Question re: transportation within Vancouver
 

Arriving next Tues. for 5 nights in Vancouver. Plan on taking the light rail from airport to waterfront (staying at Fairmont Pacific Rim). Just wondering about other transportation around the city - we won't have a car and don't mind walking, but is the light rail helpful for around town, if so is there a certain type of pass we should buy? Can we use this same pass to go from airport to waterfront or does that need to be a separate ticket?
Thanks!

The translink website is an invaluable source of info:

http://www.translink.ca/

We used transit to get all over the city. We found day passes to be the most useful for us because they are good for all zones and good for all day.

The light rail is called Skylink and it is part of the Translink system. One ticket (provided you have paid for the correct number of zones) or the Day pass can get you anywhere on the Translink system.

The Vancouver Trolley Company runs a handy hop on hop off service through Stanley Park- http://vancouver.ca/parks/parks/stanley/gettinghere.htm
I like hiking along the seawall in Stanley Park. Let's hope the bad mood is over in Vancouver by the time you get there. Last nights riot was bad after the Cannucks lost to the Bruins in game 7 of the Stanley Cup.

The bad mood ended yesterday morning when thousands of citizens arrived downtown to help clean up after yesterday's riot. With exceptio to a few boarded up windows, you'd have no idea there was a riot.

ROFL - if you see a young guy, with dark hair, down on his luck, hiking along the seawall in Stanley Park, don't hang out too near to him as another riot might flare-up anywhere he goes.

"The Bad Mood" in Vancouver certainly did not "end", nor will it anytime in the foreseeable future (give it at least the rest of the decade).

However you can be pretty confident that tourists are extremely safe in Vancouver at this point and looking forward.

Regarding the supposed "bad mood" - things are back to normal in Vancouver. Canucks fans are disappointed that the Canucks didn't win the Stanley Cup, but angry anxiety-driven drunken hooliganism "bad mood"? That ended the same night it began. Seriously though, as a local, there's no feeling of a bad mood. People are out hugging the police, writing words of love for their city on the boarded up windows downtown - the Bay had a pancake breakfast for the 15,000 volunteers that came downtown the morning after to clean up. To say the city's in a bad mood is spreading misinformation. :)

... I guess what I'm saying is that there's been an outpouring of love for the city since the night of the riot. Everyone looks like they're in an amazing mood!

What Robyn is reiterating, is that "The Bad Mood" is "normal" for Vancouverites regarding their hockey team.

As tourists, you won't notice anything out of the ordinary, for as they like to say: they "are all Canucks".


... and everyone loves the city of Vancouver itself!

A Day Pass is the best way to use unlimited transit service throughout the day covering all modes including buses, SkyTrain and SeaBus. It is the best and easy way to save transit costs.