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Old Jan 26, 2015, 3:05 pm
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CRAZ8
 
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I love the Okanagan area of BC. About 3 hours east of Vancouver, lots of wineries, a number of nice restaurants and reasonable lodgings.

However, there's not a lot of chain hotels here, so using points for rooms isn't going to be easy, unless you use something like the Capital One Venture card that allows you to remove vacation transactions with points after the trip.

The biggest town in the area is Kelowna, and this is where we stay, because we have partial ownership of a condo at the Grand Hotel on the waterfront. The other main town is Penticton, and it is more centrally located for access to the whole valley and wineries.

We've been visiting Kelowna for over 12 years, and are now friends with some of the winery owners and bar managers. We're visiting in a month or so to see one of our friend's new cocktail lounge and restaurant, although February doesn't have the best weather for a non-skiing vacation!
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