Wanna live like a star? Metropolitan Hotels knows how to treat you like one. Beginning January 1, 2008 guests visiting the three Vancouver and Toronto hotels will be providing Instant Star Power. Here’s the deal. Random and complimentary celebrity treatment will be offered to ordinary guests through March 31, 2008. In other words, you can…
Where Canada Magazine has selected its top ten attractions for Canadian summer travel in 2007. Many are brand new; others have been renovated or are celebrating significant milestones. Top 10 New Attractions for Summer 2007 (in alphabetical order): 1. Atlantic Jazz Festival, Halifax, Nova Scotia: One of Atlantic Canada’s biggest musical events has added three…
I like cities in the summer. Whether it’s strolling through New York’s Central Park or taking a passenger ferry in Vancouver’s False Creek, it’s liberating to be freed of winter wardrobes and worries. If you’re headed to Toronto, the Fairmont Royal York’s Green Getaway package is a fun, eco-friendly vacation option.
If you’re longing for a Roman holiday but the Euro is keeping you home, here’s a fun Italian-themed package that will have you singing “Mambo Italiano” in true la dolce vita style. The ultra-swanky Metropolitan Hotels in Toronto and Vancouver are offering a La Dolce Vita package and guests will automatically be entered into a…
Across Canada spas are dreaming up some of the most divine experiences. Here’s a sampling… • THE DREAMING feels so good you’ll want to pinch yourself to make sure you’re really at Toronto’s Elmwood Spa and not ensconced in the fluffy clouds of dreamland. Based on Australian aboriginal traditions, this whole body treatment starts with…
The Fairmont Royal York in Toronto is offering a fun, informative and tasty weekend culinary shopping package. I made a reservation for the Shop With Chef package earlier this fall, and and it’s a unique way to get up close and personal to the food and producers utilized by the hotel’s signature EPICrestaurant. Since I…
Thirty-seven of Canada’s most respected foodies had a tough task: coming up with Canada’s Best New Restaurants 2006. But at the end of the meal(s), Vancouver, BC’s Nu ended up with the distincition of being the top table. The fifth annual survey, conducted by Air Canada’s enRoute magazine and its contributing editor Chris Johns, included…
Clarins Canada Skin Spa, which opened a little more than a year ago in Toronto, is a sleek red-and-white emporium where treatments given in luxe comfort can painlessly turn back the clock. Forget those excruciating extractions associated with most facials, the face (and body) treatments here are marked simply by a feathery, light, signature massage,…
At VagaBlond, we love bargains! So when it’s cold and wintry in Toronto, we try to find you a deal to hot and balmy Hawaii. And here it is on Zoom Airlines, a low-fare carrier that begins round-trip flights from Toronto Pearson International Airport to Honolulu on December 17 for just $299 CA. Zoom also…
You may not believe in the concept of energy choreography, but the bets are on you might feel its benefits if you stayed at Toronto’s latest designer hotel, the Cosmopolitan. Sylvia Noble, energy consultant to stars such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ron Howard, is the woman behind the cosmic circuitry of the 97-suite hotel, which…