Province of Newfoundland and Labrador Travel Forum

the reason I ask is bc when we get it, it will be 3:30AM and when we leave it is 5AM, so want to make sure it is still bright enough to drive
I remember when I was at Banff in late may it was pretty much daylight 24 hrs :)

Hey! I'm going to Newfoundland (Gros Morne park) tomorrow... anyone knows some cheap place to host? thanks!!!

Does any of the pubs offer nightly or monthly rooms to rent?

My husband and I are cruising to Canada on a cruise ship and will be visiting Corner Brook on October 5th. We would like to have a guide to show us around for the few hours we will be on shore. Can anyone help us please? Sylvia

Heading t o Newfoundland next summer and want to know where the best campgrounds are and types of hookups available, etc.

Hello.

A good friend of mine and I will be visiting Newfoundland this September for the first time. We plan on focusing on the Western coast, as our time is limited, and we're likely going to use L'Anse aux Meadows as the pivotal point for our journey, heading up along the coast to the north before we wind our way back down to the ferry at Port aux Basques at the end of our explorations.

Our plan is to make our way around lazily, choose our routes impulsively, definitely get off the main highway whenever we can, meet some local people (ideally), and spend our days hiking, eating, exploring, and gazing out over the ocean - but ideally at night we'd love to find a few places to have a pint or two, pubs where locals have gone for years and years, tiny cozy rooms where proudly local food and drink can be enjoyed, and perhaps music heard.

I've already found the places with the websites, the more well-known, tourist-visited places to go, and it doesn't look like we'll make it to St. John's, so...does anyone have any suggestions as to more humble places to drink a toast, to soak in the spirit (and spirits) of Western Newfoundland?

I'd really appreciate any advice anyone could offer. Thank you so much.

Sincerely,

Eric.

Hi, we're going to Newfoundland on July 29 and returning on August 14. We were trying to rent a car in St. John's and found out there are none available as there is a regatta. Does anyone have any ideas of whether this will be a problem throughout Newfoundland during that period? Is there some way we could rent in a nearby city? Any ideas for alternatives? (We had planned to camp in the various provincial campsites throughout the island.)

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Is it practical to travel in Gros Morne by combination of bus and taxi? We plan to backpack and camp five nights in mid-Agust. I keep thinking it must be doable in less than $600. which is what the rental car companies are charging for one week out of Deer Lake. Thanks!

Hi… we are planning a visit to the western coast in September. We are spending five days in Gros Morne, two days up around St. Anthony and a night/day at Port au Choix.

We are departing from Deer Lake and would like to arrive back close to there on the night before we depart. This leaves us one day to fill.

Could somebody please recommend something interesting to see/do [we enjoy hiking and nature] between Port au Choix and Deer Lake? Anything interesting close to Cormack?

Thank you!!!

I am delivering golf carts up in your area and want to find out if they take the com data fuel card from the U.S.

Hi there,
I'm trying to plan our family trip to Newfoundland for his summer ... and truth be told I don't even know where to start … We’d like to taste a bit of everything, experience it all – well, as much as possible in a short period of 2 weeks.
Most likely we will be driving from Toronto so we might have relative freedom in getting from one place to another. Don’t really know for sure …
We have a 12 year old child so if you have experienced such trip with pre-teens on board please share your insights.
Any advice / trip ideas would be appreciated -
Thanks a bunch!

Where are the best beaches to visit? I am planning a trip to fun loving Beach in February.

Hello Everyone

Tell me more beaches for fun.

Thanks

Hi Everyone,

After much deliberation of where i'm going to go next year, Due to a 3oth birthday celebration for a friend of mine in Ottawa, I've decided to go back to Canada and this time visit the maritime provinces, My question is this: I've allocated 4 days for St Johns Newfoundland and i'm wondering if it's too much? Should i go for 3 days?

I'm basically just trying to suss out can i see the majority of tourist attractions in one day? Or is the city bigger than the impression i'm getting?

I'm also heading to Charlottetown PEI and have allocated 3 days, Should i add on an extra day?

Any input would be appreciated! Also could any maritime Canadians give me an insight as to what kind of weather to expect? I'm going Mid August to Mid September 09. I'm hoping being the end of summer, start of fall the temperature won't drop too dramatically once it hits fall! This aussie is not used to extreme cold!

I’m planning a two week trip to Newfoundland in August. I will be driving from Portland, ME through Nova Scotia and taking the ferry to Channel Port Aux Basques. From there, I’d like to head to Gros Morne and then across the island, taking the ferry back to NS from Argentia. Is this doable with the two week time limit? How long should it take to drive across to Argentia? I wouild love to get to St. John’s as well if possible. Am I taking on too much here? Thanks for any help!

Can anyone recommend a reliable charter to The Baths for not a ton of money? I've heard about Limnos, New Horizons, etc. What's the fastes way there? Thanks!

One thing that I really want to see when I visit the park is the spectacular view of the fjord on the long range traverse seen here : http://www.grosmorne.com/things.htm

I only have a limited amount of time in the park 4-5 days and as much as I would like to do the long range traverse hike, I don't nessecarily want to devout my entire trip to it.

Does anybody know if it is possible to get to this spot in a single day, camp the night around there if need be and then return without doing the entire 35 km route?

Thanks in advance

Adam

I am collecting photographs of Icebergs. I find them very fascinating. I've found several places on the web that have free pics of icebergs.
One place is http://ibergs.blogspot.com
Would any of you be interested in donating a picture or 2 to my collection? Thanks.

