You're excited about a big trip you're going to take with your new little one! Oh wait...she needs a passport! It's one thing to find a place that does passport photos, but it's another to find a place that does passport photos for infants!
Passport photos get rejected when they don't follow the required criteria (such as looking straight at the camera, no teeth showing, no shadows, etc).
LOCATIONS THAT DO INFANT PASSPORT PHOTOS (as of fall 2015)
- Zehrs (Imperial and Paisley location)
- Walmart (on Woodlawn)
- Ponds (located downtown)
* Costco and Shoppers Drug Mart have sent some parents away when their babies were really young (some 3 months and younger). Others have said that they were able to get photos done at these two places
* try calling any of these places before you go to save yourselves from having to find another store to take your photos
NOTES:
You need the long form birth certificate when you go to apply for the passport.
You can print an application online, or get one from the post office to fill out.
$55 an application
You can pay extra to get them faster but can generally get your passports in 2 weeks.
The closest passport office to drop off your application is in Kitchener.
The post office in Downtown Guelph (on Wyndham) also processes passport applications for an additional fee ($20 - $30) which might be worthwhile so you don't have to spend the time and gas going to the Kitchener office.
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
Quest for FREE Parking at Guelph General Hospital
Okay, who doesn't hate paying loads of money for parking at the hospital. It always seems to cost so much, and really when you are sick do you really want to park far far away?
So I looked around for free, or cheaper alternatives to parking in the hospital parking lot (by the way, I am not opposed to paying for parking at the hospital since it is one stream of income...it's just difficult to always have to fork out for hospital parking especially if you have to come back many times)
The cheap and / or free alternatives I found (as of Fall 2015) were:
1) FREE option - park down the street and walk. If you turn onto Delhi Street from Speedvale, there is free parking along the street. Then you will see the parking meters pop up. I parked the closest you could possibly get to the hospital before having to pay for parking. This resulted in an 8 minute walk to the hospital (pregnant woman waddle pace). Now, this may not be a practical option if you can't walk that far or that long.
PRO: Free, get in some exercise
CON: walk is 8 minutes at the very least
2) Another FREE option - parking along Havelock Street. The disadvantage is that you cannot park there Monday to Friday, 8AM - 6PM
PRO: Free, close to hospital emergency entrance
CON: only free at certain times / days (like free on weekends, and not allowed to park most of the weekdays during day)
3) Free option after 9PM - right across from emergency entrance on Delhi Street, subject to overnight parking bylaws
PRO: Free, close to entrance
CON: time is restricted to 9pm - 8am
Note that parking on the street means that you are subject to Guelph parking bylaws (time duration, etc)
PAY options:
1) right across the street from the emergency room entrance, there is metered street parking. There is 2 hour maximum and the cost is $2 / hour, I believe.
2) Hospital parking: price ranges from $2.50 per half hour, to $12 for a full day ($14 for full day with multiple entry / exit). More information is found on the Guelph General Hospital website (http://www.gghorg.ca/index.php/patient-visitor, parking section)
So I looked around for free, or cheaper alternatives to parking in the hospital parking lot (by the way, I am not opposed to paying for parking at the hospital since it is one stream of income...it's just difficult to always have to fork out for hospital parking especially if you have to come back many times)
The cheap and / or free alternatives I found (as of Fall 2015) were:
1) FREE option - park down the street and walk. If you turn onto Delhi Street from Speedvale, there is free parking along the street. Then you will see the parking meters pop up. I parked the closest you could possibly get to the hospital before having to pay for parking. This resulted in an 8 minute walk to the hospital (pregnant woman waddle pace). Now, this may not be a practical option if you can't walk that far or that long.
PRO: Free, get in some exercise
CON: walk is 8 minutes at the very least
2) Another FREE option - parking along Havelock Street. The disadvantage is that you cannot park there Monday to Friday, 8AM - 6PM
PRO: Free, close to hospital emergency entrance
CON: only free at certain times / days (like free on weekends, and not allowed to park most of the weekdays during day)
3) Free option after 9PM - right across from emergency entrance on Delhi Street, subject to overnight parking bylaws
PRO: Free, close to entrance
CON: time is restricted to 9pm - 8am
Note that parking on the street means that you are subject to Guelph parking bylaws (time duration, etc)
PAY options:
1) right across the street from the emergency room entrance, there is metered street parking. There is 2 hour maximum and the cost is $2 / hour, I believe.
2) Hospital parking: price ranges from $2.50 per half hour, to $12 for a full day ($14 for full day with multiple entry / exit). More information is found on the Guelph General Hospital website (http://www.gghorg.ca/index.php/patient-visitor, parking section)
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