Custom City Tour — Your Route, Your Hours, Your Chauffeur

Our fixed packages cover what most visitors want to see. This one covers what you want to see. A custom city tour means you choose the stops, the hours and the order, and we build the route around them.

Some guests give us a list of ten places. Others say “we like gardens and good coffee, surprise us”. Both work.

Quick answer: how does a custom tour work?

You tell us your date, how many hours you want, how many passengers and which places interest you. We plan a route, confirm a flat rate in writing, and a private chauffeur drives it. Minimum booking is three hours. Destinations range from downtown Vancouver to Whistler, Victoria and Seattle.

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How It Works

Tell us roughly what you want. A list of stops, a theme, or just the hours you have free. No detail is too vague at this stage.
We come back with a route. Written itinerary with realistic timings, drive times between stops, and honest notes on what fits and what does not.
You adjust it. Swap stops, add one, cut one. There is no charge for revisions and most guests go through two or three rounds.
We quote a flat rate. Tax, gratuity, parking and surcharges included. Attraction tickets and meals are separate and we list them so you can budget.
Your chauffeur calls the day before. Name, number and pickup time confirmed.

On the day you can still change your mind. Tell your chauffeur, and as long as the clock allows, it happens.

Our Luxury Fleet in Vancouver

Choose the perfect vehicle for your trip. Every car arrives clean, inspected, and driven by a professional chauffeur.

Executive Sedans

Sleek and comfortable. Ideal for airport transfers and business travel across Greater Vancouver.

VIP Mercedes Benz

First-class comfort for executives and VIP guests who expect nothing less than excellence.

Luxury SUV

Spacious and powerful. Perfect for families, ski trips to Whistler, and group airport runs.

Limousines

Turn heads at weddings, proms, and special events with our stunning stretch limos.

Party Bus

Celebrate on the move. Built for birthdays, night outs, and unforgettable group events.

Sprinter Vans

Executive seating and generous luggage space for corporate groups and cruise passengers.

Mini Bus

Smart choice for conferences, tours, and large family gatherings around Vancouver.

Motor Coach

Full-size comfort for big groups, long-distance trips, and cross-border travel.

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How Custom Tours Are Priced

Custom tours are priced by duration and vehicle, not by the number of stops. Adding a stop inside the same hours costs nothing.

Reference rates, luxury sedan, round trip inside Vancouver:

Duration	From
3 hours (minimum)	$650
4 hours	$739
6 hours	$1,092
8 hours	$1,378
9 hours	$1,521
10 hours	$1,677
13 hours	$1,963

Larger vehicles cost more. An SUV runs roughly 10 percent above the sedan, an executive van roughly 40 percent, and wheelchair accessible vehicles are priced separately.

Rates are in Canadian dollars, all-inclusive of tax, gratuity, parking and surcharges. Long-distance routes such as Whistler, Victoria and Seattle carry their own structure because of ferry fares, border crossings and driving time. We quote those individually.

What is not included: attraction admission, meals, BC Ferries fares and any US border costs. We list every one of these in your written quote so nothing appears later.

Popular Custom Itineraries

Real routes guests have asked for. Use them as starting points.

8 hours

The Photographer's Day

Kerry-style skyline viewpoints, Prospect Point at first light, Cleveland Dam, Lions Gate crossing, Iona Beach at sunset. Built around light rather than opening hours.

3 to 4 hours

Between Meetings

A tight downtown loop for business visitors. Canada Place, Stanley Park, Gastown, and back to your hotel with time to change.

5 hours

The Grandparents Tour

Minimal walking, maximum view. Drive-through Stanley Park, Cleveland Dam, Queen Elizabeth Park, an accessible lunch stop, and a rest built into the middle.

6 hours

Gardens Only

VanDusen Botanical Garden, Queen Elizabeth Park and Bloedel Conservatory, Nitobe Memorial Garden at UBC, and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden.

6 hours

Food and Markets

Granville Island Public Market, Chinatown, Richmond's Alexandra Road, and a bakery run through the West End. Popular with returning visitors.

4 to 6 hours

Film Locations

Vancouver stands in for half of North America on screen. Downtown, Gastown, UBC and the North Shore all feature heavily. Bring your list.

