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A change in employer opened up the opportunity to do something that hadn’t happened since early in my career — travel around my birthday! The only challenge was that I didn’t have a lot of vacation days, so this turned into a long weekend trip. So, who doesn’t want to spend half their vacation traveling to go to Amsterdam?
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Travel had not yet returned because restrictions were still in place. In response to that Air Canada, or Aeroplan, offered up ways to achieve frequent flyer status for 2023. After some calculations, I realized I could achieve my goal by adding a round trip to Vancouver. However, without vacation available, it was going to be a day trip!
We really liked staying at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. So much so, that we booked a return trip for April 2021. Unfortunately that didn’t occur, and we rescheduled our stay to September. This time though, instead of just visiting Banff, what else does Alberta hold?
Our four nights in Banff were over faster than we had thought. Here’s our journey to the airport and return flight to Toronto.
Vacation travel was iffy through 2020. When a promotion appeared for Fairmont Hotels in North America, I jumped at the offer and made a booking. Guess which one we booked?