Walking the underground maze? from the Canadiana Hostel, in Toronto
Most visitors to our hostel don’t realize that Toronto has more than twenty seven kilometers of underground mall shopping right in the center of the city. Right now, the temperature is a freezing -16C and the wind chill factor makes it feel like -34C! Now you see why an enormous underground shopping mall is a good idea.
The Eaton Center – the main shopping mall downtown – is about a 15 minute walk from our hostel. Of all hostels in Toronto, we are the most centrally located but it’s still a cold, windy hike when the temperature is double digits below zero! Actually, it can be quite painful.
The Metro Hall (the expanded Municipal Offices for Toronto’s City Hall) is located one block from our hostel. You can walk all the way to the Eaton Center underground in warmth and comfort amid trendy shops and tasty food courts! You can even go beyond the Eaton Center to the Atrium on Bay and on to the Greyhound Bus Terminal – again, underground in warmth and comfort!
The problem is that the system is an? 27 kilometer maze of turns and tunnels and even most local residents lose their direction. On Tuesday, as a hostel “event” we are going to escort hostellers through the labyrinth to show them how to navigate the downtown core without freezing to death! It is even a good thing to know in the hot, humid summer Toronto is famous for, because the entire system is (of course) climate controlled.
We are leaving the hostel at 11 AM on Tuesday, February 6th. Keep your eye on this posting to catch the reactions of those who learn the secrets of Toronto’s mall maze!
