No rental cars? Here's how one Arctic Winter Games parent is getting around Whitehorse
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Hundreds of visitors are pouring into Whitehorse this week for the Arctic Winter Games, leaving few hotel rooms, vacation rentals and rental cars available and forcing some families to come up with creative solutions. For Team Alaska parent Rachel Arvelo, that meant renting a moving truck when every car rental company in town told her they were already booked solid.
Arvelo’s 13-year-old-daughter will be competing in wrestling next week. Arvelo and her husband decided to accompany her because she is younger than most of the other Team Alaska athletes and because it seemed like a cool experience, she said.
But Arvelo said she wanted to make sure she and her husband — the only family of a competitor coming from Eagle River, Alaska — would be able to get around to see her daughter compete.
“It's not even like we can carpool with people, because we don't know [anyone else] who's going,” said Arvelo.
She began calling Whitehorse rental car companies in mid-January but quickly realized the city’s options were limited.
“I just don't think, from what it sounds like, that Whitehorse has a lot of options for rentals,” she said.
After contacting every car rental company in Whitehorse with no luck, she turned to Facebook to find out what solutions other parents had found. One responded that she’d rented a U-Haul, and encouraged Arvelo to do the same.
Carpooling with the other U-Haul renter didn’t make sense, Arvelo said, because the two families' kids are in different sports, and because each truck only accommodates two passengers.
“She's soccer, and I'm wrestling, and so we're, like, at different venues,” she said, adding that her husband is coming along as well.
She said she’s grateful to the many people who responded online and plans to return the favour.
“We have a moving truck now, so I'll drop off [or] have my husband drop me off, and take other people,” she said.
The City of Whitehorse confirmed to CBC that it will be offering free transit to “accredited AWG participants, including athletes, coaches, support staff and volunteers.”
The Opening Ceremony is happening at Shipyards Park on Saturday between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m.
The last buses from Shipyard's Park leave between 7:20 and 8:15 p.m. depending on the destination.
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