Canada's Ocean Playground

Advantages: Stunning scenery, friendly welcome, so much to see!
Disadvantages: You have no choice but to drive - don't rely on public transport

...make sure that you're not bringing anything untoward into Canada. Halifax is well served by flights from other cities across Canada, and you also have a choice of direct connections from London, Frankfurt and a host of US cities. Many of the airlines only offer a restricted service outside of the period from May to October, however. There are a host of rental car companies with desks at the airport, but no rail connection, so the only other way to get into Halifax itself is to take the airport shuttle bus. Depending on the time of day, the route is served by 24 or 48-seater buses, and it runs to and from the airport approximately 20 times per day, stopping to pick up and drop off at a large number of hotels (a complete list of the hotels served by the bus is available from the Airporter website - link below). The fare is 19CAD per person...

JVL 29.11.2008 · Read review
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Thomas Cook Tour. Eastern Canada

Advantages: Guided tour, Spendid views, Great company.
Disadvantages: Occasional extra costs

...The Saint Lawrentian of Eastern Canada is an excellent way of discovering this part of Canada as my wife and I found out during Sept/Oct 2000. On this tour were 44 people from different walks of life, and we got on well with all of them. This made a great atmosphere, especially in the hotels. All the hotels are hand-picked by Thomas Cook and are of high quality. (minimum 4*). Thomas Cook have a holiday manager with you from your arrival at Heathrow airport, right through your tour until you arrive back at Heathrow. You are treated to Executive lounge facilities at the airport until your flight is called. Included are free drinks and nibbles. The tour of Canada commences in Montreal. After overnight stay there is a morning city tour of Montreal which includes the Notre Dame Basilica ,The Olympic Park (of 1976 games). The rest...

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Blame (Air) Canada

Advantages: decent service, good flight itinerary
Disadvantages: pervading sense of incompetence, baggage disasters

...an experience I'd like to repeat) and were delivered promptly to our hotel. Warning: Should you choose to miss your flight in order to reclaim your baggage, you will have to shoulder any and all expenses incurred, including hotel stays. Air Canada accepts no liability, although lost luggage will of course be subject to compensation, and if you have decent travel insurance you should be able to recoup money for essentials replacement if your luggage is delayed for more than 12 hours. (Anyone else wish their luggage came, Pratchett-style, with feet?!) We laughed it off. Return: (spot the slight of brain here) We arrive at baggage reclaim. Alex spots the first of her two (the one with her laundry and not much else in it, the other one has the good stuff). Martin gets his two. Alex waits. Alex waits some more. Hold on a second, haven...

ruth_cole 29.07.2004 · Read review
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Oh canada.

Advantages: Great airline
Disadvantages: none

...If you are ever deciding to fly to Canada, always be sure to check out their own airline before hopping onto a British Airways flight. Air Canada is simply one of the best airlines I have flown on. Their staff are warm and friendly, their fleet is modern and comfortable and the whole company are a 1st class outfit. They have a website for you to check out too: www.aircanada.com/index.htm When you log on, you will have to make a choice! Canada, for those of you that dont know, (I should hope you all do!) is situated and joined onto USA along its Northern perimeter. They speak 2 languages there, with a high proportion of French speaking residents. There are actual French Orientated parts of the country with most roadsigns being dual nationality. This extends to their website. On logging on, you must make...

andycharger 27.09.2001 · Read review
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Hotel International

Advantages: Location, breakfasts
Disadvantages: Poor rooms

...I recently went on a cultural girlie trip with a friend to Paris. I was left to do all the booking. I was looking for a reasonable hotel, near a metro stop, which included breakfast. I came across the Hotel International on various travel sites and it seemed fairly highly rated so I booked us in for three nights. LOCATION: The hotel is located 6 Rue Auguste Barbier in the 11th Arrondissement. The nearest Metro stop is Garcourt which was a two minute walk away and it was a five minute walk to Republique which gives good links to other lines. It's not really central enough to avoid the Metro and walk to the attractions but it was located so close to a stop that it seemed ideal. PRICE: Prices vary depending on size of room and season. There are singles, doubles and triples available. We paid Euro254 for the whole time...

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Norbreck Castle Hotel

Advantages: Out of the town
Disadvantages: Too many people!

