Take a TROPICAL VACATION in CANADA! 

THIS IS HILARIOUS! I love the staycation and Nicole is simply adorable. This is what we need, Mike. Your fantastic outlook on a beautiful getaway. The theme is spot on and needed. This episode made me literally laugh out loud and I will watch it again with my husband :) Thank you!

As someone in Toronto, indoor dining sounds like a concept from another planet

I love this so much! I miss travel and it's nice to have a substitute of sorts.

YAASSS!!! The ROMPER finally makes a cameo!!! 2021 is the year of the Romper! You really should have worn that going through the conservatory.

Looks like Nicole packed the hand wedge for the round pitch and putt! I hope you put the steering wheel back on the left before you turned in the rental! Looked like a fun time!

It's always fun to get away with you. Can I do this in Cincinnati? Poke ? Yes. Tropical conservatory? Yes. Water? Yes. Hotel with Tropical environment? Yes. It's colder here, but the sky is blue and sun is shining. The water is the Ohio River but I have a great imagination. I'm inspired. Let's vacation.

Pitch n putt is absolutely a thing in Ireland too! We did it regularly on a Sunday afternoon with my dad growing up.

A Tropical Vacation in Canada is like Aroma Therapy to get rid of the stressfulness by fulfilling with the Sweetness of Exploring... Simple places in Canada that can be helpful to refresh the exciment of health and the Sweetness of the view can be healed the pain of mind to be brighten and cheerful...💖

The perks of living in Vancouver. No snow and much more warmer then here in Alberta. Great video Mike looks like you both had a great time and got to do some cool stuff. Cheers!

What a lovely "warm" way to spend a "cool" weekend !

Love your perspective and positivity

Love your tropical staycation. Enjoyed every minute

Love this one! Vancouver is a beautiful city to staycation in. As much as we’ve travelled, I never get tired of coming home. 🇨🇦

This was a delightfully counterintuitive vacation.

I love this! Bloedel is a great place for a quick tropical fix in the middle of winter even in non-pandemic times, but what a great idea to build a whole tropical vacation weekend!

You guys had to much fun. Who knew , in Vancouver!! It was great to see nicole in the video again , its been a while . More nicole please lol. Awesome video mike keep up the awesome job

The coffee shop in the Burrard lobby is awesome!

These video's are great Mike! -thanks so much for your energetic video delivery!

Yay! Hahahaa I am back here. Amazinggggg love alllll and never stop say this!!!!!

What a treat to get to visit with you again and thanks for the escape! Take care.

What a great idea! I haven't been to the conservatory in decades! but definitely hitting the tiki bar :-)

life in lockdown, month 10 .5, enjoying seeing parts of the world via the Downie , top man! 👍

Great content this week Mike 🤙🏽 the blue romper is 🔥 😉 the background music is so cheeky and on point 🌴

I love this idea. You two are the best!

I used to live down the street but I never knew about the tropical courtyard this is awesome! thank you for sharing this Mike!

Wait, wait! How are you driving a right-hand-drive???

Thank you so much for creating this channel. I so wanted to see Canada from the eyes of a Canadian. Keep growing more and more so we can see more of this beautiful place. ❤️

I did Christmas shopping at the Blodelll Conservatory one year. Such a great place. Thanks Mike!

Love this video, learned about some new spots to hit......Thanks Mike......

Luv your positivity❣

Another great video Michael!!! I love the idea of a taking a vacation in your own city. Very creative!!

My wife and I stayed at the Burrard last September and I looked at the courtyard the same way...it literally reminded us of Hawaii. We started our weekend with HOT weather and by Monday it was COLD...so we experienced the end of summer and beginning of fall. I can relate to your videos...we do many of the same activities

Man your channel is amazing. Keep the good work up!

Another fantastic video and what a wonderful and competitive person Nicole is. 😂👍🏻. Unfortunately our Conservatory with tropical plants here is closed so can’t do that. 👍🏻😎🇨🇦

Wonderful video, Mike and Nicole! 🙂🌟

Dude.... You are inspiration.... Tonnes of love and blessings....

You got me at the start with the romper outfit! I was like oh no please tell me he’s not going out in that! 🤣😅🤪

Simply just a great attitude - what this world needs right now. Awesome.

