Your tour begins at the Jack Poole plaza, located in our main harbour and convention centre area. Your guide will discuss the city’s history and development, and the reason why it has been named the most livable city in the world numerous times. Following that, your tour guide will take you to Stanley Park, one of North America’s largest urban parks. Stanley Park is full of history, rose gardens, the rowing club, prospect point, 1000-year-old trees to first nations storys. Your guide will give a totem talk on spirit animals and entities, as well as their cultural significance and the surrounding geology.

Flowing stanley park we’ll travel through the west end to English bay to view Laughing man and the sourounding areas to visit Vancouver’s elegant residential area, which contains some of the city’s oldest mansions and was established in 1907 by the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Lunch is paid by the guests and the venue is determined on the day of the tour by group decision ; your guide will inform you of what is available. Note: Tour buses are no longer permitted at The Granville Island Public Market as of June 4th, 2021. Instead, we offer a walking tour of the Market and its diverse range of retailers, highlighting unique artist products as well as fine produce and hot foods (this portion of the tour is walk in only and is about 3.5 blocks in length)

After lunch we drive through our Olympic village established for the 2010 winter olympics then it over the cambie street bridge arriving at Yaletown, the old train repair yards and warehousing district full of trendy resturants and boutique shops then into Chinatown, a history and culture review of the Chinese in Vancouver, and the world’s thinnest commercial building.

La Casa Gelato

After Chinatown, we have a treat for our visitors: a visit to the world’s largest ice cream shop, which has 238 flavours and is still run by the original Italian family.

Then we visit Gastown, Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhood, your guide will tell you about the founder, gassy jack how the area got its name and enjoy a performance from the worlds first steam clock, and that is grand city tour usually finishing at 3:30- 4pm.

Your driver-guide during the whole tour will provide fascinating insight into Vancouver’s diverse cultures, modern architecture, and urban planning. This small-group tour, limited to only eleven people, ensures a more memorable experience, with Downtown Vancouver hotel pickup and drop-off by air-conditioned Mercedes Benz Sprinter van included. For the folks wanting a private tour we offer the bus for private groups. The new addition to the fleet and reseerved for private tours is our fully electric Bmx iX for a maximum of three guests.