3 to 5 hours

Wedding and Engagement Photos

Vehicle waits between locations while your photographer works. Stanley Park, Queen Elizabeth Park, Gastown and the Convention Centre boardwalk are the usual set.

8 hours

Multi-Generation Family Day

Science World, Granville Island, Stanley Park and Grouse Mountain, with the vehicle as the rest stop between them.

Tell us which one is closest to your idea and we will rebuild it around your group.

The Best Places to Go in Vancouver, Victoria, Whistler and Seattle

Tell us which of these you want and leave the rest to us. We plan the order, the drive times and the parking, then send you a written itinerary before you pay.

Not on the list? Name it anyway. If it is drivable, we will build a route to it.

VANCOUVER LANDMARKS

Canada Place

Built as the Canadian pavilion for Expo 86, and still the white-sailed building that defines the waterfront. The promenade wraps three sides with harbour, mountain and seaplane views.

It is one of the Port of Vancouver’s main cruise terminals. FlyOver Canada operates inside and the Convention Centre connects directly. Free to walk, and the best first stop for getting your bearings.

Cleveland Dam

Holds back Capilano Lake, the reservoir supplying drinking water to much of Metro Vancouver. Completed in 1954 and named after Ernest Cleveland, first chief commissioner of the water district.

It stands 91 metres high with the spillway dropping into the canyon. Walk the crest for views north up the reservoir toward the twin peaks of The Lions. Free, and the quietest stop on the North Shore.

English Bay

Downtown’s main beach, known locally as First Beach, with the paved seawall running its full length and freighters anchored offshore waiting for berths.

The Polar Bear Swim has run here every January 1 since 1920. The Inukshuk at the eastern end was carved for Expo 86 and later inspired the 2010 Games emblem. The best light on any Vancouver route falls here late in the afternoon.

Capilano Suspension Bridge

First strung across the canyon in 1889 with hemp rope and cedar planks, which makes it the oldest visitor attraction in Vancouver. About a million people cross it every year.

The bridge runs 450 feet across the Capilano River and hangs 230 feet above it. Treetops Adventure climbs into the canopy on seven small bridges, and Cliffwalk is cantilevered off the granite cliff face.

The Kia’palano area displays First Nations carvings and totem poles. Allow ninety minutes to two hours. Ticketed, and the most expensive single admission in the region.

Grouse Mountain

Fifteen minutes from downtown, rising to 1,231 metres at the peak. The Skyride aerial tram carries you to the alpine station at roughly 1,100 metres in under ten minutes.

Summer brings the refuge for orphaned grizzly bears, the lumberjack show, birds of prey demonstrations and the Theatre in the Sky. Eye of the Wind is a working turbine with a glass viewPOD twenty storeys up.

Winter switches to skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, ice skating and sleigh rides. Dress for the summit rather than the city, because it runs several degrees colder up there.

Stanley Park

Four hundred and five hectares of temperate rainforest, seawall and shoreline on a peninsula beside downtown. Most of it was never logged, and it has been a National Historic Site of Canada since 1988.

Your chauffeur drives the one-way park road and stops where the views are rather than where the trails start. Nine totem poles stand at Brockton Point, carved by Nisga’a, Haida and Kwakwaka’wakw artists.

Prospect Point sits at the high northern edge above Lions Gate Bridge. Siwash Rock, Third Beach, Lost Lagoon, the Nine O’Clock Gun and the Hollow Tree are all on the loop.

False Creek Ferries

Small passenger ferries crossing False Creek every five to fifteen minutes, linking Granville Island, Yaletown, Olympic Village, Science World, David Lam Park and Vanier Park.

A crossing takes a few minutes and gives you the skyline from water level. Day passes with unlimited trips are available. A good way to break up a walking-heavy afternoon.

FlyOver Canada

A flight simulation ride inside Canada Place. You sit suspended in front of a twenty-metre spherical screen for an eight-minute film crossing the country east to west.

Moving seats, wind, mist and scent effects run alongside the film. Roughly half an hour including the pre-show. Strong with children, and with anyone who has walked enough for one day.

Olympic Cauldron

The 2010 Winter Games cauldron, about ten metres tall, standing in Jack Poole Plaza beside the Convention Centre. Four glass arms angle upward to meet above the plaza.

