The Best Hotels in Tofino

Storm-watching is practically a scheduled activity here, which tells you everything about what kind of resort the Wickaninnish Inn is. Perched between old-growth rainforest and Chesterman Beach on a remote stretch of Vancouver Island, it holds a Michelin Key and a Forbes Four Star. Rooms face the Pacific, with fireplaces, deep tubs, and balconies built for watching twenty-foot swells roll in. The spa draws on the surrounding rainforest; the restaurant leans hard into local seafood.

Floor-to-ceiling glass on a black rock promontory above the Pacific, because the rainforest-lodge aesthetic has been done. This contemporary oceanfront resort selected by the Michelin Guide sits outside Ucluelet on Vancouver Island, with rooms built around the view: California kings, gas fireplaces, kitchenettes, and enough square footage that "hotel room" barely covers it. A full-service spa and a sea-view restaurant round things out for when the ocean stops being enough.

Tucked between a deserted beach and the Wild Pacific Trail on Vancouver Island's Pacific coast, this cabin resort sits in the quieter, less photographed neighbor town to Tofino. The one-, two-, and three-bedroom standalone cabins are the draw, each feeling genuinely removed from everything, whether perched at the water's edge or nested deeper in the forest. The main lodge has suites if you want something smaller, but the cabins are why you came.