Best of Victoria
Day Tour
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Private tour – just you with your fun and informative guide
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Experiential tour that combines an up-close and personal guided walking tour with private car transport for remainder of the tour.
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Moderate fitness required.
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Opportunity to enjoy the history, culture, architecture and the local food of this beautiful city. Itinerary includes: Chinatown, Bastion Square, Royal BC Museum, in-house tour of BC Legislature, Inner Harbour, Christ Church Cathedral, Craigdarroch Castle, Gonzales Hill Observatory and lovely afternoon high tea.
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All admissions and high tea are included.
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10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Daily.
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Cost: $345 CAD per adult. Seniors ( and children 6 - 18 years ) $325 CAD Single traveller $525 CAD. Children under 5 free. Max. 4 pax
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After our well-deserved break, we head to the Royal BC Museum to learn more about the history of Victoria, including the role of indigenous people. Next on our agenda is the nearby Legislative Buildings, designed by the famous Victoria architect Francis Rattenbury, where we experience an informative in-house tour.
Next we travel by private car to the famous Craigdarroch Castle, built by Robert Dunsmuir who was then the coal baron of British Columbia. Once home to the Victoria Conservatory of Music and venue for Hollywood movies. We are then able to make the short drive up Gonzales Hill, sight of the Gonzales Observatory with its stunning views before heading for a well-deserved lovely afternoon high tea.
e begin our tour with hotel pick-up and the morning is spent doing a guided walking tour of Victoria, beginning with Chinatown which is the oldest in all of North America with its Chinese school and famous Fan Tan Alley. We explore old town enroute to historic Bastion Square, home to the original fort of the Hudson’s Bay Company. We pause to take a mid-morning tea/coffee break at the famous Murchie’s on Government street.