Shortage of doctors here to appealing for doctors on holiday if they could spare a few days to help out our surgery closed one day last weekAll doctors called in of hols here as the numbers are rising, Canada must have got it right.
Got the same email, it mentions the U.S. but I don’t think their borders are open yet. We had a trip planned for spring next year that took in both countries.Email from Seabridge....
Canada to open up in September.
No good for now but we may be able to ressurect our Canada/Usa trip for 2022 ?
3 months for the States and 6 months for Canada, otherwise you are asking for trouble.Hi All,
In a discussion with a German and Frenchman last year, who both had all terrain vehicles, they had taken 10yr old vehicles to USA and stayed for longer than 18months with no major difficulty. Both had sailed from Hamburg to USA.
We have a desire to try this and had begun gentle research for this prior to Covid. One constraint for us is finance so we are seeking some idea of travel budgets, reducing accommodation costs is a positive using a motorhome.
As a taster 4 yrs ago we hired a motorhome for a 4 week trip around East Canada that was an initial insight in how the American motorhome world worked.
To glean some knowledge and confirm information obtained from others about visiting N.America.
- What age of vehicle are you taking with you?, and what importing docs are needed.
How are you arranging Insurance?
We believe also that a vehicle import through Canada is simpler than USA and aids border crossing admin - do you agree?
Insurance in Canada is determined by the state you register the vehicle so how are you overcoming this?
Any advice welcome.
Hi **** - Could you confirm is this restraint for vehicles over a specific age?3 months for the States and 6 months for Canada, otherwise you are asking for trouble.
Thank you for the advice.You can get the underside of your vehicle cleaned near Liverpool... recommended
Yes make it look empty !
Also empty lpg tanks and limited diesel..No food whatsoever.
Collection in Halifax is fussy but hey that is just 1 day.
I suggest flying to Halifax say 3 days before Moho is due.
Yes @****Found quotes from Seabridge dated July 2020 (attached). Not as expensive as I thought but total carriage including the marine insurance and ‘forwarder’ charges comes to £6006.68p at today’s exchange rate against the Euro.
Then there’s return flights to Halifax and motor insurance. Sea bridge advised us to use Thum insurance, but you have to arrange this yourself as they aren’t allowed to use our personal data to get quotes for us.
There is another option to flying and that’s to sail with your vehicle, but spending 8 days at sea in a basic cabin isn’t very appealing and it’s much dearer than flying, plus you can’t drive off straight away, it takes approximately 3 days to clear customs so you’d need to get accommodation in Halifax and wait it out.
John and Sue Hughes have used Sea Bridge extensively all around the world, have a look at www.travelswithnocolle.co.uk in particular their North America tour. Interesting reading.