Awesome photos. How did you fly there? Did you have a direct flight and was it a package deal that you had?

Thank You Jill....(I was in a "few" more but chose not to post them, lol! I like the curtain shot as well.

We flew from Montreal to San Andres on Air Transat, a large charter that sells all inclusive deals. We buy "air-only" at last minute to get the best deal(they liquidate the seats).

We then took a domestic flight to Old Providence.

Loved your pictures, Faithie!

I want to know more about this. Seems you can get such good deals out of Montreal. Better than what we can do down here.

My two daughters will be in Montreal next weekend. The older booked a trip for her and her BF, then he had a conflict with work last minute. Our younger daughter is goin down for a long weekend to keep her company. It's her birthday weekend, so they'll have a good time. Will it be pretty cold? Sweater weather or coats?

Looking forward to your report, and I may e-mail you at some point to pick your brain for finer details.

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What beautiful pics! From the air it looks a little like Bonaire which isn't too, too far from there. Now what about that trip report!?

Trip report in the works, lol!!!

Thanx for the compliments.

And JIll....Definately coats, and take the sweaters as well!

WE still have TONS of snow. We have had numerous deaths in Quebec in the last 2 weeks from roofs collapsing from the intense weight of snow. We were buried here this winter, TONS and tons of snow.

Montreals a very cool town. I'll help no prob.

PS The deals out of here can be "crazy" good.... The week before we booked our San Andres trip it was grand total $254.oo Montreal-SanAndres. Yes, return, all taxes in. Panama was the same and Costa Rica maybe $10 more...
The catch is that you need to "wait" & the week we needed to depart was March Break here in MOntreal so demand was higher thus prices didn't drop as much as the previous week. (still a good deal)
The bonus of living in cold Canada is lots, and lots of us like to go south! Thus the birth of things like selloff, lol!

That's just amazing. Do you book your hotel ahead of time and then count on airfare last minute? Does it ALWAYS work?

Thanks for the weather tips. Any suggestions as far as "must do's?" They are arriving Thursday, leaving Tuesday a.m.

First we choose our dates. We then start looking a month ahead at a few destinations we are interested in(this time it was Panama, San Andres, Costa Rica). I do the legwork of calling and emailing the hotels we like in each spot to check if there is availability. Then we just wait it out. Prices really drop 10 days before, then again 1 week before. Once it's in our affordable range we buy. This time we really wanted to see Providence so it was our priority. This last time we booked on Tuesday....left on Thursday!
It's how we did our 2 Panama trips, Costa Rica last year, and Yelapa as well.

Hi Faithie
my wife is in Cali now , she is visiting her family is there
I will be going there in 3 weeks then we are suppose to go to Providencia for 2 days ,I like to dive .can you give me the scoop on this neat looking island,hotels,dive shops, where to go,restraunts and someone told me to stay in a little hotel that is across the footbridge.My wife is telling me it is better in San Andres but I like the get away from people thing, please help

hi! can any one give some more details on providencia these days? catfishdon, how was your trip? we are thinking of going in august. where did you stay, how was it? hope to hear from you soon, as we are trying to get a last minute trip together...
thanks!