Vancouver BC

How is it? Have I missed out any important, interesting attractions? Is my itinerary feasible.
I would say that Chinatown will probably only need about 3 or 4 hours, so you have the rest of that day to fill, and the same with Granville Island. Your days are also quite weather dependent, except for some of the mall shopping, and June weather is notoriously unreliable. There are several Boathouse Restaurants, including one with a lovely view over English Bay, so I have no idea what prompted you to go out to New Westminster. I'd reassess that choice. I'd be inclined to do Granville Island in the morning. It's actually easy to spend more than 3 hours in Stanley park...especailly if you want to walk the seawall ( or cycle) visit the Rose Garden, visit the Aquarium, stop at Prospect Point, wander along by Lost Lagoon...it's a wonderful Park and really depends on what you enjoy doing.
You could do a nice loop by doing Gastown, Chinatown, Yaletown and then Aquabus over to Granville Island..this would be one full day but not too much for one day. if you like gardens then visit the Sun Yat Sen in Chinatown.
Want to feel like a local, try looking at English Bay area, plenty of shops but mostly residental and on the beach. It's not far from downtown-walkable. More with long term apts, less expensive hotels.
And this time plan to see Granville Isl, take a day trip by car to West Van to hike and sight see, do a longer stint at Stanley Park (a large chunk of it was closed last time due to wind storms/downed trees).

If you have not yet found a suitable hotel, we wonder if you have thought about renting an apartment. We have stared doing this now as we find we can get an apartment just minutes walk from the Waterfront, shops, etc. at a more reasonable price than hotels and B&B's and have more room.

My wife and I were booked in for the 10:00am tour on Sunday, May 17th / 2009 for her 30th Birthday.

There is an inexpensive English Bay chain restaurant named the Boathouse and sitting on the heated deck is a good choice. Sunset is 9:00pm. Reservations at http://www.boathouserestaurants.ca/ I'll leave the Harbour Centre to someone else.

The Boathouse and Milestones have patios that overlook English Bay. I actually prefer the Milestones patio. Either way, you can finish dinner and walk across the street to admire the rest of the sunset.
One tip - skip dessert at the restaurant and walk a block up Denman to grab dessert - there are about 5-6 dessert places (gelato, cupcakes, cookies, cream puffs, etc). My personal favourite is Dulcinea with their Spanish hot chocolate. I believe on Wednesdays they even have live flamenco music!

Yes, it IS the WorldMark! It sounds like we won't have any problem finding some things close by,
It's on Hornby and Helmcken, which is pretty much the center of downtown Vancouver. A short walk to the shops/restaurants of Robson Street and Yaletown, a short walk to the seawall and to English Bay beach. A 20-30 minute walk to Stanley Park, also a short walk to the water taxi ride to Granville Island.
If you have one day, I'd probably spend part of it at Granville Island, part of it in Stanley Park, and watch the sunset from English Bay. You'll be within close walking distance to dozens of excellent restaurants - it's really a great location.
Why not cut one night off vancouver and take the amtrak train the night before your flight. It's a lovely ride... part along the water and it will still be light most of the way that time of year...over night in Seattle and spend the mprning at Pike Place market, visit the new Seattle Museum of Modern Art and then catch your plane.

We arrive the evening of 9 July for a cruise. I really need help trying to organize and see as much as possible on July 10 prior to 2pm to board the ship.

Your problem is going to be your luggage. You need to get checked out of your hotel in the morning, but you won't be able to take it with you sightseeing before heading to the peir to board your ship.

I'd say pick one downtown attraction - probably either Stanley Park or Granville Island (assuming nice weather - perhaps the Maritime or Vancouver Museum if it's lousy), and plan on spending a couple of hours there.
You could head down to Granville Island for breakfast, have a bit of a wander as things are opening up, then grab one of the pedestrian ferries for a ride around False Creek, getting off in Yaletown for a bit of wander.

1. Take a cab to Stanley park..then walk part of the seawall..make your way to the Aquabus watertaxi and go to Granville Island.. have lunch do some craft shopping.. cab it or bus back to hotel.. go to cruise.

2 A more adventurous (and exhausting) itinerary
Up by 6:30 am...walk over to Stanley park and cut across by Lost Lagoon over to English bay.. walk west ( clockwise) towards Siwash Rock.. spend about 1 hour in park and then catch a cab to Waterfront Station.. be at Waterfront by 8:10 to take Seabus to Lonsdale Quay then take bus # 236 to Grouse Mountain..this will put you on Grouse just before the skyride opens at 9am

http://www.translink.ca
http://www.grousemountain.com/Summer/
Ride up Grouse..explore for about 1.5 hours ..and then come back down the mountain and reverse your route back to Waterfront station..where you will catch the #50 bus to Granville Island
http://www.granvilleisland.com/en
( 15 minute ride) by now it will be lunch time so grab something from one of the many food outlets and sit outside to watch the boat, watertaxi, kayak traffic on False Creek and enjoy one of the street perfomrers who abound on the island. Slip past the market to the Netloft to shop/view great crafts from all over BC
about 1:30 grab a cab from Granville Island to your hotel.. have the cab wait while you pick up your luggage which the hotel stored fro you at 7am and cab it to Ballantyne.
If you can possibly do it ..try to get onto your boat later...if you have even one mor ehour you could leave Granville Island by Aquabus to Yaletown.. do a short stroll here then take cab to hotel.
http://www.theaquabus.com/
The above itinerary is rather manic but it would certainly let you see some of the "High Points" of Vancouver.
Finally for a restaurant I would look at Il Nido.. it's on Thurlow just off Robson and gets consistently good reviews..check www.dinehere.ca.. you can sort by downtown vancouver and price/type of food. Il Nido is in a courtyard and I would make a reservation as it is busy in town in the summer.. you can reserve for 9:30 or 9:45 of you want.
http://www.cafeilnido.net/
Hope the above gives you some options/ideas..

WOW!!! you guys are good. I think we will take a combo of both and put it together. The ship leaves at5:30pm and we suspect there to be many like us trying to get a "taste' of Vancouver prior to the cruiseand it could be crowded to check in the later it gets.

locals sneak up there for an overnight for a reason! Definitely. Whistler is a good day trip if you are pressed for time, but as you have a fair bit of room in your schedule, I'd plan on making it an overnight trip, even if it's up in the afternoon and back the next morning. Not sure of your age group, but Whistler has such a fun party/club/pub scene year-round, that it's worth staying up so you can take full advantage of that without worrying about the drive back to Vancouver.

Dont worry about the transportation to the cruise. Depending if you are leaving from the main cruise terminal or balantine terminal ...a taxi ride will be anywhere from 4 minutes to 11 minutes and no more than 5 to 10 dollars. we have compact downtown and the terminals are right there.
I dont think you would need a car at all. I would suggest that if you book a hotel downtown...any hotel you will be within walking district of the following.
Day 1)Robson street: You can spend a whole day walking robson street all the way west to denman..then head south on denman down to english bay. Great people watching and cool people (gay capital of canada on denman).
day 2) rent bikes at the northernmost point of denman street. ride the bikes around stanley park. If not into biking for sure do the walk. itsw beautiful for locals and tourists alike.
Come over to my house for lemonade and..ok now im kidding but you for sure will have enough to do in 2 days without renting a car.

Trying to fit in a trip to Victoria to zipline. We are already ticketed on Amtrak arriving in Vancouver at 11:30. I'm trying to decide if it is feasible to then head by ferry to Victoria. We would want to have some time between train and ferry. What is the area surrounding the Amtrak station in Vancouver like? Are there decent restaurants or shopping or other attractions nearby?