06-02-2021, 02:01 AM
(06-02-2021, 12:53 AM)deanhills Wrote: Exactly. Not to mention at least $2000 to cover expenses - book and pay in advance for a 3-day stay in a Canada Government approved Hotel and then be basically incarcerated in it while you wait for the outcome of a test which as far as I understand you have to pay for as well. I'd be dead worried to stay in Hotels like that and wonder how up to date their ventilation systems are. Like families congregating in small rooms in those Hotels. Got to be tough on the kids and their parents.
Any way. I'm sure I'm not the only Canadian grumbling about that. There are many Canadians - particularly the snow birds in the USA - delaying travel back to avoid the expense and discomfort around the airports.
Oh yeah, my birth-dad lives in Toronto and he's been wanting to come state side to see me, but there is no way between scheduling off work and everything you have to do to for reentry that it is worth while or possible for some people. I know with a friend, we went to Toronto February 2020 right when the US was starting to close their borders and we had to take a 90 hour train ride from Toronto to Chicago with a bunch of different stops just to get back home. We couldn't enter via NYC or we would have been held there and would not have been able to leave until about two or three months ago.