Hubby and I are booked on the #1 train in March 25. Prestige all the way and hoping, as we are from Australia, to see snow for the first time in our 50 odd years. Thanks for the tips.
@@judimiles3522 Thanks for watching. Prestige will be very very nice. You get very nice rooms but still experience the old time train travel across Canada in cars made in the 1950’s. You will definitely see plenty of snow. Myself and my wife are catching the train from Vancouver to Ottawa on our way back home to Newfoundland in a few days. Check out this video from our stop in Jasper. You will see Whistler’s Peak on your left just after departing Jasper. I have a few short videos from the top of Lake Louise while skiing last February. You should see some nice views of snow capped mountains. HIKING JASPER in May - Bucket List Trip th-cam.com/video/woc1uD9hcWE/w-d-xo.html
Congratulations. I have done the trip several times, so I thought I knew everything. I was wrong! My next is in 3 weeks, so I feel better prepared after watching your video. THANKS!!
Great tips! Thank you for making this video and your other on-board videos. Taking the Canadian in Pretige class has been on my bucket list for 10 years (since they first announced the new class really). Didn't know if i would ever be able to afford it but finally at a place where I felt i could splurge. Travelling from Vancouver to Toronto with my wife on March 21 and so looking forward to it! Definitely going to use some of your tips!!
I watched so many TH-cam videos including yours and was so excited. Everything was awesome until a train wreck in Saskatchewan and then we were bused to Winnipeg for over six hours and had to make our own way to Toronto. It was traumatic but I want to think I can do it right the next time. I feel like I don’t want my memories to be unfulfilled. Unforeseen occurrence. Makes me sad remembering how excited I was. Such is life. No control. Ugh!
@@MP-uc1cz OMG what a nightmare situation. That’s my greatest fear about the trip. If a train derails or major weather event or forest fire strands the train in the middle of nowhere. Hopefully you get to give it another try. Thanks for warching.
WOW!!!!! I was on that same train with my brother. FSL Car 11 Seat 3-P1 and he was across the hall from me. Stranded in Melville and then that horrible bus ride to Winnipeg. I must give credit to the VIA staff however, Shout out to Keisha and Courtney who went above and beyond their duties while forced to work overtime in this stressful situation. They and the rest of the staff were amazing during this unexpected turn of events. Condolences to the truck driver and his family who lost his life in the accident. Up until this unfortunate incident, it was an amazing experience with great food, beer tasting and wine tasting, breathtaking scenery, and entertainment provided by a Canadian Juno award winning blues guitarist, Morgan Davis who was amazingly entertaining with his unique style of story telling mixed with his musical talent. I'm flying to Vancouver from Toronto on Dec 20th to redo this trip in it's entirety because it was such an amazing experience until the incident. See you Dec 20.
@ wasn’t it such an unexpected event. Difficult to process right away. The staff were awesome and felt bad we got the worst case scenario one Porter said and they were upset for us. Good to connect and get some feedback. Take care and all the best!
This is by far the best video made on the Canadian. These little tips and suggestions will certainly make my upcoming trip that much more enjoyable. You have a new subscriber today. Keep up the great videos.
Thank you for the kind words and subscribing to my channel. If just one of my 73 tips and suggestions is helpful I did my job in helping others like you have a pleasant journey.
GREAT tips! We've enjoyed all of your videos on the Canadian. We live in Vancouver and have driven across Canada, including visiting your beautiful Province, and wanted to see some of our Canadian landscapes from the train so we just booked Train #1 from Toronto to Vancouver in October/25, hopefully to see the Fall colours. We managed to book a Prestige class cabin. Thank you again for this very informative video.
@@kathyslocombe1182 Thank you for the kind comments. Hopefully some of tips were helpful. I enjoy putting the videos together. I am not very efficient lol. I take video clips along the journey and once I get home I look them over and piece them together. I keep saying I should plan my videos out ahead of time but then it’s work lol. The Prestige cabins and cars are very nice. They are hard to come by. It will be such a great trip. It’s a very fun and unique atmosphere travelling on this epic train journey. Send a comment when you return about your trip.
10:35. A valuable "insider" tip if you are booking the popular Bedroom for 2. Speak to VIA Reservations early to secure room "F"; no extra charge for this larger room.
