Hyatt hotel lovers have a stylish new property to check out in Mississauga. The Hyatt Place Toronto/Mississauga opened just more than a week ago on Hurontario Street, just a couple blocks south of Highway 401. It’s a beautiful property, and the first Hyatt Place hotel in Ontario. My wife and I stayed the night this week and found it extremely enjoyable, as well as clean and safe. You walk into the lobby and are immediately met with a bright, wide-open space with beautiful art on the walls, a colourful set of golden yellow chairs and pretty pink orchids. There are Read more
Canada
A new airline route for Eastern Canada. Hotel openings in Jamaica and Mykonos. And a great, 51% off deal for the Kimpton Saint George Hotel in Toronto. New Air Route from PAL Airlines Folks in eastern Canada will have a new way of getting around a month from now. PAL Airlines has announced that on Sept. 21, 2020 it will launch a new five days a week service connecting St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador with Moncton, New Brunswick. The route will be extended to include Ottawa, Ontario as restrictions on travel to Atlantic Canada are progressively reduced. This new service will operate on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Read more
If there’s any city in the U.S. that needs the coronavirus to go away faster than Las Vegas, I can’t imagine which one it would be. But the reports out of Sin City appear rather bleak these days. My friends at TravelPulse in the U.S. today reported that some in Vegas “would go so far as to say the situation is dire.” “When the Las Vegas Sands reported a second-quarter earnings loss of almost $1 billion earlier this month, Sands President and COO Rob Goldstein said on the call: ‘We’re in a world of hurt here in terms of Las Read more
It’s not just Canada that’s taking it on the chin when it comes to tourism. According to WCJT, a group that operates a PBS television station and National Public Radio station in Jacksonville, the Sunshine State is looking at a rather cloudy tourism picture for the second quarter of this year. “Florida’s vital tourism industry suffered an estimated 60.5% drop in visitors as the COVID-19 pandemic hit hard during the year’s second quarter, with international travel off more than 90%,” they said. During the second quarter, an estimated 12.801 million people — almost all traveling from other states — came Read more
Leave your car behind and arrive fresh for your Muskoka holiday. FLYGTA’s regular flights between Billy Bishop City Airport (the Toronto island Airport) and Muskoka had been interrupted by COVID-19. But the airline announced today that it is resuming flights on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from YTZ to Muskoka Airport YQA The flights take just 30 minutes, eliminating the hassle of traffic gridlock to and from Muskoka. Pandemic measures are in place for all flights in accordance with Transport Canada guidelines. The terminal and planes are thoroughly cleaned both before and after flights. Social distancing is enforced by staff and Read more
