Accommodation

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Today we have finalised our accommodation for the entire trip all the way to NZ :)

Waking up this morning we had several gaps in our itinerary where we hadn't yet booked places to stay, there were a few days in Toronto, Vancouver and San Francisco which needed organising.

The original plan was to use hostels almost exclusively but the prices (£30pppn!!! For an 8 bed dorm...) in the USA and Canada soon had us rethinking. We had already faced this challenge when booking accommodation in Banff and had eventually settled on a mediocre looking hotel. This was before we were enlightened to the wonders of Airbnb. We had a look at what may be available on Airbnb instead of the hotel and have "upgraded" (with a saving of £150!) to a full apartment with private HOT TUB and garden/bbq all with views of the mountains :D

Further browsing on Airbnb led to bookings for 5 nights in Vancouver (before we pick up the van) and 3 nights in San Francisco (between van drop off and flying out to Fiji). We did manage to find a reasonably priced hostel for a night in Toronto which looks quite interesting and different to the norm - http://www.theparkdale.ca

So that's our lives organised from 1st May to 16th August, what happens when we arrive in NZ is still up for discussion although as we did review our budget today and are doing much better than we thought, we won't be back before Christmas!

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