Vancouver Island Hotels|Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

The Magnolia Hotel & Spa

Name: The Magnolia Hotel & Spa
Telephone: 877-624-6654

Victoria's sophisticated boutique hotel

VERIFIED LUXURY

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At The Magnolia Hotel & Spa, it’s all about the details. Hotel staff members who are active on social media have been known to surprise guests who’ve posted about upcoming birthdays, anniversaries and other occasions with little touches that make their stay a bit more special.

But even if you aren’t celebrating anything in particular at the Victoria hotel, you'll receive special treatment; there’s always coffee or tea in the lobby, along with fresh lemonade when the weather heats up and hot cider to warm you when it turns chilly. Rooms come with tea from beloved local shop Silk Road, where the in-house tea master makes specialty blends. At turndown, more treats await — it could be chocolates or sweet-smelling sparkling rhubarb bubble bath, all of which are locally made.

The Forbes Travel Guide Recommended hotel itself has plenty to offer. There’s the seven-room spa that focuses on services that use organic products. The Courtney Room, situated just off the hotel lobby, features a menu that highlights seasonal dishes made with local ingredients sourced from the farms, fishermen and foragers of Vancouver Island. Guests can enjoy à la carte options for breakfast, lunch, dinner and at the bar.

Our Inspector's Highlights

Inside the boutique hotel, the design is distinctive, mixing traditional furnishings with more contemporary touches — in keeping with Victoria’s historic past and rapidly evolving, high-tech, local-food-loving present.
The Magnolia offers excellent Curated Journeys, day trips that range from wine tasting in the Cowichan Valley to whale watching and strolling through the lush Butchart Gardens, along with closer-to-home Curated Trails, self-guided itineraries for shopping, food, craft breweries and more.
You can walk from the conveniently located Victoria hotel to many downtown attractions, including the Inner Harbour, Royal British Columbia Museum and Parliament Buildings as well as the city’s small but historic Chinatown and the fun, funky shops on Lower Johnson Street
Local, seasonal ingredients take center stage at The Magnolia’s restaurant, The Courtney Room. It’s one of the chicest spots in town.
The Victoria hotel’s seven-room spa focuses on services that use organic products. Try the Spa Magnolia Signature for a sampler of treatments, including a body scrub, hydrotherapy bath, facial and massage.

Things to Know

If you want to avoid Victoria at its most crowded but still enjoy good weather, the late spring (May through mid-June) and early fall (mid-September through October) are great choices for checking into the luxury hotel.
Borrow one of the hotel's bikes to explore charming Victoria.
Ask for a Signature Corner room to get a view of the Inner Harbour and the domed Parliament Buildings, which illuminate at night.

The Rooms

The Magnolia Hotel & Spa features 64 rooms that have a fairly traditional design but feel contemporary due to a recent refresh. The Diamond Level Rooms showcase plush, cream-hued upholstered headboards, new bedding packages in rich gray and bright white and gold accents that beautifully complement the traditional furniture.
The reading chairs are upholstered in pearl gray, and the two-poster beds, desks and night tables in dark mahogany contrast nicely with the lighter-hued linens.
Diamond Level Rooms on the 6th and 7th floors boast original artwork by local Victoria artist Donna Anderson.
Ranging in size from 300 to 400 square feet, rooms are outfitted with small refrigerators, coffeemakers and flat-screen TVs, with Google Casting available in every room for a truly tailored entertainment experience.
While all the corner rooms are larger and brighter, the Victoria hotel’s best accommodations are the corner units on the sixth and seventh floors, which also have views of both the lovely harbor and the Parliament Buildings with their distinctive copper-topped domes.

The Restaurants

The Magnolia Hotel & Spa's The Courtney Room features wood chevron floors and a modern color palette of gray, dark blue, and white throughout the space. There is a secluded second-floor patio that is open seasonally. Catering to food enthusiasts, the à la carte menus emphasize local, seasonal ingredients and are constantly evolving.
The Victoria restaurant sources ingredients from local farms and a wild food forager.
The nationally recognized wine list features local and international selections, including favorites from British Columbia, such as Fitzpatrick Brut sparkling wine, and Vancouver Island bottles from Unsworth and Averill Creek in the Cowichan Valley.
At the bar, approachable small plates like beef tartare, freshly shucked oysters and marinated olives provide the perfect complement to timeless cocktails.
The Courtney Room is open seven days a week for breakfast, lunch and dinner and also boasts a bar menu.

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