SUV

Sailing to Alaska from Canada Place with three children and a week of clothes means more luggage than a sedan can carry. In our GMC Yukon, each of the five family members gets a seat, and the cargo area holds five suitcases. We pick your family up at home and bring everyone to the cruise terminal for check-in. Rear-seat media touchscreens give the children something to watch during the drive to the pier, which makes the trip downtown easier for the parents too.

Small teams find this SUV just as practical on a working day. We bring the group to a conference or a client meeting at the Anvil Centre in New Westminster, and the team can go over the agenda together before the first session. With fewer colleagues on board, the rearmost seats fold down to make room for presentation materials, display stands, or sample cases, so you can bring your equipment to the venue.

Five passengers sit across three rows in our Chevrolet Suburban, and the long cargo area behind the last row takes five full-size suitcases, so nobody has to hold a bag on their lap. Because we seat no more than that number in a vehicle with three rows, everyone has extra room to stretch out.

That space makes the biggest difference on long drives. Climate control covers every passenger, the interior is finished in premium materials, and the entertainment and connectivity features give everyone something to do until you arrive.

We assign the Suburban to airport arrivals with heavy luggage at YVR and to trips up the coast to the mountain resort in Whistler Village, where winter boots and ski bags need a place of their own. Along the Sea-to-Sky Highway past Squamish, each row has its own windows looking out over Howe Sound. On both kinds of trips, your group and all of its bags arrive together instead of splitting between two cars.