Ontario Hotels

We picked up a rental car from National Airport from Dollar at about 2:15pm. We set out at about 3 pm after Carol had dropped off the truck at her job. We got to the Homewood Suites in Erie, PA about 10pm. It was a nice hotel. After grabbing something to eat, we settled in and crashed. The next morning, we had a nice good breakfast and then drove 3 hours to Toronto. We checked in at the Renaissance hotel (attached to the Rogers Center which is next to the CN tower). We got a good deal….$90/night plus $48 towards any meal). We then went to the Toronto zoo. We purchased a Toronto City Pass ...

A crucible of world cultures, a smelting pot of ethnicities, that's totally Toronto for you. Wherever in the world you're from, you're sure to run across a long-lost relative (nine-times removed) or a fellow-countryman in this city. We were probable lucky - getting off the Air Canada flight, we were greeted - right from ' Customs & Immigration', to the Currency exchange, to the Tourist kiosk volunteer, to the airport shuttle driver - by "desis" (vernacular for Indian diaspora...from India as opposed to Indians from Canada/USA). We know that in this era of political correctness, the term ...

Left Northern VA about 6:30 pm on Thursday. I had mapped out the route using Mapqust, AAA, Mapsonus and Yahoo travel. Yahoo gave me the shortest distance and time (7 hrs 23 mins) cutting the distance by about 100 miles compared to the Mapquest route. Going this route was a bit nerve racking because we hit some one lane roads (mainly rte 219) along the way when it got dark, and I was nervous of approaching trucks. We drove for about 5 hours and got to the Royal Inn hotel we had reserved in Ridgway PA, around 11:30pm. The hotel was okay for just a resting place for the night. We set of at 9 am ...