GETTING HERE
Come on over
By air and water, getting to Vancouver Island is part of the adventure
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ail with your vehicle, as a passenger aboard a tour bus or as a foot traveller via full-service ferry systems operating from the B.C. mainland and Washington State. Victoria is 107 kilometres (76 miles) southwest of Vancouver. The trip by car and ferry, or bus and ferry, takes about two hours each way from terminals on the Lower Mainland to Nanaimo and Greater VIctoria. By air, the trip is a 35 minute flight. Fly into international and regional airports at Victoria, Nanaimo and Comox by commercial airliners either direct from the Prairie provinces and Toronto or on a connecting flight from Vancouver or Seattle. Or you can make the trip in memorable style aboard a Harbour Air floatplane or a Helijet helicopter soaring across the Salish Sea and Puget Sound.
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Water aerodromes with float-plane scheduled service are located in Victoria, Nanaimo, Comox, Campbell River, Port Alberni and Tofino. Harbour Air flies into several locations around the Island. You can board at Harbour Air’s spectacular terminal in the Inner Harbour and get just about anywhere aboard the company’s fleet of Twin Otter aircraft. B.C. Ferries provides vehicle and passenger ferry service between Vancouver and Vancouver Island. They also provide year-round connections between various Island communities and the Gulf Islands, the Sunshine Coast, Haida Gwaii and mainland northern B.C. For comprehensive schedules and how to make reservations, see bcferries.com
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