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Better from a visitor’s point of view is North Vancouver. It’s easily reached by public transit, and the Lonsdale Quay public market—where the SeaBus docks— makes a pleasant afternoon’s outing. ca) system includes electric buses, SeaBus catamaran ferries, and the magnetic-rail SkyTrain. It’s an ecologically friendly, highly reliable, and inexpensive system that allows you to get everywhere, including the beaches and ski slopes. Regular service runs from 5am to 2am. Schedules and routes are available at the Travel Info Centres, at many major hotels, online, and on buses.
Thanks to the camouflage by the Pacific Centre Mall and the surrounding office towers, most people walk right by without ever noticing its existence. But like any good magic trick, it’s just illusion. Once inside there is nothing nondescript about the place; the elegant lobby opens up into a spacious garden terrace, the sunlight pouring in through skylights overhead. The guest rooms are tastefully appointed with French provincial furniture and marble bathrooms, while the high ceilings add a spacious feel.
Elderly Chinese women haggle over produce, while their husbands hunt for deer antler or dried sea horse at a traditional Chinese apothecary. Inside any one of a dozen restaurants, meanwhile, entire extended families—father, mother, grandparents, grown children, and grandkids—sit at a single, large round table, consuming a half-dozen plates of succulent Cantonese cooking. Yaletown Vancouver’s former warehouse district—located below Granville Street and above Pacific Boulevard, from Davie Street over to Smithe Street—Yaletown has long since become an area of apartment lofts, nightclubs, restaurants, high-end furniture shops, and a fledgling multimedia biz.
