Six Canadian tour operators that do it better than we Do

When does a dollar only cost about 65¢? When you buy Canadian. If it were called the Canadian franc or peso, the contrast in value would be obvious. But make no mistake-if you're American, there's an enormous, and favorable, difference between the two dollars. At current exchange rates, buying tours and services priced in Canadian funds often means slashing the costs by about one-third, simply by converting your currency. And that's just the first good reason to look north of the U.S. border for prime value in travel.

Canadian travel companies often surpass American ones in other, unexpected ways, and the first is in quality. Forget bare-bones air/hotel packages. Canadians are a worldly people, so the travel norm comes with heaps of extras, from local sightseeing to meals. Canadians typically get more time off than we do, so they ...