VISA Cottage Getaway & Tim Hortons Prize Pack
VISA and Tim Hortons have recently announced that you can now pay for your coffee, baked goods, Iced Capps and more using your VISA or pre-paid VISA card in Canada. To celebrate this union, they’re running a contest for the ultimate cottage getaway. You’re automatically entered anytime you use your VISA at Tim Hortons between now and August 15, 2012.
There are 26 locations in Vancouver including 1753 Davie Street (on your way to English Bay), and 3250 Arbutus (on your way to Spanish Banks, Jericho or Locarno beaches).
Supplied by VISA & Tim Hortons
They have also reached out and offered up a prize package exclusively to one lucky Miss604 reader, which will come in handy for picnic days, outings to Cultus Lake, road trips, camping getaways, and any other adventures you might get up to this summer.
The prize pack (valued at $200) includes:
A $35 VISA pre-paid card; a large canister of Tim Hortons coffee; 2 Tim Hortons mugs; towel, lanterns, citronella candles and flower pots; a small shovel and pail, Frisbee, beach ball, and velcro glove catcher with ball; sun screen and bug spray; and portable speakers.
Here’s how you can enter to win:
- Leave a comment naming your favourite day trip or local camping destination (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
I will draw one winner at random from all entries next Thursday, July 5, 2012 at 12:00pm. Prize cannot be redeemed for cash value.
Update July 5, 2012: On a side note, Tim Hortons and Bell Mobility announced today that they’re bringing free WIFI to 90% of Tim Hortons locations across Canada by September.
Update The winner is Rajvir Boparai!
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Bowen Island
Whistler for a Day trip.
Newcastle Island in Nanaimo. Awesome place for a hike and a picnic!
Grouse grind
My family’s favorite day trip is goign to visit friends in Sushine Coast.
I’ve heard Rathtrevor in Parksville is lovely. The weather has got to shape up though!
Manning Park
Bowen Island
My favourite day trip has been to Whistler, it was brilliant!
Lois Lake
Whistler!! Awesome food, adventures and people!! #BCLOVE
Alice Lake up past Squamish!! But be sure to bring some bells with you as we kept running into a mama bear and her cubs!! Lol!!!
Whistler!
Bowen Island for the fastest most “west coast” getaway for a few hours.
white pine beach
Stanley Park
Desolation Sound
I love going out to Chilliwack and visiting everything around Shuswap lake and waterslides!
Whistler
victoria
Golden Ears Prov Park or Porpoise Bay on the Sunshine Coast
Chilliwack and cultus always a fave!!
hotel lake
White Rock on a nice sunny weekend afternoon
I love camping at Rolley Lake in BC.
Derby Reach for some great camping on the river (when it isn’t flooded) or just a picnic on a sunny day is perfect
Lake Tamahai in BC near Cultus Lake
Alice Lake
Nairn Falls, a bit primitive but the falls are amazing and the campsites are large.
Whistler’s a great day trip!
Harrison Hot Springs
FAve Day trip = Sechelt or Gibsons
Lighthouse Park for a summer day trip including a spot of sea cliff climbing and some lazing in the sun (come on sun).
A day at Cultus Lake can’t be beat
Favourite day trip is definitely Point Roberts!
Victoria
Grouse Grind..day trip ever!
I would have to say Lighthouse Park also 🙂
Harrison Hot Springs! 🙂
Grouse Grind
White Pine beach
I like going to Lighthouse Park – like other people in this post!
Burnaby Lake!
Othello Tunnels
I think Whytecliff Park is a great place to spend a nice summer day.
Cultus Lake
White Pine Beach
Whistler is fun even in the summer time! The drive there is so pretty!
Golden Ears
camping at manning park!
Harrison Hot Springs is my favorite day trip…especially if it is more than one day!
Tweeted too!
My favorite camping spot is Betula lake in the Whiteshell
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tweeted
https://twitter.com/Prairiebelle/status/218501690771513344
Shannon Falls is a great day trip!
San Josef Bay!
Alice Lake
Harrison Hot Springs!
Point Roberts
Seattle
Grouse Grind! 🙂
Day trip or camping? Needle Peak, but only if I can take my Tim Hortons to go. Otherwise, I stay in the city.
Whistler 😀
Bowen Island is my favourite day trip. I always feel like a getaway and is so close!
