Don’t feel like you have to lie in bed all day sleeping your hangover away. Get up, grab a healthy breakfast and a big glass of water and head to any of these places around Vancouver to take your mind off that thing you may or may not have done last night.
Here are 14 places that are open on New Year’s Day:
Take the kids
Movie Theatres
Movie theatres are always open on New Year’s Day. Check your local listings.
Vancouver Aquarium
Yes, the aquarium is open New Year’s Day. What better way to spend the day with your family than by looking at cuddly (and not so cuddly) creatures of the sea. Special hours are in effect for New Year’s, however.
Where: 845 Avison Way, Vancouver
New Year’s Day hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Robson Square skating rink
Strap on your skates and glide across the ice in downtown Vancouver on New Year’s day. It’s free if you bring your own skates.
Where: 800 Robson Street, Vancouver
New Year’s Day hours: 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.
TELUS World of Science
Spend the day discovering science. Hangovers best left at home.
Where: 1455 Quebec Street, Vancouver
New Year’s Day hours: Noon to 6 p.m.
Shop for a party
The following private liquor stores in Vancouver are open on New Year’s Day, but remember BC Liquor Stores are closed:
- Granville Liquor Store – 2658 Granville Street
- Brewery Creek Liquor Store – 3045 Main Street
- Denman Liquor Store – 1060 Denman Street
- Yaletown Liquor Store – 1116 Hamilton Street
- Liberty Wine Merchants – 1622 Commercial Drive (this location only)
- Coal Harbour Liquor Store – 1216 West Pender Street
- Spirit of Howe Street – 1275 Granville Street
- East Side Liquor Store – 1445 E. 41st Street
- Value On Liquor Store – 1450 SW Marine Drive
- The Bottle Shop – 1489 East Hastings Street
- Legacy Liquor Store – 1633 Manitoba Street
- Princeton Hotel Liquor Store – 110-1901 Powell Street
- Darby’s Public House and Liquor Store – 2001 MacDonald Street
- Kitsilano Liquor Store – 2289 West Broadway
- Burrard Liquor Store – 2401 Burrard Street
- High Point Beer Wine and Spirits – 2769 East Hastings Street
- Liquor Depot at Cambie – 3415 Cambie Street
- Liquor Depot at Point Grey – 3338 West Broadway
- Jimmy’s Cold Beer and Wine Store – 425 Robson Street
- Pacific Spirits Liquor Store – 4474 Dunbar Street
- Firefly Fine Wines and Ales – 2857 Cambie Street
- Dunbar Liquor Boutique – 5650 Dunbar Street
- Crosstown Liquor Store – 568 Abbott Street
Ski the local mountains
Grouse Mountain
New Year’s Day hours: 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Mount Seymour
New Year’s Day hours: 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Cypress Mountain
New Year’s Day hours: 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Whistler Blackcomb
New Year’s Day hours: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Go shopping
Pacific Centre
New Year’s Day hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Robson Street
New Year’s Day hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Oakridge Centre
New Year’s Day hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Metropolis at Metrotown
New Year’s Day hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Park Royal
New Year’s Day hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.