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Jacob
so we're planning to go on a family vacation in british colombia, we live in victoria BC and we don't want to go far aways because we don't really like traveling, its going to be a 2 week vacation, whats a good family fun place in here ? 3 adults and 2 teenagers and one child if that matters, we just want to go a day maybe fishing and a day on the beach and something like that, i know its not enough info so just give an estimate
Answer
Assuming you have a mini-van/SUV capable of holding six people... gas would be $50/day if you are driving, you are looking at around $300 for a ferry off the island (and back), food is around $200/day, hotels around $250/day (assuming two rooms), etc.
Something like camping would obviously be less expensive. Food is significantly less and you wouldn't need hotels. Picking someone on the island saves on the ferry. Something like Long Beach/Pacific Rim Park in Toffino or Rath Trevor in Parksville. As long as you have the tents, you would be looking at $200/day for a camp site and food. If you don't want to rough it, you can look at cabin/condo rentals in those areas. More around $300/day with food. You could also likely rent an RV or trailer.
Likely the least expensive holiday would run $2000 for the two weeks of camping. Add a few cabin/condo rentals and the price would likely be in the $3000 range. Hotels and a lot of driving, more in the $4000 range.
Note that things like fishing can get extremely expensive for six people rather quickly. A salmon fishing license is $13 (free for those under 16) and a boat charter for 6 people could easily run $300 a day.
Assuming you have a mini-van/SUV capable of holding six people... gas would be $50/day if you are driving, you are looking at around $300 for a ferry off the island (and back), food is around $200/day, hotels around $250/day (assuming two rooms), etc.
Something like camping would obviously be less expensive. Food is significantly less and you wouldn't need hotels. Picking someone on the island saves on the ferry. Something like Long Beach/Pacific Rim Park in Toffino or Rath Trevor in Parksville. As long as you have the tents, you would be looking at $200/day for a camp site and food. If you don't want to rough it, you can look at cabin/condo rentals in those areas. More around $300/day with food. You could also likely rent an RV or trailer.
Likely the least expensive holiday would run $2000 for the two weeks of camping. Add a few cabin/condo rentals and the price would likely be in the $3000 range. Hotels and a lot of driving, more in the $4000 range.
Note that things like fishing can get extremely expensive for six people rather quickly. A salmon fishing license is $13 (free for those under 16) and a boat charter for 6 people could easily run $300 a day.
What are some of the best places you've visited?
Nobody
I'm planning a worldwide exploration trip, and I want to know of the places that left impressions on you.
So far, I plan on going to:
Any concentration camp in Germany
The Sydney Opera House
Buckingham Palace
The Eiffel Tower
Giza Pyramids
Taj Mahal
Great Wall of China
Colosseum
Acropolis of Athens
Leaning Tower of Pisa
I would like to visit places that have history and meaning, not just places to go where it's 'pretty'. I hope the list gives you a gist of what I like. Any answer is helpful.
Answer
A few thoughts for you:
London: Forget Buck House. It's not very old, and hasn't been a royal residence very long. Much more history in the Tower of London (ca. 1,000 years of it) and Westminster Abbey (similar). You might also like to visit some of the smaller Wren churches of the City of London. The City itself (the financial district) is small and walkable.
Turkey: The country is full of amazing historic sites. From the earliest periods, the Bogazkoy (sorry about the lack of diacritical marks), the capital of the Hittites. Then there are places like Gordion (as in Alexander the Great's Gordian knot, 4th century BC). A little later there are the fabulous Greek sites like Aphrodisias. A little later still there is the excellent Roman temple at the top of the old part of Ankara. A little later again, but still Roman, is the church of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, a church which as stood for 1500 years, and which, until the coming of the Victorian railway stations, had the largest clear floor area (no columns, in other words) of any building anywhere in the world - for well over a thousand years. A little later we have the Ottoman constructions, of course. Also interesting, but only 500-odd years old. I personally would go to Turkey in preference to Greece for ancient Greek remains, since they are by and large better preserved and less crowded, but if the Acropolis means something special to you, by all means.
