My family was fortunate to find accommodations at Don and Helen’s place July 23 to 26, 2018. We are a family of five including a baby, 3 year old and 5 year old. This was the perfect accommodation for our family for a few reasons - the unit is beautiful, the location is perfect and the hosts are wonderful people.
Don and Helen were there to greet us when we arrived - they are very nice people and made sure to show us all around the unit so we would feel right at home. The apartment is very spacious, well decorated, has lots of natural light and has all the amenities of home. It was wonderful to arrive to find everything we needed for our first breakfast (and then some) - they provided bread (and butter, peanut butter and jam), eggs, milk, coffee, tea, hot chocolate, cream, cereal, oatmeal, maple syrup and probably lots more things I am forgetting. There is also a beautiful patio area outside the unit with lots of flowers.
We loved the location of this house. It is right by the ocean and there are lots of tide pools to explore a couple minute walk from the house - this was perfect for my big kids to explore while my baby napped. The house is only about a 10 minute drive from Beacon Hill park (where the kids loved the play equipment and exploring the petting zoo) and the rest of downtown (where we had fun at miniature world, inner harbour, fisherman’s wharf and taking the water taxi) and on the other side Willows beach is 10 minute beautiful drive the opposite direction. Victoria is an absolutely beautiful small big city to explore. We met many wonderful people there and can’t wait to go back some day. If / when we do we will definitely try to stay at Don and Helen’s again.
Thanks Don and Helen for making our stay in Victoria amazing!