Or take a choice from all downtown Vancouver has to offer as it is just a 30 minute drive away. There is no on-site hotel, the nearest being the Best Western Plus Chelsea Inn – but there are many others in the surrounding areas of Coquitlam and Surrey. The 97 B-Line bus connects Coquitlam with the Skytrain service from Vancouver and Burnaby at Lougheed Town Centre. It is easily accessible from the Trans Canada Highway, Lougheed Highway, Barnett Highway and North Road and the casino has plenty of free parking. Coquitlam, a suburb of Vancouver, is 30 kilometres north east of the airport and the casino is 10 kilometres south of the centre of Coquitlam. The building, which replaced the old Boulevard Casino, features an 80,000 square foot casino, 1,100 seat music venue and seven dining options. I just wanted to post this here quickly so others can plan accordingly.The new Hard Rock Casino Vancouver opened in Coquitlam just before Christmas 2013 with memorabilia from Jimmy Hendrix, Elvis, Tina Turner, Madonna, the Spice Girls and Prince among others. I've gotten a lot of good information on Trip Advisor, but this was not a good tip! But if this is the most expensive mistake that happens on our trip, I will be very happy. I hated to leave our keys with them and pay them $12 a day for 2 weeks, but it was still cheaper than other parking places. The girl at the Hotel desk was really nice to check on the Internet for long term parking (we will be away for 2 weeks), but she didn't find anything cheaper than their valet parking, which she could arrange for us only because we had a reservation for a hotel stay post cruise. I learned that parking at the River Rock is indeed $2.50, but it needs to be validated every day, so it doesn't work if you are away. We are leaving on our cruise this afternoon and got into Vancouver yesterday and I dropped off my parents and husband at our downtown hotel and went to park the car.

We made our plans based on this tip and made reservations at the River Rock post cruise. I thought I would post this as a new topic, because I had read in several places on this forum that you could park during a cruise very cheaply at the River Rock casino.

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