Day 3. Car rental mega upgrade


Westjet's very modern prop plane flew us quietly to Halifax, on time on day 3.  We had lovely views of the fall leaves as we came into land, flying low over large stretches of water.  Halifax international is a modern airport and, of course, there was nothing to stop us whizzing into a completely empty car rental area as we had no bags to wait for.  ( I forgot to how amazed we were by the speedy immigration process at Montreal.  All passengers go through the same process whether Canadian or not.  There are rows and rows of machines which read passports - even mine which often foxes the machines at Heathrow- so no queuing at all.)

The laid back young guy at Thrifty made no attempt to give us the hard sell to upgrade or take out extra insurance and said we could have whatever we fancied of his stock.  We ended up with a Jeep Wrangler, complete with Sat Nav, for the price of an economy!  

We drove the 30mins into downtown Halifax with minimal difficulty despite failing to set the SN before we started so having to rely on Google maps directions, downloaded earlier and the embarrassment of driving up to the toll booth on the bridge into the city and being unable to open the windows!  Luckily the attendant knew immediately what the problem was but we still couldn’t identify the correct keys to press on the dashboard and had to hand over the $ round the edge of the door!





The Waverley Inn is old - in a historical way, not an Airport Inn way!  It's pretty and stuffed with antiques.  Even better it's just 2 blocks up from the water front and so close to the “must see” sights.

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