Guess I’ll find out next week how serious they are about 70+, because my mother (turns 70 in May) now has an appt. Though who knows what the rules might be in a week, at the rate this is changing.
I booked an hour ago. First available was for March 11, first time was for 11:50am. As I entered my personal info (2 mins tops), that time got snapped up and next was for 2:30pm. I see on twitter that appointments over the past day or 2 are getting taken up quite quickly.
It depends on the location a lot. For Decarie Square, there were slots open on Saturday this morning, but for a downtown location, nothing until end of next week and they got booked up as info was entered. If you are willing to travel a bit, I think there are more options, they are not all filling up at the same rate.
Development: just got a call from SHDM, my landlord, saying we’ll be offered the vaccine in my building door-to-door shortly. Date not set yet, but I think I’d rather avoid a trip to Arena Bill Durnan, so will wait.
@jeather – that’s interesting info. I dreaded the thought of Decarie Square, a mall that was described in a Yelp review as the mall that time forgot. I was there a few years back to visit Service Canada. Glum trip by bus, glum inside. I chose the Arena to avoid going there. I wonder if others might feel similar? Good luck with your mother! My online hangout buddies are all younger than me, and all helping parents, so nice to hear. My daughter is waaaay out west so….
Oh, it is a depressing mall, but if you have a car, it’s got parking, and it’s close to my mother. I’ve been there for, I think, SAAQ stuff in the past, it’s usually got very short waits.
I booked for my parents yesterday and it really depends on which vaccination centre you pick. My folks are about equidistant from the Villeray location on Christophe-Colomb and the Montreal-North location on Lacordaire. I would have been able to book an appointment for the same day, Tuesday, on Christophe-Colomb, but my folks preferred the Montreal-North location because there is dedicated parking. I suspect this is one of the reasons why there was much less availability in Montreal-North. The first available spot was at 14h30 on Friday, but it got snapped up while I was booking so I ended up with 18h20 instead.
Andrew 09:43 on 2021-03-01 Permalink
Clic Sante was updated again this morning. Montreal, Laval, and Côte-Nord are now 70 and over.
It’s weirdly fast, I guess not enough people are booking appointments?
jeather 10:05 on 2021-03-01 Permalink
Guess I’ll find out next week how serious they are about 70+, because my mother (turns 70 in May) now has an appt. Though who knows what the rules might be in a week, at the rate this is changing.
maggie rose 11:22 on 2021-03-01 Permalink
I booked an hour ago. First available was for March 11, first time was for 11:50am. As I entered my personal info (2 mins tops), that time got snapped up and next was for 2:30pm. I see on twitter that appointments over the past day or 2 are getting taken up quite quickly.
jeather 11:33 on 2021-03-01 Permalink
It depends on the location a lot. For Decarie Square, there were slots open on Saturday this morning, but for a downtown location, nothing until end of next week and they got booked up as info was entered. If you are willing to travel a bit, I think there are more options, they are not all filling up at the same rate.
maggie rose 11:41 on 2021-03-01 Permalink
Development: just got a call from SHDM, my landlord, saying we’ll be offered the vaccine in my building door-to-door shortly. Date not set yet, but I think I’d rather avoid a trip to Arena Bill Durnan, so will wait.
@jeather – that’s interesting info. I dreaded the thought of Decarie Square, a mall that was described in a Yelp review as the mall that time forgot. I was there a few years back to visit Service Canada. Glum trip by bus, glum inside. I chose the Arena to avoid going there. I wonder if others might feel similar? Good luck with your mother! My online hangout buddies are all younger than me, and all helping parents, so nice to hear. My daughter is waaaay out west so….
jeather 12:00 on 2021-03-01 Permalink
Oh, it is a depressing mall, but if you have a car, it’s got parking, and it’s close to my mother. I’ve been there for, I think, SAAQ stuff in the past, it’s usually got very short waits.
jeather 12:53 on 2021-03-01 Permalink
Well, looks like a fun wait at Decarie Square. https://twitter.com/TheKaufmanShow/status/1366418728070610944
CE 18:15 on 2021-03-01 Permalink
Jesus, who edited that video? It nearly gave me a nosebleed!
dhomas 06:58 on 2021-03-02 Permalink
I booked for my parents yesterday and it really depends on which vaccination centre you pick. My folks are about equidistant from the Villeray location on Christophe-Colomb and the Montreal-North location on Lacordaire. I would have been able to book an appointment for the same day, Tuesday, on Christophe-Colomb, but my folks preferred the Montreal-North location because there is dedicated parking. I suspect this is one of the reasons why there was much less availability in Montreal-North. The first available spot was at 14h30 on Friday, but it got snapped up while I was booking so I ended up with 18h20 instead.