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nights, a large games room and a book-lined reading area to keep you occupied. Free city
tours are also regularly scheduled.
Ocean Island Inn
HOSTEL$
( 888-888-4180, 250-385-1788;
www.oceanisland.com
;
791 Pandora Ave; dm/s/d from $28/40/
46; )
This funky, multicolored hostel is a labyrinth of small dorms and private
rooms, some without windows. There's a large communal kitchen on the ground floor
and a licensed lounge for breakfast, quiz nights and live music. There are also private,
self-catering suites across town in a James Bay character house (from $121) - see
www.oisuites.com
for information.
Hotel Rialto
HOTEL$$$
( 250-383-4157;
www.hotelrialto.ca
;
653 Pandora Ave; d from $179; )
Completely refur-
bished from the faded former budget hotel it once was, the Rialto is a well-located down-
town option in an attractive century-old heritage building. Each of the mod-decorated
rooms has refrigerator, microwave and flat-screen TV and some have tubs as well as
showers. The lobby's popular tapas lounge is also open to non-guests. Highly solicitous
staff.
Inn at Laurel Point
HOTEL$$$
( 800-663-7667, 250-386-8721;
www.laurelpoint.com
;
680 Montreal St; d from $169;
)
Tucked along the Inner Harbour a short seaside stroll from the downtown action, this
friendly, art-lined and ever-comfortable hotel is all about the views across the water-
front. Spacious rooms come with private balconies for drinking in the mesmerizing sun-
sets. Still owned by a local Victoria family, the inn offers a resort-like level of calm re-
laxation.
Swans Suite Hotel
HOTEL$$$
( 800-668-7926, 250-361-3310;
www.swanshotel.com
;
506 Pandora Ave; d incl breakfast $185;
)
This brick-built former warehouse has been transformed into an art-lined boutique
hotel. Most rooms are spacious loft suites where you climb upstairs to bed in a gabled
nook, and each is decorated with a comfy combination of wooden beams, rustic-chic fur-
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