Victoria Express

Be whisked away to Butchart Gardens from your hotel on the Olympic Peninsula

Exploring Butchart Gardens in Victoria BC  has never been easier. If you are planning to stay at a participating hotel in Port Angeles, we will pick you up and transport you directly to our passenger ferry terminal in Port Angeles. You will ride the passenger ferry from Port Angeles WA to Victoria BC and board a comfortable bus waiting to whisk you away to the Butchart Gardens; you will even learn a little about the glorious city of Victoria while you travel to the Gardens. After your tour of the amazing gardens you will be transported back to downtown Victoria, where you’ll have time to shop or sightsee before boarding ferry to Port Angeles.

 Exploring Butchart Gardens is a favorite day trip for visitors to the Olympic Peninsula. For only $81.00 (USD – Junior and child rates are also available) we will arrange all the transportation from your hotel in Port Angeles to Butchart Gardens and downtown Victoria. This garden adventure is a lovely way to enhance your visit to the Northwest.

Travel between the United States and Canada now requires either a passport or an enhanced driver’s license.

There is a lot going on in and around Victoria, BC this weekend. Since this is also the last weekend when travel between Canada and the United States is permitted without either a passport or an enhanced driver’s license, why not hop on board the passenger ferry from Port Angeles, WA to Victoria, BC and have a little holiday?

Plan on spending Saturday night listening to four of the greatest voices in the world. Il Divo creatively blends opera with popular music, and the results are out of this world. In fact, they have awed audiences around the world with their versions of “Amazing Grace” and “Power of Love”, among others. David Miller, Carlos Marín, Urs Buhler & Sébastien Izambard are not to be missed.

Canadians have been fans of Il Divo since their inception, and Saturday’s concert is guaranteed to leave listeners breathless. Staged and choreographed by William Baker (Kylie, Jamiroquai) on a state of the art set, with a tour wardrobe designed by Giorgio Armani, the show will certainly look as good as it sounds.

Saturday night is set. Now, what to do the rest of the weekend? The Selkirk Waterfront Festival is one thought. Sponsored by the Burnside Gorge Community Association, and located on the beautiful Selkirk Waterfront, this event is perfect for the whole family. There will be live cultural performances, interactive workshops, a family fun zone, food and vendors. This is a perfect way to be out in the great weather and experience a little culture, too.

Or, take the ferry from Port Angeles to Victoria and attend Fired-Up! Contemporary Works in Clay. This pottery show at Metchosin Hall in Metchosin, BC has been going on for 25 years. The combined experience of participating potters adds up to 750 years, which means a lot of clay has passed through these able hands. This show will display a great deal of innovation and even more talent, and should be seen by anyone who enjoys the ceramic arts.

Victoria Express offers a number of overnight specials in Victoria. So why not plan to spend a sunny, fun filled weekend in Victoria now?

This weekend, ride the passenger ferry from Port Angeles WA to Victoria BC and be among the first to check out Giant Landscape: British Columbia Landscapes Exhibition. Beginning Saturday, June 6th, 2009 and running until September 7th, 2009, this exhibit will run seven days a week at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, which is an easy walk from the passenger ferry terminal in Victoria.

British Columbia is an area graced with magnificent physical beauty on a very grand scale. Much of the land is undeveloped. To stand in the wilderness of British Columbia is to experience humility in the face of Nature. Artists over the years have found the vastness of the wilderness, the size of the trees and the proximity of the Pacific both alluring and intimidating; a hardy few have captured some of the extreme beauty of the place – their work forms the basis of this exhibition.

According to the museum’s website, the exhibit “explores how approaches to the monumental and richly varying topography have changed from the romantic visions of early visitors to the region to interpretations by those living here such as Emily Carr, Fred Varley, E.J. Hughes, Sybil Andrews, and B.C. Binning.”

Amazing British Columbia Landscapes

There are a number of specials offered by the passenger ferry from Port Angeles to Victoria. Many include lodging and enough free time to explore the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria at your leisure. The Victoria Express is a great way to travel across the Salish Sea.