Getting there

BY AIR
A number of airlines offer flights from London Heathrow, London Gatwick and Glasgow. In low season, flights can be as cheap as £280 return, including taxes and surcharges. Flying time is roughly 6 hours heading west, 5 hours heading east. Jet lag is less of a problem than other long-haul destinations, as the province is only 4 hours behind UK time.

Halifax International Airport is small, and very efficient. Almost 3.4 million passengers used the airport in 2006, and it won three first place awards in the AETRA Airport Customer Satisfaction Survey two years in a row. A US pre-clearance facility was opened in October 2006, with on-site US Customs and Border Protection officials, making it easier and faster for passengers travelling direct to US destinations. Early in 2007, it was officially renamed the “Robert L Stanfield International Airport”.

There are a number of small regional airports, located at Sydney (Cape Breton), Digby and Liverpool.

AIRLINES
www.aircanada.com
www.airtransat.com
www.icelandair.com (flying via Reykjavik)

AIRPORTS
www.flyhalifax.com
www.hiaa.ca


BY SEA
Bay Ferries operate “The Cat”, a 91-metre high-speed car ferry, between Maine, USA, and Yarmouth in Nova Scotia. The Cat has a bar, café, casino, duty-free shop, and TV-movie lounge. Travelling time from Bar Harbor, Maine, to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, is under three hours, while from Portland, Maine, to Yarmouth, it’s under six hours.
www.catferry.com

Other seasonal ferry services are:
From St John in New Brunswick to Digby in Nova Scotia aboard the mv PRINCESS OF ACADIA.
www.catferry.com

From Newfoundland (Port-aux-Basques) to North Sydney in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
www.marine-atlantic.ca

From Prince Edward Island (Wood Islands) to Caribou, Nova Scotia.
www.peiferry.com