UNIGLOBE One Travel

My review and rating are based solely on the store part of Uniglobe. I’ve never used the travel agents.
The store is quite good if you’re looking for something specific for an upcoming trip, or if you just want to browse and get ideas. Guaranteed you will see something you didn’t even know you needed/​existed! Among items I’ve bought here are sleep masks, travel pillows, luggage locks, outlet converters, packing sorter things, and more. I’m in the market for a luggage scale, so I went there the other day to check some out. They had a few different brands. I looked a few up online to compare and will go back to pick up the one I want. They also carry a decent selection of luggage, but you can definitely find them cheaper elsewhere if you look around a bit. They also sell travel specific clothes like tops for different weather, shorts and pants with lots of pockets, hats, and underwear that you can wear for six weeks — ultra fast drying! — but I’ve never bought any. Expect cute things at the cashier desk like travel games and notebooks.
More items for sale: passport covers, luggage tags, toothbrush covers, travel hair drier and hair straightener… I could go on and on. Prices for the smaller items like the ones I mentioned above seem to be comparable to other stores with this type of stuff. I’ve never seen more than a $ 1 or $ 2 difference between travel stores for the small stuff. There are definitely other stores in the city where you can buy travel gear, but for the small items I find this place to do the trick.
The staff are generally quite friendly and helpful. The last couple of times I’ve been there, I’ve been approached and asked if I needed help, and they gladly looked around and brought me what I needed.

Uniglobe has everything you might need for travelling. Specifically hiking or camping. Other than buying travel equipment here they also book trips. We had booked a trip through here and didn’t have the best experience.
The trip was good and enjoyable but dealing with the travel agent was such a hassle. She was always getting our trip details mixed up and never informed us of any flight changes that we needed to know about. The trip was to Cancun and for the flight back we were giving the wrong departure time. It was a few hours later and no one called to inform us of this. When we got to the airport and met up with people that had come to Cancun on the same flight as us they said their travel agents had called them to inform them of the time change. We never heard from ours, we were just thankful it was a later time and not earlier.
I wouldn’t book through them again.

This is a cute little place on the way to downtown. It’s pretty close to the downtown Future Shop. If you are planning on traveling then take a look to see what they have for luggage, have might have some good deals. Or if you needed to book a trip they can help you out with that and then you can shop for some luggage or travel nick-​knacks. They have some Tilley hats; which are good quality hats for people who spend a lot of time out in the sun or the rain! My brother loves his Tilley hat and has his for years. I actually believe he is looking for a place to find a new one so I need to remember to tell him about GEO! They are not cheap but they are durable and long lasting; GEO sells them for about $ 79. I didn’t know you could also get Tilley underwear and socks and you can find them at GEO. They also had some laptop bags but nothing for backpacking. They also had some interesting nick-​knacks to keep your VISA cards and money nice and dry while you go swimming or surfing. They had travel pillows and blankets for long plane or train rides.
The place is cute and small and staff is pretty friendly. It’s a good place to come to if you need some travel ideas or even when looking for a place to travel too.

For all of your travel needs, Uniglobe sells high-​quality travel gear, from clothing and knapsacks, to travel soap, neck pillows and iodine tablets. They have a great line of men’s clothes and I once found a cute light-​weight summer dress on a clearance rack for $ 20. I remember looking at some of the hiking wear and thinking it was crazy expensive. While I might stop in here if I were planning a trip, I’d sooner spend my money at MEC, where you can get all of the essentials, support an environmentally kind co-​op, and have your dollar stretch a bit further. Parking is around the side if you can’t get street parking.