Switch Off at Sabai Thai Spa Metrotown

A 4.9 rated Thai spa on Quayside Drive, ten steps from the Fraser and open until eight, seven days.

Steveston's quietly famous little spa, voted best in Richmond seventeen years running, doing organic facials and Thai aromatherapy massage a block off the boardwalk.

The geodesic dome on False Creek: two floors of touch-everything exhibits, an OMNIMAX theatre, and a live demo where something gets set on fire on purpose.

Feet dangling over a 20 metre dome screen at Canada Place, you sweep from the Rockies to the aurora with wind, mist and pine scent timed to the turns.

Watch your gin being made through a glass wall, then drink it in a guided flight while rain hammers the warehouse roof.

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

Canada's most comprehensive metaphysical bookshop, incense-scented since 1970, with crystals, singing bowls, and cozy nooks that make rainy afternoons feel intentional.

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

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

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

Canada's first non-profit glass-arts co-op, where you take turns blowing molten glass into something over a 1,000-degree furnace and praying.

Rain-day grazing at Granville Island: warm cinnamon buns, stinky cheese, mini donuts, and a window seat watching False Creek get rained on.

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

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