Canadians travel in the Maritimes

Susan Lehtinen Wednesday September 10, 2025

The trip was lovely. If we are talking about the Travel Kit in this conversation, there are things that could be done to make it more user friendly.
1/ The itinerary contained a list of the hotels and towns we would be sleeping in with mileage between stops. Great, but we were expected to turn to the general road guide for the area to fit into the day. For example, from the general guide, we thought it would be nice to see The Fortress of Louisbourg. A review of Google maps indicates it was not a realistic thing to include because it would have meant too large a detour. In similar self-driving vacations that we have taken, the daily itinerary would say, essentially, hotel to hotel, take some time to stop and see a, b or c on the way; or d is a detour that will take about an hour. The interesting parts of the Bay of Fundy are time sensitive. It might be too much to ask that the itinerary included specific times, but a note saying that today is a good day to see this, or that tidal bore would have been useful. Then a suggestion that we check a website for the timing. On our trip, we figured these things out, but it took more daily research than I would have had to with other similarly styled vacation packages.
The hotels and inns were very good and good value for money. The hosts were all lovely.
The choice of rental car company had a 200k/day limit plus a mileage charge. A review of options in the Halifax rental car market indicates that there appears to have been other, similarly priced options without the mileage surcharge.

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Authentik Canada on September 11, 2025
Thank you for taking the time to fill out our survey and for sharing a nice resume of your experience!

Looking forward to working with you next time!