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City & Island Guides
Tourism Victoria
www.tourismvictoria.com
VancouverIsland.com
www.vancouverisland.com
Find a wealth of information on Travel and Tourism, Sport, Recreation, Entertainment, Business and Real Estate.
Discover The Past Walking Tours
www.discoverthepast.com
Select a history tour, ghost tour or other program to suit your interests and schedule. If you want to make your own program, you're in luck. We will custom design a tour or other activity to suit your exact needs. Our tours are offered year-round! These excellent programs are developed and conducted by John Adams, well-known historian and author, and his experienced team.
Tourism Vancouver
www.tourismvancouver.com
Tourism BC
www.hellobc.com
Seattle's Convention and Visitors Bureau
www.seeseattle.org
Here you will find an overview of what Seattle offers to visitors, along with a brief photo tour of local sights, a form to request a Visitor Information Packet, and a handy Lodging Guide. You'll also find their "Visitors Guide", a listing of member businesses providing activities and services with the visitor in mind.
Attractions
Mineral World
www.scratchpatch.com
Mineral World's Scratch Patch is a rock hound adventure land where you can collect semiprecious gemstones, tropical shells as well as pan for gold!
Victoria Butterfly Gardens
www.butterflygardens.com
Hundreds of butterflies fly freely amongst lush tropical plants and flowers.
Bug Zoo
www.bugzoo.bc.ca
The Victoria Bug Zoo™ is home to some of the worlds most incredible insects, arachnids and other really cool and fascinating creatures.
Beacon Hill Park Petting Zoo
www.beaconhillpark.com
Beacon Hill Park is located along the south shore of Victoria, British Columbia and the Juan de Fuca Strait. It has been a park belonging to the city of Victoria since 1882. A trust was then established for the 62-acre (24.8-hectare) site. Beacon Hill Park was originally called Meeacan (the Salish name for belly) by the First Nations people because from a distance, it looked like the belly of a large man lying on his back.
IMAX
www.imaxvictoria.com
The National Geographic Theatre is located in the Royal BC Museum. The 406 seat theatre features the 2-D IMAX Experience; with a projected area more than 6 stories high and 70 feet wide, up to 10 times larger than conventional screens, filling the viewer's entire field of vision. The theatre gives you the most powerful and involving film experience, bringing images to life with 12,000 watts of IMAX Digital surround sound.
Undersea Gardens
www.pacificunderseagardens.com
Visit the amazing Pacific Undersea Gardens and GO DEEP in Victoria's Inner Harbour. See the Live Dive Show in our exclusive Undersea Theatre on the bottom of the sea. Descend . . . into a world where Victoria's reputation as the "City of Gardens" extends beneath the tide-line! Home of the largest collection of local marine life to be found anywhere! You will come face to face with the excitement, the wonder, the magic and mystery of the underwater world.
Miniature World
www.miniatureworld.com
Welcome to the little people's Wonderful World of Smallness, walk down its road -- step into the Story Books of fact, fiction and fantasy. Return to those fond memories of yesteryear, those childhood dreams and history's greatest moments.
All Fun Recreation Park
www.allfun.bc.ca
Our name says it all. The good times start right here at All Fun. With a mini golf course, driving range, 2 go-kart tracks, batting cages, arcade, concession, gift shop, you've got something for everyone!
Museums
Maritime Museum
www.mmbc.bc.ca
The Maritime Museum of British Columbia is committed to promoting, presenting and interpreting to the residents of British Columbia and their visitors our vibrant maritime heritage, through stimulating exhibits and dynamic educational and performing arts programs. On an ongoing basis, the museum will collect, document, preserve, store, study and display artifacts, scientific and technological specimens, works of art and archival material of maritime interest.
Royal London Wax Museum
www.waxmuseum.bc.ca
Open year-round, this premiere exhibition of over 300 life size wax figures (and much more) is conveniently located in the heart of downtown, on Victoria's Inner Harbour, across from the Parliament Buildings. This is also home to the Penny Lane Sweet Shop - "The Wax Museum's sweet finale"!
Royal BC Museum
www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca
The Royal British Columbia Museum is a place of discovery. Through three unique galleries, the Museum showcases the human and natural history of British Columbia, and features periodic exhibitions of international renown. Highly realistic and inviting displays, such as the Ice Age and Coastal Forest dioramas, provide visitors with a sense of having truly experienced the authentic settings of many exhibits.