The plaza is named for Jack Poole, who led Vancouver’s Olympic bid and died the night before the torch relay began. Harbour in front, mountains behind, and the whole geography of the city in one frame.

Gastown

Where Vancouver began, named after Captain John “Gassy Jack” Deighton and the saloon he opened in 1867. Cobblestone streets, Victorian warehouses and a National Historic Site designation.

Today it holds design studios, furniture showrooms, galleries and some of the city’s best restaurants. Gaoler’s Mews and Blood Alley run off Water Street as brick courtyards worth the short detour.

Steam Clock

Built in 1977 by horologist Raymond Saunders at Water and Cambie. It was designed to cap a steam vent from the downtown heating network, not to be an attraction, and became the most photographed object in Gastown anyway.

Five whistles play the Westminster chimes every fifteen minutes, with a full plume on the hour. Arrive two minutes before the quarter, because the whole show lasts under a minute.

Granville Island

A former industrial peninsula under the Granville Street Bridge, now holding more than forty artist studios and galleries. The Public Market opened in 1979 and remains the anchor.

Bakers, fishmongers, cheese counters and prepared-food vendors trade under one roof. Around it sit the Net Loft craft shops, working glass and pottery studios, the Kids Market, theatres and a brewery taproom.

Harbour Air Seaplane Tours

Not a driving stop but a genuine add-on. Harbour Air flies scenic loops over the city and the North Shore from the Coal Harbour terminal, plus scheduled services to Victoria and Whistler.

A Victoria flight takes about 35 minutes. Flying one way and driving or ferrying the other is the single best way to buy back three hours on a Victoria day.

Harbour Centre

One of the most recognisable shapes in the skyline, built in 1977 in the downtown business district. A glass elevator runs up the outside of the tower.

The building holds the Vancouver Lookout observation deck and a revolving restaurant above it. Note that Harbour Centre and the Vancouver Lookout are the same building, not two separate stops.

A-maze-ing Laughter

Fourteen oversized bronze figures in Morton Park near English Bay, all caught in the same helpless laugh. Chinese artist Yue Minjun made them, and they arrived in 2009 through the Vancouver Biennale.

They were meant to be temporary until a local donor bought them for the city. Every figure is cast from the artist’s own face. Ten minutes, free, and nobody leaves without a photo.

Lions Gate Bridge

Opened in 1938 and funded by the Guinness family to open up their West Vancouver land. A suspension bridge with a 473-metre main span and art deco towers, carrying a National Historic Site designation.

Two cast concrete lions guard the south approach, added in 1939. The centre lane reverses by time of day. Crossing it beats photographing it, and the view either side lasts about ninety seconds.

Queen Elizabeth Park

The highest point in the city at 152 metres, built across a former basalt quarry. Roughly 130 acres of gardens, ponds, waterfalls and the best framed skyline view in Vancouver.

The Bloedel Conservatory sits at the summit, a domed tropical garden with around 120 free-flying exotic birds and 500 plant species. Popular for wedding photography, so expect company at weekends.

Science World

The geodesic dome at the head of False Creek, built as the Expo Centre in 1986 and now the city’s science museum. Hundreds of interactive exhibits across several galleries.

Live experiment demonstrations run in the main atrium and the OMNIMAX theatre seats 400 in the upper dome. Two hours minimum with children, and they will not want to leave.

Salmon Hatchery

The Capilano River Hatchery sits a few minutes upriver from the suspension bridge, in a canyon of second-growth rainforest. Admission is free and it takes about thirty minutes.

It raises coho and chinook to support runs disrupted by the dam upstream. Between roughly July and October, returning salmon climb the fish ladder against the current, which children remember longer than anything else on the day.

Steveston Village

A working fishing harbour in Richmond where boats still sell their catch off the dock. Historic buildings line the streets and the wharf holds shops, cafes and bakeries.

The Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site tells the story of West Coast canning. Britannia Shipyards nearby preserves the boatbuilding side. Whale watching tours leave from the wharf.

University of British Columbia

The Vancouver campus sits on a peninsula overlooking the Strait of Georgia, and the drive out is worth it for the setting alone.

The Museum of Anthropology holds one of the world’s strongest Northwest Coast First Nations collections in an Arthur Erickson building. Nitobe Memorial Garden, the Beaty Biodiversity Museum and the Chan Centre are all on campus.

