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Maritime Provinces in July
Our family of four has two weeks set aside in mid July. We are planning a
trip to the Canadian Maritime provinces. We plan to fly to a central US city, rent a car, and tour the provinces by vehicle. Would Portland, Maine be a good place to start from? What should our itinerary be? Is two weeks too much or too little time??? thanks, gene brabston |
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Maritime Provinces in July
Portland would be a good place to start a visit to Eastern Canada but
certainly isn't central US. You can see a good bit in two weeks but probably not Labrador. I'm taking 9 days for part of Nova Scotia. FFM Gene Brabston wrote: Our family of four has two weeks set aside in mid July. We are planning a trip to the Canadian Maritime provinces. We plan to fly to a central US city, rent a car, and tour the provinces by vehicle. Would Portland, Maine be a good place to start from? What should our itinerary be? Is two weeks too much or too little time??? thanks, gene brabston |
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On 04/18/2004 8:01 AM Gene Brabston wrote:
Our family of four has two weeks set aside in mid July. We are planning a trip to the Canadian Maritime provinces. We plan to fly to a central US city, rent a car, and tour the provinces by vehicle. Would Portland, Maine be a good place to start from? What should our itinerary be? Is two weeks too much or too little time??? thanks, gene brabston I don't know if this would be in your budget or interest. I thought I would mention it as an option. Holland America is offering a New England and Canadian Maritime Provences Cruise at a reduced rate. To me a vacation is where I spend the least amount of time driving and the most amount of time enjoying myself and the sights. You don't have to be concerned with finding a hotel because you've suddenly realized that a distance is further than it looked on the map and you need to turn in. Your hotel travels with you. You unpack once and pack once when the ship is headed to the home port. http://www.hollandamerica.com/ -- ________ To email me, Edit "xt" from my email address. Brian M. Kochera "Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once!" View My Web Page: http://home.earthlink.net/~brian1951 |
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Maritime Provinces in July
"Gene Brabston" wrote in message news:L6ugc.19476$0b4.25317@attbi_s51...
Our family of four has two weeks set aside in mid July. We are planning a trip to the Canadian Maritime provinces. We plan to fly to a central US city, rent a car, and tour the provinces by vehicle. Would Portland, Maine be a good place to start from? Why start in Maine? The only reasons I can think of are kind of wierd--your automobile insurer won't cover you in Canada (dump them if that's the case!), you *really* like driving and you want to spend hours doing it to get from Portland to the NB border, you're hopelessly in love with long-distance ferry rides, you're trying to rack up your lifetime quota of border crossings by car... Fly to Halifax (YHZ) instead, rent the car there. What should our itinerary be? Is two weeks too much or too little time??? If you're highly familiar (or jaded) with coastal New England, focus on Newfoundland--the other provinces would seem a little too "same old same old with loonies and the metric system." If you're not a veteran of lots of travel in the neighboring part of the U.S., 2 weeks means carefully picking and choosing. What to pick and choose depends on your interests--what are they? Nancy |
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Maritime Provinces in July
"Gene Brabston" wrote:
Our family of four has two weeks set aside in mid July. We are planning a trip to the Canadian Maritime provinces. We plan to fly to a central US city, rent a car, and tour the provinces by vehicle. Would Portland, Maine be a good place to start from? What should our itinerary be? Is two weeks too much or too little time??? A lot of car rental companies won't let you cross the border anymore. You're better off flying into Halifax and renting a car at the airport...pay for it in Canadian dollars (cheaper). From Halifax the Cabot Trail (Cape Breton) is a must see. Are you interested in historical / cultural sites ? There's plenty to see. |
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"Gene Brabston" wrote:
Our family of four has two weeks set aside in mid July. We are planning a trip to the Canadian Maritime provinces. We plan to fly to a central US city, rent a car, and tour the provinces by vehicle. Would Portland, Maine be a good place to start from? We did something similar last June, flying into Portland and renting a car and driving to NB and NS. Portland is about the right size, rental cars right across the terminal, prices were pretty good, freeway was right there so easy to get started. Only thing I'd mention is that our flight into Portland (from a Continental connection in Newark) was on a smaller jet with limited carry-on space so some people had to check bags at the counter. No problems crossing into Canada with a rental car, despite what others have said (check with the car company in advance but none we've used seem to view this as a problem). I'd recommend the scenic route up through Maine, on the coast. Takes longer but several lovely towns on the way and the Acadia/Bar Harbor area was worth seeing. Have fun. Bill |
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Maritime Provinces in July
No problems crossing into Canada with a rental car, despite what others have said (check with the car company in advance but none we've used seem to view this as a problem). There's no problem with the border, they don;t care. It's the rental company that cares. There's only one rental company in NB that will allow you to take a car into the US..why, I'm not sure. |
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