Presidential Treatment at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver
Fairmont Hotel Vancouver ~ Vancouver, British Columbia – The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver is one of those iconic city-center hotels that has a distinct feeling of history from the moment you enter the lobby. This is the third hotel to be named ’Hotel Vancouver’. The first was a five-story, brick structure that looked and functioned much like a farmhouse. [...]
10 Things Baby Boomer Travelers Will Love About Whistler, British Columbia in Canada
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada – We just returned from our two-week baby boomer tour of western Canada. Our first exciting stop was Whistler Village tucked at the feet of Blackcomb and Whistler mountains. Whistler is a place where mountains, rivers and First Nations people have met for millennia. The Coast Salish First Nations people [...]
Whistler’s Peak 2 Peak Gondola: World’s Longest Freespan Gondola Ride
Peak 2 Peak Gondola ~ Whistler, British Columbia, Canada – Are you ready for an unforgettable baby boomer travel experience? Groundbreaking. Innovative. An engineering marvel. Few projects can share such accolades – even fewer can live up to them. But the Whistler Blackcomb Peak 2 Peak Gondola does! This daring project has revolutionized the visitor experience [...]
Fairmont Chateau Whistler in Canada’s British Columbia
Fairmont Chateau Whistler ~ Whistler, British Columbia – Luxury baby boomer travelers enjoy world-class accommodations in spectacular, one-of-a-kind settings. The Fairmont Chateau Whistler gives them that in spades! This iconic resort sits at the foot of Blackcomb mountain and offers an easy walk to the village of Whistler (2010 Olympic Village), ski-in and ski-out privileges [...]
Days 3-6 of our Baby Boomer Western Canada Tour – Vancouver, British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia – Days 3-6 found us in Vancouver, British Columbia for a travel bloggers convention called TBEX ’11 (Travel Bloggers Exchange). We were nearly the only baby boomers in attendance as we found ourselves surrounded predominantly by 30-somethings. Travel writers converged upon the city to forge new relationships, meet with industry partners, and [...]
Day #2 of our Baby Boomer Western Canada Tour – Whistler, British Columbia
Our second day in Whistler found your traveling baby boomers hiking into the village to enjoy breakfast with Vanessa Murphy (Whistler Convention and Visitors Bureau) from our very comfy night’s stay at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler. As we were hoofin’ it to the village, we encountered a couple of black bears foraging for their own [...]
Day #1 of our Baby Boomer Western Canada Tour – Whistler, British Columbia
I (David) was no sooner in the door from my wonder-filled trip to the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Tweet-Up (which I still need to tell you about) when I found us back on a jet and headed off on our greatly anticipated baby boomer tour of western Canada. Carol secured our tickets for this flight [...]
