Listings
Airlines Air BC (tel 688-5515 or 1-800/663-3721 in Canada); Air Canada (tel 688-5515); American Airlines (tel 222-2532 or 1-800/368-1955); British Airways (tel 270-8131); Central Mountain Air (tel 847-4780 or 1-800/663-3721); Continental (tel 1-800/525-0280); Delta (tel 1-800/345-3400); Harbour Air Seaplanes: services to Victoria Inner Harbour (tel 688-1277 or 1-800/665-0212); Helijet Airways: helicopter service to Victoria (tel 273-1414 or 1-800/665-4354); KLM (tel 303-3666); North Vancouver (tel 604/278-1608); United (tel 1-800/241-6522); West Coast Air: seaplane services to Victoria (tel 688-9115 or 1-800/347-2222); Whistler Air: direct flights to Whistler from Vancouver Harbour Air Terminal by Pan Pacific Hotel (tel 932-6615 or 1-888/806-2299). American Express , Park Place Building, 666 Burrard St, enter at Hornby and Dunsmuir (tel 669-2813 or 1-800/772-4473), and is open Mon-Fri 8.30am-5.30pm, Sat 10am-4pm. Bike rental Bayshore Bicycles & Rollerblade Rentals, 745 Denman St (tel 688-2453) and 1610 W Georgia St at Cardero St and the Westin Bayshore Hotel (tel 689-5071); Harbour Air, Harbour Air Terminal at the waterfront one block west of Canada Place and the foot of Burrard St (tel 688-1277) - also rents blades and motorcycles; Spokes, 1798 Georgia at Denman (tel 688-5141, www.vancouverbikerental.com ). Bookshops Chapters, 788 Robson St (tel 682-4066), is a colossal bookshop at the heart of downtown. World Wide Books and Maps, 1247 Granville St, is adequate for maps, guides and travel. Buses Airporter (tel 946-8866 or 1-800/668-3141) for shuttle from Vancouver Airport to bus depot and downtown; Greyhound (tel 662-3222 or 1-800/661-8747, www.greyhound.ca ) for BC, Alberta, Yukon and long-haul destinations including Seattle and the US; Maverick Coach Lines (tel 662-8051 or 1-800/972-6300) for the Sunshine Coast, Powell River, Whistler, Pemberton and Nanaimo on Vancouver Island; Pacific Coach Lines (tel 662-8074 or 1-800/661-1725) for Victoria, Vancouver Island; Perimeter (tel 266-5386 or 905-0041, www.perimeterbus.com ) for services between Whistler and Vancouver Airport; Quick Shuttle (tel 940-4428 or 1-800/665-2122, www.quickcoach.com ) for Bellingham Airport, downtown Seattle and SeaTac Airport. Car rental Budget, airport, 501 W Georgia St and 1705 Burrard St (tel 668-7000 or 1-800/268-8900 in Canada, 1-800/527-0700 in US); Exotic Car and Motorcycle Rentals, 1820 Burrard at W 2nd (tel 644-9128 or 1-800/566-0343) anything from 355 Ferrari to VW Beetle; Hertz, 1128 Seymour St (tel 688-2411 or 1-800/263-0600); National (tel 1-800/227-7368), airport (tel 207-3730) and 1130 W Georgia at Thurlow (tel 609-7150); Rent-a-Wreck, 1083 Hornby St (tel 688-0001). Consulates Australia, 602-999 Canada Place (tel 684-1177); Ireland, 1400-100 W Pender St (tel 683-8440); New Zealand, 1200-888 Dunsmuir (tel 684-7388); UK, 800-1111 Melville (tel 683-4421); US, 1095 W Pender (tel 685-4311). Currency Exchange Custom House Currency, 375 Water St, Gastown (tel 482-6007); International Securities Exchange, 1169 Robson St near Thurlow (tel 683-9666); Thomas Cook, 130-999 Canada Place (tel 641-1229); Vancouver Bullion & Currency Exchange, 420 Hornby St (tel 685-1008). Dentists For your nearest dentists, call the College of Dental Surgeons for a referral (tel 736-3621). Drop-in