Cambodia: Angkor - fabulous Hindu temples, in the largest religious complex of any kind anywhere in the world. Still being painstakingly dug out of the jungle (with due care being taken with unexploded mines etc.) Stunning.
Tibet: China is clearly doing its best to eradicate Tibetan culture, and will no doubt succeed soon enough by sheer weight of numbers. If you want to see the real Tibet, this is at beast your last chance.
Bali: A Hindu part of an Islamic nation. Dotted with fascinating temples, and covered in ancient rice terraces. Get away from the tourist resorts of the far S of the island and explore the rest, especially the interior.
Germany: While you are there (and by the way, the best-known camp is actually in Poland these days) go to Trier, for the Black Gate, part of an amazing Roman wall. You might also be interested in the castles which line the crags over the Rhein between (roughly) Koblenz and Mainz. And Frankfurt on Main has the place where Holy Roman Emperors were elected for hundreds of years, until the Empire was dissolved at Napoleon's insistence in 1806. THe actual building is a reconstruction, the original having been bombed in WWII.
Russia: I was going to ask if maybe St. Peterburg and the Moscow Kremlin were maybe not ild enough for you, but then I remembered the Tour d'Eiffel, so go ahead - add them to your list, with Kiev, and some of the old churches of early Russia.
Have fun
A few thoughts for you:
London: Forget Buck House. It's not very old, and hasn't been a royal residence very long. Much more history in the Tower of London (ca. 1,000 years of it) and Westminster Abbey (similar). You might also like to visit some of the smaller Wren churches of the City of London. The City itself (the financial district) is small and walkable.
Turkey: The country is full of amazing historic sites. From the earliest periods, the Bogazkoy (sorry about the lack of diacritical marks), the capital of the Hittites. Then there are places like Gordion (as in Alexander the Great's Gordian knot, 4th century BC). A little later there are the fabulous Greek sites like Aphrodisias. A little later still there is the excellent Roman temple at the top of the old part of Ankara. A little later again, but still Roman, is the church of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, a church which as stood for 1500 years, and which, until the coming of the Victorian railway stations, had the largest clear floor area (no columns, in other words) of any building anywhere in the world - for well over a thousand years. A little later we have the Ottoman constructions, of course. Also interesting, but only 500-odd years old. I personally would go to Turkey in preference to Greece for ancient Greek remains, since they are by and large better preserved and less crowded, but if the Acropolis means something special to you, by all means.
Cambodia: Angkor - fabulous Hindu temples, in the largest religious complex of any kind anywhere in the world. Still being painstakingly dug out of the jungle (with due care being taken with unexploded mines etc.) Stunning.
Tibet: China is clearly doing its best to eradicate Tibetan culture, and will no doubt succeed soon enough by sheer weight of numbers. If you want to see the real Tibet, this is at beast your last chance.
Bali: A Hindu part of an Islamic nation. Dotted with fascinating temples, and covered in ancient rice terraces. Get away from the tourist resorts of the far S of the island and explore the rest, especially the interior.
Germany: While you are there (and by the way, the best-known camp is actually in Poland these days) go to Trier, for the Black Gate, part of an amazing Roman wall. You might also be interested in the castles which line the crags over the Rhein between (roughly) Koblenz and Mainz. And Frankfurt on Main has the place where Holy Roman Emperors were elected for hundreds of years, until the Empire was dissolved at Napoleon's insistence in 1806. THe actual building is a reconstruction, the original having been bombed in WWII.
Russia: I was going to ask if maybe St. Peterburg and the Moscow Kremlin were maybe not ild enough for you, but then I remembered the Tour d'Eiffel, so go ahead - add them to your list, with Kiev, and some of the old churches of early Russia.
Have fun
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