Canlan Sports - North Vancouver, British Columbia

Mandy M.

Been playing hockey at Canlan between the different rinks, since the early 2000s. Always have fun. I mean the rooms could use a little more cleaning, but that’s Hockey for you.

Milena B.

Good place to spend the day watching hockey! I like that it has a second floor view of the 3 ice rinks without having to be next to it if you don't want to be cold. Yesterday was a busy day for them and the cons I found was the chair availability per table since we needed to go around looking for empty chairs to move to our table, plus the delay on our food order due to the amount of orders they were taking. Otherwise, it was a good experience.

sharon L.

My kid joined a course during summer and the coaches were young and nice and my kid love attending the class. However today, when the class finished and we got into the changing room to get change, when we almost finished, there was an old man, probably a coach from Canlan Sport as he was holding a clipboard with the Canlan logo on the cover, said that we went to the wrong room and rudely asked us to look at the TV before we get into any room. I swear I did check and it is the room stated! I told him I did check but he kept saying we should be in another room and kept blaming us to look at the tv!! Because we had already finished our changes, we didn’t argue with him anymore but his attitude was so so bad and offensive!! I would say if he is the coach, I cannot imagine how will he treat the kids! Because of him, I will not join Canlan Sport hockey class anymore as I worry that he will be the coach and my kid will lose his interest in playing hockey.

Kai F.

Amazing fries and wings best in bc 100% (get the bacon chicken poutine)

Huibaicheung

Pros
Fries hot
Clean location

Cons
Ordered honey garlic wings with seasoned fries. Wings tasted like Frank's red hot mixed with honey garlic. Told the bar staff. Didn't do anything.

Didn't take photo. Looked like honey garlic. Kitchen staff was blonde guy with a red hat.

신시아

I really don't like this place.
Miscommunication between staffs were awful.

At first day of lesson, we were 2 minutes late due to horrible traffic jam to get there(We were caught in the car for 30 min). And suddenly encountered ridiculous Mobile Health Check Request. To do that, My kid lost 11 minutes more. They never let my daughter came in first. Lesson time is only 30 minutes, we could attend only for 17 minutes.
We go Delbrook Recreation Center, West Vancouver Community Center, Harry Jeromme Recreation Center, but any of them has no such thing like Mobile Health Check Request which has to be done every time we go. And when I said I've never heard this process when I enrolled, an old lady said they have sent an email just a day before that day with grumpy voice, so I checked my email account and even spam folder but there was no such an email. And one staff told us to go to changing room 8, and another staff told us to go to changing room 5. They were really confused themselves.

The second day we went, when I wanted to come in again to pick up my kid, a young woman said I could wait at the side gate instead of letting me in. Of course my kid didn't know where to go, so she was searching for me everywhere with her skates on. I wondered, every other parents came out of there with there kids, why did she ask me to wait at the side door?only to me?

On the third day, I waited my daughter at the side gate like she said a week ago, this time I told my daughter where to meet me. But she was scolded by an old woman like, 'Where's your mom?Did you come in to the arena with your skates on?You can't go outside with your skates on'. I told the woman, a young woman told me to wait here, but she said that's because I was in the wrong line,so she could have thought my kid is in the other class. No! That's was not my fault! I was in the right line which is for North Van Rec Center! They could make mistakes, but they never admit it.

On fourth day when it's time for pickup, a man said I could wait in the hallway because it was still 4 minutes left. So I was in the hallway, he even followed me and made sure I was in the right place, but right after then a woman came to me talking, 'You can't be here. You should be in the changing room' I told her a man told me to wait in the hallway, but she repeated the same thing.

And today, I saw a family was waiting in the hallway, but no staff told them they couldn't be there. What

I don't know gathering in a small changing room is better than waiting in the hallway.
Everybody here says different thing whenever I go there.
I would never let my daughter take lesson which takes place at this place.

Krystal G.

I registered for Play to Learn but was told my group was combined with Play to Develop participants; I found the drills too challenging as I'm just learning to play hockey. It would have been helpful if a note was made on the registration page so one is fully aware of what they're signing up for. As for the lessons, instructors were nonetheless friendly, encouraging, and were willing to adapt the exercises based on skill levels.

Allison P.

Chairs are uncomfortable to watch a whole game in, needs more padding for sure. The food is alright, some items taste very frozen. They serve beer and wine which is great, and the staff is very nice.