Victoria, BC is a wonderful plan to visit. Butchart Gardens has been on my bucket list. Now I can check it off. It is absolutely beautiful. If you want to have high tea make reservations ahead of time. It is half the price of The Empress Hotel. Make your excursion reservations ahead of time as well. I don’t think there was a bad restaurant. We did a a food tour “eat like a Canadian”. It was okay. Brenda did a wonderful job with the current and historical events of the city. Next time I would try one of the other tours. The water taxi is $12 per adult, $6 kids. It is so worth getting back to the other side of the harbour. We averages 15,000-20,000 steps a day so make sure you wear really good walking shoes/sandals. The weather was fabulous so that helps. So worth going.