Vancouver Airport Hilton Hotel to Princess cruise

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We are a party of 10 staying at the Hilton Vancouver Airport.  Suggestions on how to get to the cruiseport?  There are 2 elderly parents with limited mobility in our group.  How far is the train station to where you board the cruise?  Trying to figure out if it’s walkable for them.

[martincath]

If other folks can take their bags for them they might be fine - it's less than a quarter mile, a slight uphill or downhill slope depending which exit from Waterfront station you take (Hasting Street gives you the downhill!) on the downtown end, maybe 700 yards from the hotel to Lansdowne. Cost can't be beat - no airport AddFare, so even on a weekday you'd be paying <$3USpp if you just tapped credit cards, almost a buck less for the Seniors if you buy Concession tickets from the vending machines.

Edit - link to googlemap, which has all of our transit integrated.

 

But with that many people, consider booking a minibus for you all - the price would likely be somewhere between taking 3 cabs and using the hotel shuttle ($19pp, but very limited timeslots, and an anno6yingh slow 'milk run' route around many hotels). Cabs from the hotel would be metered, so price is dependent on traffic etc. To guarantee pricing, you can take the hotel shuttle back to YVR - cabs from there are fixed price at $38 each to the pier (CAD - pay with MasterCard or Visa, many drivers will happily take USD cash too but do NOT leave an extra tip in that case as you're paying a 33% premium at bank rates and the cabbies will pad that rate at least a little more!)

 

Other alternative - load the biggest bags and the seniors into one cab from the hotel, with one able-bodied person; everyone else head for SkyTrain; given how quick the latter is the other 7 would likely arrive at the pier in time to help unload! Total cost approx US$30 for cab, $21 for SkyTrain tix. Keep in touch with messenging service of your choice on phone/tablet, using free local WiFi if you don't get free data use in Canada. City provides #VanWiFi just about everywhere downtown, and Translink has their own WiFi on the trains.

Edited April 27, 2023 by martincath