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Re: OT: help in vacation planning
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Here is what you can do in Calgary and surrounding areas:
Calgary
Calgary tower- breakfast; in a good sunny day, you can see the mountain and
the whole calgary for $10.95 for adult and 1/2 price for kid. If you have a
party of over ten, they waive the elevator fees.
Heritage Park- free breakfast before 10 with admission, this will be great
for any age . The park has a lot of heritage sites and a working train
which brings in you to different sites of the park. There is also a ferry
ride to tour the glenmore resevoir.
Banff and area:
Banff spring hotel - stay for lunch where you can enjoy the rocky mountain
view you will not forget. There are also various walking trails around the
hotel where you can see a waterfall etc.
Lake Lousie - stay in the Lake Lousie hotel for a day and you will enjoy
various hiking trails in the area. Alternatively, you can also stay in Deer
Lodge , 2 minute from the Lake Lousie Fairmount hotel.
BC:
My family always goes to Penticton from mid July on. There are fruits
picking everywhere during that time, cherries, blueberries, peach (maybe in
late July), strawberries etc. You can also travel to Kelowna and visit
Kelowna musums where they show you the history of the areas. There are also
numerous wine tours for both adult and kids with excellent views of lake. In
early Aug, there will be a peach festival in Penticton to celebrate the
peach harvest.
To stay , you can rent a trailer for a week and they will set it up for you
on the site you request. We have been staying at Wright's camp. The site
is very small, but is right on the beach. The cost is very reasonable, $500
a week with kitchen, washroom and bedrooms.
Hope this helps, check out Travel Alberta and British Columbia sites where
you can get more infor.
In lugnet.loc.ca, Mario Ferrari writes:
> Hi all
>
> Please excuse this OT post, but I’m planning a three weeks vacation in
> Canada with my family this summer and I’m looking for suggestions.
>
> Period is July 27 – August 17. Our not yet final program says we will spend
> one week in Toronto, visiting the city and the surrounding area; second and
> third week in BC and Alberta, visiting Vancouver, Victoria, and, most of
> all, the Rockies (Okanagan valley, Banff, Jasper…).
>
> Any tip is very welcome, either about places to visit or about
> accommodations, or even about links to good internet resources. Our group is
> made of two families, both having two children (age range 7-11), and for
> this reason we don’t want to change location every day and pass a lot of
> time travelling. We rather plan to spend at least 2 or 3 days in every place
> we visit.
>
> We will visit the big cities and spend some days there, but we do prefer
> quite, secluded places rather than crowded and busy towns, so our ideal
> accommodations are bungalows, small lodges or chalets immersed in the
> nature, possibly good starting points for walks and horse-rides, canoeing
> and fishing.
>
> The fact that a place is "famous" is not important at all for us. I included
> the Banff area in the tour because I read is a really extraordinary area,
> even though there’s much tourism. But I’m open to suggestions about other
> places, maybe less renowned but nice, quite and not crowded.
>
> From what we’ve been reading about Canada during the last weeks, we can’t
> wait to be there. Seems to me more a place where I would like to LIVE than
> one for a vacation :-)
>
> Last but not least, I would LOVE to meet some of you Canadian AFOLS in
> Toronto and Vancouver. As soon as I have the dates finalised, I will post
> them here to see if we can arrange an evening together.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help
>
> Ciao
> Mario
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