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You will find dotted around the city a number of Orcas or Killer Whales. They are painted with some wonderful designs. This one in particular caught my attention outside the Virgin Mega store on Robson.
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stop over in maritimes
Can anyone advise me on the cheapest way to stop over and visit the maritimes for a week or two on the way back from visiting relatives in Vancouver late August September? Looking at multitrips with Air Canada is coming out at £1656.00!!!!!!
If I fly London to Vancouver and break the return journey in Toronto it is only £665.00! Can you help with the best internal flights or other travel that will be cheaper and also would it be best to get to Halifax or St John's or any where else? Any travel advice much appreciated. We love to visit Canada and have been to BC several times but have never ventured into Eastern Canada
Re: stop over in maritimes
Don't forget the distance you are flying - you are going back and forth across the entire country. You are also travelling at high season. That being said, the Air Canada price looks way too high, but it won't be cheap. There are no direct flights - you are looking at flying from Vancouver to Toronto (5-1/2 hours) and then off to say Halifax (1-1/2 hours) and if you want to get to St John Nfld, another 1-1/2 hours past Halifax.
Try some of the discounters (Expedia.com and that ilk) for prices and check out WestJet. Air Canada and WestJet are really your only options.
http://www.westjet.com
Perhaps one other thing to consider is getting an "open jaws" ticket - where you fly into one city and out of the other and redo your schedule to be UK - Vancouver - Halifax - UK. There are direct flights from Halifax to the UK.
Re: stop over in maritimes
You already have good advice up there. People seem to forget that travelling across Canada is as long as travelling overseas from the Northeast.
The openjaw ticket is a good solution and you may also want to look into Porter airlines which cover the Northeast (www.flyporter.com).
The Maritimes will be beautiful at that time of the year and make sure you stop by Quebec City along the way if you have the time.
Re: stop over in maritimes
I agree Porter could be an option out of Toronto, but it is not all that attractive. Air Canada and WestJet fly out of Pearson Airport, while Porter flys out of the Toronto Island Airport. It can be done, but you have the issue of having to get between the two airports. The Island Airport is more sensitive to weather delays than Pearson and I have experienced a much higher percentage of delays and cancellations out of that airport than Pearson.
Porter flights are all on Dash 8's as well, so a much smaller, turboprop plane versus the larger aircraft flown by WestJet and Air Canada.
Another alternative would be to look at doing connections out of Ottawa or Montreal. Both WestJet and Air Canada have Vancouver and Halifax connections out of both cities.
As for stop overs - Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal are all great places to visit. Quebec City is nice too, but a bit of a sidetrip. Out of Toronto, Niagara Falls is only 90 km away.
Re: stop over in maritimes
Many thanks for wise advice guys, I think I will have a look at the open jaw option. Had expected to find Air Canada flights expensive - friends seem to fly to Australia and New Zealand for less than we can get flights to Canada - but I know where I would rather go!!!! I am just at the first stages of planning this holiday so when I have got past this hurdle of convenient flights at a reasonable price I will be looking for more local advice on good itineries in the Maritimes.
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