Aqua La Vie En Rose

THEY HAD TWICE THE SELECTION AND NOTHING WAS MORE THAN $ 50! Don’t even bother going to Swimco! The staff here are friendlier, and I can actually buy a 2 piece without breaking the bank! They have a huge sale going on right now. I got bathing suit bottoms for $ 7!!!

This place would be awesome if I had an amazing body. I don’t and the lighting in the change area is awful so it really isn’t fun to try stuff on there.
You can always find great deals on swimsuits — like fun bikinis for $ 14! They have great cover up stuff too and cute dresses. They do have a lot of styles and cuts, Sometimes the patterns or frills are a bit much for my taste. I actually found a nice one-​piece today with a real vintage look to it for only $ 70. I don’t desperately need a new suit so I refrained but maybe after I do boot camp in June I’ll deserve to treat myself.

I knew they could do it! I came back to exchange a black skirt that I bought a few weeks ago for a white one, since colour coordinating on the beach is very important. But then I ended up trying on more bikinis…
Let’s face it, no girl out there likes shopping for a bathing suit. You end up trying on about 20 different top and bottom combos until you find the right one. It takes a while, (which is why I left the BF at home.) So I was super stoked when I came in this time and the service was so good. The short lady that greeted me when I first came in, I couldn’t even see over the racks in the store! So little! She made lots of suggestions on styles and cuts and would grab a different style in every colour of the rainbow for me, until I narrowed it down to pink or teal, even though all I wanted was a simple boring black one. I ended up with teal since I felt that it brought out the colours in my tattoos more… cuz I’m sure that’s what everyone will be looking at when I am in my bikini…
She did the skirt exchange with no questions, and I got $ 10 off my new teal bikini since there was a coupon on the bottom of my old receipt. Total dollars spent = $ 75, but I bet I won’t need another bathing suit for another ten years. Two weeks till holidays… not that I am counting.

I recently visited several stores in Kits looking for end-​of-​season bikini deals. This store was the last and by far the best. At Splash on 4^th Avenue, three employees greeted me indifferently then chatted amongst themselves about dogs. Next up was Swimco; where the young woman was very personable and helpful; it’s just that everything on sale was still over $ 60.
My last stop was La Vie En Rose Aqua and there I found a decent selection of very sale-​priced swimsuits, sold as separates for convenience. $ 17 for a top and $ 20 for a bottom is more like it and exactly the price point one should expect at the end of the season. There was an older woman working there (50s?) and a younger 20ish woman who I think was the manager who helped me; she was terrific. I did not feel rushed or that she was just telling me something looked good so that I would buy it. I made a point of telling her how much I enjoyed being there and that the prices were so much better than the other stores. I would recommend this location in particular to anyone looking for a swimsuit; great staff and reasonable prices.

This is by far the best location — I went to the same store in metrotown and the selection was so slim — they had three ugly swimsuits on sale and that was it!
This location however is huge for a swimsuit place and half their store is on sale right now. I’m going to Mexico next week and looked everywhere to find a suit (SwimCo, department stores, EVERYWHERE in Metrotown) and finally found one here. The sales staff is super nice and patient — I pretty much tried out all the swimsuits they had on sale and I didn’t feel rushed or pressured. The swimsuit I ended up buying wasn’t supposed to be on sale but it was under the discount section so she gave me the discount anyway!
I would definitely recommend checking it out. The location is bad for parking (all paid metered parking) but if you go down to Vine and 3^rd, there’s usually a bunch of free parking there and it’s just a short walk to the suit store. Get a bit of exercise before trying on bathing suits… not a bad thing!

Being pregnant, I had to find a decent suit to work with my belly and this store came through for me! Reasonable prices, lots of different style tops and bottoms in sizes XS-​XL. Quality isn’t top notch, but what can you expect when the prices are so good. They also carry a vast selection of cover-​ups, shorts, dresses, hats & beach bags. Would definitely shop there again when you don’t feel like dropping a lot of dough for a bikini/​bathing suit.