Cruise terminal to YVR Airport Luggage transfer service?

[nitewolfgtr]

Hello,

 

We have a cruise booked with Holland in early June out of Vancouver cruise terminal. On debarkation day, our flight is not until 11:30pm. Are there any company that we pre-book to pick up our luggages from the cruise terminal and transfer it to the airport so we can check out Vancouver during day and pick up the luggages at the airport in the evening?

 

Thank you.

[martincath]

Unfortunately not any more @nitewolfgtr - several years ago the folks who look after bags at the pier were the same folks who do so at the airport, so they would transfer for a fee; when the pier franchise changed to WestCoast that service was lost as well as all the prices going up! PorterGenie filled the gap (they picked up, and dropped off, bags anywhere inclyuding pier and airport), but they don't seem to have returned after Covid - their website is still active though, so it's possible they might return for 2024, you could contact them...

 

Hugely overpriced cruiseline excursions will offer this plus an airport drop-off of you - but unless you are a solo traveler just doing the exact same tour booked directly, paying to store a bag downtown, and then a cab to the airport in the evening is almost certainly cheaper as well as much more flexible, so better at filling your whole day with as much as possible! Most tours drop you at YVR either around 2pm or 5pm, and in both cases you will be far too early to even be allowed to check your bags - so now you're stuck hangining around outside the secure area until 3-4 hours preflight when you can check them in and proceed through Security.

 

With a flight that late, I would store bags downtown at the Pan Pacific, or with a local store or hotel using Bounce, Luggage Hero or similar service found online (all should work out to ~$10/bag or less), enjoy your day out, have dinner, collect bags again by 9pm and then cab (if you can't manage bags easily) or SkyTrain (if you can it's both dirt cheap and faster!) to YVR, arriving 2 hours preflight. That late you will breeze through bag drop and security, and there's no Preclearance - wherever your first stop in the US is, you'll see CBP there for immigration and customs, so hopefully you booked a nonstop or have a reasonable amount of time for the connection!