Finally got round to booking the Olympic bus network tickets for Mum, Dad, Dave, Morag and whoever!
Mum and Dad have tickets to the Ladies Snowboard Halfpipe on Feb 18th at Cypress Mountain, and then we have 6 tickets to the Ladies Snowboard Cross on Feb 16th also at Cypress. I'll be working on the 16th, so Dave gets to take 2 friends with him.
Public transit is included in the event tickets, but for the events on Cypress Mountain they will need to use the Olympic bus network. There isn't any parking at the Olympic venues, hence Olympic bus network is how spectators will get from Vancouver to Cypress or Whistler venues. You have to book in advance here.
For Cypress the cost is $12.00 per person for a return ticket plus taxes etc, so it works out to $14.00 each. At least until January 10th. Then the fare increases to $25.00 each. Hence the urgency to book now. It's something I've been meaning to do since the middle of December and I keep forgetting. It's done now, before the increase.
There are 3 departure hubs to choose from for Cypress - Capilano University, Simon Fraser University and Lonsdale Quay. To get from here to Capilano or SFU would mean driving or multiple buses, so Lonsdale Quay it is.
Every one is going to have to get up early, and get the West Coast Express from here to downtown Vancouver. And I say early, cause they will need to be on the 6.54am train out of Pitt Meadows. But it's a very nice train and they can all have their coffee and read the newspaper on board.
At Waterfront Station everyone will have to transfer to the Seabus for the ride across to Lonsdale Quay. Maybe they'll get to ride the new one - the Pacific Breeze.
Charlotte Boychuk
Once they all clamber off the Seabus at Lonsdale Quay they will need to find their way to the Olympic bus network station and board their 8:35am bus to Cypress. The tickets are all printed and waiting for them, or would be if our printer had any ink. But they are saved to my hard drive and we will print them before the 16th. They look like this (Yep, I blacked out our name and the bar code)
