Hanna and Adam (and/or their cleaning/maintenance person) are quick to respond. The check in process was great! It’s noisy city life next to the harbour with seagulls and trash trucks, sirens, all the things you’d expect — but before bed just put in the provided earplugs and/or some white noise on your phone, and you can’t hear anything. There’s nothing out of the ordinary going on that doesn’t happen in every bigger city everywhere.
The location is amazing, it’s within walking distance to everything important! We are an older, out of shape couple with two young kids, and we were able to walk all over downtown and the historic areas, catch a horse-drawn carriage ride, watch boats, etc. Lots of stuff going on all over downtown at all hours. Lots of places around Victoria to sit when you need a break.
And if you’re feeling super lazy, DoorDash, Skip, etc puts pages upon pages of restaurants and convenience stores etc at your fingertips.
The suite is secure, well decorated, and well taken care of. No funny smells or obvious mould or any of that sorta stuff. The kids loved running up and down the long hallway with their stuffies and watching the delivery trucks and workers from the balcony. It gives a feeling of both being in the city, while at the same time being tucked away. We live on a farm, and other than some typical city noise it was actually oddly peaceful for being in downtown!
When we pulled in the parking lot the scenery was less than spectacular as you’re looking at the dirty old rear end of historic buildings that have been pooped on by seagulls. But walk around to the front and it’s nice stores like Lulu Lemon. Once you realize that it’s kinda like okay yeah I guess why would these stores care about what the back looks like. There were no troublemakers. No crazy parties in the other units. Everything is well lit. Our brand new car that we just drove off the dealership was perfectly safe in the parking lot, we left it there from arrival to departure as traffic is such a pain downtown it’s faster to walk everywhere anyway :P
We are probably visiting the island again next summer, and will definitely consider staying here again.
Pro tip for families: you can use the bathrooms off the gym too if everyone has to go at the same time! (You just need the fob for access)