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3 nightsPrincess Cruises
Royal Princess
3 nights, Pacific Coastal
Vancouver, Canada → Victoria, Canada → Seattle, Washington
5 from 19 CruiseDirect traveller reviews
1 departure date on sale
DealDrinks, Tips, Wi-Fi @Sea & More
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Cruise deals leaving Vancouver from US$284 per person, taxes included (23 September 2026). Canada Place sailings and the YVR transfer.
Canada Place · prices checked 23 September 2026
Every sailing below leaves from Canada Place, in downtown Vancouver. These are the first two pages of CruiseDirect’s Vancouver board on 23 September 2026, cheapest first. The price on each card is per person and already includes taxes and fees. Pages 3–5 of that board are not in this snapshot, and fares move daily.
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Fares are the cheapest cards on CruiseDirect’s Vancouver departure list on the date above, two people sharing. Each card says the price includes taxes and fees. This is pages 1–2 of that list, not every sailing they sell.
Ships leave in the morning, so it is the night before that matters. The map shows live rates near the cruise terminals and downtown.
Two very different holidays leave the same pier. Alaska is the seven-night trip people fly in for; the coastal runs are the one-way hops heading south. The Alaska and Pacific Coastal pages still show the 3 August 2026 CruiseDirect catalogue — use the fares on this page, dated 23 September 2026, until those two are rebuilt.
3 nightsPrincess Cruises
3 nights, Pacific Coastal
Vancouver, Canada → Victoria, Canada → Seattle, Washington
5 from 19 CruiseDirect traveller reviews
1 departure date on sale
DealDrinks, Tips, Wi-Fi @Sea & More
6 nightsNorwegian Cruise Line
6 nights, Pacific
Vancouver, Canada → Victoria, BC, Canada → San Francisco, CA → Los Angeles, CA
3 from 5 CruiseDirect traveller reviews
1 departure date on sale
Deal50% Off All Cruises
4 nightsHolland America Line
4 nights, Pacific Coastal
Vancouver, BC, CA → San Diego, California, US
4 from 8 CruiseDirect traveller reviews
1 departure date on sale
DealUp to $500 Visa Gift Card
4 nightsHolland America Line
4 nights, Pacific Coastal
Vancouver, BC, CA → Santa Barbara, California, US → San Diego, California, US
5 from 16 CruiseDirect traveller reviews
1 departure date on sale
DealUp to $500 Visa Gift Card
4 nightsPrincess Cruises
4 nights, Pacific Coastal
Vancouver, Canada → Los Angeles, California
4 from 28 CruiseDirect traveller reviews
1 departure date on sale
DealUp to $500 Visa Gift Card
4 nightsPrincess Cruises
4 nights, Pacific Coastal
Vancouver, Canada → Los Angeles, California
5 from 19 CruiseDirect traveller reviews
1 departure date on sale
DealDrinks, Tips, Wi-Fi @Sea & More
Holland America Line
5 nights, Pacific Coastal
Vancouver, BC, CA → San Francisco, California, US → San Diego, California, US
4 from 29 CruiseDirect traveller reviews
1 departure date on sale
DealUp to $1,000 Visa Gift Card
4 nightsPrincess Cruises
4 nights, Alaska
Vancouver, Canada → Ketchikan, Alaska → Vancouver, Canada
4 from 14 CruiseDirect traveller reviews
1 departure date on sale
DealUp to $500 Visa Gift Card
4 nightsPrincess Cruises
4 nights, Pacific Coastal
Vancouver, Canada → Los Angeles, California
5 from 8 CruiseDirect traveller reviews
1 departure date on sale
Deal$99 Deposit
6 nightsNorwegian Cruise Line
6 nights, Pacific
Vancouver, Canada → Seattle, WA → Astoria, OR → San Francisco, CA → Los Angeles, CA
5 from 6 CruiseDirect traveller reviews
1 departure date on sale
Deal50% Off All Cruises
Ship photographs via Wikimedia Commons: royal princess — Sonse, CC BY 2.0; Norwegian Encore — Gordon Leggett, CC BY 4.0; Zaandam — Wilfredor, CC0; eurodam — Frans Berkelaar, CC BY 2.0; Emerald Princess — Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0; crown princess — Emphyrio, CC0; Coral Princess — Jonathan Palombo, CC BY 2.0; Norwegian Joy — Jack Adamenko, CC BY 4.0.
Headline fares are useless for comparing a three-night hop with a seven-night Alaska run. Per night is the number that tells you whether a deal is a deal. Here is where the Vancouver departures sat on 23 September 2026.
| Itinerary | Line | Per person / night |
|---|---|---|
| 3-night 3 nights, Pacific Coastal | Princess Cruises | US$95 |
| 6-night 6 nights, Pacific | Norwegian Cruise Line | US$50 |
| 4-night 4 nights, Pacific Coastal | Holland America Line | US$75 |
| 4-night 4 nights, Pacific Coastal | Holland America Line | US$87 |
| 4-night 4 nights, Pacific Coastal | Princess Cruises | US$94 |
| 4-night 4 nights, Pacific Coastal | Princess Cruises | US$99 |
| 5-night 5 nights, Pacific Coastal | Holland America Line | US$87 |
| 4-night 4 nights, Alaska | Princess Cruises | US$110 |
Per night is the figure printed on the CruiseDirect card, so a three-night hop and a longer coastal run can be compared. The table is the first eight of the sailings above.
