Take-Off Fridays at YVR
Families will find Vancouvers International Airport a different place indeed. No longer do you have to dread the long wait before your flight on Fridays in August. Enjoy VYR mascots, dancing to music, face painting and free samples (treats, sweets and beverages), live DJs with lots of free entertainment, including live acrobats, local musicians, artists, a caricaturist, a balloonist, popular air side demonstrations, not to mention the $10 lunch specials.
For travellers to the US, on Fridays during the festival times, there are additional activities in the USA departures area. You can check out airfield action up close with telescopes, discover Sea Island through an interactive model and learn all sorts of interesting facts about YVR, the history of flight in B.C. and all things aviation-related.
Take Off Fridays at YVR are from 9am to 3pm.
Play me a song, piano man
If you want live piano music while you eat dinner, Brian Williams, aka The Piano Man (he has played at The White House and for the Alan Dawson Band)plays at Ciao Bella (703 Denman) on Wednesdays and Sundays from 7-10pm.
Luxury retailer
Van Cleef and Arpels is going to open at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver.
Pacific Centre stores open
Forever New is a fashion clothing and accessories brand founded in Melbourne, Australia. One of the fastest growing Australian brands, it now trades in 193 stores across eight countries. The store in Pacific Centre is the first in North America.
The Splendid brand is the culmination of a 10-year quest to create the ultimate T-shirt. The success in designing such a soft material resulted in what is now a complete lifestyle collection of ultra-comfortable, effortlessly chic styles for the entire family. Once again, Vancouver is the first to welcome this store in Canada.
New Rocky Mountaineer tour
In 2013 Rocky Mountaineer introduces the Coastal Passage, which will follow the same route as the original journey that travels West (Banff or Jasper to Kamloops, Kamloops to Vancouver), overnight in Vancouver. The journey will then continue to Seattle. More details at RockyMountaineer.com
