🏔️ Vancouver & Whistler · printable plan
Vancouver, Victoria & Whistler
By TopVacay @topvacay. Prices last checked 2026-10-27. Totals are estimates: $4,190 for 2 travelers.
Recomputed from the price lines stored on each trip. No live hotel, ticket, or airfare feed is connected.
Day by day
Day 1
Fly via Salt Lake City, pick up a rental car and check in to a vacation rental.
- Afternoon · Rental car
- Overnight · Vancouver apartment rental (Airbnb)
Day 2
- Morning · Grouse Mountain Skyride & trails
- Afternoon · Gastown food tour
- Evening · Explore Gastown
- Overnight · Vancouver apartment rental (Airbnb)
Day 3
- Morning · Stanley Park
- Afternoon · Downtown & waterfront “free” walking tour
- Afternoon · Suspension bridge & Seawall walk
- Evening · Steak dinner
- Overnight · Vancouver apartment rental (Airbnb)
Day 4
- Morning · Victoria city tour (self-guided)
- Evening · Celebration of Light fireworks
- Overnight · Vancouver apartment rental (Airbnb)
Day 5
- Morning · Whistler alpine trails
- Morning · Whistler zipline
- Morning · River of Golden Dreams kayak (Whistler)
- Overnight · Vancouver apartment rental (Airbnb)
Day 6
- Morning · Chinatown
- Morning · Granville Island foodie tour
- Afternoon · Explore Granville Island
- Afternoon · Steveston village (“Storybrooke”)
- Overnight · Vancouver apartment rental (Airbnb)
Day 7
Open afternoon for trails, a brewery or shops.
- Morning · Vancouver Aquarium
- Overnight · Vancouver apartment rental (Airbnb)
Day 8
Breakfast, 11 am checkout, then the flight to DFW.
- Open day.
Packing
- Comfortable walking shoesThe plan is on foot more than in a car.
- Day bagA small bag holds the water, the layer, and the tickets.
- Light layerMuseums and evenings run cooler than the street.
- Compact umbrellaA short rain should not cancel the afternoon.
- Trail shoes and a layerGrouse Mountain Skyride & trails is outside and uneven.
Reserve ahead
- American 1770day 1 once you set dates · Hold the seats before the fare you estimated moves.
- Delta 1236day 8 once you set dates · Hold the seats before the fare you estimated moves.
- Vancouver apartment rental (Airbnb)day 1 once you set dates · This is the room for that night. Reserve it before you count on the rate.
- Vancouver apartment rental (Airbnb)day 2 once you set dates · This is the room for that night. Reserve it before you count on the rate.
- Steak dinnerday 3 once you set dates · Popular tables go early. Book the seating, then build the rest of the day around it.
- Vancouver apartment rental (Airbnb)day 3 once you set dates · This is the room for that night. Reserve it before you count on the rate.
- Vancouver apartment rental (Airbnb)day 4 once you set dates · This is the room for that night. Reserve it before you count on the rate.
- Vancouver apartment rental (Airbnb)day 5 once you set dates · This is the room for that night. Reserve it before you count on the rate.
- Vancouver apartment rental (Airbnb)day 6 once you set dates · This is the room for that night. Reserve it before you count on the rate.
- Vancouver apartment rental (Airbnb)day 7 once you set dates · This is the room for that night. Reserve it before you count on the rate.