That was great Mike! I had no idea that the Burrard had a tropical courtyard. And I want to g to that Tiki Bar.

You've been inspiring me to do a lot of Vancouver travelling lately. Thanks for the inspo! :)

Loved the huge handkerchief tree located in Queen Victoria park.

this makes me happy

I've done this many times before, and that was without a pandemic. It's fun to be a "tourist" in your own city/state/province sometimes. Last time I did this was in October...stayed in the same state (Texas)...but it was 400 miles away. I think it was maybe 35F during those 2 days here in the Dallas area...but in Corpus Christi? 65-70F, and the Gulf of Mexico is right there....I may be dumb, but not so dumb. Haha. I'm gonna need another staycation soon.

Awesome staycation!! Had to look up where The Burrard was, just over from Century Plaza where I last stayed last trip! We could’ve had a winter staycation last week ( NZ mountains got snow ). Roll on getting on a plane again!! I’ll be back soon!!

You're so creative!

Yet another awesome upload from the equally AWESOME DownieLive channel!

this was such a fun video, the more I see Vancouver, the more I would like to visit, thanks

What a great idea Mike !!!! Such a creative way to smash the quarantine blues.

That was great - currently on lockdown here in the UK, but come the summer I can definitely see us trying an "exotic holiday in our home city" out (and as/when we can ever come to Vancouver, more things to come and see - we love a tropical hothouse)!

To get into the water, we have to break the ice, welcome to Montana

Depending where you live staycations are great. I'm in Kelowna, so staycations are too easy, lol. I haven't been to the Conservatory forever! Thanks for taking us along. Stay safe.

Very cool! Im going to stay at the Burrard Inn for sure. Well done!

That was great. You looked nice and buzzed after that rum drink. Great that instead of staying in and sulking, you are out trying to have these adventures. My favorite thing is when you say “I don’t know where I’ll be going next, but I know I want you with me.”. Gold. :)

What a fun idea!

That looked like so much fun

Mike, your creativity never ceases to amaze me. A change of scenery (whether it be tropical themed or otherwise) always helps to lift the spirit, even if it's within your own city or province. Doing out of the ordinary things based on a theme for a weekend (or midweek, if you can spare the time), especially with someone close, is a great way of getting out of boring routine. I recognised most of the places you traversed in this video. The drinks venue was something new. After your tropical lunch, I think the next two meals would need to have been very modest or cancelled outright without vigorous exercise, like a full circuit of Stanley Park on those bicycles, for example. Your driving skills with a right side driving position came up well, although I was a bit concerned about the car coming in from the right and the Translink bus pulling up alongside you in your environment. You must be practising for coming downunder. I had a chuckle at the sulphur crested cockatoo that appeared twice in the conservatory scenes (Did it say "Hello cockie" ?) A little bit of Aussie there! I had a further chuckle at the temperature reading. As I type this, it's 2.35pm on a 'turn me over, mom, I'm fried this side' Sunday afternoon in sunny Melbourne and the temperature inside my home is 28 degrees Celsius (83 degrees Fahrenheit) and it's probably at least 5 - 10 degrees Celsius outside. Even the cat has fled under the house to keep cool. Although I'm now free to travel far and wide, this sort of day is not one on which to do it. Now my next task is to put the trash and garden waste bins out for the "garbo" tomorrow morning - Yes, my Monday wake up call is "Bang! Crash, thud!" as the garbage trucks pass my door around 5.30-6.00am. There should be enough shade on the sidewalk now for the bins not to smell. Thanks for keeping up the show and coming up with new ways to entertain us in these troubled times. Let's hope the various anti-COVID vaccines become proven remedies and get distributed worldwide soon so that we can all get back to normal. Stay cheerful and safe and I look forward to your next offering. Cheers from Michael.

Great Staycation!

You two are so cute, putting down a "beach" blanket!

I've jumped on a hotelbed once like that as a child. Just missed the wooden board they had placed in the middle.

Thanks Mike

❤ Great idea!

Great idea and very funny video. I recently did a virtual tour of Egypt and a Louisiana food video... from my home city of Glasgow, Scotland. Sometimes you need to think outside the box especially when you are stuck inside it. You're videos are always a RU-vid highlight.

Fun. Thanks for taking me with you.

❤️ this video....I’m missing Vancouver so much! Can’t wait to go back there!! Wow...rental bikes in Vancouver?

