Top pick this weekend
The weekend guide
Things to Do in Vancouver This Weekend (Nov 6 to 8)
Photo: Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0
The weekend guide
Photo: Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0
Top pick this weekend
Your weekend in Vancouver, Nov 6 to 8: dated events first, then free outings, rainy day escapes and dinner plans. Pick something you both want to do, then let the planner connect the stops. You can spend Friday discussing anything except where to eat. A radical development for the relationship.
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The five best Vancouver dates for the weekend ahead, sent Thursday morning while there's still time to book. Free, one email a week.
The cliche that earned it. Eight free volleyball nets, a driftwood log, and English Bay going full pink.
Free, Kids
Six flat kilometres along Burrard Inlet to a sandy beach at Old Orchard Park. Most first-timers never make it.
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Port Moody's waterfront park: free spray park, a regionally famous skate-and-bike-trials park, and the best spectating in the Lower Mainland.
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Downtown's chocolaterie-patisserie on Alberni: thick drinking chocolate, a macaron case that looks like jewellery, and cheap enough to be completely spontaneous.
Float weightless in body-temperature saltwater side by side in W 4th's most serene, screen-free double room.
Chef Hector Laguna's plant-draped Coal Harbour room, where the world-ranked cocktails alone justify the good shirt.
French technique and Gastown cobblestones, with an atrium, award-winning cocktails, and a bar that doesn't rush you out.
A dim, jazz-soaked 1960s Tokyo cafe in Chinatown, where tajarin with uni is just how dinner starts.
Michelin-listed Main Street kitchen where Peru meets Tokyo and Canton: alpaca tartare, arroz con pato, and a pisco bar that hums until close.
Everything else on Nov 6 to 8, day by day, from each organiser's own listing.
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Planning ahead instead? Things to do in Vancouver this week covers the next seven days, and tonight's page is for the ones who plan four hours ahead.
This weekend in Vancouver, answered· 4 questions
This weekend (Nov 6 to 8): Ballet BC Bodies & Voices at Queen Elizabeth Theatre (Friday, Nov 6 and Saturday, Nov 7, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Downtown); Prokofiev's Cinderella with the VSO at the Orpheum (Friday, Nov 6 and Saturday, Nov 7, Orpheum Theatre, Granville Entertainment District); Goblin Performs Tenebre Live at the Rio Theatre (Friday, Nov 6, Rio Theatre, Commercial-Broadway); DIRT by Tentacle Tribe at The Cultch (all weekend, The Cultch, Grandview); Emily Carr: That Green Ideal (all weekend, Vancouver Art Gallery, downtown). Open an idea to build a date itinerary around it, with nearby stops matched to your time and budget.
The free section above is the answer: beaches, lookouts, gallery nights and waterfront walks, all genuinely free and all plannable. Set the planner's budget to free and the whole itinerary respects it.
Swap to the rainy day picks: markets, galleries, arcade bars and cozy rooms that treat rain as scenery. Every plan checks the forecast for its actual date and flags outdoor stops with indoor alternatives.
Current. The things to do this weekend in Vancouver listed here are for the coming weekend (Nov 6 to 8), not a stale roundup from months ago.