Anyone Been to Seattle or Vancouver?

[Ladyshopper]

Anyone know of any places to leave luggage in Vancouver? We arrive in the early morning from a cruise (Hawaii), and have the Amtrak to Seattle booked at 5.45pm (couldn't get avios flights out of Vancouver, so went for Seattle instead).

Hoping to have a whistlestop tour of Vancouver before getting the train, but obviously don't want to be lugging our luggage round.

[suecee]

Originally Posted by Libby

We did a Viator trip to Victoria and Butchart Gardens (organised by my aunt). It was a minibus with mostly American tourists.

The driver was a local student and was very chatty and informative. She looked after us well during the journey but we also had plenty of time on our own on the ferry and at our destinations. The best part of the day was the return ferry trip at sunset - amazing.

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Brilliant, thanks Libby.

[suecee]

Originally Posted by Melbatb

We got the ferry across to Nanaimo and drove across yo Ucluelet (3 hours) where we stayed for 6 nights. I think there are day trips to Victoria though.

If you husband is a plane fan, Boeing factory tour is a must. You need a car though!

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Thanks. Won't have a car will hopefully use Uber.

[Leia Organa]

Originally Posted by suecee

Thanks Can you recommend places to stay or eat in down town Vancouver? We are not big fish eaters & nothing too fancy.

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We stayed at Rosedale on Robson which we found to be a good location.

[anji]

Originally Posted by suecee

Where probably more lookers than doers. Looking at the Pop museum & air museum but I'd like to see some places where tv or films have been made, maybe Frasier?

I am a big fan of Heart the band who are from Seattle not sure if you'd know much about that?

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The Museum of Pop Culture is amazing. There was a Star Trek special exhibition on when we went too.

Sadly there are no filming sites for Frasier as none of it was filmed in Seattle. The view out of his window are just backdrops. We were disappointed too!

[suei]

We visited Seattle last summer & stayed at the Moore Hotel, a couple of minutes walk from Pike Place. We only had 1 full day to explore Seattle but, after visiting Pike Place Market, we did an interesting free walking tour with Seattle Walking Tours which took us to Pioneer Square & along part of the waterfront area; then visited the Klondike Gold Rush Museum & went up to the Sky View Observatory in the Columbia Centre for great 360 degrees views.
We enjoyed what we saw of Seattle &, if we'd had more time, we'd have also gone to Kerry Park for the "picture postcard" city view & to the Space Needle & Chihuly Gardens. I still wish we'd had time to fit in a visit to the Boeing Factory! We then flew from Sea-Tac to Victoria on Vancouver Island with Alaska Airlines where we picked up a hire car & explored parts of the Island for 9 days.

Ladyshopper
I've read about luggage storage by CDS Baggage who operate at the Canada Place Cruise Terminal in Vancouver from May to September.
More info here: cdsbaggage.ca/

[pinkrose]

Just back from Vancouver and Rockies road trip. Had four nights at the Rosedale on Robson in the Yaletown part of Vancouver. Spent a day walking round touring Vancouver sights ie Gastown and steam clock, Canada Place and olympic torch and went up the Lookout. Had dinner in the pub attached to the hotel. Next day we took a free shuttle bus from Vancouver public library (just up from our hotel) to Capilano Suspension bridge and the rainforest then in the evening went to Blue Hat Bistro near Granville Market (anniversary dinner). On our last day we hired e-bikes and cycled round Stanley Park. Returned to Gastown in the evening to buy souvenirs and ended up eating at The Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner. Very nice all-included italian meal.
Gastown was full of tourists during the day but agree with the comment re the number of homeless people and drug users and it didn't feel quite so safe that last evening walking back to the hotel.