Vancouver's Chinatown

One of the oldest and largest historic Chinatowns in North America, settled from the 1880s by workers who built the Canadian Pacific Railway. It is a National Historic Site of Canada.

The Millennium Gate spans Pender Street. Behind it sit herbal apothecaries, tea merchants, barbecue windows and the Sam Kee Building, recorded as the world’s narrowest commercial building.

Vancouver Convention Centre

The West Building runs along Coal Harbour with a level boardwalk wrapping the whole structure. Seaplanes land in front of you and the North Shore mountains sit behind them.

It carries a six-acre living roof, seawater heating and cooling, on-site water treatment and fish habitat built into the foundation. One of the easiest and flattest walks downtown.

Vancouver Lookout

The observation deck at the top of Harbour Centre, 168 metres above the street, reached by a glass elevator running up the outside of the tower.

The 360-degree view takes in the skyline, Stanley Park, Lions Gate Bridge, the harbour and the mountains. Ticketed. Worth doing early in the day, because it orients you for everything that follows.

Vanier Park

Three museums within walking distance of each other: the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre with its planetarium, the Museum of Vancouver, and the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

The park itself gives you English Bay, False Creek and the downtown skyline. Kitsilano Beach sits just west. Quiet, green and rarely busy.

Olympic Village

Built to house athletes for the 2010 Winter Games and now a waterfront neighbourhood on the south shore of False Creek. The promenade here is wide, flat and rarely crowded.

Two bronze sparrows five and a half metres tall stand in the plaza, an installation by Myfanwy MacLeod called The Birds. Skyline views across the water, plus marinas and Habitat Island offshore.

Also worth adding in and around Vancouver

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. The first authentic Ming Dynasty scholar’s garden built outside China, completed in 1986 by fifty-two artisans from Suzhou using traditional methods and no power tools. Covered walkways, koi ponds and pavilions placed to frame specific views. The adjacent park is free but is a different, simpler space.

Chinatown Storytelling Centre. Opened in 2021 on Pender Street and still missed by most tours. It covers Chinese Canadian history in British Columbia through photographs, oral histories and family records, including the head tax and the exclusion era. Allow forty-five minutes.

Robson Street. The city’s main shopping run between Burrard and Bute, with international flagships beside local boutiques. Robson Square anchors the eastern end, designed by Arthur Erickson, with the Vancouver Art Gallery above it and a free public ice rink in winter.

VanDusen Botanical Garden. Fifty-five acres of planted collections arranged by region, with an Elizabethan hedge maze. Quieter and more serious than Queen Elizabeth Park, and the two sit ten minutes apart. The Festival of Lights runs through December.

Lynn Canyon. A free suspension bridge fifty metres above Lynn Creek, plus the Ecology Centre, Twin Falls and summer swimming holes. Smaller and rougher than Capilano, and many locals prefer it. The honest alternative if the Capilano ticket is your sticking point.

Deep Cove. A village on Indian Arm twenty minutes east of the bridge, with kayaks on the water, Panorama Park and a doughnut shop locals queue for. Parking is genuinely difficult on summer weekends, which is one reason to arrive with a chauffeur.

Lonsdale Quay and the Shipyards. A converted waterfront industrial site in North Vancouver with a public market, food hall and views back at the downtown skyline. The outdoor plaza becomes a skating rink in winter.

Richmond’s Golden Village. The modern centre of Asian Vancouver, twenty-five minutes south. Aberdeen Centre, Yaohan Centre and Alexandra Road with its two hundred-plus restaurants. The International Buddhist Temple sits nearby, and the Night Market runs Friday to Sunday from May to October.

WHISTLER LANDMARKS AND THE SEA TO SKY CORRIDOR

A note on geography. Brackendale, Britannia Mine, Porteau Cove, Shannon Falls, Squamish and the Sea to Sky Gondola are not in Whistler. They sit on Highway 99 between Vancouver and Whistler, which is good news: most of them can be added to a Whistler day without adding hours, because you drive past them anyway.

Brackendale Eagle Reserve

Bald eagles gather along the Squamish River each winter to feed on spawning salmon. Squamish recorded a world-record count of 3,769 eagles in the 1994 winter count.

