Yeah i know its a little early but it's going to suck up alot of money.......
so i'd like to plan everything as well as i can
My brother in law is going to take classes at a university in Vancouver (will add later wich one), starting from Januari, so me and my girlfriend would like to use it as an excuse to travel!
We just booked the flight, and will be landing @ Vancouver on 3 may.
From there on we'd like to take her brother on board for a roadtrip, checking everything out that's worth visiting on the eastcoast.......
After 10 days we'll put him on a plane back to Holland.
From there on we plan on traveling towards the eastcoast to finally end up in NewYork for the last couple of days, to catch our plane back to Holland on 28th of may at Newark Intl. New York.
Summarizing what we've come up with so far;
- we'll have like 10 days on the westcoast.
- about 12 days to travel upto the east (with something like Montreal as a destination)
- like 6 days left to travel upto New York, sight-see and leave from there
All in all it will be alot of traveling
Now we are planning to rent an RV for the first ten days for the westcoast part, and from there on trade in the rv for a real car, and travel from motel to hotel or whatsoever
Now it may look like i got it all figured out huh.........
but all input is welcome like:
(this list will prolly grow)
Stuff we really have to see
Places that we have to visit
Where to score the best deals on renting cars and rv's
Possibility of taking a rental over the border to New York
Best deals for motels or hotels (we like it comfy)
best food cöorporations (no i don't like mcdonalds)
appreciate it folks! already got a canada travel guide but its always better to hear stuff from the
people that actually are living there......
Maybe we will even be able to meet someone
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Last edited by DutchNeon : 11-10-2009 at 09:10 AM.
What kinds of things do you like doing? That would help give recommendations on what you should look at.
Driving through the rockies is great! I am sure you will really love that.
There are some great roads between OK Falls and Penticton if you drive that route!
I had a good time partying in Kelowna in my very early 20's. Nice summer town.
You could stop in Revelstoke. It's a small town (nothing really special about it, except for the scenery.)
Calgary is a nice city to party in. (It's about 11 hours from Vancouver, so you may want to stay a night or two). I haven't lived there since 1999, so I am sure it has changed quite a bit since then.
You could go to the badlands in Alberta and maybe stop in Winnipeg (average city, nothing special)
Aside from that, there's really nothing between Calgary and Thunder Bay. (it's about 20 hours of driving, most of it through prairies) Most boring drive EVER!
Thunder Bay itself is nothing worth looking at, but the drive between Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie is very scenic and spectacular.
Sudbury (where I grew up) is a real blue collar mining town. Nothing really interesting there, but it has the worlds largest nickel mines. Before they built the 1150 odd foot smoke stack (in the 70's), the rocks were etched from the sulfur and trees would barely grow in the entire area. Now things look a bit better, but the town is still a s***hole.
In Sudbury, you have two choices on how to get to Montreal, (through North Bay or through Toronto). via Toronto is the longer route ( by several hours), but is clearly one of the main stops you want to make if you are doing a cross-Canada tour.
Toronto is Canada's largest city and I am sure there are members from T.O that can give you some great ideas on things to do. (Hockey hall of fame, if you are into hockey, sporting events, Ward's Island, Wonderland, CN Tower etc..)
Ottawa parliament buildings are worth seeing.
Montreal to me is a very FUN town to party in. I am sure you will have a great time there.
That's as far as I've driven out east so I can't really recommend anything else.
Quebec city is a very European with the older architecture. That may be something worth seeing.
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Last edited by wonderboy : 11-10-2009 at 10:03 AM.
You could always hit up the Vancouver aquarium. In the downtown area there is quite a few places to choose from for food. If you like pasta there is Anton's Anton's Pasta Bar. Some car rental places will only let you take rentals only to bordering provinces or states.
You can choose from Budget, Avis, National, Hertz, thats all i can think of right now.
Hotel wise in the downtown Vancouver area i would say Sheraton or the Westin.
If your going across Canada making a stop in Toronto is a must. It is a great city, and there is lots to do, shoot me ideas of what you like I can help you out. From there travel east to Ottawa which is a beautiful drive once you are past Oshawa. (Well maybe not in May lol) If you plan on going to Ottawa and Montreal the direct route to Montreal is quicker but Ottawa is an amazing city, lots of nice buildings.
I'll get the Kelowna crew together to give you a right, proper reception; make sure you give a more specific date. Vancouver guys; if you're doing a meet, maybe we could see if we can get all of us together or at least do a hand-off on the #5 or something. Something I've always wanted to plan and get together since spcforkers' first roadtrip to nats for fellow SRT peeps.
Rental; National. Call the 1-800 and get unlimited kms. Decent rates, clean cars. Been using rentals for at least a decade, and National never lets me down. Budget on the other hand...
I can also recommend some fantastic routes (RV-safe) from Van to at least the Alberta border that will take you past some of the most breathtaking scenery and locations in the west. Drop me a PM and we'll get to chattin'.
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Alrighty
Thats already lots of good ideas info and everything......
I'll make a list of what everyone mentioned and start putting some markers on a map!