Very Good Point. Thanks so much for mentioning this. That’s what I did for my upcoming fall trip. I called VIA Reservations the day they posted the trip date I was looking for and booked Room F in the car number I wanted. Thanks for watching. Much appreciated.
@@AdventuresWithTodd When Budd's designers were configuring the "Manor" class sleepers as per Canadian Pacific's specifications, there was almost 2 extra feet of length left over so it just added on to a bedroom. CPR referred to this room F as a "Compartment", which is somewhat confusing to us as we associate that term to an older European-style shared rooms for coach passengers. There is evidence to suggest that originally there were three folding armchairs present rather than two. This distinction later fell by the wayside but for a period of time in the 1990s after the HEP rebuilding, VIA ticketed "F" as a "Master Bedroom", with a premium over standard bedroom. Again this distinction is gone so it is an insider or railfan's knowledge that will ask the ticket agent to book this room, rather than online. Also, for the "Renaissance" sleepers on the Ocean, all bedrooms are double bunks but rooms 1 to 6 have a shower head in its washroom while 7 to 10 don't. And it appears that VIA no longer makes a fare distinction between the two types. However, on HEP car open berth sections, there is a distinct difference between upper and lower berth fares.
You are so welcome! It’s a wonderful trip. I’am taking my third trip this fall and my wife is making her first trip. This time I will try the Bedroom F. If you have any questions as you get closer to booking feel free to ask. I will probably pick up a few more tips or suggestions after my next trip. Check out some of my other trip videos. I did one on the food, one on accommodations and couple full trip videos. Thanks for watching
Thank you for putting this together. It is of great help to those unfamiliar with the Canadian. Regarding the shower kits, it has been many years since there has been a facecloth in the bags I have had. I recommend people check the bag before heading to the shower room or they may have to return to their accommodation to take the one from there.
Hi, Thanks for the great vid. I'm in car 10 in November for a sleeper plus cabin. Do you know how many cars do I have to walk to get to the dining car and/or the dome car?
@@BlueHeron654 Glad my video was helpful. The car behind you should be the Skyline Activity car which has a dome. Behind that is your dining car. So basically as close as you get. After the dining car will be a prestige car or two then the Park car at the very end which also has a dome. Enjoy yor trip
Excellent. So nice to see you make the trip again. The food is still amazing. It’s such a wonderful journey. Drop back when you complete the trip and let me know how you made out.
@@dragonflyviz6546 Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed the video. I went east both trips on #2 and Mount Robson was on my left before arriving in Jasper. So I assume going west on #1 it would on you right after Jasper.
My sister and I are booked for this trip a year from know. How do the bar staff in the Park car know who is travelling Prestige class and entitled to free drinks?
The Park Car is off limits to the Non-Prestige sleeper class passengers until after 4:00 pm on day two during peak season. That’s gives staff time to get to know the Prestige passengers. Are you travelling Prestige? Thanks again for watching.
@AdventuresWithTodd No way., $$$, we are booking open berths, for half the cost of rooms, but still has the same dining meals as all sleeping car pax. We will visit the Park car once and respect that the Prestige people are paying a lot for their privileged position. Starting at Toronto, we will get off in Jasper to board the Rocky Mountaineer for the rest of the journey to Vancouver. This time we will splurge on Gold class ($$$$).
