Posted on: 31-12-08 14:12:50
I plan to travel from Detroit to windsor and plan not to drive my own car. I looked at rental car option but they once refused me entry at the Canadian POE because I was driving a US plated rental car and I was a Canadian PR. It is very hard to get a Canadian plated car at Detroit (DTW airport).
I looked at the travel option of http://www.robertq.com/Airbus/index.html bus service from Detroit to Windsor, Canada and it costs $34 one way.
Does anyone has any experience with this bus service and the immigration process at the Canadian POE while travelling in this bus? Thank you.
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Originally posted by sunanda
I plan to travel from Detroit to windsor and plan not to drive my own car. I looked at rental car option but they once refused me entry at the Canadian POE because I was driving a US plated rental car and I was a Canadian PR. It is very hard to get a Canadian plated car at Detroit (DTW airport).
I looked at the travel option of http://www.robertq.com/Airbus/index.html bus service from Detroit to Windsor, Canada and it costs $34 one way.
Does anyone has any experience with this bus service and the immigration process at the Canadian POE while travelling in this bus? Thank you.
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Keep your Passport and your PR card and your travel ticket ready. Have the declaration filled out. If there is a list of items and a invoice or a bill for that item have it ready. They will ask you for the number of days you were absent or away from Canada.
As previously answered, there is no difference in any mode of transportation except the number of people in the vehicle. You will sail through in a jiffy, as most of the travelers in Robert Q are genuine travelers, who might have been cleared once already.
Please do not post duplicate postings. It is considered as spamming here.
Happy crossing.
Freddie.
Thank you Freddie for your help on this. I will post any experience after I take this bus service later this month.
I wanted to share my experience of travelling via the robertq bus from Detroit airport (DTW) to Windsor, Canada and returning back to Detroit airport (DTW).
The bus service was excellent. Price was $34 one-way. Whenever I called, the CSRs of Ropertq were available and were very helpful. I was late to be at the DTW airport and missed the robertq bus to Windsor. I called Robertq and they put me in the next bus -- there was no problem. The bus was very much on time.
At the border, myself and the co-passengers in the bus (about 6-7) got down and proceeded to the Canadian Immigration office. The officers were bad as usual but were better than before when I travelled to Canada via rental car.
Everything otherwise went well. Two things to note -- if you want to travel from Detroit to Windsor and do not want to drive because of bad weather or whatever -- the option of taking bus is not bad. Second, lately the car rental price at DTW has been incredibly high (~80/day) for the cheapest car if you try to get it at the last moment and not using hotwire/priceline. Whereas the bus fare is quite fair.
On my way back from Windsor to Detroit, the robertq bus was on time and everything went ok. At the US border, the immigration officer gave me no trouble (I am on H-1B visa) as usual.
Anyway, hope some people might find the above information helpful.
