Toronto Pearson International Airport aka: YYZ

Everyone is really rushed and the staff are pretty unfriendly… strange… but probably to be expected in a huge city airport.

Still, it sucked. :P

Had a 9 hour layover from 12am-9am on the way to Dublin in Terminal 1. I have the most eerie photographs of a completely empty airport. Best part- after reading Irish history all through the night, we stopped by Lush for some free samples to refresh us before boarding the plane!

Take the 192 Airport bus from departure levels to Kipling subway. It will cost you $2.75. The bus stop has red bands on the top and bottom of the post. Hopefully you’ll recognize it. The bus stop is on an island in Terminal 3.

My husband and I knew each other before we met in person. Toronto Airport was our “meeting place” and it’ll always hold some amount of magic for me. It’s where I experienced my own love at first sight.

The last two trips out of Pearson make me grumble. The grumble for today is slowness in letting me through the security gate, not for anything I had done but because of the two people in front of me they asked to take off their shoes. (One of whom budged in front of me.) The other grumble is about them taking my fingernail scissors, which were both perfect and expensive, and not-still never, either going from or to Vancouver-my small el cheapo screwdriver, which is equally sharp and dangerous.

That, and there’s no wifi Internet in Terminal 3 (AFAIK).

But to get anywhere in Canada when I lived overseas we had to go through this maze of an airport. If you are just travelling within Canada it’s okay, but having to switch terminals never improves.

It’s insanely hard to get to, especially during normal hours when the traffic around the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) is immense. Also fares are often more expensive than other airports in the general area… go to Buffalo if you can.

Serious lack of people-friendly.

loud and scary and a coke was 2 bux, not recommended by me