My boyfriend and I are heading to Vancouver for a week from Sept 25 to Oct 2. It was a last minute decision but looking forward to it! We want to stay in Whistler for a night or two, but otherwise will be in and around Vancouver. Any "must do's" or suggestions?
Thanks

You gotta do peak-to-peak gondola that connects the two mountains (Whistler & Blackcomb) if the weather is right, can be cloudy up there

Bring lots of money!

Lynn canyon, deep cove / quarry rock hike, ride a bike around Stanley park, walk around Granville island/eat, UBC Japanese gardens. Gastown area is nice. Try some Japadogs, Korean Fried chicken, maybe a ramen place, sushi/seafood.

These are great recos. If super energetic try the grouse grind.

Allison I was going to recommend that. Lol. Thanks.

Delainey happy to provide restaurant and specifics if you need. Pm me

Lynn Canyon is good one. They have a suspension bridge and it’s FREE

River of golden dreams if the weather is good, and a visit to Hys steakhouse

There’s a hys steak house in Toronto.

Capilano suspension bridge.

Lynne canyon is almost the same as capilano and free

Take a tour with Tour Guys
https://www.tourguys.ca/vancouver/

All great suggestions! We'll spend some time looking into them. Thanks everyone!

Enjoy !! Beautiful area. ...was there in April, many have already made great suggestions. When we were booking/looking we just Googled things to do in Whistler and Vancouver...lots of free things to do if you look !!

Don't bother with bus passes....taxis are fast and cheap in the downtown area, and saved us lots of walking at the end of the day when our feet hurt!

Even a taxi from the airport is about 35 bucks, and saved us wrestling with all our luggage on the train

tbh, it's super easy to get around by transit, particularly skytrain. And it costs $10 pp for unlimited ridership in a day, it's much cheaper than taxi.

Boat cruise up Salmon Arm

Kitsilano Beach, Stanley Park or at least James Bay. La Casita - Gastown, The NAAM Restaurant, the market

Whale/Dolphin watching

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Granville Island restaurants like Sandbar or Bridges

Sandbar is great!

Stanley park

Tacofino! It's in gastown. Walk around Canada place at sunset, great pictures. Go to La Casa Gelato, hundreds of flavours to try. Take the ferry to Victoria for a daytrip if you have time. Lynn Canyon suspension bridge. The museum of anthropology and the rose garden at UBC is pretty.

http://www.japadog.com - I still dream on these hot dogs. Amazing reviews online. Check them out.

You must get a Japadog. One of the first things I did when movie here. And get their fries the Shichimi and Garlic are must haves, I’d say more than the dog!

The karaage is delicious.

Holly I'm super intrigued by these and theres been a lot of suggestions to try it!

I had one of the Terimayo ones and tried some others but loved those the best. It changed my world. You'll never look at a hot dog the same way again.

Delainey it is definitely a must in Vancouver. They have a bunch of carts around the city and a storefront on Robson! The pork is flown in from Japan, special type of pork! We just saw a Japadog cart on Santa Monica Pier in California a couple weeks ago!
Japadog invasion lol

Rent a bike and bike around stanley park. Also visit the patio outside the Pan Pacific Hotel and watch the sunset while enjoying your favorite beverage (just take hotel escalator to reception desk and bar is straight and left.,) The patio is on top of the convention centre so great mountain and park views.

Our Hotel, the Westin, offered free bike rentals which was great,

In North Vancouver, take the bus east towards Deep Cove, spend an afternoon there. Nice place for homemade donuts, go kayaking. And ofcourse plenty of hiking. Watch out for Cougars tho (the animal
)

Deep Cove was very pretty !!

I’m in Vancouver right now. The food scene is amazing there
. I say eat your heart out. (But literally).
Also the helijet was super cool !!

Granville island, Gastown, Kitsilano beach, climb the Chief on the way to Whistler

Capilano bridge

If you don’t want to pay for Cap bridge Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge is perfect too and just outside the city in North Vancouver

You MUST go to Virtuous Pie even if your not vegan you will absolutely love anything you get!

There's one in Toronto now!

Holly great suggestion! I'm vegetarian so I'll definitely check it out

Delainey you must go to Cartems then! I think I mentioned it, they have Vegan donuts to die for. Their chocolate glaze is a dead ringer for Tim Hortons chocolate glaze but 1000x better. My friend from Toronto makes a stop there first thing when he arrives!

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When your in whistler go up to Joffre Lakes. It’s amazing, the snow shouldn’t be bad yet to hike to the second lake.

I second this.

We are currently in Vancouver, travelling on the great deal we got on swoop, thanks to Chris Myden! I highly recommend renting an ebike from Endless Biking in North Van and riding the whole way around the city. We went over Second Narrows bridge, and cycled what they called "The Loop". We saw Gastown, East Hastings, Granville Market, downtown, all around Stanley Park then back across Lion's Gate Bridge. We almost never left a bike path. It was the best way EVER to see a city. Loved it!

Sandra sounds amazing! We'll look into that

The Sea to Sky Gondola is very cool with amazing views. Definitely bike around Stanley Park. Granville Island is cool with some great restaurants. There's a whale watching your that goes to Victoria if you've got time.

West Van is amazing and has great airbnb’s too. We rented a car and drove to Whistler for the day, its an easy dry and very scenic. I would recommend dinner on Grouse Mountain (the Observatory) amazing views on Vancouver) - what we saved on accommodation we splurged on dinner with a view! Plus they have some Grizzly Bears up there (safe lol). Have fun!!