...I'm glad that I did not get to read any of the reviews before I went to this hotel, or see the Holidays from Hell programme the night before! The hotel can be found along the seafront, about three miles from the main centre of Blackpool, heading out towards Fleetwood. It is now under the Britannia hotels group and it is easily accessible by tram and bus. We used the trams the whole time instead of me driving all the time. My husband, my two youngest children and myself went last week for a couple of nights, after finding an advert which gave a special price of £35 per person dinner bed and breakfast per night. The two children were included free of charge, including their meals. The advert did state that the hotel was ungoing a £7million pound upgrade, and that some services may not be available. This did not deter us as we...

sarah110 18.10.2004 · Read review
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* CANADA - Part 3: CALGARY *

Advantages: Very nice and clean city
Disadvantages: -

...a beautiful view on the valley and the mountains... On the mountain we then also walked a few meters, but that was not all so simple due to the snow... After we had seen Banff, we continued to drive a few kilometers to LAKE LOUISE. The blue sea was covered with lots of ice and snow. On the lake one had built a small ice castle and a few meters away there were some figures made from ice. I also liked the small river, which flowed between the high snow. Directly at the lake there is an expensive hotel, where you can have a tea for example. Now well, the category is called Calgary and not Rocky Mountains...;) HOTEL ~~~~~ I would say, in Calgary there are every kinds of hotels. Cheap ones and expensive ones. We sleept in the Sandman Hotel Downtown (report follows). Sandman is a hotel group in Canada, they are quite good but cheap. We paid...

Rini 01.04.2005 · Read review
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hotel olsanka

Advantages: Cheap and cheerful
Disadvantages: Not so easy to access the town centre of prague.

...hotel olsanka prague Having been to prague recently and having stayed at this particular accomodation a few years ago, I was keen to give this place one final chance as I had had a really rubbish stay at this place. Similarly to my previous stay, I had notice that the Hotel seems to be advertised much cheaper on accomodation websites compared to near enough all other places to stay in prague. getting to the accomodation The details of getting to prague town centre are covered in my previous prague accomodation review, and whilst this accomodation is not as easy to get to location wise, a tram journey needed to get the accomodation from one of the central location's of prague town centre. booking process I booked this accomodation using a third party reservation booking website and paid around seventy euros...

costas1234 02.12.2008 (31.05.2009) · Read review
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West Coast Canada shows off it's Asian credentials

Advantages: Good food, good service, great prices, huge menu
Disadvantages: It's a 10 hour trip to get there

...a packet. CONCLUSION Noodle Express was a good example of excellent, authentic Japanese food in Vancouver, of which we saw several. The sizeable portions filled both of us up, and the friendly service kept us happy. The bill of $25 seemed fair enough to me. It looked like the sort of place that would be bustling at its peak time and it would be a great place to be then. In summary then, one to add to the recommended list. CONTACT DETAILS Noodle Express, 747 Thurlow Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Telephone: 604 669 1234...

larsbaby 03.09.2008 · Read review
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* CANADA - Part 1: Frankfurt-Calgary-Vancouver *

Advantages: Attractive offers, Member of Star Alliance, Very nice and helpful employees, Good seat comfort
Disadvantages: -

...program of Air Canada and has around 6Millionen members! One can collect miles on Air Canada flights but also on all code-sharing flights, flights with other Star Alliance members as well as in selected hotels etc. 1.1. The fleet ~~~~~~~~~ Air Canada possesses a large fleet with small turboprops, as well as larger Airbus and Boeing jets: 5 Beech 1900D (18 seats) 54 Dash 8-100 (37 seats) 18 Dash 8-300 (50 seats) 35 Canadair Regional Jet (50 seats) 10 Bae 146-200 (77 seats) 9 Boeing 737-200 (1oo seats) 48 Airbus A319 (120 seats) 52 Airbus A320 (140 seats or Air Canada Jetz 159) 13 Airbus A321 (166 seats) 14 Boeing 767-200 (198 seats) 33 Boeing 767-300 (210-212 seats) 8 Airbus A330-300 (272 seats in wintertime/292 in summertime) 9 Airbus A340-300 (284 seats) 3 Boeing 747-400 Combi (Jumbo Jet) (296 seats) 2...

Rini 01.04.2004 · Read review
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