We walked through the beautiful Empress Hotel and then went to a book store, sidewalk booths and the Irish Times pub for lunch. We took a taxi into town (cheaper than the shuttle btw) and walked back. ...
I really like the city. It’s clean. People are nice. Very pretty. My mother in law went to Butchard Gardens and loved it. Good food and atmosphere. ...
This is a pretty town, and we did the High Tea at the Empress Hotel which was AMAZING, but other than that we found little to do here and went back to ship pretty early. ...
this was more then terrible, what a waste of time, way to late to see anything we walked all the way into town to discover that all the stores we wanted to visit had closed at 6pm. Only a few souvenir stores and pubs open to 3 ships of tourists. Was not happy ...
We arrived in the evening and didn't want to get too far from the ship, so we just walked along the pier next to the cruise ports. There were many, many options for transportation to get downtown available at the port even for those who didn't book excursions. ...