Fairmont Empress Hotel

The Fairmont Empress, a historic hotel overlooking Victoria's Inner Harbour, offers 431 beautifully restored guest rooms and suites with magnificent views. This award-winning hotel (Condé Nast Readers' Choice, Gold List, and Travel + Leisure top Canadian hotel) boasts a spa with massages, body treatments, and facials; a health club; an indoor pool (temporarily closed for maintenance January 3-17, 2024); and a hot tub. Additional amenities include complimentary wireless internet access (surcharge for in-room access), concierge services, gift shops/newsstands, a 24-hour business center, limo/town car service, express check-in, a conference center, meeting rooms, and self-parking (surcharge). Two on-site restaurants offer American cuisine, and a bar/lounge is available. Full breakfasts are available daily (fee applies). The hotel offers a cruise ship terminal shuttle (surcharge). Rooms feature minibars, flat-screen televisions, cable programming, private bathrooms with bathtubs or showers, designer toiletries, hair dryers, phones, safes, and desks. The hotel is within walking distance of numerous attractions including the Maritime Museum of British Columbia, Victoria Bug Zoo, British Columbia Parliament Building, and Victoria Harbour. The preferred airport is Victoria Intl. Airport (YYJ).