{"id":40,"date":"2010-12-06T21:24:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T05:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2011-01-20T23:32:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T07:32:37","slug":"yvr-vancouver-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"YVR (Vancouver Airport)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, going to YVR on a date has probably been one of our stranger date nights thus far but it turned out to be super fun.\u00c2\u00a0 Pete was reminiscing about the restaurant and bar at LAX called Encounters<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 and how it is a destination place for drinks, dinner and plane watching.\u00c2\u00a0 That got us to wondering if there is a neat place to have a date at our beautiful Vancouver airport.\u00c2\u00a0 Plus, Pete has been dying to ride the new Canada Line to YVR<\/a> for a while now so our strange date night idea was borne.\u00c2\u00a0 I had never been to the airport without good reason \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you know like flying in or out of the country \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so I actually liked the idea of spending time there without worrying about the weight of my luggage or if the plane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bar had enough booze to ease my intense fear of flying.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

So to YVR we went.\u00c2\u00a0 The ride on the Canada Line was like any ride on a skytrain.\u00c2\u00a0 There was the usual mix of interesting\/ funny\/ rude\/ smelly people and Vancouver scenery.\u00c2\u00a0 When we got to the airport, it was unusually quiet for a Friday night.\u00c2\u00a0 We wandered around and were a little disheartened that the only restaurants we could find, at first, were White Spot, Milestones and some assorted food court (Read: greasy<\/em>) options.\u00c2\u00a0 But we did find a neat\u00c2\u00a0plane observation area located above the food court in the domestic terminal.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Then we remembered that the Fairmont Hotel<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 was attached to the airport (in the International terminal above US departures – it is in the predeparture area) and so we trekked there.\u00c2\u00a0 Inside, we found the Jetside Bar<\/a> and the GlobeYVR Restaurant <\/a><\/p>\n

Both places overlook the runway and have a lovely west coast feel to them \u00e2\u20ac\u201c sort of like a lodge at Whistler if you know what I mean<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 We decided to hang<\/p>\n

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The elevators that take you up to the Fairmont Hotel at YVR<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00c2\u00a0in the Jetside Bar because we only wanted to have a drink and some appetizers.\u00c2\u00a0 We chatted briefly with a fun couple from Texas who had never been to Vancouver before this trip.\u00c2\u00a0 They had a fabulous time.\u00c2\u00a0 (Yeah, Vancouver!!).\u00c2\u00a0 The food and the drinks were great and it was fun to watch the planes take off and land.\u00c2\u00a0 Naturally we started brainstorming our next vacation \u00e2\u20ac\u201c both real and fantasy!\u00c2\u00a0 As a side note, both the Jetside bar and the GlobeYVR\u00c2\u00a0restaurant have an offer which gives you one two zone Canada Line pass for purchases over $25.\u00c2\u00a0 Check their website for details<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, going to YVR on a date has probably been one of our stranger date nights thus far but it turned out to be super fun.\u00c2\u00a0 Pete was reminiscing about the restaurant and bar at LAX called Encounters\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 and how it is a destination place for drinks, dinner and plane watching.\u00c2\u00a0 That got us to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47,38,54,12,10,23,11],"tags":[45,31,39,8,44,43,42,41,29,9,30,5,4,40],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-dates","category-drink-dates","category-food-and-drink-dates","category-indoor-dates","category-inexpensive-dates","category-night-dates","category-ongoing","category-richmond-area","tag-canada-line","tag-cheap-date-ideas-vancouver","tag-fairmont-hotel-at-yvr","tag-fun-activities-in-vancouver","tag-globe-yvr-restaurant","tag-jetside-bar","tag-plane-watching-at-yvr","tag-vancouver-airport-food-and-drink-ideas","tag-vancouver-date-ideas","tag-vancouver-date-night","tag-vancouver-things-to-do","tag-where-to-go-on-a-date","tag-www-vancouverdatenight-com","tag-yvr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}