CANADA 2019 august

[MischiefManaged]

Originally Posted by Princess Alison

Also when you get to jasper, DO go to to Tourist information centre and DO pick up some bear spray - if you plan on walking anywhere, Eg around lake Louise or even some of the small lakes, there are bears! So it will be a good thing to have. We never had to use ours thankfully but I felt safer with it. The only scary thing we saw on foot was by lake Louise when I turned to my left and saw a giant brown furry face looking at me - it was a beaver! I never realised how big they are ☺️

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I forget about all this! good idea! ill be watching videos later on what to do if you see a bear haha.

[Princess Alison]

Originally Posted by MischiefManaged

I am aware Kamloops is quiet and it literally is just a stop off.I personally wanted an extra night in Vancouver... I won't be driving and so i left the decision to my boyfriend and he said he'd rather have a chilled day than driving, sleep, driving - so, I thought it fair to let him choose.

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Fair enough then, it is a long drive!

[sully301]

We're looking at doing this in 2020, what time of year would you recommend? We can go anytime really

[Princess Alison]

Well we went in August which I suppose is the busiest time but didn’t find it that busy really. It was also nice and warm and sunny. Lakenlouise only 1-2 months earlier had been frozen over. I suppose it depends how you want to see it, snowy or sunny

[MischiefManaged]

Did you hire a car? What company did you use? Curious on the best to hire and is a 4x4 best? xx

[Princess Alison]

We hired a car in Vancouver and dropped off in Calgary. It was a mid sized suv I’ll need to check exactly what it was...will do so tomorrow. It wasn’t massive though and didn’t need to be actually. The roads were immaculate!

[MischiefManaged]

That is exactly what we plan on doing! who did you book with? xx

[Princess Alison]

I think we booked a car through Avis.

We flew with Air Transat, who were by far the cheapest, and they were very good.

[jocat]

We booked through Avis too, however I wouldn’t recommend picking up from the Hornby Street location in Vancouver. They had a serious shortage of cars and we waited over 3 hours to collect ours.

[Princess Alison]

Originally Posted by jocat

We booked through Avis too, however I wouldn’t recommend picking up from the Hornby Street location in Vancouver. They had a serious shortage of cars and we waited over 3 hours to collect ours.

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Interesting and how annoying.

We picked ours up from the airport. In actual fact you don’t need a car to get around vancouver itself but we were only there a few days (need to go back), and as we had free parking at our accommodation it made sense just to pick it up immediately.

OP - what are your plans for Vancouver?