The land above

[ljtourist]

Groupon, a while back, had a deal for what amounted to a half-price round-trip ticket to Victoria on the Clipper. I'd wanted to take the Clipper, since it seemed the very definition of convenience: I could walk to the pier where it leaves from, and it drops you off right in the harbor in downtown Victoria. Indeed it was convenient; however, the

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[susandennis]

Where did you stay? What hotel? I was looking into doing a boat to Victoria for the night trip just the other day.

Years ago a friend and I took the float plane to Victoria in the morning, wandered around and flew back home that night. It was a beautiful, very fun trip.

[ljtourist]

Stayed at the Victoria Marriott Inner Harbour. It was really nice, but expensive. Like I said, I waited too long to book, so anything reasonable was long gone, but it was only one night, and the remaining places were only about C$40-$50 less and all looked like they might have some nasty surprise waiting, so I went for the known-good option.

Which float plane? Kenmore, or someone else? Was the actual flight as much fun as I'm hoping?

[susandennis]

I swear I thought it was a predecessor to Kenmore but maybe not. Once I flew up to Lopez and then we did that Victoria trip.. THE only downside is that the trip is over before you know it. It's totally amazingly really cool fun.

In fact, now that I'm thinking about it, my Victoria trip might be clipper one way and float plane the other. Now that's a cool weekend!