Invite The World

These numbers (new area codes) have been long planned, and are coming close to take effect…

New area code “236″ for BC will take effect in June 2013.
Area code 672 has been reserved for British Columbia once area code 236 is exhausted.
Current area codes for BC include: 604, 250, and 778.

New area code “437″ for Toronto will take effect in March 2013.
Currently Ontario has 11 area codes covering the whole province.

Further reading…

If you are interested, or just for a little bit more information for your future reference, here is the List of North American Area Codes (current and future) -
View by the code: LINK
View by country, state or province: LINK

Page title: Arrival of the guests – finally!
本页标题：旅客终于到步了！

Arrical of the first four
第一组四人合照留念

Sweet welcome candy from hotel general manager
酒店总经理的甜蜜欢迎糖果

Sorry about the extended silence of the travel plan of our guests!

Things are mostly set…
1. Air tickets are issued – and the arrival date is June 30, 2012.
2. Hotel rooms are confirmed – a 2-bedroom Garden Suite at Fairmont Waterfront Vancouver.
3. Other prize items are being processed by Tourism Vancouver.

Our guests will stay in town for about one month – there will be a total of five. We have been researching many points of interest and have booked some of them so far. Vancouver Island, Whistler, Okanagan and even Banff and Jasper are considered.

If you have suggestions of great spots to share please feel free to reply to this post so we could look into those (also as good reference for visitors of this blog).

Traffic and moving around could be a challenge, as we only have two cars but do not have a vehicle that could accommodate more than 5 persons. A 7- or 8-seater minivan would be ideal. Any sponsorship suggestions (arrangements) would be very welcome!

Will write again soon.

And again, my family, our guests and I are very grateful of receiving the prizes from the Invite The World campaign organizer and the sponsors:
-Tourism Vancouver (the organizer)
-Canadian Tourism Commission
-TELUS
-Lululemon
-The Vancouver Hotel Destination Association
-Downtown Vancouver Business Imporvement Association
-Vancouver Airport Authority

Grand prize providers:
-The Fairmont Waterfront
-Birks
-Bluebird
-Hawksworth Restaurant at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia

As the Grand Prize Winner of the Invite The World Campaign, my ‘obligation’ is to invite four people from around the world to visit Vancouver. [My 'obligation' is indeed my honour.] As revealed in my previous post, I have decided my guests to be my relatives in China and in Hong Kong. Visitors from China are required visa to enter Canada. To many of you applying for a visa would seem to be a matter of filling out few pieces of document and submitting them to a Canadian Visa Office overseas. But to people who know very little English (or French) the lots of paper work could be a disastrous work.

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