Vancouver Tourist Traps

The Sam Knee Building, was built in 1913, by two architects. Although the second floor is 6 ft. wide, the bottom floor is just 4'11 wide, making the Sam Knee,...

Our arrival into Vancouver was on the Rocky Mountaineer Train and as we approached Vancouver the staff warned us to expect to see an unusual number of vagrant/...

Robson Street is often promoted as Vancouver's Rodeo Drive in tourism literature to make it sound more affluent and lavish than it really is. When it comes down...

hi'm very familiar with Vancouver..since i live and born here. homeless people will ask "spare change" avoid giving them money since there are resourses and...

Prospect Point is at the northern point of Stanley Park. It doesn't cost anything to enter the area, apart from a bit of physical exercise if you walk here....

Gastown is the worst offender, but there are others loads of places that offer what may look, to the uneducated eye, like native carved artifacts. They may be...

This town has alot of great tourism and i encourage that you see most of them. They are a great experience and you will remember them for the rest of your life...

Vistas Revolving Restaurant.On the 20th floor of the Landmark Hotel, it's worth going to see how it revolves, if you've never been in a revolving room...

You'll find many stores in the Gastown area that claim to sell Cuban Cigars. I've been into a few, just to check it out, and I'm pretty sure most of these are...

Well, like most major cities, it is very expensive to park your car in downtown Vancouver. Most places will charge you up to $10 a day, and $6-$8 on the...

Kitsilano beach, isn't so much a tourist trap as a Locals trap! When the mercury rises, the shirts come off and Vancouvers young elite flood the beach with...

It is quite a numbers of Canadian geese around the parks because they are protected by-law. In summer, large herb of them left droppings on lawn and walkways....

Alberni St. - one block north of Robson St between Burrard and Bute streets. This seems to be a tourist trap aimed at (primarily) Japanese tourists disembarking...

Canada place - lolwe went there - looks liek a big mall build on the sea...looks a bit like a big shi p - but..inside...nothing but conference rooms, expensive...

Do your shopping away from downtown,It will cost you premium in downtown,otherwise it is a very safe city.The other thing i learn't when i had guests from...

Unless you have a burning desire to pay $13.95 ($7.95 for students) to walk across a bridge, give the Capilano Suspension Bridge a miss and go instead to Lynn...

I feel I should warn you, if you want to go shopping at all the best shops and go to the theater every night. THis island is not the place. There a very few...