
Charlottetown Travel Guide
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Charlottetown is a city in Prince Edward Island, one of the Atlantic Provinces of Canada.
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Understand
Charlottetown is a great place to spend a few days. It's a quaint and pretty town, small enough to be able to walk around, and has lots of good restaurants and bars. It's also within easy reach of the PEI National Park.
Get in
By air
The Charlottetown Airport (IATA Airport Code: YYG), 250 Maple Hills Ave, [1] has nonstop flights to Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, and Detroit.
- Air Canada/Air Canada Jazz (Halifax (Nova Scotia), Montreal, Toronto)
- Westjet (Toronto)
- Northwest Airlines (Detroit)
- Sunwing Vacations (Toronto)
Get around
See
- St. Dunstan's Basilica, 45 Great George St, +1 902 894-3486, [2]. Tourists welcomed between services.
Do
- At the harbour front you can get on a seal-watching tour boat.
Buy
Charlottetown contains two major shopping centres: the Confederation Court Mall (right downtown, across from Province House), and the Charlottetown Mall, which is just out of town in West Royalty, on University Avenue. They contain the usual anchor stores (Zellers, SportsChek, etc), as well as many smaller stores. West Royalty also has many stand-alone big-box stores, such as Wal-Mart, Canadian Tire, Future Shop, etc.
If you're coming to Prince Edward Island at all, its probably not to shop, but to relax. If you get off the beaten path, though, you'll find lots of great specialty shops just waiting for your business.
Groceries are readily available from many major supermarkets within Charlottetown, but make sure to stock yourself up for Sunday because very few stores are allowed to open on Sundays, with the exception of the 5 weeks leading up to Christmas.
Eat
Drink
Sleep
There are some great Bed and Breakfast places like Fitzroy Hall on Fitzroy Street. A lot of the downtown B&B's are much better value for money than the motels on the edge of the city.
Get out
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