Peak viewing runs mid-November to mid-January, with significant numbers present through the season. Purely seasonal, and worth building a winter route around rather than adding as an afterthought.

Britannia Mine Museum

A former copper mine on the highway south of Squamish, opened in 1904 and now a National Historic Site. It was the largest copper producer in the British Commonwealth in the 1920s and 30s.

Eighteen original buildings survive in place. An underground train carries you into a 1912 tunnel, and the mill building show is the highlight. Allow ninety minutes, so plan for it rather than squeezing it in.

Sea to Sky Gondola

Sixty to seventy-five minutes from downtown Vancouver, not forty-five as often quoted. The gondola climbs to Summit Lodge at 885 metres above Howe Sound in about ten minutes.

At the top you get the Sky Pilot Suspension Bridge, the Spirit Viewing Platform, the Summit Restaurant and easy interpretive trails that are stroller and wheelchair friendly. Open summer and winter, with snowshoe trails in season.

Porteau Cove

On the shore of Howe Sound, about forty minutes north of Lions Gate Bridge. An old ferry pier runs out over the water and you can walk to the end of it.

Divers use the site year-round, with vessels sunk offshore as artificial reefs, and kayakers and paddleboarders share the beach in summer. Views run both ways down the fjord. Free.

Shannon Falls

The third highest waterfall in British Columbia, dropping 335 metres in three tiers directly off the highway just south of Squamish. A flat boardwalk reaches two viewing platforms in about ten minutes.

Spring snowmelt from May to June is loudest and most dramatic. Late summer runs thinner but photographs better. Free, and the easiest major stop on the corridor.

Squamish

At the head of Howe Sound, halfway to Whistler. A former logging town now built around rock climbing, mountain biking, kiteboarding and whitewater rafting.

Good coffee, a solid brewery scene and public art along the waterfront. It works as a comfort stop northbound or a longer lunch stop on the way home.

Whistler Village

Two hours north of Vancouver, consistently rated the top ski resort in North America, with around three million visitors a year. It hosted the alpine and sliding events of the 2010 Winter Games.

The Village is pedestrian-only, built as connected plazas along the Village Stroll, with restaurants, patios, galleries and shops throughout. Olympic Plaza sits at the north end with the rings and a summer concert stage.

Whistler Blackcomb covers more than 8,000 acres across two mountains with over 200 marked runs. In summer the same terrain becomes a mountain bike park, alpine hiking trails and four championship golf courses.

Winery and Brewery Tours

Two different days, and worth being clear which one you want.

Wine means the Fraser Valley around Langley and Abbotsford, roughly an hour east of Vancouver. Chaberton Estate is the oldest and largest, with Township 7, Backyard Vineyards, Vista D’oro and Singletree nearby. Tasting fees are small and often waived with a purchase.

Beer means Greater Vancouver, where more than fifty craft breweries cluster around East Vancouver, Yaletown and North Vancouver. Behind-the-scenes tours and tasting flights are widely available.

Either way, the chauffeur is the point. Nobody in your group has to be the designated driver.

Also worth adding on the Sea to Sky route

Stawamus Chief. A granite dome rising roughly 700 metres straight out of the valley beside Shannon Falls, one of the largest monoliths in North America. Climbers work the walls most summer days and you can watch from the base. It carries deep cultural significance for the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh people.

Tantalus Lookout. A free roadside viewpoint north of Squamish facing west to the glaciated Tantalus Range, with a built platform and panels naming the summits. Ten minutes, no ticket, and the best free view between Vancouver and Whistler. Almost every operator drives past it.

Brandywine Falls. Twenty minutes south of Whistler, dropping seventy metres in a single clean plunge into a basalt canyon. A ten-minute forest trail leads to a platform facing the falls, with Daisy Lake and Black Tusk visible on a clear day.

PEAK 2 PEAK Gondola. Links Whistler and Blackcomb across a three-kilometre unsupported span, the longest of its kind, hanging up to 436 metres above the valley. Two cabins have glass floors, and the Cloudraker Skybridge crosses a gap at Whistler Peak. Check the calendar, because it closes for maintenance between seasons.

Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre. A shared centre built by the Squamish and Lil’wat Nations, whose territories overlap at Whistler. Carvings, canoes, weaving and film, with guided talks by Indigenous ambassadors. Ninety minutes, and the most substantial cultural stop on the whole route.