@@haweater1555 Wicked. It’s going to be a great trip. My first two trips were in a lower Berth. My wife is going next time so we are moving up to Room F. I really liked the berths. Both trips there were only two berths occupied. First trip was with my son. We called the sections our three bed two bath condo lol. Second trip it was just myself and one other person. Up to two days prior to departure I was the only one in Car 216, the last sleeper car on my train just ahead of the Skyline and Dining Car. A man from Australia travelling the county booked it two prior to departure. Check out these videos. One is on the accommodations - mostly berths. The second link below is mostly about the food. Check them out. VIA Rail The CANADIAN | Berths, Rooms, Roomettes, Showers and Bathrooms | Part 2 of 4 th-cam.com/video/9TWXPlEjElU/w-d-xo.html VIA RAIL THE CANADIAN Menus, Meals, BAR HOPPING, PART 1 of 4 th-cam.com/video/H-TjzSMaQro/w-d-xo.html
@@AdventuresWithTodd My only other VIA trip out West was 30 years ago, a coach ticket on CanRailPass. With an upgrade to an upper berth (cheapest, obviously) in sleeping car for the 2nd of the then-three night trip (Winnipeg to Edmonton). Experienced the privilege of witnessing the prairie sunset from the Park car dome. Returned to the coach section for the mountain crossing while my new friends there were jealous that I had a good night's lay-flat sleep and luxury of taking a shower at the trip's mid-point. (No dinner in the diner, not included with fare at that time. I bought all my meals in the Skyline Café section of coach). In 2007 I was just itchin to get on the train again so I took a round trip on the Chaleur (now gone). Arriving there in roomette, but the return trip they were all booked so I choose Lower Berth, and experienced the widest bed one could book on the train. Other overnight trips in the 90s were a circle trip to Halifax on the Atlantic and the Ocean in roomette, a second one way trip on the Ocean, and a trip Montreal to Toronto in a bedroom for 2 shared with a friend on the corridor overnight train.
Hubby and I are booked on the #1 train in March 25. Prestige all the way and hoping, as we are from Australia, to see snow for the first time in our 50 odd years. Thanks for the tips.
@@judimiles3522 Thanks for watching. Prestige will be very very nice. You get very nice rooms but still experience the old time train travel across Canada in cars made in the 1950’s. You will definitely see plenty of snow. Myself and my wife are catching the train from Vancouver to Ottawa on our way back home to Newfoundland in a few days.
Check out this video from our stop in Jasper. You will see Whistler’s Peak on your left just after departing Jasper.
I have a few short videos from the top of Lake Louise while skiing last February. You should see some nice views of snow capped mountains.
HIKING JASPER in May - Bucket List Trip
th-cam.com/video/woc1uD9hcWE/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for posting this lots of great tips
@@James-zd1fl Thanks for watching. I really appreciate you taking the time to send a comment. It was a fun project putting it together.
Congratulations. I have done the trip several times, so I thought I knew everything. I was wrong! My next is in 3 weeks, so I feel better prepared after watching your video. THANKS!!
Thanks for the kind words. Much appreciated. Enjoy your trip.
Great tips! Thank you for making this video and your other on-board videos. Taking the Canadian in Pretige class has been on my bucket list for 10 years (since they first announced the new class really). Didn't know if i would ever be able to afford it but finally at a place where I felt i could splurge. Travelling from Vancouver to Toronto with my wife on March 21 and so looking forward to it! Definitely going to use some of your tips!!
@@stfletch Luvs this post. So happy for you guys. Enjoy the journey. It will be worth the wait. So glad my video was helpful. Happy New Year.
I watched so many TH-cam videos including yours and was so excited. Everything was awesome until a train wreck in Saskatchewan and then we were bused to Winnipeg for over six hours and had to make our own way to Toronto. It was traumatic but I want to think I can do it right the next time. I feel like I don’t want my memories to be unfulfilled. Unforeseen occurrence. Makes me sad remembering how excited I was. Such is life. No control. Ugh!
@@MP-uc1cz OMG what a nightmare situation. That’s my greatest fear about the trip. If a train derails or major weather event or forest fire strands the train in the middle of nowhere.
Hopefully you get to give it another try.
Thanks for warching.
WOW!!!!!
I was on that same train with my brother.
FSL Car 11 Seat 3-P1 and he was across the hall from me.
Stranded in Melville and then that horrible bus ride to Winnipeg. I must give credit to the VIA staff however, Shout out to Keisha and Courtney who went above and beyond their duties while forced to work overtime in this stressful situation. They and the rest of the staff were amazing during this unexpected turn of events.
Condolences to the truck driver and his family who lost his life in the accident.
Up until this unfortunate incident, it was an amazing experience with great food, beer tasting and wine tasting, breathtaking scenery, and entertainment provided by a Canadian Juno award winning blues guitarist, Morgan Davis who was amazingly entertaining with his unique style of story telling mixed with his musical talent.
I'm flying to Vancouver from Toronto on Dec 20th to redo this trip in it's entirety because it was such an amazing experience until the incident.
See you Dec 20.
@@TheGordohhh You have a great attitude my friend. So glad you are able to redo the trip so soon. Thanks for watching.
