Trip to Kingston 😎 🇨🇦 Princess street, Wolfe island, and an amazing BnB! 

When you go to Wolfe Island, there is a bus that will take you to town (Marysville). You missed out! The ferry is temporarily going to the winter ferry dock but hopefully soon it will resume service to Marysville. There’s lots to do on the island! Next time you should check out Big Sandy Bay! ☀️

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Thank you so much for the mention! It was a pleasure! Glad you enjoyed your visit!

Love love this vid!! Love how u out the maps oh my gosh!! So perfect! Thanks ❤❤

Nice video, I did a ton of research and moved back to Canada from China in 2019. I chose Kingston. It seems many others did after the word got out during Covid. It is a beautiful city with far more pros than cons. Some say making friends is rough, but there are many groups with similar interests to meet people. I highly recommend it if you want that balanced combination of a small/large city.

There are fancier bed and breakfasts here though the one you chose is nice. I would recommend not coming for just one Sunday. There is nightlife and Kingston has the most restaurants per capita of any city in Canada. Check out the university campus, all of the water front paths by bike, there are beaches everywhere on the islands, so much to do. Soon both Amherst and Wolfe Islands will have new electric ferries. You can take thousand island boat tours up and down the thousand islands too. Kingston is a very educated city too. So, I encourage you to come back a few times in the summer. Try the Buskers festival next July. There is a LOT going on at night downtown on weekends but, NOT on a Sunday night. Come during Queens homecoming or during a summer festival.

The reason that the ferry didn’t go to Marysville on Wolfe Island is that the dock there is being completely reconstructed to accommodate the brand new eco-friendly electric Wolfe Islander IV ferry. Work on the Wolfe Island dock should be completed in fall 2023.

The only problem here is the expensive rent! Some houses are renting more than what the average in Toronto

You've explored more in 2 days than My wife and I have in nearly 6 months of living here!

We love Kingston, too. And we've stayed at Hochelaga Inn, twice! Probably the nicest place to stay in the city!!

Happy Friday everyone!😎Would you visit Kingston? If you are from the city, feel free to add any information that might be useful for people travelling there!

I just love Kingston. one of the few places in Canada where history has remained important . Also a thriving downtown. which is an oddity for a small city. If you are there again try the Toucan bar have a great beer and the Mac and Cheese, I've never had better!

Nice video thanks for all the interesting facts and info keep up the good work

The via rail ticket is often half if you buy at least 2 weeks in advance.

It's weird seeing my hometown in a video and being like "yeah I been there"

Vacation on US side of TI but cross over to visit Kingston. Fun spot for shopping, grabbing lunch or a beer. Reminds me of a freshwater version of US cities Wilmington,NC, Charleston and Savannah. Only negative is large homeless population littering Princess St.

I live in kingston. I like this city but if you don't have a car and drive you have to really enjoy spending like 2 hrs on the bus daily. Everything is super spread out and not very walkable. It's probably okay if you live downtown but then rent will be pretty expensive, unless you move into student only housing.

Some of these places I haven't even heard of and this is my home town! Gotta try some of it out, also a great town to live in besides traffic as it can get a bit ridiculous around 4pm especially

My 😂 sister is going to live there 😊

The Ambassador hotel is pretty good I hear. Never been there but heard good things about it!! I live in Kingston and it’s a nice to see a video on this town it was a delight!! I use to busk on Princess street a long time ago, want to get out there this summer but I don’t know if I will. Thanks for your video!! Cheers!!

i live in kingston for 10 years

Also Juniper Cafe has a second location in the West end

This is Amazing video!

Just a suggestion of a few areas to check out in the Kingston area. Lemoine's Point, Rock Dundar, Wolfe Island Grill, John A's Graveyard, the Abandoned Prison (they play movies in the courtyard during warm season) and Aqua Terra/Tengo Nuevo (two great restaurants) but a bit costly.

Did you know Kingston was the original Capital of Canada? Sir John A. MacDonald actually lived here (his home is a historic Site), next time go to Crave (coffee shop on Princess St.).

Working here in Kingston, Ontario 🥰🥰🥰

It's cool seeing someone experience your home for the first time Queen's just sucks lol Picton sandbanks are great if you want to go to the beach

Martello Alley hides the entrance to a huge and amazing antique store, Antiques Alley. Also, the reason the sculpture is called "Time" is that supposedly in another 300 years (well, 250 now) geological movements with bring the points of the two prisms together.

Gord Downie pier and the Juniper Cafe are on Lake Ontario not the St Lawrence! But still beautiful no matter the name.

