It's Toronto - May/June 2017

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CITYPASS that once they go on vacation, they’ll miss something incredible. So we made sure to include all the top attractions. They worry about spending their precious vacation time standing in line, which is why, whenever possible, CityPASS includes a line-skipping option. The whole idea was to take away the hassle, so that travellers and their families could just focus on having fun.” “We’ve seen a lot of change in the past 20 years,” said CityPASS president and CEO, Megan Allen. “We’ve seen sales go from primarily box office to largely online; we’ve gone from shipping every ticket booklet by post to sending a good portion of them via email; and, last year, we introduced our first entirely mobile pass, New York C3.” Most CityPASS booklets are designed to suit a typical stay of about a week, so they offer five or six admissions. The New York C3 mobile pass is tailored to shorter trips; it lets users in to any three of the top 10 New York attractions, like the Empire State Building, the Metropolitan Museum and the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. Also, instead of a ticket booklet, it takes the form of a mobile app. Kiev.Victor/Shutterstock.com 10 • It’s Toronto
CITYPASS CITYPASS TORONTO ATTRACTIONS In Toronto, CityPASS saves visitors about 40 per cent off the cost of admission to five of the city’s six most-visited attractions. These include: ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■ CN Tower, one of the tallest structures in the world, with sensational views over Lake Ontario, a breezy LookOut level that’s 1,136 feet/346 m in the air, and a Glass Floor area for those who dare to step across it Casa Loma, an actual castle that has starred in numerous movies (it stood in for the X-Men Academy, for example!) Royal Ontario Museum (left), Canada’s most extensive collection of natural and human history exhibits. This year’s star is the brand-new exhibit of one of the world’s largest and most complete Blue Whale skeletons, painstakingly assembled from bones recovered in Newfoundland three years ago. Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada (opposite), the newest addition to the Toronto CityPASS and home to a magnificent array of live sea creatures Either the Toronto Zoo (home to giant panda cubs Jia Panpan and Jia Yueyue) or the Ontario Science Centre (a fascinating interactive playground for inquiring minds) The Toronto CityPASS costs $76 plus tax for adults ($51 plus tax for children between the ages of 4 and 12). The full price for entry to the attractions is $127.15, so CityPASS represents savings of $51.15. CityPASS is sold at its partner attractions and online at citypass.com, where visitors will find insider tips (like when the CN Tower observation deck is least crowded). The tickets include public transit directions to each site. Booklets can be shipped to many international locations, or purchasers can print a voucher redeemable for the coupon booklet at whichever attraction they choose to visit first. Javen/Shutterstock.com MAY/JUNE 2017 • 11
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