Hourly chauffeur service in Victoria: YYJ, the Inner Harbour, the Legislature, Butchart Gardens and the Island on the Toronto standard

Victoria, on the Toronto account

Victoria is British Columbia's capital on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, the desk's Toronto accounts' stop for the province's government at the Legislature and the departments on its Inner Harbour, for the Navy's Pacific base at Esquimalt, for the University of Victoria and Royal Roads, for the technology companies that have made the downtown and Sidney a quiet cluster, and - for the visitor and the cruise passenger - for the Fairmont Empress and Butchart Gardens and the Island beyond. A client who keeps a chauffeur by the hour in Toronto arrives by YYJ, by the Swartz Bay ferry from Tsawwassen, by the Harbour Air floatplane from Coal Harbour into the Inner Harbour, or by the Clipper from Seattle, and finds the same thing waiting through the LimousineWorldwide.Directory network's vetted Victoria operator: the same three-hour minimum, the same flat rate, the same meet, one invoice. The Canada hub explains the network; the pillar page the hourly product; the Vancouver page is the mainland end.

YYJ, the ferry and the floatplane: the meets

Victoria International at Sidney on the Saanich Peninsula is twenty-five kilometres and thirty minutes from the Inner Harbour on the Patricia Bay Highway - the 17 - and the local chauffeur meets a Toronto arrival at the arrivals hall with the plate and the name, thirty minutes' waiting on a domestic flight and forty-five on an international one included, as the Pearson page describes; YYJ's pre-arranged ground-transport curb is the car's place. The Swartz Bay ferry terminal five minutes north of the airport receives the ninety-five-minute BC Ferries crossing from Tsawwassen every two hours and the chauffeur meets the foot passenger at the terminal or, for a Vancouver client who brought the car across, the Vancouver operator's vehicle rolls off and the booking continues; the Harbour Air floatplane from Vancouver's Coal Harbour lands in the Inner Harbour beside the Empress in thirty-five minutes and the chauffeur meets it at the Harbour Air terminal on Wharf Street, which is the Toronto executive's favourite arrival in the country.

The Legislature, the departments and the government-relations day

The British Columbia Legislature on the Inner Harbour - its dome lit at night, its visitor entrance on Belleville Street, the ministers' offices and the press gallery - and the provincial departments around it on Government, Douglas, Blanshard and Broughton, the regulators and the associations on Fort and Yates, and the crown corporations' headquarters: a Toronto client's government-relations day is the as-directed block of six to nine hours with the chauffeur waiting on Belleville or Government between meetings, and the roadshow page plans a day that adds the Navy's Esquimalt base's headquarters, the technology companies of the downtown's Fort Street and Sidney's airport park, and the University of Victoria's research park with the 17's timing built in. The Legislature sits on a published calendar and the desk reads it; the Legislative Assembly's site has the dates.

The Empress, the Inner Harbour and the hotels

The Fairmont Empress on the Inner Harbour with its afternoon tea and its porte-cochère on Government Street, the Hotel Grand Pacific and the Inn at Laurel Point on the harbour's south side, the Magnolia and the Oswego and the Parkside downtown, the Oak Bay Beach Hotel on the Strait with its mineral pools, the Delta Ocean Pointe across the Johnson Street Bridge: the Toronto account's executive stays in one of them, the Empress's tea is the visitor's booking, and the local chauffeur knows each drive as the Toronto chauffeur knows the Four Seasons'.

Butchart Gardens, the Saanich Peninsula and a visitor's day

Butchart Gardens' fifty-five acres in a former quarry on Tod Inlet twenty-five minutes north on the peninsula - the Sunken Garden, the Rose Garden, the Japanese Garden, the summer Saturday fireworks and the Christmas lights - are the Island's most-visited attraction and the reason for most Victoria bookings, and a visitor's day adds the Inner Harbour's Royal BC Museum and its First Peoples gallery, the Empress's tea, Craigdarroch Castle, the Beacon Hill Park's peacocks and the Mile Zero marker at the Trans-Canada's western end, Fisherman's Wharf's floating houses, Oak Bay's village and the Marina, the Malahat's summit lookout, and Sidney's bookshops and its Saturday market: an eight-hour tourist day in the SUV with the local chauffeur's order - Butchart at 9 before the coaches, the peninsula's wineries or Sidney at 11:30, lunch at the Empress or in Oak Bay, the museum and the castle at 2:30, Beacon Hill and Fisherman's Wharf at 4:30 - and the car waiting at each; Destination Greater Victoria has the seasons and Butchart's hours change monthly.

