Postby Kathryn-in-Canada » Thu May 11, 2017 10:15 pm
Got some hotels booked for the trip. Had to change my itinerary in order to hit the 'big city' on a weekend. That saves $100 per night, which over 3 nights is worth shifting things around.
Dh wrote his teleconferences onto the calendar so we drive to Quebec from my church service, arriving later in the evening. Sleep in a little, teleconference in the morning, take a ferry to the tour around in the afternoon/evening, early bed. Next day drive to Moncton, New Brunswick, about 9 hours on the road. Next day, two teleconferences in the morning (we'll have to get a late checkout) and then drive to Prince Edward Island using the bridge. Two nights there, piddling around the island a bit. There are some historic sites to see and a national park. Drive to Halifax on the Friday. If we take the bridge and push it, dh can meet with a potential client in the afternoon. Or on Monday morning, we'll see which date the client takes. Visit 3x with Unc, then head up to Cape Breton. Two nights but only one day there. Teleconference the morning we are to leave to drive up the east coast of New Brunswick, so our next stop might be later in the evening. Then two nights on the Gaspe Penisula, then head home which will be a two day drive. That gets us home 2 weeks after we left and one day early. In other words, there's one extra day we can take for hiking or whatever if we feel compelled to do so.
I still have to book the Gaspe and Cape Breton. No chain hotels in either place. The rest of the nights are booked with one of two chains so we'll load up on loyalty points to use on our summer road trip. I'm thinking we'll have enough for 2 nights if we are staying in backwater places. I'll move up to being a Gold Member part-way through the trip which means extras during the summer road trip like snacks. Mid-week stays also get me $5 gift cards at Tim Horton's. So I'll get another 4 of those during the trip.
Once I know for sure the trip is on, I might swap the Halifax flexible reservation for a prepaid one to save $100. I'm just waiting to hear when the meeting will be.