Accommodations in Winnipeg

Winnipeg is a big city, with many, many hotels and motels and a few bed and breakfasts. There is also at least one youth hostel. However, if you do not plan on hiring a car to get around we suggest choosing accommodations close to the downtown area, or along a major route. Melanie rates the transit system as very good - there is an online site that allows you to enter destination and origin and gives you details of what buses to take, so with internet access you can plan your day trips accordingly. You simply need to ask if the desired accommodation has easy access to a major bus route. And for the day of the wedding we would be happy to arrange for you to be picked up, taken around and dropped-off by local wedding guests!

The wedding ceremony will be in an area called St. Boniface (central west), and the reception is in the south west of the city. The Poole family is staying at a Bed and Breakfast in an area called West gate, where there are a number of B&B's in historic houses. This area is nestled in a river bend and is quite beautiful. It is within walking distance to downtown and is about half-way between ceremony and reception.


Melanie has a number of friends and family who are willing to host you! Please let us know if you would like to stay in a home rather than a hotel; it is no trouble at all.

And if you enjoy eating out you might be interested to know that Winnipeg has more restaurants per capita than any other city in Canada!

Travelling to Winnipeg from the UK

So the first thing you may be considering is how to get to Winnipeg - or more to the point, we should start by explaining where Winnipeg is! Winnipeg is in the heart of Canada, a large city on the prairies built at the trading point where two major rivers, the Red and Assiniboine meet. For more info, you can look at (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg).

Flying is probably the best way of getting to Winnipeg, although the more environmental of you may consider sailing or swimming across the Atlantic. Air Canada (http://www.aircanada.com) run daily flights to Winnipeg from Heathrow via Montreal and Toronto. United Airlines (http://www.united.com/) also flies into Winnipeg from Chicago, although this route will put you in contact with our friends at US customs. Finally I have recently been alerted to direct flights from Gatwick via Finn Air through a subsidiary, Go Travel Direct (http://flights.gotraveldirect.com). I think Finn Air have taken over the old flight plans of our deceased friends at Zoom Airlines.

If you are considering combining your Winnipeg visit with more travel in Canada, Westjet is a lower-budget cross-Canada airline that has been highly praised for their service (see www.westjet.com). Remember that Canada is a huge country with wide empty spaces, so travel by car should be carefully considered - give yourself plenty of time for any road trips! Travel by coach is also a possibility, but can be rather slow if inexpensive (see www.greyhound.ca).

Any questions? You can email us at pooleballwedding@gmail.com

So there you have it -next up will be accommodation in Winnipeg

Tim and Melanie

Welcome!

Hello friends and family! thanks for checking out our blog. We hope that we can provide you with valuable information on all things wedding-related (our wedding that is!). We are really excited about our wedding celebration in July and hope that as many of you can be there with us as possible. To make it easy for you, we want to provide detailed information (for our out-of-town guests) about travel to Winnipeg, accomodations, site-seeing etc... as well as general information about other aspects of our wedding (gift philosophy, gift ideas, wedding-day updates/changes).

We will be adding more soon!

Tim and Melanie