Esquimalt, the Navy and the shipyard

CFB Esquimalt - the Pacific fleet's base, Maritime Forces Pacific's headquarters, the dockyard and the Fleet Maintenance Facility, and the Esquimalt Graving Dock and Seaspan's Victoria Shipyards beside it - is the west-coast counterpart of the Halifax page's dockyard, and a Toronto defence contractor's or a shipbuilder's day at the base and the shipyard is the roadshow page's block with the gate's security rules confirmed on the booking and the corporate account billing it. The Naden base's museum and the Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse historic site next door are the visitor's version.

UVic, Royal Roads and the hospitals

The University of Victoria's ring-road campus in Oak Bay and Saanich - the residences, the Farquhar Auditorium for convocation, the research park - Royal Roads University at Hatley Castle in Colwood, Camosun College's two campuses, and the Royal Jubilee and Victoria General hospitals and the BC Cancer Agency's Victoria centre: a Toronto family's move-in in September or convocation in June is the campus routine with the local operator's SUV and Sprinter, and a patient's referral or a family's visits are the medical chauffeur page's product with the local chauffeur waiting at the hospital's entrance.

The cruise season, and the Island beyond

Ogden Point's cruise terminal at the harbour's mouth - the Alaska ships that call from April to October, most of them for an evening, the passengers who have four hours and want Butchart's lights or the Empress's tea - makes the cruise-evening booking the desk's Victoria summer: the pier meet, Butchart or the Inner Harbour, the drop at Ogden Point's coach loop an hour before all-aboard. Beyond the city, the Island Highway north over the Malahat to the Cowichan Valley's wineries and Duncan's totems an hour away, Nanaimo and the Departure Bay ferry an hour and a half, Parksville's beaches and Cathedral Grove's old growth two hours, and Tofino's and Ucluelet's Pacific beaches and their storm season four and a half hours west on Highway 4: a Tofino one-way is a flat fare the desk quotes, a Cowichan wine day the Niagara wine-tour page's routine on the Island, and DriveBC is the dispatcher's screen for the Malahat's closures and Highway 4's.

Where the car waits, in a table

A Victoria day, timed (book 8)

9:00 the Harbour Air terminal on Wharf Street, the sedan, a Toronto association's president off the 8:15 floatplane from Coal Harbour, having landed at YVR from Pearson the evening before; the meet on the dock. 9:15 the Legislature, a minister's office; the car on Belleville. 10:45 a department on Douglas. 12:00 lunch at the Empress; the car in the porte-cochère's lane. 1:30 a crown corporation on Blanshard. 3:00 the technology park in Sidney up the 17. 4:30 YYJ for the 5:30 flight to Vancouver and the overnight to Pearson. Eight hours from the floatplane's dock on the Toronto account's invoice, and the Island done in a day because the chauffeur was already booked when the floatplane touched the harbour.

The car

The network operator's fleet in the same classes: the Executive Sedan for the government-relations day and the YYJ run; the Mercedes S-Class for the executive and the Empress's guest; the Luxury SUV for the family, Butchart, the Malahat and the Tofino road; the Executive Sprinter for the conference delegation, the cruise group and the UVic convocation family. The fleet page has the Toronto classes and the desk confirms the Victoria vehicle on the booking.

What it costs

The Victoria operator's class hourly rate times the hours, from three (five for a Sprinter), quoted by the Toronto desk at booking and billed with the Toronto bookings on the account's monthly invoice, plus British Columbia's taxes and the gratuity you set; no surge, no meter, no tolls, and Butchart's admission is the visitor's. The rates page explains the Toronto number and the corporate accounts page the one-invoice arrangement; a Nanaimo, Cowichan or Tofino one-way is a flat fare the desk quotes.

Booking Victoria

A call or an email to the Toronto desk with the flight, the ferry or the floatplane, the hotel and the days - the travel desk handles the Toronto-Vancouver-Victoria trip - or the booker with Victoria as the pick-up city; the desk confirms the local operator, the vehicle and the chauffeur's name the day before, and the plate text arrives at the meet. A government-relations day two days ahead; Butchart's summer Saturdays, the cruise season's evenings and UVic's move-in weeks ahead.

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