Your day, step by step
Your call is shorter than the day this plan was built for. The greyed steps don't fit; skip them.
08:30
Leave bags at your hotel or at the day storage at Canada Place, which is for cruise passengers only.
Doesn't fit your hours
08:45
Taxi to Brockton Point in Stanley Park.
Doesn't fit your hours
09:00
See the totem poles, then walk part of the seawall. Do not try the whole 9 km lap on sailing day.
Doesn't fit your hours
10:30
Taxi back to Gastown.
11:00
Walk Water Street, Blood Alley and the Steam Clock, then have an early lunch nearby.
12:30
Walk 10 minutes to Canada Place along the waterfront and collect your bags.
12:45
Drop bags, naming your ship. Keep passports and medication with you.
13:00
Go through screening, cruise line check-in and US Customs and Border Protection.
- Latest you can leave Gastown13:50
14:00
On board, 90 minutes before all-aboard.
One port done
Your Vancouver day is timed. Now the rest of your cruise.
The Cruise Pass times every port of one sailing, up to 10, to your all-aboard like this, with a Plan B if you run late, an offline copy, and live mode on the day: Google Maps travel time back to the pier and alerts at 30, 15 and 0 minutes.
€14.99 once, nothing renews. 30-day full refund.
Where to leave from, and when
on foot bus, train, boat taxiPins show when to leave each place. Lines: route back to your ship.
Going further? Leave by these times
- GastownOn foot, about 10 min, then 90 min for screening, check-in and US border13:50
- Stanley ParkTaxi, allow 30 min, then 90 min at the terminal13:30
- Lonsdale QuaySeaBus, allow 30 min with the wait, then 90 min at the terminal13:30
- Hotel near YVR airportTrain (Canada Line) about 25 min, allow 40 min door to door, then 90 min at the terminal13:20
- Granville IslandBus 50 or taxi, allow 45 min, then 90 min at the terminal13:15
- Capilano Suspension Bridge ParkFree shuttle every 30 min, about 20 min ride, allow 60 min, then 90 min at the terminal13:00
Where people get Vancouver wrong
Passengers return to Canada Place too late because they forget the US border check comes before the ship.
Built from our Vancouver guide, checked against 30 official sources (November 2026). Nothing here is guessed. Read the full guide or see the sources.
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This is one port. The Cruise Pass times every port of your cruise.
You just timed Vancouver to your own all-aboard. Every other port on your cruise needs the same, and your ship's times change at each one. The Cruise Pass does this for every port of your sailing, up to 10: each day timed to your ship, a Plan B if you run late, and live mode on the day with Google Maps travel time back to the pier and alerts at 30, 15 and 0 minutes. Every plan uses the same checked facts as this guide. Nothing is made up.
Cruise Pass
€14.99
One sailing, up to 10 ports. Pay once, nothing renews.
- Every port of your cruise timed to your all-aboard, in port time and ship time
- Live on the day: Google Maps travel time back to the pier, alerts at 30, 15 and 0 minutes
- The full planner for each port, with a Plan B if you run late
- An offline copy for when there is no signal
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