Day 254: Prince George - Jasper
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Tuesday 19th April
In our deal of the century, our $85 hotel room also included continental breakfast. Amanda, Luke and I all decided to enjoy it, with lots of fresh bakery items (a bagel and rolled oats for me - some of the cream cheese packets made their way into my pocket …)
We decided we were far enough north so instead of continuing onto Alaska, we made our way to Jasper, part of the famous ‘Jasper-Lake Louise-Banff’ trio in the Canadian Rockies. As we’d left quite late, we didn’t stop for lunch, powering right on through. We stopped at the welcome sign for Mount Robson Park – the largest mountain in Canada – and performed some shenanigans with the mountain goat statue. It was hysterical watching Amanda trying to run from the car to the statue before the timer on her camera went off!
400 kilometres from our day’s starting point of Prince George, we arrived into Jasper. All famished, we pulled up in front of ‘The Other Bear Paw Bakery’, having read that it was a highly rated lunch spot, and snacked on fresh sandwiches. Mojo re-invigorated, next action point was to find somewhere to stay. The visitor’s information centre was located nearby, so we utilised the free phone to call a number of accommodation options. The Best Western sounded promising, so we headed down to take a look.
What an amazing place! For $150 a night, we could have a two-storey condo. Upstairs was a bedroom with 3 single beds and TV; whilst downstairs was a bedroom with a queen bed, a fully equipped kitchen with stove, oven, fridge and microwave (including all utensils), and a large lounge room with a fireplace and colour TV. It even included free wi-fi! It didn’t take much to convince us, and keen to stay in the one place for a few nights, I put my credit card down for a 4 night stay. With tax, it might work out slightly more expensive than a hostel, but we had our own massive apartment with a kitchen!
The boys went to fetch the car whilst Amanda and I went to the local grocery store to do a shop. Since we had a kitchen, we were going to make use of it, having breakfast at home along with several dinners. The grocery store was quite small and it was a little difficult trying to make decisions for meals for all 4 of us, but we made it in the end – and were stoked to find there was no HST here, only GST of 5%.
Back at the apartment, there were a few issues with the room, which resulted in us scoring a voucher for a complimentary breakfast the next morning – score! We settled in for the night, enjoying a massive pasta with lots of fresh vegetables whilst watching the hockey and – my favourite – Glee!!
In our deal of the century, our $85 hotel room also included continental breakfast. Amanda, Luke and I all decided to enjoy it, with lots of fresh bakery items (a bagel and rolled oats for me - some of the cream cheese packets made their way into my pocket …)
400 kilometres from our day’s starting point of Prince George, we arrived into Jasper. All famished, we pulled up in front of ‘The Other Bear Paw Bakery’, having read that it was a highly rated lunch spot, and snacked on fresh sandwiches. Mojo re-invigorated, next action point was to find somewhere to stay. The visitor’s information centre was located nearby, so we utilised the free phone to call a number of accommodation options. The Best Western sounded promising, so we headed down to take a look.
What an amazing place! For $150 a night, we could have a two-storey condo. Upstairs was a bedroom with 3 single beds and TV; whilst downstairs was a bedroom with a queen bed, a fully equipped kitchen with stove, oven, fridge and microwave (including all utensils), and a large lounge room with a fireplace and colour TV. It even included free wi-fi! It didn’t take much to convince us, and keen to stay in the one place for a few nights, I put my credit card down for a 4 night stay. With tax, it might work out slightly more expensive than a hostel, but we had our own massive apartment with a kitchen!
The boys went to fetch the car whilst Amanda and I went to the local grocery store to do a shop. Since we had a kitchen, we were going to make use of it, having breakfast at home along with several dinners. The grocery store was quite small and it was a little difficult trying to make decisions for meals for all 4 of us, but we made it in the end – and were stoked to find there was no HST here, only GST of 5%.
Back at the apartment, there were a few issues with the room, which resulted in us scoring a voucher for a complimentary breakfast the next morning – score! We settled in for the night, enjoying a massive pasta with lots of fresh vegetables whilst watching the hockey and – my favourite – Glee!!
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