Victoria Cruise Ship Visitors

Victoria, BC Canada is a Port of Call for Alaskan Cruises, many arrivals are in the evening and all guests should take the opportunity to see this lovely City.

Cruise Lines offer a variety of Shore Excursions, but for those who have not purchased through the ship there is still opportunity to take a tour or just go downtown to see the City. Cruise Victoria is a bus company and offer a shuttle bus meeting all cruise line arrivals into the Port of Victoria at Ogden Point. The shuttle bus cost $7.00 but this gets you downtown plus back to the ship - and if you show your pass your can ride back and forth as many times as you wish.

Once in downtown Victoria, there are numerous tour options not the least of which are the Deluxe Victoria City Tour (1.5 hrs) or the Butchart Gardens Tour (min. 3 hrs - or stay as long as you wish). Cruise Victoria offers Victoria's Best Sightseeing and it is really convenient as well. Now that summer has arrived - enjoy all that Victoria has to offer with a Cruise Victoria tour.

Call for more info 250-386-8652.

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.

Cruise Victoria reaches Environmental Milestone

CVS Cruise Victoria is a provider of motor coach and shuttle bus services in Victoria, BC Canada. We provide services for Cruise Lines and the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority in addition to serving tourists from around the world. Since the inception of the Company in early 2007, Cruise Victoria has been operating it's fleet of motor coaches on various blends of Bio-Diesel. In April of 2008 we moved to using 100% Soy based Bio-Fuels - with no fossil fuels being burned.

Today we are proud to announce that Cruise Victoria has reached reductions of 100 tonnes of green house gases. This is equivalent to reducing the number of vehicles on the road annually by 20 passenger cars, just by using Bio-Fuel instead of Fossil Fuel. We further reduce our carbon foot print by our strict policies limiting engine idling, in addition to monitoring our passenger loads to ensure that our coaches only operate when necessary. Our average load factor in 2008 was 41.2 passengers per trip (Cruise Shuttle Services).

We remain the only major motor coach operator in Western Canada operating using 100% Bio-Fuel and we look forward to continuing success with the program in the future.

CVS starts Butchart Gardens Tour Product

Starting in late August, Cruise Victoria began a new tour to the world famous Butchart Gardens. The tour operates daily - seven days a week with a choice of five departure times. One of the best sightseeing values in Victoria, the service costs $47.00 per adult including all taxes, Gardens admission and round trip transportation. Show your CVS Brochure and receive a $2 discount on each adult fare.

Operating from some of Victoria's finer Hotel properties such as the Victoria Marriott and the Harbour Tours Hotel as well as 811 Government Street, tickets are also available at Tourism Victoria's Visitor Information Centre.

This tour will operate through the end of October 2008.