Victoria Highlights
Half-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 tour. Moderate fitness required.
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Itinerary focuses on the history, culture and architecture of this beautiful city. Highlights include: Chinatown, Inner Harbour, Bastion Square, Craigdarroch Castle, Observatory on Gonzales Hill and charming Fisherman’s Wharf.
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Lovely fish and chips lunch, with soda/tea/coffee included.
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10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Daily.
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Cost: $295 CAD per adult. Seniors ( and children 6 - 18 years ) $275 CAD. Single traveller $445 CAD Children under 5 free.
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Max 4 pax
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e begin our tour with hotel pick-up and a guided walk through the oldest Chinatown in all of North America, with its historic Chinese school and visit to the famous Fan Tan Alley. From there we walk through historic old town towards Bastion Square, named after the Hudson’s Bay Company fort/bastion originally built in the mid-19th Century. We experience the iconic
Inner Harbour presided over by the luxury Empress Hotel.
We then take private transport up to the impressive Craigdarroch Castle, built by the coal baron Robert Dunsmuir in the mid-19th century. Once home to the Victoria Music Conservatory and a venue for Hollywood movies. Your intrepid guide takes you up to Gonzales Hill to see the Observatory with its stunning views. Our tour concludes at Fisherman’s Wharf - home to multi-coloured house boats, where we enjoy a well-deserved lunch of fish and chips with complimentary tea/coffee/soda.
Courtesy drop-off back to your hotel.