Roger & Heather's Catalan Festa Wedding Blog

Hopefully, this site will be able to do many things - provide information, give you an idea of what to expect, and possibly/maybe even/sort of be entertaining to read!

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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Honeymoon Planning

One of the more frustrating and fun parts of the wedding planning is the Honeymoon.  A while back, Roger and I went through a bunch of ideas for a honeymoon.  Our top choice, Japan, was unfortunately NOT in the numbers.  Cost alone deterred us.  So we decided to take on a more ambitious and affordable project:  a train ride from coast to coast of Canada.

Here's the map:


It pretty much looks like we're crazy, right??  But after a bit of research, it doesn't look too bad.  A VIA CanRail pass will cost us about $530 each in low season (which starts the week after the wedding: Oct. 16) and will give us thirteen days of unlimited travel.  According to my calculations, we're looking at 6 days of travel.  The fun comes when we stop.

Right now, I've planned out an itinerary that has us arriving in Halifax on Friday or Saturday after the wedding.  We'd head out to Montreal on Sunday, stay a few nights there, then leave for Toronto on the Thursday.  As the Westbound train leaves at 10pm, I figure we can pop off in Toronto for a nice dinner then back on before anyone can say "transnational".  We'll arrive in Vancouver on a Sunday.  Now how long we stay there is up in the air - I'm considering hopping over to Vancouver Island... but we'll see.  Budgetwise, the numbers are probably against us.

And so may I take this chance to remind folks that VIA Gift Certificates can be bought with Air Miles??  That's right!  If we buy our passes and our upgrades (because the passes don't cover sleeping arrangements) with gift certificates, we might have the bulk of our accommodations AND meals (sleeping accommodations for the Tor-Van train ride includes food) paid for!  Then we can worry about spending too much on things like Montreal B&Bs owned by a delightful gay couple, Japanese Garden tours in Vancouver, and a stay at the possibly-haunted-by-Oscar-Wilde victorian Waverley Inn in Halifax!

If anyone has some suggestions on awesome (affordable!) things to do, oh, pretty much anywhere in the country, let us know!
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