@ wasn’t it such an unexpected event. Difficult to process right away. The staff were awesome and felt bad we got the worst case scenario one Porter said and they were upset for us. Good to connect and get some feedback. Take care and all the best!
@@AdventuresWithTodd I want to try! Smiles
This is by far the best video made on the Canadian. These little tips and suggestions will certainly make my upcoming trip that much more enjoyable. You have a new subscriber today. Keep up the great videos.
Thank you for the kind words and subscribing to my channel.
If just one of my 73 tips and suggestions is helpful I did my job in helping others like you have a pleasant journey.
So many good tips! Liked and subscribed 👍. Enjoy your next train ride
@@jlsens Thanks for watching. A big thanks for subscribing. The feedback is much appreciated.
GREAT tips! We've enjoyed all of your videos on the Canadian. We live in Vancouver and have driven across Canada, including visiting your beautiful Province, and wanted to see some of our Canadian landscapes from the train so we just booked Train #1 from Toronto to Vancouver in October/25, hopefully to see the Fall colours. We managed to book a Prestige class cabin. Thank you again for this very informative video.
@@kathyslocombe1182 Thank you for the kind comments. Hopefully some of tips were helpful.
I enjoy putting the videos together. I am not very efficient lol. I take video clips along the journey and once I get home I look them over and piece them together. I keep saying I should plan my videos out ahead of time but then it’s work lol.
The Prestige cabins and cars are very nice. They are hard to come by. It will be such a great trip. It’s a very fun and unique atmosphere travelling on this epic train journey.
Send a comment when you return about your trip.
Very beautiful view, I love it
@@gicksugiyarna53 Thanks for watching. Can you do Magic and get us one of your high speed trains. lol
몃진영상 감사드리고 항상 즐겁고 행복하시길 빕니다.
@@blackstone3819 Thanks for watching. Glad you really like.
10:35. A valuable "insider" tip if you are booking the popular Bedroom for 2. Speak to VIA Reservations early to secure room "F"; no extra charge for this larger room.
Very Good Point. Thanks so much for mentioning this. That’s what I did for my upcoming fall trip. I called VIA Reservations the day they posted the trip date I was looking for and booked Room F in the car number I wanted.
Thanks for watching. Much appreciated.
@@AdventuresWithTodd When Budd's designers were configuring the "Manor" class sleepers as per Canadian Pacific's specifications, there was almost 2 extra feet of length left over so it just added on to a bedroom. CPR referred to this room F as a "Compartment", which is somewhat confusing to us as we associate that term to an older European-style shared rooms for coach passengers. There is evidence to suggest that originally there were three folding armchairs present rather than two. This distinction later fell by the wayside but for a period of time in the 1990s after the HEP rebuilding, VIA ticketed "F" as a "Master Bedroom", with a premium over standard bedroom. Again this distinction is gone so it is an insider or railfan's knowledge that will ask the ticket agent to book this room, rather than online.
Also, for the "Renaissance" sleepers on the Ocean, all bedrooms are double bunks but rooms 1 to 6 have a shower head in its washroom while 7 to 10 don't. And it appears that VIA no longer makes a fare distinction between the two types.
However, on HEP car open berth sections, there is a distinct difference between upper and lower berth fares.
Thanks for the insight! I might need to roll in Prestige class!
@@ArtistryOfAdventure Glad to be of help. When are you taking the trip?
@@AdventuresWithTodd starting to plan for a spring trip. It’s one of those things you should do at least once!
Thank you for all the wonderful tips. They are very helpful and looking forward to doing the Canadian there and back from Toronto in 2025 or 2026.
You are so welcome! It’s a wonderful trip. I’am taking my third trip this fall and my wife is making her first trip. This time I will try the Bedroom F. If you have any questions as you get closer to booking feel free to ask. I will probably pick up a few more tips or suggestions after my next trip.
Check out some of my other trip videos. I did one on the food, one on accommodations and couple full trip videos.
Thanks for watching
Thank you for putting this together. It is of great help to those unfamiliar with the Canadian. Regarding the shower kits, it has been many years since there has been a facecloth in the bags I have had. I recommend people check the bag before heading to the shower room or they may have to return to their accommodation to take the one from there.