Steveston or Squamish.
Cultus Lake Waterpark!!
Rocky Point Park
Cat lake camping/fishing and picnicking
Whistler
Though I am on a diet this actually wouldn’t be that bad if I spend it on the right things. A little caffeine is actually suppose to help you burn calories. My favourite day trip would probably have to be somewhere where I could hike a lot. I love hiking. Perhaps Cypress Mountain.
Buntzen Lake.
My fav day trip is a drive down the sea to sky highway to Shannon Falls.
Whistler
Whistler
English Bay!
Whistler
Galiano Island!
Our favorite day trip would be silver lake in hope ..
https://twitter.com/MichelleLKent/status/218565562731728896 my tweet
Alice Lake – it’s beautiful camping up there!
https://twitter.com/sgudlaug/status/218567375480553472
My favorite has got to be hiking the Chief!
Buntzen Lake. I like the water.
Harrison Hot Springs
Cascade Falls in Mission
Whistler especially in the summer
alice lake for local camping and shannon falls for a picnic
Love heading to Whistler for a quick getaway!
Belcarra
My fav day trip is probably out to Whistler. It’s such a fun drive!!
Saltspring Island
I enjoy a day trip to Squamish. The scenery is calming and amazing, there is a great bakery in town that sells the most amazing breads, pastries and coffee and a great local town atmosphere that is lost in Vancouver.
Cultus Lake for a day trip & Chillwack for a weekend of camping Love both
Sunshine Coast.
My favourite day trip is to Granville Island!
Harrison Hot Springs
Whistler, Victoria, and Bowen Island.
Bellingham for shopping at Trader Joes!
Steveston
Whistler!
Cottage in Northern BC
Rockwood is my favourite campsite. Local and beautiful
Island time. Vancouver or Bowen
Belcarra when the weather is finally warm enough!
Alice lake
Cultus lake
We like camping at Spruce Woods Provincial Park
Tofino!
Whistler!
Stanley Park!
Our favourite day trip spot is Lynn Canyon tweeted as well
Whistler!
Anywhere it isn’t raining!
Bowen Island
whistler
a drive up to Whistler and back
Cultus Lake !!
Harrison Hot Springs
Whistler
parks in the city – vacation at home!
harrison hot springs and tofino!
Keats Island, so nice, so remote, so everything..
My favourite destination is Seattle probably because my boyfriend lives there.
fav day trip is to montreal… only and hour and a half away for great shopping!!!
Harrison Hot Springs for me!
Manning Park! 🙂
Bowen Island
Vancouver Island. Up along the coast – Parksville area – beautiful
Sechelt.
going to do the grouse grind
A day trip to Whistler is always worth the drive.
Taking a drive up to Harrison Hot Springs
The sea to sky highway drive to Alice Lake near Squamish is a sweet local camping destibation!
Tweeted:
https://twitter.com/toothfairycyber/status/218848334356561921
Elk Falls Campground 🙂
paddling through widgeon creek
The campgrounds at Golden Ears or Brae Island
Our family loves camping. Golden Ears is probably the best spot for camping, it is very eaay to get to.
Golden ear! Best Camp site!
I like going to Niagara Falls for the day. It’s an easy drive and it seems like a real vacation.
Fave day trip is to stanley park 🙂
My favourite place is a nearby park.
Pender Island
the beach—any beach will do!
A day at Crescent Beach summer or winter.
Stanley Park!
harrison hot springs is a great day trip!
Cultus Lake Waterslides and horseback riding are our family faves.
Harrison Hot Springs
https://twitter.com/leanne_mac/status/218958161565073408
“Happy Friday” is a tradition we started when our son Evan turned 5 yrs old. We always close the week off by doing something different and fun to celebrate the TGIF norm. This previous Friday was extra special – SUMMER VACATION just started. So from Elementary school we went to Tim Horton’s for Timbits – to the duck pond fed the seagulls lol and then to Rosslyn Community park to play on the swings. Retiring at night my son gave me a big HUG and that was my perk and prize for the day.
eva urban
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https://twitter.com/emurban/status/219055977410994176
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Harrison Hot Springs!
Cultus lake!
Rocky Point Park!
Murrin Lake
Sechelt! or other small islands!
Stanley Park
Whistler!
Nanaimo!
