Editorial shortlist, no booking partner
15 hotels and lodges chosen to cover the island's real choices: a harbour hotel in Victoria, an oceanfront room for storm season, a fishing lodge in Campbell River, cabins on the Telegraph Cove boardwalk. Shortlist by the trip you want, then book with the hotel directly.
Not sure which part of the island? Read Choosing where to base yourself first.
5 of 15 hotels. Price tiers are relative bands, not rates
Resort, Oceanfront
Mid-range
A mid-range oceanfront hotel on Sooke Harbour with a pool, a marina and rooms looking across the basin to the hills, forty-five minutes from Victoria. The comfortable base for the West Coast Road.
Cabins, Historic
Mid-range
Restored cannery-era cabins and rooms on the boardwalk over Telegraph Cove, with a campground behind, a pub and the whale and kayak operators as neighbours. The only place to stay in the village that the orcas made famous.
Resort, Oceanfront
Upscale
A modern glass-and-cedar resort on the rocky shore of Ucluelet, with the Wild Pacific Trail at its edge and the open ocean below. The Ucluelet answer to Tofino's headland lodges, at a lower price.
Resort, Oceanfront
Upscale
A waterfront spa resort between Courtenay and the Royston shoreline, with a Pacific Mist hydropath, an oceanfront restaurant and rooms facing the Coast Mountains. The Comox Valley's most restful base for a Campbell River wildlife trip.
Lodge, Resort
Upscale
The historic fishing lodge on Discovery Passage that hosted film stars in the 1950s, now a waterfront resort with a marina, pool and a water taxi to its sister lodge on Quadra Island. The classic Campbell River base for a wildlife trip.