[trip style = urban + luxury] Like a crisp rosé savoured with a creamy rocchetta cheese, when an afternoon or overnight break is paired with good cause, it is that much more rewarding. This month, eating and staying with a purpose comes in a shade of pink in support of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation {CBCF}.
Here are a few eat + stay + support opportunities at hotels in BC* embracing breast cancer awareness month: *if you reside outside of Vancouver or Seattle, and want to support pink, check with your favourite hotels and resorts for pink partnerships
Tea
Raise your pinky---a functional and fashionable part of tea drinking etiquette---and partake in the sophisticated tradition of sipping a spot of tea in the afternoon. Partial proceeds donated to the CBCF in Canada and the Susan G. Komen Foundation in the USA.
Where -
The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver
The Fairmont Pacific Rim
The Fairmont Empress {Oct 24-30}
The Fairmont Chateau Whistler
The Fairmont Olympic {Seattle}
Cost - $25 - $47/person
Stay
One of Canada's leading hotels {according to Travel+Leisure readers}, is combining frothy ocean views and pink bubbly. For the month of October, stay overnight and along with Blue Mountain Vineyards, partial proceeds from your stay will be donated to the CBCF. Package includes an overnight stay, a bottle of Blue Mountain Brut Rosé, a $100 Ancient Cedars Spa credit and valet parking. Details.
Where - The Wickaninnish Inn, Tofino BC
Cost - From $550
Note - If you haven't booked the pink 'stay' package, you can still support the cause by sipping bubbles at The Pointe Restaurant, with $2 from each glass or $10 from each bottle of Blue Mountain Rosé sparkling donated to Breast Cancer Awareness.
[photos by @TripStyler & @wickinnBC]