Alaska is what Vancouver is famous for, and from late April to early October it is the bulk of the schedule. The rest of the year the port empties: ships reposition south to Los Angeles, San Diego and the Panama Canal, or west across the Pacific to Honolulu, Tokyo and Sydney. Those crossings are the cheap ones on the board above.
Nearly every passenger ship uses Canada Place, the terminal under the white sails at the foot of Burrard Street. It sits inside downtown: you can walk to it from the Fairmont Waterfront in three minutes, from Gastown in ten, and the Waterfront SkyTrain station is directly underneath.
Ballantyne Pier is the overflow berth, about 3 km east past the grain terminals. It is a genuine cargo pier — no SkyTrain, no cafés, and a taxi is the only sensible way in. Lines use it when Canada Place has three ships in and a fourth arriving. Your cruise documents say which berth you have; the port does not publish it in advance, so read them rather than guessing.
The airport is about 25–30 minutes from the terminal by road. If you are driving or in a cab, the route is Grant McConachie Way out of the airport, over the Arthur Laing Bridge, along SW Marine Drive to Granville Street, then Route 99 north — that becomes Seymour Street downtown — left onto West Hastings and right down Howe Street into the terminal ramp. Expect C$40–50 plus tip.
The cheaper option is the Canada Line SkyTrain from the airport station, which takes about 26 minutes to Waterfront and costs roughly C$9 including the airport add-fare. Waterfront station opens directly into the Canada Place complex — you come up the escalator and the terminal doors are there. With two suitcases each it is manageable; with four it is not.
They are repositioning sailings. A ship that has spent the summer running Alaska has to be in California or Mexico for the winter, and the line would rather sell those transit days cheaply than sail them empty. You get the same cabin, the same food and usually a quieter ship, because the families have gone home in September.
The trade-off is the flight. A one-way fare to Los Angeles plus a ticket back to Vancouver is a different number entirely — price the flight first, then decide. Book the flight for the day after arrival if you can: ships occasionally dock late, and an early departure out of LAX is how people end up sprinting through a terminal.
Alaska is the United States, so the passport and visa rules are the US rules even though you sail from Canada. Canadians and Americans need a valid passport. Everyone else needs an ESTA or a US visa — sort it weeks ahead, not the night before. Canada Place has US pre-clearance on site for the sailings that require it, which means you clear American immigration in Vancouver and walk off the ship at the other end without queueing.
What the fare does not cover: shore excursions, drinks unless the deal says otherwise, specialty restaurants, Wi-Fi, and gratuities at roughly US$16–20 per person per day, charged automatically. On a five-night sailing for two that is another US$180 before you have bought a single cocktail.
On 23 September 2026 the cheapest card on the first two pages of CruiseDirect’s Vancouver board was US$284 per person for 3 nights on Royal Princess (Pacific Coastal). That price is per person and includes taxes and fees. It assumes two people sharing, and it moves daily.
Almost all passenger sailings use Canada Place, the terminal with the white sails on the downtown waterfront. Ballantyne Pier, further east past the container terminal, is used only when Canada Place is full — it is a working cargo pier with no SkyTrain and a longer taxi ride. Your cruise line, not the port, tells you which one you have; check your documents rather than assuming.
By car it is roughly 25–30 minutes: Grant McConachie Way, over the Arthur Laing Bridge, SW Marine Drive to Granville Street, then Route 99 north onto Seymour Street, left on West Hastings and right down Howe Street into the terminal. A cab or rideshare runs about C$40–50. The Canada Line SkyTrain does the same trip for about C$9 with a single change at Waterfront, which is a two-minute walk from the terminal doors — cheaper and, in Friday afternoon traffic, faster.
Yes, if the ship calls in the United States — and almost all of these do, whether that is Alaska, Seattle or San Diego. Canadian and US citizens need a passport; most other nationalities need an ESTA or a US visa even though you board in Canada. Canada Place has US border pre-clearance on site for sailings that need it, so you clear US immigration before you step on the ship.
Because they are repositioning cruises. Ships that spend the summer doing Alaska have to get south for the winter Mexico and Panama season, and the line would rather sell those crossing days cheaply than sail them empty. That is why a four-night to Los Angeles can cost less than a weekend hotel — and why September and early October are the best-value weeks of the whole Vancouver calendar. The catch is the flight home from the other end.
Late April to early October. July and August are warmest and dearest; May and September are quieter, noticeably cheaper, and September brings a genuine chance of northern lights over the Inside Passage. Outside those months there are no Alaska departures at all — the ships have gone south.
The buttons above go to CruiseDirect, the agency whose Vancouver listing these fares come from. We are not them and we do not take your payment — here is what they say they offer, in their own words, so you know what you are walking into:
Those are CruiseDirect's claims, not our test of them. Read the fare conditions on the sailing you pick — deposit, change fees and the cancellation date are what actually matter.
10 sailings · from US$284 per person
Dates, cabin grades and live availability for every Vancouver departure, in one listing.
FanVancouver is an independent Vancouver guide. We are not a travel agency and we do not sell cruises — the booking links go to CruiseDirect, and we may earn a commission if you book, at no extra cost to you. Prices, star ratings and review counts on this page are CruiseDirect's own, recorded on 23 September 2026, and are not our rating of these ships. Always confirm the fare, the dates and what is included on the operator's site before paying.
Driving yourself to the ship? Cruise-terminal parking is charged by the night and adds up over a week — Canada Place parking compared puts the on-site parkade next to downtown parkades and the Richmond park-and-fly hotels.
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