prior to the tour.
Gastown (Pass By)
Chinatown (Pass By)
1
Granville Island
45 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
2
Brockton Point Totem Pole
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Prospect Point Lookout (Pass By)
English Bay (Pass By)
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking, unless booked within 1 day of travel. In this case confirmation will be received as soon as possible, subject to availability
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Most travelers can participate
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 30 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Great experience, very knowledgeable guide. Got to visit several neighborhoods, stopped off at a couple of spots, had time to get a bite to eat.
It was a great way to see Vancouver. Especially if you don’t have a lot of time. Perfect for people who are cruising.
Very nice city overview with the highlight being a brief stop at Granville Island. Heather did a great job! Fantastic driver and very engaging.
It was a fun little tour around Vancouver . However ! It started at 10 , I understood it was 3.5 hours which should have had us at the port by 1:30. We were stuck in a bunch of downtown traffic and didn’t make it to the port until 2:15 . We were a little concerned as we understood last call boarding was 2:30 . It was scary there for a little bit .
I will say Michael did a great job and knows the area well and is a very nice guy . Just the pressed for time part at the end was not necessary .
So glad that we had time to take this excursion around Vancouver what a beautiful city. Hope I can go back one day.
that it is great, timely pickup, friendly driver, dropped at port, group of 18 well satisfied, thanks
It was a very nice tour of Vancouver then we were going on a cruise to Alaska on Princess Cruises. We saw the highlights and totem poles. Got to Shop and have lunch. We enjoyed it.
This was a good tour if you are short on time and want to see the highlights. It felt a bit rushed and we spent a lot of time waiting to pick up people from a cruise, even though it was a pre-cruise tour for us. The guild was good and informative.
Viator’s reservation was easy and very very helpful even though I did book the wrong dated!
Brent our driver and tour guide was excellent, he knew his job well!
Thanks for dropping us off at the celebrity cruise port seamlessly!
Very impressive!
Thanks Viator,
Denis&Tan
Very informative preview of Vancouver! The guide was very knowledgeable about Vancouver and the surrounding area!
Our city tour of Vancouver was excellent. The driver and guide was so knowledgeable. Helps to have been born and raised there.
I would recommend it to everyone. Or bus connection driver was great as well. Think his name was Larry, he was a veteran
Interesting tour of Vancouver. Our tour guide was well informed and was quite entertaining. It’s a nice way to get a feel for the city.
A simple way to include a cruise transfer with a brief glimpse of the key sights in Vancouver. We enjoyed the stop at Stanley Park and Granville Island - the latter more than initially anticipated but the whole market had a good vibe. Some of the drive-by sights were difficult to see and fully appreciate due to traffic, pace and positioning on coach.
Tour was rushed to get everyone where they needed to go on time. Our driver/guide was funny and did his best but the tour just wasn’t very interesting, was very rushed and had too many issues with traffic, late arrivals to the bus and those wanting early dropoff at the port.
Our driver/guide, Greg, was experienced, knowledgeable, entertaining, and just generally fun. We learned a lot, and got to see places in our smaller bus that a full size motor coach would not physically fit. The pickup was exactly on time. The bus was clean and comfortable. We never felt bored or rushed, it was a great pace. The tour length was just right.
Great overview of the history and sights of Vancouver. Our guide, Tim, was personable , funny and extremely knowledgeable. I had left a prescription medication behind at our hotel, and Tim took care of having it picked up and delivered to us by the end of the tour before we boarded our cruise ship. He went above and beyond to get it to us! Extraordinary service.
Great tour guide. He was very informative. He had a great sense of humor and took us directly to our nost. He was very knowledgeable.
Nice overview of Vancouver if your time is limited. We really enjoyed our driver Jordan. He had extensive knowledge of the area and told us many stories in various people's voices. Really fun!
Our pre-cruise tour was fantastic! Our driver, Greg (Dawn bus) , was so knowledgeable about the area and listening to his stories and leaning about the area made for a great morning before our cruise. I would absolutely recommend this tour to anyone that’s in the area and wants a tour of Vancouver.
I highly recommend this tour. Our guide Tim was friendly, helpful, funny, very personable and knowledgeable about the city. Definitely enjoyed the tour, especially the story pole stop in Stanley park and the market stop on Gainesville island. I would even take this tour agin if I come back to Vancouver.
Because you’re in a bus and traffic is a factor the driver can’t always stop for riders to take pictures. There was a longer option which may have afforded more photo ops but It was a good experience nonetheless.
During the excursion information was shared in a fun and entertaining manner. Our guide/driver Quentin was awesome! Along with maintaining his upbeat and lively disposition Quentin shared his wealth of local and cultural knowledge.
Brent was our helpful and knowledgeable guide. Pick up was on time and drop off, seamless, as he took our luggage straight to the ship.
Brent took us around the city, Stanley Park and Granville Island. We had lunch there, as it was going to take a while to get through security screening with other ships also departing at the same time. I recommend this pre-cuise tour for a relaxing way to get to the cruise terminal and a quick orientation to Vancouver.
I recently had hip surgery and was not interested in shopping with the others. I asked Derek if I could stay on the bus. He not only allowed it, but kept me engaged with great conversation and Vancouver history. Thank you so much for indulging me, Derek. You made my day.
Very nice city trip to take prior to a cruise sailing ❤️
Staff was very informative and covered very important points of the city.
Interesting and informative. The driver and tour guide, Quintin, is very knowledgeable and friendly. We were picked up at the hotel on time and dropped off at the cruise port on time.
Great tour guide. Saw many interesting things. Loved the totem poles and the market. Enjoyed learning the history of Vancouver.
I thought I had booked a short ship cruise! Then the driver told me that this wouldn’t be so. I enjoyed the sightseeing anyway, because the driver (Greg?) was telling stories about Vancouver and the different places we stopped. It was really great.
We were only in Vancouver for one day before boarding a cruise ship and this was a great tour to see the sights and learn about the city and its history. Our tour guide was awesome. We were able to get off at several stops to get photos and enjoy the marketplace which was amazing. It was so worth the money.
Great taste of the city in a short time. Stellla was amazing, really have a perosnal touch to the tour. Picked us up at the hotel, luggage and all, and delivered us to the port in plenty of time to board our cruise.
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