Audain Art Museum. One of the strongest collections of British Columbia art anywhere, including Emily Carr and a major First Nations mask collection. An hour, and a good rainy-day alternative when the gondola is closed.

VICTORIA LANDMARKS

Victoria means a ferry. Budget roughly eight hours of travel on a day trip, which is why our Victoria package runs thirteen hours.

Beacon Hill Park

Two hundred acres of park alongside Mile Zero, with hiking trails, a waterpark, two playgrounds, a petting zoo, botanical gardens and one of the world’s tallest totem poles.

The hill takes its name from navigational beacons that once stood on it. It is culturally significant to the Lekwungen and Coast Salish peoples, the original inhabitants of the Greater Victoria region.

Fisherman's Wharf

A working marina around the corner from the Inner Harbour, with a row of float homes painted in colours nobody would choose for a house on land.

Food kiosks sell fish and chips and seafood from the docks, harbour seals appear beside the walkways, and eco-tour operators run from here. Small harbour ferries connect to the Inner Harbour. Allow forty-five minutes.

Victoria's Chinatown

The oldest Chinatown in Canada and the second oldest in North America after San Francisco, dating from the 1850s Fraser Canyon gold rush. Designated a National Historic Site in 1995.

Fan Tan Alley is the draw, at 0.9 metres across at its narrowest point and the narrowest street in Canada. Record shops, jewellers, barbers and small boutiques now fill what were once gambling houses.

Butchart Gardens

Started in 1904 when Jennie Butchart began planting out an exhausted limestone quarry her husband’s cement business had left behind. The Sunken Garden still occupies that quarry and it is the moment the place lands.

Beyond it sit the Rose, Japanese, Italian and Mediterranean gardens across 55 acres, with more than 900 plant varieties. A National Historic Site of Canada drawing close to a million visitors a year.

Allow two hours. Admission changes seven times a year by season, running from about $23 to $42 for adults.

Tsawwassen Ferry to Victoria

The BC Ferries crossing from Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay takes 1 hour 35 minutes and threads through Active Pass and the southern Gulf Islands.

Eagles, seals and porpoises are common, and orca sightings happen often enough that the crew announces them. Outer decks, a buffet restaurant and coffee bars on board. Your vehicle rides below and your chauffeur travels with you.

Reservations matter. Summer sailings sell out, and an unreserved vehicle can be held to the next sailing two hours later. We book it with your tour.

Victoria's Downtown

The Inner Harbour is the postcard. The BC Parliament Buildings face the water, completed in 1897 and outlined at night with more than 3,000 lights.

The Fairmont Empress sits alongside, opened in 1908 and still serving afternoon tea, which needs booking and takes ninety minutes. The Royal BC Museum stands behind it, with Thunderbird Park’s totem poles outside and Miniature World in the hotel building.

Mile Zero

The start of the Trans-Canada Highway, on Douglas Street at Dallas Road, marking a route running more than 7,800 kilometres east to Newfoundland.

The Terry Fox statue stands beside it, marking the start of the Marathon of Hope. The view looks south across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Olympic Mountains in Washington State.

Also worth adding in Victoria

Craigdarroch Castle. The Victorian-era mansion built by coal baron Robert Dunsmuir, with four floors of stained glass, panelled interiors and period furnishing. Allow an hour. Worth knowing that it is stairs throughout with no lift, so it does not suit every group.

SEATTLE LANDMARKS

Crossing into the United States requires valid travel documents for every passenger, plus an approved ESTA or a US visa depending on nationality. Entry decisions rest with border officers, and same-day returns to Canada carry no personal duty exemption.

Future of Flight Aviation Center

Boeing’s aviation centre outside Everett, Washington, with exhibits on aircraft design and manufacturing, full-size jet engine models and a genuine 727 cockpit you can sit in.

Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The Boeing Everett factory tour has been subject to suspension in recent years, so we check whether it is running on your date before you commit to this stop.

Pike Place Market

Opened in 1907 and one of the oldest continuously operating public farmers’ markets in the United States, spanning nine acres of downtown and holding hundreds of small traders.

Around ten million people visit each year. The fish throwers are the show, the original 1971 Starbucks storefront sits across the street, and the down-under levels hold record shops and bookshops most visitors never find.

