North Vancouver, Capilano Suspension Bridge and Grouse Mountain - Full Day Tour

Javier was the BEST! Our 2 days of tours around Vancouver were amazing and we loved not only seeing the area but also hearing about the area from Javier. He was very knowledgeable and was very patient with our group of 8 (ranging in age from 26 to 80). The van was very comfortable and spacious. We had a wonderful time and couldn't recommend him more!

Our Vancouver tour with Javier was one of the top highlights of our trip. Javier is a capable and personable guide who is passionate about enabling visitors to see the best of Vancouver. He provides a wealth of information everywhere. From pickup at our hotel and throughout the tour, we enjoyed our time with Javier and highly recommend him as a guide for experiencing the natural beauty and essence of Vancouver.

Javier was an absolute gem of a guide. Our family enjoyed our Vancouver tours tremendously. He was extremely knowledgeable, friendly and professional, and very flexible throughout our time together. The tours were very well tailored to our interests, and Javier helped us make the most of our time by recommending the experiences he felt our group would enjoy most. He was also very accommodating whenever we wanted to adjust the pace or timing of our days. We would highly recommend Javier for private touring in Vancouver and the surrounding area. We thoroughly enjoyed our Vancouver and North Shore tour with Javier. It provided a wonderful overview of the city, and the boat ride from Granville Island to Olympic Village was especially enjoyable. Capilano Suspension Bridge Park was another highlight that everyone in our family enjoyed. Javier was extremely accommodating and flexible, adjusting the day around our preferences while making sure we experienced the most worthwhile sights. It was an excellent way to spend our final day in Vancouver. Shared on behalf of the Higgs family

Tom S.United States

This tour was wonderful. I did not know anything about Vancouver. Javier customized a day trip for us that gave us a sense of the city. If I come back to Vancouver I will be looking him up again. It was a great way to spend the day before a long flight home between the cruise and a late flight. We had a very diverse group and he made everyone comfortable and happy. Can't ask for more than that. 5 stars is not enough. I give this tour 7 out of 5.

Javier was very friendly and knowledgeable, and took the time to ensure we enjoyed our day - and we did! Thank you Sheila and Alan

We had many hours to fill in Vancouver from the time our cruise ship docked until the time our flight home to Brisbane departed. We needed a way to fill some of those hours, that would accommodate our luggage and end with us being dropped at Vancouver International Airport. I googled Tours by Locals and was immediately drawn to a day long tour offered by Javier. We had no preconceived ideas about what we wanted to see in Vancouver, except my husband’s desire to return to Grouse Mountain that he had visited nearly 50 years before. Through the Tours by Locals website (which was very easy to navigate), we contacted Javier to see if he was available on the day we wanted, to ascertain if his vehicle could accommodate our luggage, and to see if he was happy to drop us at the airport at the end of our tour. He responded that he was able to take care of us and our luggage on the day we wanted, and that he was happy to drop us at the airport at the end of the day. Javier was very easy to communicate with and gave us detailed instructions (and provided a video), showing where we would meet him after we debarked our cruise ship (in the cruise terminal car park). We gave Javier free rein to decide how our tour would pan out. He knows Vancouver intimately, and took us to some wonderful places that we would never have discovered without his help. There is insufficient space in this review to list all the places we visited, but suffice to say we had a most amazing day. The weather was kind and Javier even kinder. He was very keen to make sure he showed us places that he thought we’d enjoy, he allowed us as much time as we wanted to wander on foot, and at one point we caught a little Vancouver False Creek ferry from Granville Island (which was a fabulous stop on Javier’s tour), to The Village, home of the 2010 Winter Olympics Athletes Village (now a residential precinct). Javier followed us with the car and met us at The Village ferry dock. Towards the end of the day, after we had visited the Capilano River Salmon Hatchery, we headed to Grouse Mountain for a wonderful gondola ride and a delicious late lunch at the top of the mountain. At all times throughout our day with Javier, he was making sure that the amount of walking wasn’t overwhelming for us (we’re both elderly), that we were fed and watered appropriately and that there were comfort stops throughout the day. We cannot recommend Javier highly enough as a tour host. His knowledge of Vancouver and surrounds is encyclopaedic, he obviously loves and is proud of his city, and his impeccably maintained, new and very comfortable vehicle ensures the miles slip by seamlessly. He is an excellent, very safe and very calm driver who would make any passenger feel relaxed. Simply the best, and we hope to use his services when next we are in Vancouver. He is such an asset to Tours by Locals.