01-29-2023, 11:20 PM
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#4381
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Do you have a region in mind? On itasoftware you can put in any number of airports, and they have a tool to search airports by radius.
So you can search a one way from say every airport in Western Europe to Calgary
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Nothing specifically, but noticed some one-way flights to Europe or US are cheaper than others, like to Phoenix during Spring Break isn’t bad, but return is quite a bit more than double. So, if we’re going to travel around anyway, then might look at leaving from another city. Entering all of the major airports into ITA Matrix might work though.
We also found that traveling around Europe it was a bit of a waste to go back to our arrival city. It would have been better in retrospect to find another place to fly out of, that didn’t add to the price, so we could see more places.
Are there any cities that are generally cheaper to fly to Calgary from than others?
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01-30-2023, 09:26 AM
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#4382
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by Wormius
So it’s super easy enough to search for one-way trips *from* Calgary and look for cheap destinations, but if you’re interested in doing a return from another city, is there a resource available to find where the cheapest flight *to* Calgary would from? The price from / to Calgary don’t always directly correlate.
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Try this search on Kiwi.com
https://www.kiwi.com/en/search/resul...5-31/no-return
Click on the departure date box and then click on a month to search the entire month.
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02-02-2023, 02:55 PM
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#4383
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Calgary
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What are you guys using for phone service in Mexico these days? Is a sim swap worthwhile? I’ll be there for a week, and not sure if want to pay $15/day in roaming charges.
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02-02-2023, 02:57 PM
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#4384
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Ironhorse
What are you guys using for phone service in Mexico these days? Is a sim swap worthwhile? I’ll be there for a week, and not sure if want to pay $15/day in roaming charges.
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If just data an e-sim on Airalo is $8 USD for 1 GB for a week or $15 usd for 2 GB for 15 days.
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02-02-2023, 03:46 PM
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#4385
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Weitz
If just data an e-sim on Airalo is $8 USD for 1 GB for a week or $15 usd for 2 GB for 15 days.
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That might be what finally gets me to upgrade phones - the savings there with e-sim is pretty significant...
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02-02-2023, 06:04 PM
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#4386
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Weitz
If just data an e-sim on Airalo is $8 USD for 1 GB for a week or $15 usd for 2 GB for 15 days.
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How about those of us who have older iPhones without eSims?
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02-02-2023, 11:07 PM
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#4387
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by Ironhorse
What are you guys using for phone service in Mexico these days? Is a sim swap worthwhile? I’ll be there for a week, and not sure if want to pay $15/day in roaming charges.
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Telcel is the provider you want to go with in Mexico. It's somewhat expensive to order their sim card ahead of time (on say, Amazon). But if you buy one in Mexico they're very cheap ($10-$15 CAD).
The problem with Airalo in Mexico is that Airalo is using Movistar / AT&T as their provider. They're not known to have great coverage.
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02-03-2023, 03:27 PM
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#4388
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Franchise Player
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Do we know if WestJet will continue with the Calgary - Amsterdam offering? I believe it was only seasonal and I’m not seeing flights into spring/summer yet.
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02-03-2023, 04:07 PM
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#4389
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by agulati
Do we know if WestJet will continue with the Calgary - Amsterdam offering? I believe it was only seasonal and I’m not seeing flights into spring/summer yet.
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They have discontinued the route after March.
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02-03-2023, 04:38 PM
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#4390
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by agulati
Do we know if WestJet will continue with the Calgary - Amsterdam offering? I believe it was only seasonal and I’m not seeing flights into spring/summer yet.
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I'm pretty sure the slots Westjet is using in Amsterdam are only seasonal (not permanent). I don't believe they have access to the airport during the busiest (summer) season.
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02-03-2023, 05:03 PM
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#4391
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2022
Location: California
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Originally Posted by cmyden
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This website has some of the scariest Google reviews I've ever seen.
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02-03-2023, 11:16 PM
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#4392
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by bizaro86
I'm pretty sure the slots Westjet is using in Amsterdam are only seasonal (not permanent). I don't believe they have access to the airport during the busiest (summer) season.
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That is my understanding as well. Unfortunate, but in some ways irrelevant now as they don’t enough aircraft to service the route without making reductions elsewhere IIRC
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02-04-2023, 11:08 AM
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#4393
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Franchise Player
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That makes sense. Really liked that route, and was planning on taking that to get back into Amsterdam this year and using it as a base. The pricing for that route were great too.
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02-05-2023, 12:16 PM
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#4394
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by agulati
That makes sense. Really liked that route, and was planning on taking that to get back into Amsterdam this year and using it as a base. The pricing for that route were great too.
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Don’t know how prices compare but keep in mind KLM flies year round to AMS.
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02-05-2023, 06:29 PM
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#4395
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by Lubicon
Don’t know how prices compare but keep in mind KLM flies year round to AMS.
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They prices don't compare, sadly. The day after the WestJet flights end, KLM's price almost doubles.
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02-06-2023, 08:41 AM
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#4396
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Calgary
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Any recommendations on where you guys like to get your Pesos? I’m leaving for Mexico this coming weekend.
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02-06-2023, 12:26 PM
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#4397
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#1 Goaltender
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Calforex has everything you need. Rates slightly better than banks from past experience but is has been a while.
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02-06-2023, 12:32 PM
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#4398
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by red sky
Calforex has everything you need. Rates slightly better than banks from past experience but is has been a while.
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They really don't.
Calgary (at least a couple months ago) had literally zero pesos including Calforex. This included nearly all banks downtown and in the NW (I tried many including having each bank search on where there may be any available)
If you need to get pesos right now, you need to make an order ahead of time for any chance unless the situation has improved this month.
Heck even YYC did not have pesos.
I had to make my exchanges at the airport in Mexico.
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02-06-2023, 12:38 PM
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#4399
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Firebot
They really don't.
Calgary (at least a couple months ago) had literally zero pesos including Calforex. This included nearly all banks downtown and in the NW (I tried many including having each bank search on where there may be any available)
If you need to get pesos right now, you need to make an order ahead of time for any chance unless the situation has improved this month.
Heck even YYC did not have pesos.
I had to make my exchanges at the airport in Mexico.
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The shop in Market Mall always has pesos. They are a bit higher price than the Bank but I can get pesos immediately. I've have no problem getting $2000 cdn worth of peso from there. Last time I did this was just before Christmas.
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02-06-2023, 12:40 PM
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#4400
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by rotten42
The shop in Market Mall always has pesos. They are a bit higher price than the Bank but I can get pesos immediately. I've have no problem getting $2000 cdn worth of peso from there. Last time I did this was just before Christmas.
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You are probably why they had zero pesos 
Trust me, went to Market Mall and they said all of their locations had zero.
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