Getting Here and Around

It's easy to visit Victoria without a car. Most sights, restaurants, and hotels are in the compact walkable core, with bikes, ferries, horse-drawn carriages, double-decker buses, step-on tour buses, taxis, and pedicabs on hand to fill the gaps. For sights outside the core—the Butchart Gardens, Hatley Castle, the Scenic Marine Drive—tour buses are your best bet.

Bike paths lace downtown and run along much of Victoria's waterfront, and long-haul car-free paths run to the ferry terminals as far west as Sooke. Most buses and ferries carry bikes.