Canada Place to Canada Line train to YVR

[Klbellboy]

Arriving at Canada Place via Radiance of the Seas and are interested in taking the Canada Line to the airport with our luggage. Anyone ever do this, how hard is it to get to the station, any pointers?

 

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[Cbtours]

Just now, Klbellboy said:

Arriving at Canada Place via Radiance of the Seas and are interested in taking the Canada Line to the airport with our luggage. Anyone ever do this, how hard is it to get to the station, any pointers?

 

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Very easy to walk from Canada place to waterfront station. Join the crowds of people pushing their luggage along, can’t hi wrong 😁

[martincath]

16 hours ago, Klbellboy said:

Arriving at Canada Place via Radiance of the Seas and are interested in taking the Canada Line to the airport with our luggage. Anyone ever do this, how hard is it to get to the station, any pointers?

 

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There's one immediate mistake that can be easily made - entering at the super obvious street level escalator/stairs on Howe, just outside the pier.

 

While this does get you into the correct station, it puts you on the wrong platform - and making your way to the correct one inside involves multiple changes of level which, even if you spot all the signage and don't go astray in this rabbit warren of an old building with a staggered floor levels, a commuter railway, two light rail lines, the Seabus and even a sneaky backdoor way to the Helijet landing pad, will take you quite a bit longer than just sticking to the sidewalk, hanging a left on Cordova and then entering the front doors (very obvious, big pillars and multiple doors, and the correct platform access is immediately below you with the bonus of an elevator to the platform if you have too many bags to use an escalator).

 

At less than 400yards (even downhill a bit!), you will walk further in YVR on arrival than you do to get to Waterfront from the pier, so unless you need porters to handle bags for you every time you use an airport it's definitely feasible with luggage (just do try to put your bags under your seat - if the train's half empty it doesn't really matter, but blocking aisles or seats with luggage is a no-no from a common-sense perspective as well as against transit bylaws).

 

If you're over 65, or have kids in the group, take a couple of minutes to use a ticket vending machine - this lets you access Concession tickets for 13-18, 65+ (kids 12 and under are free) and save about a buck a person. If it's a weekday, you'll need a 2 zone ticket - weekends, 1 zone across the whole system. If you're all adults, then don't even bother getting tickets - everyone pull any tappable smartphone out, or a tappable Visa/MC card, and just tap the fare gate. As long as you use the same card/device to tap back out, all the math gets done for you to calculate Zones. Foreign cards work fine, even without a PIN, as long as the chip has the wee WiFi logo next to it.

 

If you get actual tickets, same deal - tap them on the gates and don't throw them away as you have to tap back out again!