Movie and a Pint at the Rio Theatre

A Kitsilano tea bar on West 4th that pours rare single-origin leaves like a wine flight, one steep at a time.

Canada's largest aquarium has jellyfish walls, sea otters and a 4D theatre designed specifically to make your date grab your arm.

Kitsilano's 1935 Art Deco cinema, lovingly saved from oblivion, now pours drinks and screens everything from indie films to live comedy.

The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vanier Park swaps Vancouver's grey ceiling for a projected galaxy, reclined seats included.

Ayurveda-inspired couples' treatments inside the Sutton Place Hotel, for the afternoon you both need to stop talking and just breathe.

Canada's first hammam: private steam, a brisk exfoliation, rasul mud and mint tea. Giggling is expected.

Vancouver's first micro-distillery, opened in 2013, is still a happy secret near the Granville bridge on rainy Thursdays through Sundays.

Mineral pools, eucalyptus steam and cedar sauna on the Fairmont Pacific Rim's fifth floor, while rain does its worst outside.

Vancouver's film-nerd church since 1972: 153 seats, restored classics, international arthouse, and absolutely zero franchise sequels.

50-year-old floor-to-ceiling used-book chaos on Pender, where you split up, get a little lost, and reunite clutching something weird under ten dollars.

The film festival's gift to the other 51 weeks: a plush 170-seat cinema for indie releases you'll argue about all the way home.

The Vietnamese street food that made Anthony Bourdain misty on television now has a permanent home on The Drive.

Book two side-by-side facialators in Yaletown, emerge suspiciously dewy, then pretend you always look like this.

A real waterslide, a lazy river, a whirlpool and a sauna at Hyde Creek. Drop in, get warm, forget it's raining.