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Toronto Canada Vacation Suggestion

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This post is the part two post of the Toronto Canada tips. We ate at a very good restaurant called Michael’s On Simcoe.

 

The service was good.  The Food was tasty.  I had the half organic Chicken, rolled and sliced, truffles corn, yukon potatoes.

I was able to see the largest truffle I’d ever seen in person.

 

This restaurant is a recommendation.

If you’re a person who likes to dance and listen to good music, we attended the club EFS on a Friday night.

EFS has a reasonable dress code which is always appreciated.  The music was great & the atmosphere was good. We attended
“the Ballet” dance club on Saturday.

If clubs are not your interest, during the daylight hours, we played Ping Pong at SPIN.

I thought that the following was interesting.

The piece of metal at the bottom, allows you to throw your trash away without having to touch the trash can with anything other than your foot. We souvenir shopped in China Town mainly because we were short on time and we were on foot; so, it was the closest place to  souvenir shop.

 

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Toronto Canada Vacation Tips

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Figure 1. There are two Toronto airports. This is Airport Code YYZ.

I recently(September 2016) took a vacation to Toronto Canada. I wanted to briefly share a few helpful tips with you.  I will also make a few suggestions. Monetary exchange rate could always change, but currently $1 U.S. Dollar is equal to about $1.33 Canadian dollars or another way to look at it is that $1 Canadian dollar is about $0.75 or seventy five cents in the U.S.  This exchange rate can fluctuate; nevertheless, it may be a great opportunity to do a little high dollar shopping. Personally I didn’t capitalize on the shopping aspect, but it did come in handy with taxi cab rides. For example, let’s say the taxi drivers says your fare is $25. The taxi driver is only talking about Canadian dollars; so, if you pay with a credit card, when you see the charge on your  credit card statement, it will be less than $25.  So, my recommendation is to get Canadian dollars when you arrive in Canada or use your  credit card or debit card to pay for items. Otherwise you may overpay for an item if you use U.S. dollars. Let’s use the taxi cab ride as an example. If the taxi driver says your fare is $25, a person from the U.S. may give him or her $25 U.S. dollars. If you were to give the taxi driver $25, you would have just given the taxi driver a hefty tip and on top of that,  you may give him or her an additional tip because you’re not familiar with the exchange rate.

The second tip is to contact your cell phone carrier to find out if there is an option you need to “temporarily” add to your cell phone plan to allow your cell phone to work(for making phone calls and texing) in Canada.  Any time I mention work as it relates to cell phones in this article I’m referrig to texing & phone calls.   I will not name any cell phone carriers in this post; nevertheless, don’t assume your cell phone will automatically work in Canada. I’ll tell you a few scenarios.  I went to Canada with a bunch of my buddies.  One cell phone service automatically worked in Canada. I will not name the carrier.  Another cell phone carrier’s cell phone only worked if the person had Wifi.  Then a third cell phone carrier’s cell phone did not work at all.  The third cell phone carrier’s cell phone did allow people to send emails if he or she had a wifi connection. The most important take away from this second tip is to CONTACT your CELL PHONE provider before you go to Canada otherwise you will be without a cell phone and when you’re in a foreign country without a cell phone you will be immobile unless you have a friend that does have a functioning cell phone. Not having a working cell phone will take away from your vacation.  The people who did not have functioning cell phones in Canada were very dependent on those that did for things like calling taxis and uber, ect.

The third tip is that if  you have a large group of friends going you might want to consider using airbnb.  It is probably more economical with large groups and it can save you money. We used airbnb

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Figure 2. Airbnb house during our stay.

during our stay in Canada.  For our vacation it was the perfect decision. I can’t stress prefect enough. We split uber or taxi rides to the airport, grocery store,  and going downtown; so, the cost was negligible.  Using airbnb worked for the purpose of our trip. With the number of people we had, it was the most economical option.  If you’re vacationing alone, then a hotel will probably be the best option because of the monetary exchange rate I mentioned above plus you may or may not have to pay for taxis and uber to go to different downtown locations. If you stay in a hotel, you may be less dependent on your cell phone also.   Please check back to this blog, I’ll use a future post to post a few tips for nightlife, sight seeing, games, interesting garbage cans, & a nice restaurants to try. Feel free to leave a comment and share this post on your social media sites.


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Las Vegas Strip Kid Friendly

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The past 38 trips to the Las Vegas strip were centered around activities that required a person to be twenty one years of age or older. For some of the activities a person could probably participate if he or she was at least eighteen.

However,  on a recent vacation to the Las Vegas strip some really enjoyable kid friendly activities were discovered. The one that is being highlighted here is the Shark Reef Aquarium at the Mandalay Bay.  Both kids and adults are guaranteed to loved the aquarium.  The kids will have an opportunity to see some of the animals that they’ve learned about on the Octonauts.  It is general admission, and the prices are very inexpensive. There are always packages, groupon deals, or other discounts in Las Vegas to reduce cost even more, but even without discounts it’s affordable. It’s definitely something to put on the to-do list. Aquarium visitors don’t have to have a room at the Mandalay Bay to visit. With that being said if you decide to take a taxi, try to have cash for the fair.  The taxis charge an extra four dollar to pay with a credit or  debit card.  The four dollar charge was discovered the hard way.

Other kid friendly activities like magic shows to name one were visited that the kids enjoyed too, but the Shark Reef Aquarium was great! As a frequent vacationer to Las Vegas who only thought it was the playground of the over twenty one, it was a pleasant surprise to discover all of the family friendly activities that the Las Vegas Strip has to offer. Feel free to click on the video above.   Please feel free to leave comments below.  Feel free to post on your social media page, and subscribe to this website.

 

 

 



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