Sports & Recreation
Orca Spirit Adventures
www.orcaspirit.com
Orca Spirit Adventures offers spectacular whale watching and marine wildlife excursions. Guests will experience world-class wildlife sightings amidst a backdrop of breathtaking views. Orca whales, Gray whales, Humpback whales, Minke whales, sea lions, harbour seals, aquatic birds, Dalls porpoise and bald eagles are just some of the wildlife seen on a typical adventure.
Golf Vancouver Island
www.golfvancouverisland.ca
Golf Vancouver Island provides everything you could need for a golf vacation on Vancouver Island. From airfares and ferry reservations to tee times, accommodations and even après golf activities, we can take care of it all!
Transportation
Kenmore Air
www.kenmoreair.com
Kenmore Air Seaplanes offers daily, scheduled 35 minute flights between Victoria's Inner Harbour and Seattle's downtown Lake Union and north Lake Washington terminals. Kenmore offers hotel room packages with our hotel. Please contact them for further information.
BC Ferries
www.bcferries.com
BC Ferries provides frequent passenger and vehicle service to Victoria and
Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, the Sunshine Coast, the Inside Passage,
Discovery Coast Passage and Queen Charlotte Islands.
Air Canada Jazz
www.flyjazz.ca
Air Canada Jazz is one of the largest regional airlines in the world, serving 80 destinations in Canada and the United States, and providing our customers with seamless connections to the worldwide networks of Air Canada and the Star Alliance.
West Coast Air
www.westcoastair.com
West Coast Air carries on the almost 30 year tradition of Twin Otter service between Victoria's Inner Harbour and
Vancouver's Coal Harbour. 18 Flights Daily.
Air Canada
www.aircanada.ca
Air Canada provides scheduled and chartered passenger jet service directly to 22 Canadian cities, 33 destinations in the United States and 51 cities in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean, Mexico and South America.
Pacific Coastal Airlines
www.pacific-coastal.com
Pacific Coastal Airlines provides air service from Vancouver to Victoria, Nanaimo, Comox, Campbell River, Port Hardy, Powell River, Rivers Inlet, Hakai Pass, Bella Bella, Klemtu, Bella Coola, Anahim Lake, Dean River, Ocean Falls and many other remote and mid-coast communities.
WestJet
www.westjet.com
WestJet Airlines is a low fare air carrier based out of Calgary, Alberta, serving 26 Canadian cities.
Harbour Air
www.harbour-air.com
Your Seaplane Professionals. Harbour Air Limited is the leading all-seaplane airline in the world. Harbour Air offers 16 flights daily from Vancouver to Victoria.
Helijet Airways (Helicopter)
www.helijet.com
Helijet International Inc. is North America's premiere scheduled helicopter airline. Helijet offers daily scheduled service in British Columbia between Vancouver, Abbotsford and the capital city of the province, Victoria located on Vancouver Island. Service is also available from downtown Seattle to downtown Victoria.
Pacific Coach Lines
www.pacificcoach.com
Pacific Coach Lines offers frequent Bus/Ferry service from downtown Vancouver Bus Depot to Downtown Victoria Bus Depot.
Alaska Air/Horizon Air
www.alaskaair.com
Daily flights between Seattle and Victoria Airports.
M.V. Coho
www.cohoferry.com
A scheduled year-round vehicle and passenger ferry operating between Port Angeles, Washington and downtown Victoria. Sailing time is approximately 95 minutes.
Washington State Ferries
www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries/index.cfm
Provides scheduled ferry service for both passengers and vehicles between Anacortes, Washington and Sidney, BC. The ferries operate all year.
Victoria Clipper
www.victoriaclipper.com
Operates a daily high-speed passenger only, catamaran service between Seattle and Victoria year-round.
Grey Line Seattle/Greyhound Travel
www.greyhound.com
Offers a variety of package bus tours to Victoria.
Victoria Express
www.victoriaexpress.com
The Victoria Express operates a seasonal passenger only ferry between Port Angeles, Victoria and Friday Harbor in the San Juan Islands. For more
information on schedules and rates, please call 250-361-9144 in Canada or 360-452-8088 in the United States.
Floral Design
Fine Floral Designs by Jane
www.flowersvictoriabc.com
Fine Floral Designs by Jane is one of the premier floral designers in the city.
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