Originally Posted by
YVR Cockroach
No way you can change the airport to YYC?
The drive up Mt Revelstoke NP is worth doing IMO (only did a half-way drive at sunset).
On your way back (and/or there), you can always stop at wineries in the Okanagan (wineries stretch all the way from Vernon to Osoyoos though the bulk are south of Kelowna). There are 3-4 in the Kamloops area though one of the two I really like (for product) was way off the highway to the north (o.k.ish if you're coming down from Valemount) and I believe has been sold since.
FWIW, Kamloops must be chosen because it is the only large town with sufficient hotel accommodation capacity on the rail line for RME pax.
No change without huge fees. We're actually arriving in Vancouver by SHIP and then returning to Chicago from there.
BYW - Google is giving random travel times today as Highway 1 is littered with road closings that weren't there a couple days ago - I'm guessing this all related to a storm - when I called a Banff hotel the person answered the phone "hello from snowy Banff."