AREAS:

• ✔ Granville Street - pedestrian zone of cheesy bars and food
• ✔ West End - LGBQT - Davie Street - great beaches, shops and tree-lined avenues
• ✔ Kitsilano - beach and shops (west 4th Ave shops: gravity pope)
• ✔ Gas Town - oldest neighborhood in the city, home of bars, charming streets, some vintage, and a serious heroin drug den nearby toward Chinatown but safe (Meet Vegan)
• ✔ Yaletown - big restaurant lined area (Meet Vegan)
• ✔ China Town - Chinese gardens, Dr. Sun Yat Sen
• ✔ Robson Street - shopping brand-name

BARS:

• Moose Bar (Granville), Funkies Karaoke, Warehouse, Uncle Abes Bar
• Venues: Rickshaw Venue (Gas Town), LanLou's, Orpheum, Vogue, Commodore, Guilt & Co, Biltmore Cabaret, Fox Cabaret

FOOD:

• Meet, Acorn, Wild Thing and Snack Bar, Don Chay

Cute vintage Shop Neighborhoods:

• Gastown:
  • Far Out Vintage - 165 East Cordova Street
  • Hey Jude - 315 Abbott St
  • Gore Street Vintage - 298 E Georgia St
  • Kool Thing Vintage & Duchess - 433 Columbia St
  • Community Thrift and Vintage - 311 Carrall St & 11 W Hastings St
• Main Street:
  • Mintage MALL - 245 East Broadway
  • F as in Frank Vintage Clothing - 2425 Main Street
  • C’est La Vie Vintage - 3247 Main Street
  • Bohemia Gallery - 3243 Main Street
  • Woo Vintage - 4393 Main Street
• Commercial Drive:
  • Little Miss Vintage - 941 Commercial Dr
  • Story of Things - 1111 Commercial Drive
  • Velveteen Vintage - 1303 Commercial Dr
  • The Only - 1616 Commercial Dr
  • Mintage - 1714 Commercial Drive
• Eastside Flea - 550 Malkin Ave. (certain dates)

TO DO:

• ✔ Cycle Around Stanley Park and neighboring beaches that hug the shoreline (can also add Granville Island) — so FUN!!!
• Lynn Canyon Park (suspension bridges) OR Capilano Suspension Bridge Park (GO EARLY MORNING)
• ✔ Richmond Night Market - operates from May-October, Friday (7pm-12), Saturday (6pm-12), Sunday (7pm-11)
• ✔ Take an Aquabus to Granville Island (indoor public market and other boutiques)
• Museum of Anthropology
• Grouse Grind (1/2 mile up stairs to a view at peak - 15 mins from downtown)
• Pacific Spirit Park
• Queen Elizabeth Park
• Van Dusen Botanical Gardens
• Vancouver Aquarium
• Butchart Gardens

Day Trips:

• Drive up the Sea-to-Sky Highway 99 - Shannon Falls stop - Brandywine Falls stop - Whistler
  • Sea to Sky Gondola
  • Train Graveyard
  • Ancient Cedar Trail - 5km round trip, and only takes around 2 hours, just north of Whistler at the end of Sixteen Mile Creek Forrest Service road up Cougar Mountain.
  • The Stawamus Chief Peak - hike stairs straight up!!
• Deep Cove (North Vancouver)