Victoria's place is awesome if you want to stay in a place where you feel like you can do your own thing and immerse yourself in what it would feel like to live amongst residents, but still be close enough to be able to take in the city.
Uber/Lyft rides are about 20minutes to downtown, bus stops are literally down the street and are easy to navigate thru the TTC system.
If like me, you go in Canada's transitional period of Spring - you might want to bring a pair of slippers as it can get quite cold (naturally, being a basement) but then there was also a heater which was great.
Victoria is a great host and responded promptly and effectively to any problems I had (: