Motels in Canada

Hallo all
Lidl have a very interesting offer at the minute. €499 per person for a flight to Toronto and a hire car for a week. They even suggest a route. Toronto - Huntsville - Ottawa - Montreal - Kingston - Niagara Falls - Toronto. Sounds very interesting, but before I book can anyone there tell me approx. what you could expect to pay for a double Motel room per person and night. Also what is the weather like in October? Is the cost of eating out more expensive than Munich.
Thanks
Ballygobackwards

Motel 6 usually have good prices, depending on where it is, I would make sure the car doors are locked...and park under a light if you can Don't forget to eat the poutine

A few years ago, Hubby and I took his parents on a 15 day trip to Ontario. We went at the beginning of September, just after Ontario school started and right after high season ended. We didn't book any hotels/motels in advance and had no trouble finding reasonable accommodation. October will be more difficult since many folks will be out to see the Fall colours, so booking in advance would be a good idea. Highly recommended would be to stop off at a CAA office (Canadian Automobile Association) and grab their guide books for the provinces you plan to visit. These books contain comprehensive lists of hotels/motels with prices, descriptions, and CAA/AAA ratings, and also points of interest in every city, town and major village. They are great for planning your route. I don't know if ADAC has something similar available but might be worth a quick trip to your local branch to check. Also check your local library which should have quite a good selection of guidebooks, albeit in German.

The trip we did was Toronto - Midland (Sainte-Marie among the Hurons) - Lion's Head - Tobermory - ferry across to Manitoulin Island (it wows folks that at one point you see only water and sky, yet it isn't salt water, also the world's only island on a lake which has a lake with an island) and stay at Gore Bay, visit Indian reservation, up to Sudbury (nickel mine), then down through Algonquin Park, Peterborough (Canadian Canoe Museum, lift locks), with an afternoon at Cullen Gardens on the way back to Toronto. Niagara Falls was a separate weekend trip. We took 9 days and were pooped. The trip you describe is VERY ambitious for just a week. Huntsville is probably recommended because there are many Germans in the area, and even a motel run by a German couple: Arrowhead Inn. (we stayed there, nice) There's also a pioneer village near Huntsville, where folks can see how early Canadians lived. Would be a shame not to at least drive through the southern portion of Algonquin.

Hmm... costs obviously depend on quality and location. There are lots of different kinds of accommodations to choose from: Bed & Breakfast can be cheap and plain or historical houses furnished with antiques and luxuries. Motel chains are abundant and generally clean with middling prices but even those can vary from location to location. Best bet would be to figure out your route, plan out where tentatively you want to overnight, and then look online for actual places and get actual price quotes. A good starting point for Ontario would be this online Ontario Travel Guide.

Weather in October is highly unpredictable. If lucky, you'll experience one of our famous Indian Summers and have beautiful warm and sunny weather. Or you could end up with a week of rain.

Cheers!
Vera

www.discovercanada.com all the info you will need

i stayed at some yha hostels in canada in the fall two years ago, and they all had private double rooms. finding a room for a decent price (i forgot how much though) was never a problem, they were also very clean. i liked staying in the hostels because i could cook my own food. canada had pretty good supermarkets, even in somewhat remote areas. i'd recommend checking out the canadian yha hostels, you can also get the membership when you check in the first time, it wasn't very expensive. as far as eating out goes, i didn't go too much, but i think canada has plenty of nice roadside diners in the countryside. i wouldn't worry about the food, you'll most likely find something decent (probably cheaper than munich).

Thanks everyone, I almost have convinced my wife we should go, keep the tips coming please.

Convinced!!??!??! She is crazy not to...I would fly home every weekend if I could afford to!! Especially in the Autumn season... Ohhhh dreamy

If you can afford the time and money, I would strongly suggest at least 2 weeks or better yet, 3 weeks. The only problem I have with the Lidl deal is that their schedule seems crazy. Day 1 Toronto, Day 2 Kingston. So you have about a 3 hour drive to make, after a full day of sightseeing in Toronto? Or you leave early on day two, then have a half-day to see the former capital of Canada before moving on again to Montreal? Remember that the official speed limits are max 100 km/hr on the highways, and you'll want to maybe make stops along the way. I would take things at a slower pace and enjoy more. Or maybe I'm just slowing down now that I'm over 40 <gg>

Remember: If it's Tuesday, it must be Belgium?!

Cheers!
Vera

I agree, it's very ambitious - doable I suppose - but you will spend all your time traveling on a boring highway and eating at roadside McDonald's just so you can make up some time.
Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal are large cities with loads to do. You would be missing out if you only spent a few hours in each place. It's a crazy schedule for a week.

But then again I suppose it isn't much different than those see-Europe-in-a-week-different-city-every-day deals.

Also just to satisfy my curiosity - can anyone think of why they include Huntsville? Not exactly on the list of exotic locales and places to be seen. Hmmmm.

Edit: Ah ok klar, just read about the German area of Huntsville, who knew?

mmmmm roadside McDonald's

Since I'm visiting Canada this year, does anyone know whether there are discount vouchers for hotels/motels in the local magazines or such? We sometimes picked those up in the US and some were really good value.