We really like to go see everything Canada has to offer, offcourse all the nice scenery, lakes, small villages, architecture, monuments and offcourse we would have plenty of time to taste the food over there. We like restaurants and wine
I can't say we really passed the party thing yet, so we'll check out whats there but its not like we're searching for that
And i don't know if there's a 1/4mile track around there somewhere cause it would be awesome to see how that is over there, cause in Europe all we get is closed airfields.....
maybe we would be able to fit something like that into the scedule!
Ow and a srt get together would be awesome aaaaaawwwh my god my girlfriend will kill me if she hears about that :P
As soon as plans start getting its form, i'll let you know about a date!
Ow and do all those companies change cars like every half year? Want to try and rent a Dodge
something like a Charger..... comfy
Thank you all! i already feel welcome
Last edited by DutchNeon : 12-23-2009 at 05:33 AM.
Well there is Mission Raceway just outside of Vancouver that has the Friday night street legals where anyone can race their "street legal" car. Even some 9 second cars show up.
What kinds of things do you like doing? That would help give recommendations on what you should look at.
Driving through the rockies is great! I am sure you will really love that.
There are some great roads between OK Falls and Penticton if you drive that route!
I had a good time partying in Kelowna in my very early 20's. Nice summer town.
You could stop in Revelstoke. It's a small town (nothing really special about it, except for the scenery.)
Calgary is a nice city to party in. (It's about 11 hours from Vancouver, so you may want to stay a night or two). I haven't lived there since 1999, so I am sure it has changed quite a bit since then.
You could go to the badlands in Alberta and maybe stop in Winnipeg (average city, nothing special)
Aside from that, there's really nothing between Calgary and Thunder Bay. (it's about 20 hours of driving, most of it through prairies) Most boring drive EVER!
Thunder Bay itself is nothing worth looking at, but the drive between Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie is very scenic and spectacular.
Sudbury (where I grew up) is a real blue collar mining town. Nothing really interesting there, but it has the worlds largest nickel mines. Before they built the 1150 odd foot smoke stack (in the 70's), the rocks were etched from the sulfur and trees would barely grow in the entire area. Now things look a bit better, but the town is still a s***hole.
In Sudbury, you have two choices on how to get to Montreal, (through North Bay or through Toronto). via Toronto is the longer route ( by several hours), but is clearly one of the main stops you want to make if you are doing a cross-Canada tour.
Toronto is Canada's largest city and I am sure there are members from T.O that can give you some great ideas on things to do. (Hockey hall of fame, if you are into hockey, sporting events, Ward's Island, Wonderland, CN Tower etc..)
Ottawa parliament buildings are worth seeing.
Montreal to me is a very FUN town to party in. I am sure you will have a great time there.
That's as far as I've driven out east so I can't really recommend anything else.
Quebec city is a very European with the older architecture. That may be something worth seeing.
I was in SUdbury for a couple weeks an there is some cool shit to see.!! Go to Earth Tech just off Big Nickle Mine rd and they will take you under ground through a couple mine shafts on a tour to show you what it's like....pretty neat. There is also Science North...that has a bunch of things to entertain you + an IMAX theatre. Other than that if you like Rock (slag) there aint much to see LOL!!
I would say that you will be absolutely exhausted from driving across Canada, but there is lots of different terrain to see for certain. Most notable in my opinion would probably be your drive through the rocky mountains.
I was in SUdbury for a couple weeks an there is some cool shit to see.!! Go to Earth Tech just off Big Nickle Mine rd and they will take you under ground through a couple mine shafts on a tour to show you what it's like....pretty neat. There is also Science North...that has a bunch of things to entertain you + an IMAX theatre. Other than that if you like Rock (slag) there aint much to see LOL!!
I was actually going to recommend the big nickel and Science North. But to me, Science north was something kids liked to go see. But in reality, adults would really find it interesting too. For sure there are some very interesting things there!
The Big Nickel is the world's largest nickel and there are tours for underground mines.
Some interesting facts about Sudbury:
Sudbury basin is an old meteor impact site from billions of years ago. The crater is 20-30 miles across and in the 60's NASA sent astronauts to train in Sudbury due to the terrain. The meteor is the reason why Sudbury is one of the largest sites of nickel in the world.
Did you notice that Sudbury has the world's worst roads ever??! LOL
Last edited by wonderboy : 11-12-2009 at 01:01 PM.
make sure you go over to vancouver island while you're on the west coast. absolutely stunning. i love victoria. as you head out east, be sure to stop off in kelowna. another great city. from kelowna, a slightly different route you could take is to go along highway 3 through central b.c. instead of the transcanada highway (hwy 1). some great stuff along hwy. 3. stop by nelson if you do it. there's a few parallels between nelson and amsterdam i'm sure . great small town (i grew up in that area so i may be biased). i usually took hwy 3 east to cranbrook then started north towards yoho and banff national parks.
no matter what you do, you'll love it. it's an incredible country. so much diversity. i've driven across the continent a few times now and it still amazes me (although the praries do tend to drag on a bit).
As for hotel choices if you know the area you wish to stay in and have specific dates HOTWIRE is the best choice for hotel bookings. You wont know the name of the hotel until you make booking but it will tell what star rating hotel (and list of hotels within that star range). Check it out...i find thier prices to be consistently lower than other internet booking agencies. Please keep in mind that hotels located within major cities usually charge a fee for parking.
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Visiting Canada in may 2010
), starting from Januari, so me and my girlfriend would like to use it as an excuse to travel!
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