The Best Hotels Near Yodelin, by the Record
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The china on the afternoon tea service was a gift from the Queen in 1939, which tells you roughly everything about what kind of hotel this is. The Fairmont Empress is a grand railway-era property facing Victoria's Inner Harbour, all ivy-covered limestone and English pageantry in a city that takes its Englishness very seriously. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Key. Renovation has freshened it without sanding off the delightful self-importance.
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A boutique hotel a block from the Inner Harbour, the Magnolia leans into Victoria's Victorian mood without becoming a museum piece. Sixty-four rooms keep the scale personal, soaking tubs anchor the bathrooms, and the team has a habit of noticing when guests mention a birthday online and quietly doing something about it. Silk Road tea at turndown, locally made chocolates, hot cider in the lobby when it's cold. It holds a Michelin Key.
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The pitch is a Ligurian villa somehow dropped onto a ridge above Saanich Inlet, with Vancouver Island's mountains filling every window. This resort north of Victoria has quietly shed its '80s Italianate kitsch for something more considered, and the Tuscan Spa keeps pace with the rooms. The restaurant, Alpina, runs on European technique learned in Italy, Germany, and Switzerland, applied to local British Columbia ingredients, which is a stranger and more compelling idea than it sounds.
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