Cultus Lake is close, yet far enough away to be called a ‘trip’
I like camping at Ellison Park in Vernon.
Living in the Valley, one of my usual daytrips tends to be to Vancouver, esp. Stanley Park
The only camping trip I’ve ever been on was Cultus Lake, looking forward to going camping somewhere else this year (if it ever stops raining!)
Whistler is great short trip
Not sure if only for Vancouver – couldn’t find rules, but I am in Ontario and Bon Echo is an awesome place to going camping.
I like going to Lynn Canyon
We enjoy Buntzen Lake!
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Rocky Point, Port Moody
We like to camp at Catamaran Park,in central NL 🙂
ksceviour at hotmail dot com
I also tweeted
https://twitter.com/ksceviour/status/219228349912981505
Camping at Cultus Lake.
Grouse Grind.
Camping at Rolley Lake.
I tweeted.
Shannon Falls
My favourite day trip is up to whistler!
Probably a trip up to Victoria!
Grouse Grind. Thank you so much.
I like to do day trips to visit the local farmers’ markets.
Manning Park
Caltus lake!
Stanley Park
bowen island 🙂
A day spent at Spanish Banks is a day well spent!! Especially with an iced capp or two!
Bowen Island
Harrison Hot Springs
Cultus Lake
Ooo! I love Tim Hortons coffee 🙂
Stanley Park!
stanley park
Saltspring Island
Whistler!
Whistler
Favourite Day trip—Squamish!
Favorite day trip=Whistler for a day of snowboarding and a night of hot tubbing and hot chocolate.
nothing like White Rock on a sunny day
Cultus Lake
Cat Lake
Whistler is a fun getaway.
Bowen Island
Cultus Lake
Granville Island
Victoria
Buntzen Lake
Manning Park
Sunshine Coast!
Up the North Fork near Grand Forks, BC
Sunshine Coast!
Steveston is always quiet with great things to see/do/eat
Alongside the rapids in Hope.
Stawamus Chief Provincial Park
Sunshine coast or Harrison hot springs !
Cultus Lake
Granville Island
Salt Spring Island
Our favorite place to go camping is at my parents cabin down by the river. A place called 5 Star
I tweeted: https://twitter.com/zaira_faith/status/220377473983062017
Spending the day at Stanley Park
Stanley Park or Whistler 🙂
Protection Island Marine Park
Bowen Island:)
Saltspring Island is a great day trip!
Toronto island
Tweeted
https://twitter.com/raindrpsunshine/status/220540961426636800
Granville Island is fun to spend a day at .. or places I can take our dog and have some fun like Golden Ears.
Golden Ears is a fave .. anywhere where I can see the natural beauty of BC around me.
My favorite day trip would have to be Lake Louise 🙂
https://twitter.com/JenAMLewis/status/220637982133198850
Love to spend the say across the border in the beautiful city of Seattle…
https://twitter.com/roccapuccia/status/220650613233557505
Nitinat Lake…Kiteboarding and camping… gorgeous and remote destination
Our familys fav day trip is to Stanley Park. Love to visit the Aquarium and walk along the sea wall!
My favorite day trip would be Granville Island!
Steveston
Saltspring Island.
When in Vancouver, there’s nothing like a hike through Stanley Park on an autumn day.
Cultus Lake!
Whistler
Bowen Island
Bowen Island, BC
Cultus lake
Weaver lake 😀
my fav day trip is going to whistler
Love sunshine coast!
“Junking” in the Valley! 🙂
Day trip to White Rock beach!!
tweeted too for another entry:
https://twitter.com/shopgirldw/status/220747552197324800
https://twitter.com/shopgirldw/status/220747342888968193
Stawamus chief !
I love going to Alice Lake provincial park.
Whistler! 🙂
gold creek for a swim in the clear pools
Steveston or Buntzen Lake.
BADEN POWELL TRAIL
* best day trip around Stanley Park – start at
Burrard Street Bridge and walk along English Bay around
Stanley Park to Coal Harbour.
Bowen Island – Crippen Park hike
Centennial Beach in Tsawwassen!
Steveston or Boundary Bay for daytrips, magic
I tweeted this contest : )
My favorite day trip place would have to be Jericho beach : )
Sunshine Coast!!
I love camping up at Deer Lake (by Harrison). It is a lovely lake for swimming and boating.
Harrison Hot Springs! 🙂