Skipping the U.S. and taking a vacation to East Coast this year? It will cost you.

FREDERICTON – In September 2024, Natasha Beitman Brener and her husband decided to take a three-week vacation to Canada’s East Coast.

Beitman Brener, a lawyer in Kingston, Ont., spent about six months planning the trip, looking at various options to stay in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

“We are young, we don’t have all the money in the world, we have a mortgage. So we went on this trip and we thought, ‘oh, this will be affordable compared to something like Japan’ . … We were going to cook our own food,” she said in a recent interview.

They rented a recreational vehicle in Montreal for about $6,000, and between campground parking fees, gasoline, groceries, park passes, a round of golf, and a couple of dinners out, Beitman Brener said the total added up to $15,000.