Kingston was Canada's first capital before Ottawa

Anyone coming to st Lawrence College, Kingston for January 2024 ?

Lmaooo as a hometown it’s horrible 😭😭😭

I live in Kingston becareful here some police involved in human trafficking

Now for an REAL appraisal: I grew up in Kingston and then moved back after 50 years. Roads are now the WORST of any city in Ontario. And I've lived or been in almost all of them. Streets/roads haven't been fixed since 1930's or 40's. And there are no plans to do so. 200 ambulances and firetrucks go by my place EVERY DAY. More than in Gaza after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack!!! How is that possible? Druggies laying all over the sidewalks, stealing, urinating, yelling or passed out. Ever since they started giving out free narcotics, it's become a druggie Mecca. Politicians here are completely useless, just putting in time.....and probably living in the suburbs. If you move to Kingston, make sure you stay healthy. There's a 10 year waiting list for family doctors. Kingston has offered medical school graduates $100k bonus if they'll move here...but there have been few takers. If Kingston is so attractive, ask yourself why professionals can't be bribed to move here.

I totally understand that for trips over 3 hours you’d rather take the train but if your goal is to see and explore the country you will see more on the bus because the bus can go places the train does not go. Just saying 👍

I am sorry to correct you, but you keep saying Kingston is at the " St. Lawrence River " in fact it sits by " Lake Ontario ".....

You’ve got to travel more, much better places to live. I’m in the process of leaving 👍

What is the name of the hotel you stayed?

I love this video. I actually did a stop in Kingston during Christmas time last month and unfortunately it was quite cold for me and my family to bear seeing all of the places that you outlined in this video. I hope to come back to visit in the summertime though.

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When you first said Kingston, I thought you were visiting Jamaica, so am very disappointed!

people have been visiting Kingston long before this. We all know what not to expect.

I am from Kingston Ontario. We have "Old Fort Henry", Wolfe Island also has a corn maze every summer. If you like sub-par junior hockey (lol) we have the Frontenacs also. Since you asked why Queen's U was slipping in it's ranking... well, I hate to get "political" in your comments section... so, if anyone reading this gets offended easily, stop reading now. I have something to say about our beautiful city. The far-left "intellectuals" have taken over. They went very, very woke - like most Canadian Universities. Same goes for the rest of the City. Kingston traditionally votes very liberal... so we tend to get the liberal city "problems" also, like people going out of their way to tell you to put a mask on while walking outside (that I can deal with) and even worse liberal city problems... the downtown "homeless riff raff" problem. My kids are NOT allowed to go downtown since my son was jumped by a homeless man in his 50s for the $10 bill in his hand... my son was 9 years old at the time and was trying to buy some raspberries at the farmer's market. That was 6 years ago. Yeah. No charges BTW because another man helped my son but holding that homeless POS down while the police came... 25 minutes later. My son called me - we live behind Costco in the north end... I was able to drive downtown and beat Kingston Police there... and who responded? Some fat woman cop riding a f**king horse, and she was useless - 1) she couldn't handle the horse and 2) would not get off the horse - she just sat on the horse for 5 minutes (while the citizen held down that smelly man) until her back up arrived. It was ridiculous. Oh, My parents actually refuse to go Downtown now also - they witnessed a homeless women stabbing someone in broad daylight. About 3 to 4 of them begging at every corner some days. Some street person was wielding a knife with a 16 inch blade last time I went downtown. Just ridiculous. I WISH I was exaggerating. I Love Kingston, which is why I judge it so harshly when it has started to slip. DO NOT GET STUCK WALKING ALONE AT NIGHT DOWNTOWN ANYWHERE - ESPECIALLY ON THE SIDE STREETS DOWNTOWN. Cost of living has also skyrocketed in the past 10 years - it's becoming unlivable for the middle class. In fact, Kingston has a huge "welfare state community" in the Rideau Heights. I used to work in the bank that had the "City accounts", so I used to have to deal with the welfare community every month - trust me - it's bigger and more costly than the average citizen knows. I do NOT recommend moving here. Brockville is 1 hour down the road toward Montreal. Gananoque is only 25 minute slow drive in that direction too. Both are much smaller and much quieter... and safer too. Again, sorry Kingston for the negative plug - but I live here and I am sick and tired of it and people should know if they ever consider moving here.

What about most famous Kingston pen, or the 1000 island cruise...these are the biggest attractions, not the bars and lame cookie cutter coffee shops.

Question is why would you want to? Kingston roads are broken.ridiculous traffic and high property taxes, avoid

My house is free

Duuuuump!