Thanks for the kind words. I really appreciate you taking the time to add your tip about the facecloth. Much appreciated.
Hi, Thanks for the great vid. I'm in car 10 in November for a sleeper plus cabin. Do you know how many cars do I have to walk to get to the dining car and/or the dome car?
@@BlueHeron654 Glad my video was helpful. The car behind you should be the Skyline Activity car which has a dome. Behind that is your dining car. So basically as close as you get.
After the dining car will be a prestige car or two then the Park car at the very end which also has a dome.
Enjoy yor trip
@@AdventuresWithTodd Oh wow. That's great bc I am unable to walk far. I did this trip in 1993. I'm excited to repeat it. Thanks for the reply.
Excellent. So nice to see you make the trip again. The food is still amazing. It’s such a wonderful journey. Drop back when you complete the trip and let me know how you made out.
Awesome video thanks! Train 1 is west bound and Mount Robson is on the left as you head west past Jasper. 😊
@@dragonflyviz6546 Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed the video. I went east both trips on #2 and Mount Robson was on my left before arriving in Jasper. So I assume going west on #1 it would on you right after Jasper.
My sister and I are booked for this trip a year from know. How do the bar staff in the Park car know who is travelling Prestige class and entitled to free drinks?
The Park Car is off limits to the Non-Prestige sleeper class passengers until after 4:00 pm on day two during peak season. That’s gives staff time to get to know the Prestige passengers.
Are you travelling Prestige?
Thanks again for watching.
@AdventuresWithTodd No way., $$$, we are booking open berths, for half the cost of rooms, but still has the same dining meals as all sleeping car pax. We will visit the Park car once and respect that the Prestige people are paying a lot for their privileged position. Starting at Toronto, we will get off in Jasper to board the Rocky Mountaineer for the rest of the journey to Vancouver. This time we will splurge on Gold class ($$$$).
@@haweater1555 Wicked. It’s going to be a great trip. My first two trips were in a lower Berth. My wife is going next time so we are moving up to Room F.
I really liked the berths. Both trips there were only two berths occupied. First trip was with my son. We called the sections our three bed two bath condo lol. Second trip it was just myself and one other person.
Up to two days prior to departure I was the only one in Car 216, the last sleeper car on my train just ahead of the Skyline and Dining Car. A man from Australia travelling the county booked it two prior to departure.
Check out these videos. One is on the accommodations - mostly berths. The second link below is mostly about the food. Check them out.
VIA Rail The CANADIAN | Berths, Rooms, Roomettes, Showers and Bathrooms | Part 2 of 4
th-cam.com/video/9TWXPlEjElU/w-d-xo.html
VIA RAIL THE CANADIAN Menus, Meals, BAR HOPPING, PART 1 of 4
th-cam.com/video/H-TjzSMaQro/w-d-xo.html
@@AdventuresWithTodd My only other VIA trip out West was 30 years ago, a coach ticket on CanRailPass. With an upgrade to an upper berth (cheapest, obviously) in sleeping car for the 2nd of the then-three night trip (Winnipeg to Edmonton). Experienced the privilege of witnessing the prairie sunset from the Park car dome. Returned to the coach section for the mountain crossing while my new friends there were jealous that I had a good night's lay-flat sleep and luxury of taking a shower at the trip's mid-point. (No dinner in the diner, not included with fare at that time. I bought all my meals in the Skyline Café section of coach).
In 2007 I was just itchin to get on the train again so I took a round trip on the Chaleur (now gone). Arriving there in roomette, but the return trip they were all booked so I choose Lower Berth, and experienced the widest bed one could book on the train.
Other overnight trips in the 90s were a circle trip to Halifax on the Atlantic and the Ocean in roomette, a second one way trip on the Ocean, and a trip Montreal to Toronto in a bedroom for 2 shared with a friend on the corridor overnight train.
Todd is correct. We did Prestige a few years ago. Not many of us are in Prestige, so it did not take long for them to learn who we were.
Can you go to calaway theme park next time in Calgary in Alberta? Pls
@@SamFraser-nx1yz I will try my best to. I love theme parks.
@@AdventuresWithTodd and pls give link and tell me when you do it pls
@@SamFraser-nx1yz will do