Hello guys,
me and my girlfriend are visiting Canada for two months (Juli - September).
We will land in Seattle and have planned to stay there for a few days.
Afterwards we will make our way to Vancouver, probably rent a car, and visit various National Parks.
We enjoy hiking and want to see as much landscape as we can, while we stay.
We got a 5000€ Budget to work with.
Following Questions:
Is it better to use trains and stuff, instead of a car?
Whats a cost efficient way for staying overnight? Camping, Hostels or AirBnB?
Shall we rather take a Camper, instead of a car?
Can you guys recommend spots or activities in western Canada?
Any advice is appreciated.
Vancouver. Hit up whistler okanagan get high in downtown an munch on sushi.
Wander through stanly park n hit up north cove for kayakin
>>1261025
>Hit up whistler
>>1261019
Buy one of these Milepost books used on ebay or pay for it new...can even get it in Wal-Mart sometimes.
It covers British Colombia and then all the way through into Alaska, but it will greatly enhance an open ended kind of road trip.
https://www.themilepost.com/highway-info/mileage-maps/british-columbia-and-alberta
It literally is like a local reading to you at each milemarker of the roads, from the history of that burnt out building with the curious sign to whatever hotel or food choices are ahead.
https://www.themilepost.com/travel-directory
Their website wasn't so searchable 3 years ago when I did my Alaska roadtrip, but since cellular service is so spotty in the mountains for google maps, it was nice to reach down between the seats and get to the section that pertained to where you were driving, and read out to the driver what the next big idea turnoff was all about as well as look at maps. Garmin GPS was far more useful and timed better than cellphone navigation.
Don't forget to whale watch! It's consider the best right there in Vancouver. This is high season, you might need to actually book every hotel in advance :(
>>1261019
try the Okanagan valley for some lakes and wine.
Rent a van and buy some camping gear.
Cheaper
Way more fun
>>1261019
are you from france?
>Is it better to use trains and stuff, instead of a car?
there's only one real train route in canada and it heads east-west
going vancouver-jasper is worth it, jasper prince rupert is good too
greyhound is the big bus company
it might be better to do a few short term car rentals in certain cities like victoria on the island, cranbrook in the rockies
>Whats a cost efficient way for staying overnight? Camping, Hostels or AirBnB?
camping is the cheapest, but then you usually need a car to get to the campsite
>Shall we rather take a Camper, instead of a car?
you'd spend your whole budget on a camper for a few months
>Can you guys recommend spots or activities in western Canada?
western canada or bc? are you interested in going to alberta? could go to calgary for the stampede in july, drumheller is the only thing I know worth going to in alberta that isn't the eastern side of the rockies
I'd try to do:
victoria-port renfrew-cowichan
island hop around the gulf islands
vancouver, climb grouse mountain
go up fraser canyon, hells gate
shuswap-okanagan anywhere from salmon arm to osoyoos
kootenays, nelson
rockies, cranbrook and fernie
if you want to see as much landscape, you could try to do a loop of vancouver-calgary-edmonton-jasper-prince george-prince rupert-port hardy-victoria-vancouver
prince rupert to port hardy is a 500km cruise for $200 a person
note that provincial parks can be just as good as national parks
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/map.html
Rent a car, and get camping gear.. drive through the kootenays.. Okanogan and island..
Nice places are nelson, revelstoke, osoyoos, fernie, anywhere on the island... especially the smaller islands like hornby or cortez... fuck there are tons of cool little towns... if it were me I would avoid the cities. Vancouver and kelowna are overrated
>>1261025
this, stay away from the rest of Canada. it's full
>>1262657
Nice meme :^)