CVS Tours Season Opens - February 3, 2011

After a brief winter break for our staff in January, CVS resumes both our Deluxe Victoria City Tour and our Butchart Gardens Tour daily as of February 3rd, 2011.

With Victoria's finest sightseeing tour products - CVS Sightseeing is looking forward to a very busy Spring and Summer Tour Season. With deluxe motor coaches and live driver narration, thousands of passengers have found CVS Cruise Victoria to be the best sightseeing Victoria has to offer. New for 2011 purchase our tours online and save on every ticket - see our all our available products at CVS Sightseeing - Online Sales.

Check us out online - you won't be disappointed.

Butterfly Gardens - Now offered by CVS Cruise Victoria

Cruise Victoria now offers Butterfly Gardens as an option on selected Butchart Gardens Tours. Effective August 5th, 2010 - Cruise Victoria will offer an optional stop at the Victoria Butterfly Gardens on its 9:00am, 10:30am, 12:10pm and 2:20pm departures for the Butchart Gardens.

Operating similar to a shuttle bus service direct to Butchart Gardens, the service offers luxury motor coaches, driver narration and hotel pick-up at select Victoria hotels. The adult rate for the service is $59.50 and includes entrance to Butterfly Gardens, Butchart Gardens and round trip transportation.

This great package is available at 811 Government Street - Victoria, BC or call for further details - 250-386-8652.

Cruise Ship Guests visiting Butchart Gardens

If you are arriving into the Port of Victoria, BC you may already have booked your shore excursion to Butchart Gardens.... then again maybe you have not. Cruise guests planning on going to the Butchart Gardens need to travel the 18 miles out to the Gardens and get back to the ship in time for the ships all aboard. One of the easiest ways to get to the Butchart Gardens and to ensure you get back to the ship is by travelling with CVS Cruise Victoria. Cruise Victoria is a bus tour Company and they run regular tours to the Butchart Gardens in addition to Victoria City Tours. The tours leave from 811 Government Street in downtown Victoria, however Cruise Victoria also offers a shuttle service from all Cruise Lines to downtown Victoria making it easy to make your connection. The 2010 price for the Butchart Gardens Tour is $48.00 for adults and includes the $29.50 admission to the Gardens themselves.

Offering fully narrated tours and direct shuttle type service to the Gardens - this is an experience that will be fun for the whole family.

October is Ghost Tour Month

Cruise Victoria is offering a two (2) hour Ghost Bus Tour this October, 24, 25, 30 and 31st. Victoria is Canada's most haunted city! The cemeteries and narrow alleys are overflowing with eerie and mesmerizing stories of ghosts and paranormal encounters. Enjoy a nocturnal narrated ghost tour including some of Victoria’s most intriguing tales of its more famous citizens.

By lantern light, you will visit Pioneer Square, home of Victoria's first cemetery, and Bastion Square once the site of the public hangings at the hands of Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie, the notorious "hanging judge."

Delight in the tales of haunted homes in James Bay where famous ghosts like John Helmcken and Emily Carr still make their presence known. Fingers crossed, you might just catch a glimpse of a ghost on this spirited tour!

This bus tour will tour you to the best haunted sites - where you will have a change to wander the night and hear your escort's tales of the paranormal...

Call today for reservations 250-893-9503.

Pricing from $32.00 Adult or $15.00 Child

Cruise Victoria tour tickets now available Online

As a convenience for our guests, CVS Cruise Victoria now offers the option of purchasing all our Butchart Gardens Tour products on-line. The new service provides print your ticket at home convenience or you may request to pick-up your tickets via the Will Call at our kiosk located at 811 Government Street.

Pricing is available in US Dollars and allows you to avoid line-ups and ensure you have a reserved seat on any departure.

Book your on-line tickets with CVS Cruise Victoria.

Butchart Gardens Fireworks Tour

Butchart Gardens Fireworks! It must be summer time.

Cruise Victoria offers tours to the world famous Butchart Gardens to view the fireworks every Saturday night in July and August. Departing from downtown Victoria - 811 Government Street, we offer a 6:00pm departure and a 7:30pm departure with a return trip following the fireworks display.

Are you on a cruise ship, tours are designed to depart the Gardens at 10:45pm to return to your cruise ship by 11:20pm - prior to the ships All Aboard time. If you are not on a cruise ship we have a departure at 11:10pm so there is no rush to return to the motor coach.

Want to stay all day - Cruise Victoria allows guests to travel to the Gardens on any of our frequent schedules and return in the evening. Cost of the tour including admissions and tax is $49.00 Adult, $30 Youth and $19.00 Child.

This is a great tour, don't miss out.

Christmas at The Butchart Gardens - New CVS Sightseeing Tour

Starting on December 6th, 2008 CVS Sightseeing will offer daily service to the world famous Butchart Gardens. Through until January 6th, the Butchart Gardens is a Christmas wonderland complete with it's own skating rink. Thousands of lights make this a holiday event not to miss, so catch the spirit of Christmas with The Butchart Gardens and CVS Sightseeing.

CVS will provide a fully narrated tour to the Gardens with hotel pick ups at select hotel properties in Victoria's downtown. Tickets are available at Tourism Victoria as well as onboard the motor coach at time of pick up. Cost of the tour including admissions and tax is $42.00 and reservations are required by calling 250.893.9503.

Tour departure time is 6pm from the Empress circle drive or slightly earlier from various downtown hotels