Great video Mike. Great idea.

Lol at the paintings on the wall makes you want to ‘take the stairs’

lol wheelie! wheelie! - such a cute idea

Yay! New VDO!!!

Watching from Alberta, this LOOKS like a tropical vacation. Gotta love your energy and commitment to ideas like this dude, thanks for your hard work!

I absolutely loved this staycation video! I learned so much about my own city that I didn't know before! I didn't realize the Burrard Hotel was so tropical and I have to say I want to go stay there! Pitch and putts are so much fun! I have not been to the Bloedel Conservatory in years and now I want to go! And last but not least the Tiki Room brought back so many memories! There used to be a Tiki bar at the Westin Bayshore (was just known as the Bayshore Hotel way back when) and it looked similar to the one you two were at. I used to love going there and getting a drink in a coconut shell! You always make me laugh! Thank you for that!

Great vacation/staycation! I think the nearest conservatory is about an hour west of me. Have been there in the summer but never in the winter. Very enjoyable, thank you for the trip!

Great Start to 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣1️⃣”👍💥👊🔥🇬🇧.

Thank you so much Michael for you amazing video, I didn’t know about Burrard hotel was amazing also Shameful Tiki was very interesting too, I will definitely go there

Thank you! 💓👍

That was delightful. I didn’t notice the car until I read the comments section, because I live in New Zealand! All perfectly normal to me and we all drive Japanese imports here.

Like the cuts and fills in between. Its beginning to look a lot like Viral, everywhere you post( melody) . HAHA

You had my attention with poke and drinks. Now I need a vacation.

I just love this! Your wife is a cutie pie! How ingenious! We can’t go into restaurants right now. Order to go’s only 😢 hopefully soon though! We have a new President 👍👍

I like your atidude !!! You know how to make fun!

This was so beautiful. I imagined myself there! You've given me a good idea about taking a vacation in my own city! It's all about perspective 😍 Used to do that as a kid with my parents. Just lost the touch as we grew older! 😅 This was really a beautiful vacation. So simple, yet so relaxed and happy.

Wonderful video and novel concept of vacation in own city. I’ve been following your videos , they’re always crisp and you show as you say not your average guide to Vancouver ! Wonderful wonderful and wonderful . Hope to catch you while you r shooting someday :)) best wishes

thank you for this amazing idea! Inspired us to do that too for our weekly video! Stay healthy!

We love to travel and this pandemic stinks! Toronto has been locked down for months and we can't do anything indoors (no indoor dinning, shopping...nothing :-(. I miss Vancouver, thanks for sharing this so we can live vicariously through you for now!

wow nice content as always, keep it up man.

You forgot to chat with Kramer at the Conservatory! He's the salmon crested cockatoo :) He gets a visit from his "mom" around the end or beginning of every year and it's quite a sight to witness their bond.

Awesome video! My girlfriend and I love exploring Vancouver, and will most definitely hit up the Conservatory soon! #TropicalGetaway

The Shameless Tiki Room is also a great tropical place in Vancouver and Toronto

This was fun. And now I think I’ll hit the sauna in my basement 🤣.

....a laugh a minute - as expected !!…. will have the grins, all evening.... my thankx for the prankx….

Another entertaining vlog. Thank you👍👏

Lucky Vancouverites in your beautiful mild climate. I am quarantined in 30cm of snow in Ottawa 😢. Although it was great to have a virtual tropical tour of Vancouver!

I'm inspired. Thanks Mike. You should do more trips with Nicole. Shes funny.

You’re the crown jewel of van city

A new destination spot landed me into unexpected enjoyment found!🎋🐦🌺DownieLive shows up "go power" to share! Thank you both, for candid experiences in video form👍👍 Beth Michaud "Subscribed" in North West Montana

Thanks for the video it was very entertaining especially when your stuck home me and my family might do what u just thank u I really appreciate it

Great idea! 😃💓👍

I live in Florida lol. And live 5 mins away from the beaches. That’s my staycation when I go to one 😄

Great idea. Great video! 👋👋👋👍💯

This video makes me wanna take a trip to the Bahamas again

One day soon, when I can do a staycation here in Orlando, the tropical theme will be pretty easy to do, I'm pretty sure. Thinking Margaritaville or along that line.