Vancouver Post Cruise Transfer

[Skicruiser55]

Looking for the easiest/best way to get to the airport post cruise day for a 1:25pm flight.  Should I use HAL’s transfer or get a cab?  I am looking for the easiest not concerned with the cost factor.  

Edited April 24 by Skicruiser55

[martincath]

'Easiest' is one of those loosey-goosey, everyone has their own definition terms that is genuinely hard to say without being a mind-reader... best guess is that it's either going to be:

• a) pre-book a limo with a meet & greet fee so the driver will wait in case you're delayed by e.g. a chat with CBSA because you're bringing walrus tusk souvenirs across the border without a CITES importation form, as this will never involve a long wait like the cab queue often can; or
• b) if you're mobile enough and don't have too much luggage, self-disembark with your own bags and take SkyTrain.

 

The latter is reliably the fastest method (no traffic issues), requires no prebooking, and also has the lowest possiblity of anything going wrong - bags never leave your side, no chance they get put in the wrong place, no delays waiting in any queues at all, absolute worst case is that you just miss a departing train and have to wait for the next one... which might be 10-12 minutes on a weekend, but never worse than 7 on a weekday so is probably still faster than a car from the pier. It's definitely the cheapest, at no more than CAD$4.55pp, which makes it the very rare trifecta of fastest, cheapest, and best by most reasonable definitions.

 

The only downside is if 'easiest' to you requires someone else to schlep your bags for you as much as possible - you can't get a porter to help you on and off the train! That's where the limo service kicks in - and unless you are a solo traveler, a limo may actually still be cheaper than cruiseline transfers (with 3+ people, guaranteed a limo is cheaper as well as faster and almost certainly easier to find than "Which of these six buses is the one for Red Two Group going directly to YVR at 9am, not on a City or North Shore tour first?")