Vancouver Olympics and My Trip

My up coming trip makes it necessary for me to stay overnight for two nights in Vancouver in February. Normally a trip to Vancouver is a good thing, it is an opportunity to go to restaurants and shop because Vancouver is a big international city where you can get or do anything your heart desires. However this trip will be during the 2010 winter Olympics and hotels are charging way more than normal and most have no rooms available. I need to stay over the night before I leave for Costa Rica because I need to be at YVR(Vancouver Airport) three hours before my flight at 8:45am on February 11/2010. When I come back on February 18/2010 I land at the airport late at 7:20pm. Kelowna is about four or five hours away from Vancouver by car and this is how I will be traveling.

The two nights in the hotels are going to cost me a whopping $732.00. On the tenth I will be staying in The Fairmont Vancouver Airport hotel. I have never stayed there before, it is a four star luxury hotel that is in the airport. On the way back I will stay at The Coast Vancouver Airport Hotel, it looks like a nice place also. I had to go with two different hotels because all hotels in and around Vancouver are full becouse of the Olympics.

I will have a few things to shop for when I get to Vancouver but nothing important, maybe some clothes for me and gifts for people in Costa Rica. I will probable go to a nice restaurant for dinner depending on how I feel, I am going to play it by ear.

Even with all the stress of traveling to a different country all I can think about is how much fun I am going to have in Cost Rica. I will be there in less than four weeks! I will post pictures of Vancouver and the hotels after I get there.