Largely has to do with how expensive it is to fly within Canada. Attempted to book flights from Edmonton -> Toronto recently, $800 round trip for a no frills flight aside from a carry on bag.
Granted this price surge is directly related to Trump, but it’s generally more expensive to fly within Canada
Yeah flights are tricky, you have to watch for cheap days now that Swoop is gone. With swoop I had $69 from Westcoast to Toronto, and a $15 return ticket plus the Toronto improvement fee. But now with Westjet the best Ive had is $200 each way
Well skiing in Whistler is a great Winter activity, or Tofino has a peak Storm Watch Season in the winter too, people book a beach house and watch the Pacific storms come in on the beaches.
I guess its easier on the west coast lower mainland because we don’t have a true winter like other provinces… So there’s not a huge reason to escape it.
You want Hot and Humid like Florida go to Windsor, ON
Speaking as someone from just across the border in Detroit, Miami is way more pleasant in the winter then Detroit. Even outside the winter it’s a nice vacation spot because the beaches won’t give you ecoli.
I went to Florida last year to fulfill a life long dream of visiting Cape Canaveral. I got to watch a Falcon 9 launch and go on a guided tour with a former astronaut.
I can’t believe this is an opinion anyone actually has and that 15 people upvoted it.
Why would anyone go somewhere warm in winter, I just can’t figure it out. Actually this place where the daily high is normally below the overnight low of this other place is practically a 1:1 substitution.
Like some truly baffling misconception that people visit Arizona and Florida in the summer months in order to experience extreme heat.
Not every company let’s you take winter vacation. Much like teachers only get summer months off, and some were travelling to Carribean or Mexico. Etc. But some people choose off season for better accommodation and flight rates.
There are some provinces like Ontario where it can be warm but you also get thunderstorms almost daily, so I’m saying if you want to escape that, travel to somewhere else in Canada…like BC we have amazing cloud free skies all summer.
Do you mean ever or just recently with all the ICE and 51st State bullshit? Because it’s obviously not just landscapes and climate. There’s probably more shit to do and people to see. Canada is a wonderful and beautiful country but even our biggest cities can be boring compared to other cities in the world AND hard to get to because of how pricey domestic travel is.
Well I never understood it before, as I did a trip a road trip down from Detroit to Florida because my family thought Disney World would be great. And I wasn’t impressed by anything.
And have travelled for work to many US cities.
But recently with all the bullshit I can’t believe people still go.
By all means go see historic Rome or the beauty of Czech or Portuguese architecture in their cities.
i never understood why Canadians went south amyway.
Our country has an amazing range of varied landscapes. And with climate change we at seeing 38-40C in BC summers, no need for a trip to a hot country
Largely has to do with how expensive it is to fly within Canada. Attempted to book flights from Edmonton -> Toronto recently, $800 round trip for a no frills flight aside from a carry on bag.
Granted this price surge is directly related to Trump, but it’s generally more expensive to fly within Canada
Yeah flights are tricky, you have to watch for cheap days now that Swoop is gone. With swoop I had $69 from Westcoast to Toronto, and a $15 return ticket plus the Toronto improvement fee. But now with Westjet the best Ive had is $200 each way
Cheapest I’ve seen was $250 for round trip to Toronto, that crept to $300, and now prices are absurd.
Wtf… thats like four people to multiple capitals and cities, coasts etc here in the eu.
Yup it’s completely fucked. That’s what happens when you’ve got 2 national airlines and effectively zero outside competition
Sure, but where do you go for those things in the winter? Who’s travelling to Arizona in the summer? And who’s surfing in Tofino in the winter?
Well skiing in Whistler is a great Winter activity, or Tofino has a peak Storm Watch Season in the winter too, people book a beach house and watch the Pacific storms come in on the beaches.
I guess its easier on the west coast lower mainland because we don’t have a true winter like other provinces… So there’s not a huge reason to escape it.
Speaking as someone from just across the border in Detroit, Miami is way more pleasant in the winter then Detroit. Even outside the winter it’s a nice vacation spot because the beaches won’t give you ecoli.
This is been my argument for a long time, People don’t care, People just want to do what they know.
To be fair, it’s a pretty dumb argument. BC has the same weather as Arizona? Absolutely absurd.
I went to Florida last year to fulfill a life long dream of visiting Cape Canaveral. I got to watch a Falcon 9 launch and go on a guided tour with a former astronaut.
Windsor doesn’t have that.
After the polar caps finish melting, neither will Florida.
After having seen the average elevation there and how flat everything is, I believe it. It’s just that at my age it was go now or never.
Windsor doesn’t have ICE yet either
I can’t believe this is an opinion anyone actually has and that 15 people upvoted it.
Why would anyone go somewhere warm in winter, I just can’t figure it out. Actually this place where the daily high is normally below the overnight low of this other place is practically a 1:1 substitution.
Like some truly baffling misconception that people visit Arizona and Florida in the summer months in order to experience extreme heat.
Not every company let’s you take winter vacation. Much like teachers only get summer months off, and some were travelling to Carribean or Mexico. Etc. But some people choose off season for better accommodation and flight rates.
There are some provinces like Ontario where it can be warm but you also get thunderstorms almost daily, so I’m saying if you want to escape that, travel to somewhere else in Canada…like BC we have amazing cloud free skies all summer.
Do you mean ever or just recently with all the ICE and 51st State bullshit? Because it’s obviously not just landscapes and climate. There’s probably more shit to do and people to see. Canada is a wonderful and beautiful country but even our biggest cities can be boring compared to other cities in the world AND hard to get to because of how pricey domestic travel is.
Well I never understood it before, as I did a trip a road trip down from Detroit to Florida because my family thought Disney World would be great. And I wasn’t impressed by anything. And have travelled for work to many US cities.
But recently with all the bullshit I can’t believe people still go. By all means go see historic Rome or the beauty of Czech or Portuguese architecture in their cities.
But travelling to the USA as vacation seems odd
It’s something different for people, so that’s reason enough, I guess. Also, people just enjoy travelling.
I would have like to have seen some famous landmarks, but I’ll never set foot in that country, unfortunately.