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Chocolate & Pastries at Thierry
Rainy Day
Float the Lazy River at Hillcrest
An Olympic-legacy aquatic centre with a lazy river, hot tub, and drop-in prices for when the rain makes being wet voluntary.
Rainy Day
An Olympic-legacy aquatic centre with a lazy river, hot tub, and drop-in prices for when the rain makes being wet voluntary.
Hillcrest Aquatic Centre is Vancouver's biggest pool, a legacy of the 2010 Olympics, and it has a lazy river you can float around in, pretending you're somewhere considerably sunnier. The full menu: a leisure pool with spray features, an honest-to-goodness lazy river for drifting, race lanes if either of you needs to prove a point, and a hot tub, steam room, and dry sauna to reward yourselves afterwards. It's drop-in admission, which makes it one of the cheapest grown-up afternoons the city offers. The dress code is goggles and no illusions. This is the unglamorous, genuinely fun kind of date: waterlogged, slightly competitive, laughing about something that happened in the slow lane. Aim for off-peak hours and check the indoor schedule before you go.
