From incidental credit-card holds and resort fees to tipping, parking charges, breakfast surprises, and 21-plus check-in rules, discover the things Canadians find most confusing about staying in American hotels.
Texas and California are two of the biggest, loudest and most recognizable states in America. They also seem to disagree on just about everything. So when Texans head west for a California vacation, certain differences don't exactly take long to reveal themselves. Starting with one that hurts almost immediately.
Ask American travelers what surprised them most about Canada, and the answers quickly move beyond Toronto, Niagara Falls, and Banff. In traveler discussions, people repeatedly described discovering places that were prettier, friendlier, stranger, or simply more memorable than they had imagined. These were their standout locations and stories.
Americans from the Midwest may find Canada's Prairies surprisingly familiar—but huge skies, kilometre signs, canola fields, prairie towns, and long empty highways quickly reveal the differences.
Archaeologists in Norfolk uncovered a rare 2,000-year-old Iron Age war trumpet, or carnyx, alongside weapons and ceremonial objects that may illuminate Boudicca and the Iceni in ancient Britain more clearly.