Is a $10,000 holiday prize to Vancouver a bargain?

How expensive is it to stay in Vancouver as a vacation? So we reached out to Shauna Vu from Travel Best Bets to help us look into this. Shauna. Hi there. Hi there. Thanks for having me. So what goes through your mind when you hear $10,000 for six nights in Vancouver at the Weston Bayshore? I mean, the $200 restaurant is thrown in some some spa treatments. What do you think? Well, initially a complete sticker shock obviously and then I started to kind of break it down cost per night of a hotel. This must have been packaged during peak season. We’re talking peak Alaska cruise season, July, August, maybe Christmas, New Year’s maybe they took the average, I’m not sure, spring break. And then with the spa treatments, I mean you if you look at a a daily day at the spa at a five star hotel in downtown Vancouver that’s $500 per person per day. So if you start to break it down at $700.00 a night for the hotel and then your airfare etcetera, it’s it actually is possible not for you know regular folk but some I guess, yeah. So if a tourist then came during off peak times when it there it isn’t cruise season how much on average do you think six nights in Vancouver, what would set them back? Sure and maybe not at this hotel right. This is prime location, Waterfront 5 star. I would say. You know you’re looking at on average for a week for two people around the 2000 to $2200 price point. I see. So what can you tell us about the average stay then if someone’s coming to the city, you know, on a a little vacation, what what is an average tourist stay here or can we can we even parse it out? Do we know if they’re here for business or or here for pleasure? Well, I’ve been in the industry for a really long time and we booked people from around the world. They come to Vancouver specifically for the Alaska cruise season and just our diverse culture and all the things that we have to offer here in Vancouver. On average, I would say between 4:00 to five nights would be an average duration for a tourist to come to to Vancouver. We’re not talking extended periods of stay, but you know, a moderately priced hotel, maybe $100 per day for dining and entertainment. But it really all comes down to what do you want in your holiday from Vancouver. Travel is very subjective. So what I want, you may not want, but I I think an average cost it would be again between 2000 to 2200, right, $100 a day for food. My goodness, where that’s that’s three meals, maybe free meals. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, free meals. I would say that would be, you know, on average I would say could be less, could more, again depending where you’re eating. Yes. And I and I, I know location is a big part of this conversation as well. But I remember going online last summer and and looking at hotels in the downtown core and there was nothing less than $500 a night anywhere in, in the downtown Vancouver. Does that surprise you? Is that, was that kind of normal for for high season? That is totally normal, if not more than $500? Yeah, exactly. More than $500 a night. But there’s options. You don’t need to stay in downtown Vancouver when you come. You could stay, you know, on the the border of Burnaby in Vancouver. You could stay in North Bend and take the sea bus over. So there are actually lots of options. We actually book a lot of clients that come for Alaska cruises out of the airport and then they take the Canada Line in. So, you know, based on our amazing transportation system, it’s such an easy city to get around it.