Seattle Premium Outlets

In Tulalip, about forty minutes north of downtown, with more than 125 stores including Adidas, Coach, Kate Spade, Nike, Polo Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors and Tommy Hilfiger.

Because it sits north of the city, choosing it shortens your driving day rather than lengthening it. Read the border note above before planning a serious shopping trip.

Space Needle

Opened in April 1962 for the Century 21 Exposition and standing 605 feet tall at Seattle Center. The observation level was rebuilt in 2018 with floor-to-ceiling glass and tilting glass benches leaning out over the city.

The Loupe, one level down, is a rotating glass floor. From the top you get downtown, Elliott Bay, Puget Sound, the Olympics and Mount Rainier. Book a timed entry slot and we will arrange it.

Also worth adding in Seattle

Chihuly Garden and Glass. Next door to the Space Needle at Seattle Center, which makes it the best pairing on the list because you do both without moving the vehicle. Dale Chihuly’s blown glass fills eight galleries and a forty-foot glasshouse, with an outdoor sculpture garden. An hour is comfortable.

Museum of Flight. In Tukwila south of the city, and often the better aviation choice. A Concorde, the first jet Air Force One, an SR-71 Blackbird, a Space Shuttle trainer and a full Boeing 747 you can walk through. Open every day, which Future of Flight is not.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Outlet Shopping

Two main options in Greater Vancouver, both close to the airport corridor.

McArthurGlen Designer Outlet near YVR is an open-air European-style shopping village with tree-lined streets and around seventy leading brands.

Tsawwassen Mills is 1.2 million square feet of indoor retail with fashion brands, factory outlets, restaurants and an 1,100-seat food court. It also sits on the way to the Victoria ferry.

Both work well as a first or last stop on an airport day, since your chauffeur carries the bags.

Food and Market Routes

Not on anyone else’s list, and one of the most requested things we build. Granville Island Public Market, Chinatown’s barbecue counters and bakeries, Richmond’s Alexandra Road, Steveston’s dockside seafood, and a West End bakery run.

Tell us what you like eating and we will build the route around it. We book tables where a reservation is needed.

Meaderies, Cideries and Distilleries

For mixed groups where not everyone drinks wine or beer. Campbell’s Gold Honey Farm and Meadery, Roots and Wings Distillery and The Fort Wine Co. are all in the Fraser Valley and all work as a swap on a wine day.

Practical Limits Worth Knowing

We would rather set expectations than sell you a day that does not work.

Minimum booking is three hours. Below that, an hourly transfer makes more sense and costs less.

Drive times eat hours. Whistler is two hours each way. Victoria involves a ferry and roughly eight hours of travel. Seattle adds an international border. Budget travel time before you count stops.

Attractions have opening hours and closed days. Future of Flight closes Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The PEAK 2 PEAK Gondola shuts for maintenance between seasons. Butchart pricing changes seven times a year. We check all of it against your date.

Some stops need booking. Space Needle timed entry, afternoon tea at the Empress, Chaberton’s guided winery tour, BC Ferries vehicle reservations. We book what we can on your behalf.

Crossing into the United States requires a passport for every passenger, plus an approved ESTA or a US visa depending on nationality. Entry decisions rest with border officers. Same-day returns to Canada carry no personal duty exemption.

Weather changes what is worth doing. Mountain viewpoints are worthless under low cloud. If the forecast is against you we will say so and suggest a swap or a different date.

Accessibility varies widely between stops. The Grouse Skyride, Cleveland Dam crest, Sea to Sky Gondola summit trails and most Victoria stops are step-free. The Capilano bridge, Cliffwalk, Lynn Canyon and Craigdarroch Castle are not. Tell us and we will plan around it.

Vehicles

Luxury Sedan — up to 2 guests
Luxury SUV — up to 5 guests, extra luggage space
Executive Van — 6 to 14 guests, high roof
Stretch Limousine — up to 8 guests
Wheelchair Accessible Sedan — 1 accessible passenger plus 3
Wheelchair Accessible Van — 1 accessible passenger plus 7
Minibus — up to 23 guests

Every vehicle carries bottled water, phone charging and rear climate control. Child seats are available on request at no charge, and we need the ages when you book.

