Canada poised to replace U.K. as Orlando's top international market for tourists

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-florida-canadian-tourists-20091207,0,5399396.story

 

[wayneg]

If airlines seat capacity continues to fall and they keep the high prices It will stay like that for a while IMO.
After taking 6 trips since Easter last year with great fares I can't believe the prices for next year. We have pencilled in Easter & August 2010 but if prices do not drop we won't take them. They are wanting about double to what we usually pay.
Still cheaper fares to other parts of US so maybe time to go explore again.

 

[igk]

Hmm not surprising I suppose. The Canadian Dollar is strong so Florida would be quite affordable for Canadians.
As Wayne says flight prices are high, and also the pound doesn't buy so much any more once you get there.

 

[disneyholic family]

a little bit difficult for me to think of the great white north as an "international" market...
having grown up 'on' the border between the two, canada is america as far as my experience ....

they're americans with a funny flag and slightly off accent....shrug

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

a little bit difficult for me to think of the great white north as an "international" market...
having grown up 'on' the border between the two, canada is america as far as my experience ....

they're americans with a funny flag and slightly off accent....shrug

I can see why you would think that since both countries are seperated by an International Boundry Line on each border and not the Atlantic Ocean, however they are still two different countries.

 

[disneyholic family]

I can see why you would think that since both countries are seperated by an International Boundry Line on each border and not the Atlantic Ocean, however they are still two different countries.

no one is going to notice an influx of canadians....it will just look like more americans are coming around, albeit with a stronger dollar (and how ironic is that, after all those years of your money being refused on my side of the border....i remember the times when even pennies were refused)...
you pretty much sound the same (aboots aside)...and aren't any different from americans in terms of staying in line in an orderly fashion (unlike the visitors from the south mentioned in the article)....

it's nice that canada is doing so well that so many of you can visit with mickey...how many canadians are there these days? when i was growing up there were only 20 million of you......just looked it up...you're up to 33 million now....so that's about 2% of you are traveling to micky...plenty of room to increase that number.....strange that disney waited until now to intensely go after the canadian market, when it is so similar and so close by.....

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

no one is going to notice an influx of canadians....it will just look like more americans are coming around, albeit with a stronger dollar (and how ironic is that, after all those years of your money being refused on my side of the border....i remember the times when even pennies were refused)...
you pretty much sound the same (aboots aside)...and aren't any different from americans in terms of staying in line in an orderly fashion (unlike the visitors from the south mentioned in the article)....

it's nice that canada is doing so well that so many of you can visit with mickey...how many canadians are there these days? when i was growing up there were only 20 million of you......just looked it up...you're up to 33 million now....so that's about 2% of you are traveling to micky...plenty of room to increase that number.....strange that disney waited until now to intensely go after the canadian market, when it is so similar and so close by.....

Actually speaking of pennies I have noticed when paying for some items and giving change if we accidently gave a Canadian pennie to a store in the USA they won't accept it, but in Canada there a few times when I get American pennies when purchasing something.

 

[disneyholic family]

Actually speaking of pennies I have noticed when paying for some items and giving change if we accidently gave a Canadian pennie to a store in the USA they won't accept it, but in Canada there a few times when I get American pennies when purchasing something.

funny....
does that happen in detroit?
ever gone shopping in the detroit area?
around xmas, if you go into any of the big suburban malls, especially the outlet malls like great lakes crossing, a VERY large number of the plates are from ontario....
i never could figure out how they managed to get all those purchases across the border...i always thought you had to stay overnight to be able to bring it back...but when i was chatting with someone in line with me last year at great lakes crossing, she claimed canadian customs at the bridge/ tunnel don't care about clothing and food....

 

[disneyholic family]

and a trivia question - i wonder if torontonians know the answer to this...

if you're on a plane that takes off from Detroit and flies due south, what is the first foreign country you fly over?


kind of obvious since i made the toronto comment...


the answer is: Canada...
Windsor, Canada is due south of Detroit.....

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

funny....
does that happen in detroit?
ever gone shopping in the detroit area?
around xmas, if you go into any of the big suburban malls, especially the outlet malls like great lakes crossing, a VERY large number of the plates are from ontario....
i never could figure out how they managed to get all those purchases across the border...i always thought you had to stay overnight to be able to bring it back...but when i was chatting with someone in line with me last year at great lakes crossing, she claimed canadian customs at the bridge/ tunnel don't care about clothing and food....

No we have never went shiopping in the Detroit area however I guess that's something to try next time we are in Buffalo and shop at the Fashion Outlets of Niagara, because I would say 95% of the cars we see in the parking lot are from Ontario.

and a trivia question - i wonder if torontonians know the answer to this...

if you're on a plane that takes off from Detroit and flies due south, what is the first foreign country you fly over?


kind of obvious since i made the toronto comment...


the answer is: Canada...
Windsor, Canada is due south of Detroit.....

Until you posted that it's something I never heard of before.

 

[disneyholic family]

Until you posted that it's something I never heard of before.

it is pretty odd - you have to look at a map to get your head around it....canada slips in right underneath detroit...
http://lib.utexas.edu/maps/united_states/michigan_90.jpg
(when you open the URL, click on the map to enlarge it - gives a good view of windsor vs detroit)

so actually canadians who live in windsor, live "south of the border"..

that airplane question is one of those stupid trivia questions some detroiters love to ask...no one ever gets it right....most people say mexico....or figure it's a trick question so come up with a caribbean island or south america....it's amusing.... no one ever says cananda...