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.
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
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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?
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.
Windsor doesn’t have ICE yet either
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.
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
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
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.
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 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.