Skipping the U.S. and taking a vacation to East Coast this year? It will cost you.
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Canadians are finding domestic travel increasingly unaffordable, with high costs for flights, rentals, and hotels forcing some to scale back plans or stay closer to home.
In September 2024, Natasha Beitman Brener and her husband decided to take a three-week vacation to Canada’s East Coast.
Beitman Brener, a lawyer in Kingston, Ont., spent about six months planning the trip, looking at various options to stay in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
“We are young, we don’t have all the money in the world, we have a mortgage. So we went on this trip and we thought, ‘oh, this will be affordable compared to something like Japan’ . … We were going to cook our own food,” she said in a recent interview.
They rented a recreational vehicle in Montreal for about $6,000, and between campground parking fees, gasoline, groceries, park passes, a round of golf, and a couple of dinners out, Beitman Brener said the total added up to $15,000.
“It was the most incredible trip. We loved it. It was worth it. It was incredible. The East Coast is so extraordinary,” she said. “But it was $15,000 and we talked to our friend — they went to Japan for three weeks for the same price, with flights. And I said to my husband, ‘well, we could have gone to Japan for the same price.'”
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