Groups above 23 can be split across two vehicles travelling together on one itinerary.

Who This Tour Suits

Visitors combining Vancouver and Seattle without booking flights
Families and groups who want the vehicle to themselves all day
Shoppers heading for the outlets, subject to the border rules above
Aviation enthusiasts, with two strong museum options
Anyone relocating or transferring one way between the two cities
Guests with limited mobility, using our accessible vehicles

Why Book United CLS

Chauffeurs who know the region

Downtown, the North Shore, Highway 99, the Fraser Valley and the border run. They know the parking, the queues and the shortcuts.

Flat, all-in pricing

Tax, gratuity, parking and surcharges sit inside the quote. Everything not included is listed in writing.

We plan properly and write it down

You get a real itinerary with drive times, not a list of names. If ten stops do not fit in six hours, we tell you before you pay.

Licensed and insured in British Columbia

We operate under provincial passenger transportation regulations and carry commercial insurance on every vehicle. Licence details are available on request.

Honest advice about your own plan

We earn nothing from Capilano, Grouse or Butchart. If a free alternative suits you better, or the ninth stop should be cut, we will say so.

One operator across two countries

United CLS runs chauffeured fleets in Dallas, Austin, Houston, Los Angeles and New York, and now serves Vancouver to the same standard.

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4-hour Wheelchair Accessible Vancouver Tour
4-hour Taste of Oriental Vancouver Tour
6-hour Vancouver City Discovery Tour
6-hour Vancouver North Shore Adventure Tour
6-hour Fraser Valley Wineries Tour
6-hour Sea-to-Sky Gondola Private Tour
8-hour Vancouver City Adventure Tour
9-hour Vancouver Full Day Tour
10-hour Whistler Full Day Tour
13-hour Victoria Full Day Tour
Seattle Full Day Tour

Any of these can be modified. Start from a package and change what you like.

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Start Planning

Send your date, pickup address, hours and passenger count.
List the places you want, the theme you have in mind, or both.
Flag any mobility needs, dietary requirements or children’s ages.
We send a written itinerary and a flat rate, usually the same day.
Revise it as many times as you need before confirming.

Call (855) 500-0790 or request a quote online. Two weeks’ notice is comfortable; long routes and summer weekends need four to six.

Custom City Tour - FAQs

What is the minimum length for a custom city tour?

Three hours. Below that an hourly transfer usually makes more sense and costs less.

How much does a custom tour cost?

Pricing is by duration and vehicle, not by the number of stops. A sedan starts at $650 for three hours and $1,092 for six. Adding stops within the same hours costs nothing extra.

Can we visit places that are not on your list?

Yes. The list is a starting point. If it is drivable and legal to access, we will plan the route.

How many stops fit in a day?

Roughly one stop per hour for short visits, or two hours each for major attractions. We build the itinerary with real drive times so you can see what fits before booking.

Can we change the route on the day?

Yes. Tell your chauffeur. The only limit is the clock, so adding a stop usually means dropping one.

Do you book attraction tickets and restaurants?

Yes, where the venue allows it. Space Needle timed entry, ferry reservations, winery tours and restaurant tables are all things we arrange in advance.

Are admission fees included in the rate?

No. The rate covers the vehicle, chauffeur, fuel, parking, tolls, tax and gratuity. Tickets, meals, ferry fares and border costs are listed separately in your quote.

Can a custom tour cross into the United States?

Yes, with valid travel documents for every passenger and an approved ESTA or US visa where required. Entry decisions rest with border officers.

Do you have wheelchair accessible vehicles for custom routes?

Yes, an accessible sedan and an accessible van with ramp access. Tell us at booking and we will also check step-free access at each stop you choose.

Can you carry luggage during the tour?

Yes. SUVs and vans have room, so you can start at YVR, sightsee, and finish at your hotel or the cruise terminal.

How far in advance should we book?

Two weeks for a Vancouver route. Four to six weeks for Whistler, Victoria, Seattle or any summer weekend.

What is your cancellation policy?

Cancel more than 48 hours before pickup for a full refund. Inside 48 hours, a partial charge applies. Pre-purchased tickets and ferry reservations follow the vendors’ own policies.

Build Your Custom City Tour

Your stops. Your hours. One private vehicle and a chauffeur who has driven all of it before.