Canada Confidential

A U.S. dollar currently buys nearly 1.5 Canadian dollars. Every Canadian price is therefore reduced in value by a third to visitors arriving with greenbacks in their hands. The result is sheer travel heaven.

But while everybody talks about how cheap Canada is, too few people have any idea of where to enjoy the very best of its bargains. To change all that, we went to several well-known travel editors, travel columnists, and staff reporters of Canada's major newspapers, and asked them to nominate the inns, resorts, lodges, and locations in their areas that supply the most exciting of Canada's rock-bottom-priced buys. And in the classic tradition of Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, we told them that the maximum cost we would consider was US $65 (the equivalent of about $100 Canadian) per person per night for a room and two meals (on-site or in neighboring restaurants). No sweat, ...