My husband and I were in Vancouver from Wednesday, May 3 to 5, 2023. We decided to take the Hop On Hop Off tour bus on Thursday, May 4. We waited over 30 minutes close to an hour for a bus to arrive. A large charter bus with a HO/HO sign finally showed up. The tour guide let us off for a few minutes in Chinatown but not close to any restaurants or shops. What was that about? Then he took us to a harbor and said we have to get off and transfer to one of the traditional HO/HO buses. The driver/guide was not very informative. He was in the hurry to end his shift. I also have a problem with the dropoff for Granville Island. We were looking forward to exploring that area. The driver dropped people off under an overpass not close to anything. It looked like a No-man's Land. It would have been helpful if we were told how far we would have to walk to get to Granville Island. Being visitors we skipped trying to walk somewhere we had no idea where we were going. Vancouver is a beautiful city, but that tour bus did not do it justice.
Notice: our experiance was 6 years ago and exellent. Various hop offs never waited longer than 30 min. Granville landed by boat. I’m just a tourist like you, so serious complains must be made by the bus company! Thanks for watching😃
I'm so sorry for Canada. Most things about a good Canada are not true, Including clean cities - beaches, and forests. It's a big lie. The first time I arrived in Vancouver in 2018, I was shocked. As soon as I left the airport door, I saw tissue, disposable glasses, and other garbage left in the city. The further I went, the more I saw them. Before I moved to Canada, I lived in Georgia, Armenia, Turkey, Serbia, The United States, and for a short time in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Netherlands, Germany, and England, but I have never seen the amount of garbage that people leave in different Canadian cities. Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Quebec are no less than Vancouver. Canadian and Canada Governments don't care about this tragedy. I think everything that says about Canada as a clean and powerful culture is not true. You don't need to travel to Canada to see this. Just watch some videos about walking in downtown Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Quebec. You will find the truth. Impossible for you to walk in a Canadian city and you don't see the dark side of that. Everywhere you will see garbage. You will never see this in Europe, Australia, the United States, Japan, and Korea. This amount of waste is not even seen in Malaysian, Indonesian, or Thailand cities. It is impossible for you to use public transport and not see a lot of garbage at stations or on the route. You will be surprised to find a lot of garbage even in the woods - by the rivers and on the beaches in Canada. I wish the Canadians woke up and had no enmity with their country. To be fair, I randomly looked at videos from downtown Manchester and Concord in New Hampshire - Philadelphia - Detroit - Chicago - New York - Baltimore - Denver - Nashville, and Knoxville in the United States, and Toronto - Quebec - Montreal - Winnipeg - Calgary - Vancouver - Victoria - Ottawa and Thunder Bay in Canada. we should be fair. The bitter truth must be accepted. Without any exaggeration. Completely impartial. I have to say that I didn't see a single piece of garbage in any of the US videos to convince myself. Without exaggeration, in all Canadian cities, there must have been a piece of garbage on the ground less than every hundred meters. It must have an important reason. I do not know. But this is a bitter truth. You can try. This country should be brought closer to its exaggerated claim. the truth is bitter. Certainly, some Asian countries such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and even Malaysia are much cleaner compared to Canada. Of course, we should not forget that Canada claims to be one of the 10 cleanest countries in the world. And Vancouver claims to be one of the 5 cleanest cities in the world. Please go to East Hastings or Victoria Drive or Commercial Drive or West Georgia or Broadway or Main Street and judge for yourself. I am 50 years old and have traveled to 26 countries. Canada is far from its claims. I saw, homeless people, pooping and peeing everywhere and it's so common. nobody cares. I was shocked again. I endured for 3 years but every day going worst. late in 2022, I decided to move to the east because I thought that place has a stronger culture. I chose Montreal. I had heard it is the capital of art and civilization in Canada. it was absolutely wrong. Canada is Canada. I was shocked again, again, and again. the wave of homelessness, graffiti, vandalism, bad smell, terrible infrastructure especially roads in or out of the city, and above all, you can see trash everywhere. plastic bags, tissues, water bottles, and disposable cups. You cannot see any street or park or public place without these. This is impossible. surprisingly nobody cares. neither the people nor the government!!!!!!! please, don't be fooled by the advertisement about a good Canada. please, be careful. most of the things about a good Canada are deception This country is disappointing. Please, Please, Please, don't immigrate to Canada you would regret it absolutely. this is not a developed country, Canada is a developing country with huge serious problems.
Thank you for your long and large command. Every city and country has a dark side. Even the countries and cities you mantioned as clean. However my footage is as seen by a toerist, and the Hop on Hop of bus doesn’t drive try that dark parts. We also have seen the homeless in East Hasetings, just in front of our hotel Patricia. Bud pressing the red button of my camera in surtain erea’s is to much I think. Vacatian memories do not include people who shit in an ally or injecting their drugs, don’t you think. So, also we went home with the best parts on board the SD card.
@@CirrusPictures You are absolutely right and every country has a dark side. But I think Canada's dark side is more than its bright parts among developed countries.
