What is a CapeRace Trip- A Vacation Package?

Just what is a CapeRace Adventure?

It's all about Choice and Chance-- A brand new approach to nature and culture-based meaningful travel

CapeRace is a new concept in nature and culture-based travel. We call this new concept "Guidance without the Guide". It's not a "tour".  A CapeRace Adventure is not about churches and stained glass windows or lifeless museums with do-not-touch rules. It’s not about everyone hanging onto the rope.You won’t see a tour leader at the front of the line with a flag. It's not a "tour".  

Explore & Engage

So what is it? It’s about people and places. It’s about yakking with a local over a few beers while staring out at a magnificent seascape, or listening to a fiddler in an ageless, timeless pub. It’s about unraveling stories and belly laughs. It’s about fresh air and expansiveness, great hikes and walks, whales, birds and icebergs. It’s about returning to simpler times. It's about you making all the decisions. We’ve waived the no touch rules. We present lost in time experiences at lost in time places. With a CapeRace Adventure everything is by chance, and it is this randomness that keeps things real.   It's a self-guided, self-catered trip with a twist. Keep reading....

 

 

Robert Reid, US Travel Editor, Lonely Planet, after a stay with CapeRace  "... Newfoundland is a special place. It's a gift to travelers, willing to look. In St John's, you experience Newfoundland first, city second -- the culture and kindness is found everywhere. Heart's Delight was the definitive experience. ..."

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How it All Works- Guidance without the Guide

CapeRace offers the Eco-Cultural Experience™, where you are provided with the keys to three coastal homes, an unlimited km/mi vehicle, and a bookstore-quality guidebook written specifically for your trip.  With three different homes as your basecamps, you use the guidebook to plan your own adventure and craft your own interactions.  It's "Guidance without the Guide"  

The custom written guidebook holds the the clues and hints on how to meet the most interesting people and see the most dramatic and breathtaking landscapes. Shortly before your departure we ask you thirty questions.  Using your response, the guidebook is edited and demand-printed specifically for YOU and your traveling friends.  We connect you with the fierce heart of Newfoundland: the individual characters that know the land and want to share their stories.

Instead of finding crowds-- find character:

  1. The traveler is given an unlimited milage vehicle and a key that fits the locks of three newly restored coastal homes for their exclusive use. Each in their own breathtaking location, the coastal homes represent a different take on Newfoundland lifestyle, both old and new.

  2. We provide the traveller with self-published bookstore-quality guidebook. Based on the premise that the best travel experience occurs when travelers meet locals on their own accord, we write the guidebook in a way that changes the odds and nature of chance meetings. Once the traveler's pre-departure survey is complete, the base guidebook is customized and demand-printed to suit their specific profile. Upon return, if they would like to share their own secret discoveries, we write them back into the base book- this keeps everything fresh and new for the next travellers.

Since the guidebook is fluid and customizable, we can move destinations and people in and out of the guidebook, creating a less-concentrated travelers footprint that is less intrusive and widens the economic benefits. This is our key to responsible, sustainable travel, and is what catches National Geographic's attention. The guidebook creates that sense of adventure sometimes lost in large-scale tourism, that opportunity to find one’s inner extrovert and truly connect and invest in a place on a micro and meaningful scale. And at days end, the travelers return to their coastal home, one that immerses them historically and literally in local communities. A coast is more than a shoreline: it’s the people and history that been built out of the ecosystem there. Our guests can participate in the budding economic restoration, and subsequent preservation of the Newfoundland coast and its towns. 

Where are the coastal homes located?

CapeRace has six coastal homes that are used for different trips.  The Eco-Culture Experience trip utilizes three.  One located in the Battery neighbourhood of St. John's at Signal Hill, the second in the small quiet town of Heart's Delight at Trinity Bay and the third located on the Bonavista Peninsula, either at the Mockbeggar neighbourhood in the town of Bonavista, or in the small town of Elliston.

When is the best time to go to Newfoundland?

Details on when to travel and what to wear can be found here>>

Frequently Asked Questions  FAQ

Details on the CapeRace Travel Concept can be found here>>

See What the Press has said about Us

CapeRace has had significant press coverage>> in respected national and international publications.  Be careful.  There are spoilers.

Adventure Package Details

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