Travel news

Basecamp Resorts (basecampresorts.com) is opening its newest location in Golden, B.C., on Dec. 10. Lodge Golden features 15 rooms located 10 minutes from Kicking Horse Mountain Resort and several national parks such as Yoho, Glacier and Kootenay.

Gift a loved one Landsby’s Rail + Roam getaway (landsby.ca/rail-and-roam), featuring wilderness, culinary and wellness adventures in Southeastern Ontario’s Brockville, Kingston, Cornwall and Belleville paired with train travel from Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. Consider glamping in a yurt at Springfield Farm or a helicopter tour of the Thousand Islands.

Fairmont Vancouver Airport

(fairmont-vancouver-airport.com) makes shopping on the fly easy with its Holiday Pop-Up Market, open until Dec. 31. Local businesses, artisans and Fairmont signature items are all on offer and those wanting to write to Santa Claus can drop off a letter at the hotel’s Santa Mailbox.

Enhance your mixology skills with the Gin X Menaud workshop at Quebec City’s Auberge Saint-Antoine (saint-antoine.com). Offered on Dec. 9, participants will learn from Bar Artefact’s head bartender Felix-Andre about Quebec and international gins, and how to make the ultimate gin and tonic.

Banff has launched the Hot Chocolate Trail (banfflakelouise.com), with more than 20 options to find a sweet warm-up throughout town, including Boozy Hot Chocolate at the Larkspur Lounge.

– WAHEEDA HARRIS

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