The laid-back west-side beach neighbourhood across False Creek — Kits Beach and its pool, healthy cafés and yoga studios, indie shops on West 4th, and Granville Island's market nearby. Relaxed, sunny and a little further out, with the best beach-and-mountain views back at downtown; a mellow, local base.
A look around
What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.
€170–290
typical per night in Canada
The sensible middle
Typical prices for Vancouver — neither steal nor splurge.
Where it sits
The circle is Kitsilano and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.
How far is everything?
From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.
- English Bay & the seawall8 min taxi2.7 km
- Dim sum & the food scene12 min taxi3.9 km
- Stanley Park & the seawall13 min taxi4.2 km
- Gastown & the steam clock14 min taxi4.6 km
- Canada Place & the waterfront14 min taxi4.6 km
- Chinatown & the classical garden15 min taxi5.2 km
- Capilano Suspension Bridge27 min taxi9.1 km
- Grouse Mountain42 min taxi13.9 km
On your doorstep
What you’re living next to if you stay here.
- 3.Granville Island — A peninsula under the bridge turned into a wonderful public market and arts hub — a bustling food market of produce, seafood, bakeries and stalls, plus craft studios, a brewery and buskers, reached by little rainbow aquabus ferries. Come hungry, graze the market, and hop the ferry across; a Vancouver institution.
- 6.Kitsilano Beach — Vancouver's favourite beach, across the water on the west side — a wide sandy strand with a huge heated saltwater pool, a backdrop of downtown towers and the North Shore mountains, and one of the best sunset spots in the city. Swim, sunbathe, play volleyball, and stay for the sunset; the essence of laid-back Vancouver summer.
- 9.The Museum of Anthropology — A superb museum out at UBC, in a striking glass-and-concrete building on the cliffs — home to a world-class collection of Northwest Coast First Nations art, its Great Hall filled with towering totem poles and canoes against a backdrop of sea and sky. Essential for understanding the region's Indigenous cultures; beautiful and moving.
- 15.Pacific seafood — The cold Pacific delivers superb seafood — wild salmon, spot prawns, Dungeness crab and oysters — served everywhere from Granville Island stalls to fine-dining rooms with a harbour view. Try a salmon dinner, or the local sustainable 'Ocean Wise' spots; and don't miss a Japadog (a Japanese-topped hot dog), a quirky Vancouver street-food classic.
- 16.Whistler day trip — The world-class mountain resort two hours up the Sea to Sky — skiing in winter, biking, zip-lines and a buzzing pedestrian village in summer. Canada's playground.
- 18.Queen Elizabeth Park — The city's highest point, a former quarry turned immaculate garden, with the skyline and the North Shore mountains laid out behind. Free, and a favourite for photos.
- 20.VanDusen Botanical Garden — A beautiful botanical garden of themed landscapes and a stone maze, gorgeous in every season and magical during the winter Festival of Lights. A calm green afternoon.
When are you staying?
Booking.com & Airbnb open searched to Kitsilano; flights via Google Flights.