Hi:

We're arriving in St John's 26 July & have hotel reservations. However, the car rental reservation got 'lost'(will handle that on arrival, hopefully). But need suggestions as to 'what to do' for 3 days if we should be limited to St John's/nearby area with transportation via taxi/public transportation/tour bus, etc. Many thanks.

In the end of July, I am taking the Northern Ranger ferry up to Nain with my wife. I was wondering how the food is on the ship? Is the cafeteria decent? How expensive is it? Not sure how much of my own food to bring with

Heya,
My husband and I are driving to St John's with a UHaul(from Halifax) and so must put ourselves on the waitlist for the ferry. We only have the truck for four days and I am gettin a little worried about how long we may be waiting. We wanted to take the Port aux Basques ferry and enjoy the chance to see the province on the way. Any suggestions about negotiating wait times? How far ahead do we need to line up? We'll be driving around Aug 31/ Sept 1.
Thanks for any suggestions as we've never done this and we're on a budget!

Hello,
Our family ( 2 adults, 1 teenage and 2 11 yrs olds ) is taking a trip up through Quebec and into Labrador. We will then be taking a ferry from Goose Bay to Cartwright(departs 5pm , travel through the night, arrives 6am, 11 hours ), driving from Carwright to Blanc Sablon, then taking a Ferry from Blanc Sablon to St. Barbe, NFLD ( all within 21 hours !!!) We have never traveled on a ferry and would like advice on this type of travel. What is a dormitory berth? What kind of accomidations should we get as a family?


KP

My husband and I are going to Newfoundland August 2 to the 7th for our 20th anniversary we plan on staying two nights in St Johns we have accommodations for both nights at The Battery we plan on taking a walk and checking out Signal Hill then going out for a nice dinner that night can you recommend any nice restaurants for us. On our second day we plan on driving and checking out some sights first we want to go to Cape Spear then drive down to Chances Cove then Cape Race, then on Friday night we are doing the George Street. Then on to Hodges Cove for a night from there we will be driving to Bay De Verde and spending the night. Monday is our last day there and I can’t for the life of me figure out what else to do I don’t want to go back to St Johns because we were there for two days. Can anyone please help me with planning our last day what are some really must see’s and do’s we are a couple that loves to party and I so want this vacation to be one we will always remember any help will be appreciated. Also we need to be in St Johns Tuesday morning to fly home.
Sharon

My husband and I will be visiting Newfoundland in August and need some help with a few things
1) I am traveling from Toronto and are planning to fly into ST Johns we are planning on staying one night there, is there any hotels you can suggest we stay at. A lot of people have been telling us we must visit George St, where is this and why is it so popular.

2) we are going to visit Bay De Verde for a day (that is where my father is from but he is deceased now) how fare of a drive is it from St Johns, does anyone know of any places we should stop and see on our drive to Bay De Verde.

3) I believe I still have relatives living there but have just lost touch with them, how would I go about finding them.

4) We are renting a car and want to plan a road trip and end up where ever we end up are there any suggestions for us we would love to do our road trip along the coast, is there a high demand for accommodations in Newfoundland should we take a risk and not have anywhere to stay for a day.

I know this is a lot of questions and any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated

chizbum :) :) :) :)

Hi All,

We (family with 2 girls ages 10 & 12) will be visiting Newfoundland this summer for 14 days (starting mid July). Our itinerary has us taking the ferry onto the island at Argentia, and leaving at Port aux Basques. Our stay will be:

3 days in St John's,
2 days in Trinity (Bonavista peninsula),
5 days in Gros Morne,
2 days in L'Anse Aux Meadows, and
1 day in Port aux Basques

We will be dragging our tent trailer along, and plan on staying in B&B's as well to break up the camping. Here is my question. We originally planned on visiting Twillingate to break up the trip from the east coast to the west coast. Twillingate will take an additional 3-4 hours of driving from the Trans Canada Hwy. Is it worth the drive? Will it offer anything different that the other places on my itinerary does not have in terms of scenary? The big attraction of Twillingate for me is the icebergs, but will I be able to see the same at St Anthony?

Other options that I have include:
Labrador
more time in Gros Morne
more time in Bonavista
side route somewhere else (suggestions appreciated)

What do you think I should do with the extra day?

Also, any recommendations on camp grounds in Gros Morne? Any particular camp sites that I should try to get?

We will be staying in the corner Brook region mid June and would like to see Icebergs . A friend has suggested driving up to St Anthony but I believe this is a 5-6 hour trip. Can anyone suggest another area to see this and is it worth the trip?

Am planning a trip to Alaska. Would like to 'drive' the Alaskan highway one way and ferry the other. It appears it is not possible to hire a car in Anchorage and leave it in Seattle or vancouver. So my question is is there a bus or a train that runs between Seattle and Anchorage?

What do people recommend doing in and around St. John's for a couple of days. How many days do you need in the area?

Thank you

What do people recommend doing in and around St. John's for a couple of days. How many days do you need in the area?

Thank you

My wife, (will be 9 month old) son and I are planning a trip to Newfoundland in late July. We are thinking about going to St. Johns, Bonavista, Trinity, Twillingate, Terra Nova and Gros Morne (with possibly a trip up the western coast to Viking sites) for 7-10 days. Just wondering if people think this trip is doable in that time frame, if there are any baby friendly places to stay or eat that you know of, and what types of hikes/boat rides we could take. Also does anyone recommend any other places to go and see. We will be renting a car. Any information would be helpful.

Thanks