This is a great AirBnb listing. Lots of room for parking and safe bike storage. Melissa and Luke are kind and welcoming, and the daily sounds of their young but not intrusive family are heartwarming. The location may seem a little out of town, but in fact the town centre is 15 minutes away by bike (via the E&N Rail trail) and the roominess of the apartment and abundance of street parking greatly outweigh the short trip. The apartment is very spacious and well-equipped for cooking. The hosts are kind, respond quickly, and will chat with you as much or as little as you want. For the motorist, there are several routes to out of town attractions that bypass the city core and trips to the city core are easy; identify a favoured parking lot though! For the cyclist, Victoria is an amazing place for biking, whether determined or dawdling, and Melissa's place puts you at the heart of endless opportunities. There are as many, varied and long loops as you want, and the jaunt into town is not demanding: Left on the E&N Rail Trail takes you to the Galloping Goose Trail and Langford with points west and north (try the Munn Road loop for a hilly experience - very slow up and a blast down - through beautiful terrain, or the Prospect Lake/Lochside Loop to warm up for the Munn Road trip); right on the E&N Trail takes you downtown via Esquimalt Road and the new Johnson Street Bridge (via and to a range of bike lanes - the one on Pandora Street is a two-way bike mini-highway despite the street being one way for cars) or to the beginning of 'the Goose' (and eventually the Lochside Trail, which goes north as far as Sydney and the Airport), via a left turn off Esquimalt on Harbour Street, just before the bridge. So all in all a great place with great hosts at the centre of a web of roads and bike trails.