dentist, Dentacare (Mon-Fri 8am-5pm only; tel 669-6700), is in the lower level of the Bentall Centre at Dunsmuir and Burrard. Directory enquiries tel 411. Doctors The College of Physicians can provide names of three doctors near you (tel 733-7758). Drop-in service at Consolidated Care Point Medical Service, 1175 Denman St (tel 681-5338) or Medicentre (tel 683-8138) in the Bentall Centre (Mon-Fri 8am-5pm ). Emergencies tel 911. Ferries BC Ferries for services to Vancouver Island (tel 1-888/724-5223 in BC); to the Gulf Islands, the Sunshine Coast, Prince Rupert, the Inside Passage and the Queen Charlotte Islands; reservations and information tel 1-888/223-3779 (in BC); Victoria (tel 250/386-3431 or recorded information 250/381-5335); Vancouver or from outside BC (tel 444-2890), www.bcferries.com . Aquabus (tel 689-5858) and False Creek Ferries (tel 684-7781) for services between downtown, Granville Island and Vanier Park. Gay and lesbian switchboard Touch-tone guide (tel 684-XTRA). Hospitals St Paul's Hospital is the closest to downtown at 1081 Burrard St near Davie St (tel 682-2344). The city hospital is Vancouver General at 855 W 12th near Oak, south of Broadway (tel 875-4111). Laundry Davie Laundromat, 1061 Davie St (tel 682-2717); Scotty's One Hour Cleaners, 834 Thurlow near Robson (tel 685-7732). Left luggage At the bus station ($2 per 24hr). Lost property BC Transit (tel 682-7887); West Vancouver Transit (tel 985-7777); police (tel 665-2232); airport (tel 276-6104). Maps Geological Survey of Canada, 101-605 Robson near Richards (Mon-Fri 8.30am-4.30pm; tel 666-0529). Superb source of official survey maps, including all 1:50,000 maps of BC and Yukon. Optician Same-day service, Granville Mall Optical, 807 Granville and Robson (tel 683-4716). Parking Main downtown garages are at The Bay (entrance on Richards near Dunsmuir), Robson Square (on Smithe and Howe), and the Pacific Centre (on Howe and Dunsmuir) - all are expensive and fill up quickly. A better idea might be to leave your car at the free Park'n'Ride in New Westminster (off Hwy 1). Pharmacies Shopper's Drug Mart, 1125 Davie and Thurlow (tel 669-2424), is open 24hr and has five other outlets open Mon-Sat 9am-midnight, Sun 9am-9pm. Carson Midnite Drug Store, 6517 Main at 49th, is open daily until midnight. Police RCMP (tel 264-3111); Vancouver City Police (tel 665-3535). Post office Main office at 349 W Georgia and Homer (Mon-Fri 8am-5.30pm; tel 662-5722). Post-office information (tel 1-800/267-1177). Taxis Black Top (tel 731-1111 or 681-2181); Vancouver Taxi (tel 255-5111 or 874-5111); Yellow Cab (tel 681-3311 or 681-1111). Tourist information 200 Burrard St (tel 683-2000). Train enquiries VIA Rail (tel 669-3050 or toll-free in Canada only tel 1-800/561-8630, 1-800/561-3949 in the US); BC Rail (reservations and info tel 984-5246 or 1-800/663-8238 in North America; recorded info tel 631-3501); Amtrak (tel 1-800/872-7245); Rocky Mountain Railtours (tel 606-7200 or 1-800/665-7245) for expensive rail tours through the Rockies. Weather tel 664-9010. X Files Tours Contact The X-Tour (tel 609-2700, www.x-tour.com ) for 3-3hr 30min limousine tours of locations connected with The X Files series and other film and TV shows shot in Vancouver: from $145.
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