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Victoria, British Columbia a heavenly place!Trip Advisor’s Travelers’ Choice Best Destination Awards.

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#1 Destination in Canada! Victoria, British Columbia, Canada has been ranked the number one destination to visit in Canada, the second best destination for culture and sightseeing in Canada, and the 24th best destination to visit in the world. These rankings have been awarded through TripAdvisor’s Travellers’ Choice Best Destinations Awards for 2010. We have always known that Vancouver Island and especially the southwest coast of the Island where Sooke Harbour House is located was a little corner of...

Adventures Options Sure to Thrill In Sooke on Vancouver Island! by Pamela Irving

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Join us soon, at Sooke Harbour House only a few days can make you feel like a long exotic holiday! http://www.where2nowmag.com/2010/05/well-traveled-need-a-pick-me-up-adventur...

Conde Nast Traveler asking everyone to take their 2010 Readers’ Choice Survey

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We would like for you to take the survey and if you love our small hotel restaurant, to vote for the Sooke Harbour House. We have for the last 31 years tried to do our best to offer you our guests, the most comfortable stay, the best local and seasonal food our region the south west coast of Vancouver Island has to offer. Our team, comprised of passionate chefs, knowledgeable gardeners, foragers, skilled waiting staff and sommelier and everyone in the back of the house that you may never see or meet, has strive to do their best. We have...

Weddings, Bliss, Honeymoon, more bliss, Sooke Harbour House is one of the most romantic small resort to tie the knot!

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Young Travellers High 5 for Marriage ceremony Island Destinations in U.S. and Canada 5. Vancouver Island – Vancouver, By William Phelps Vancouver Island is the ultimate destination for travel and leisure. Additionally it is among the many most wanted wedding venues within the world. Famous as “Canada’s Paradise on the Pacific,” the Vancouver Island is dotted with beautiful gardens, seashores, lush rain forests and rocky shorelines. The Sooke Harbour House, situated on Whiffen Spit Seaside, is a Wine Spectator Grand Award winner of 2009 and...

Edible Spring Mushrooms From the Sooke Area

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A few edible spring mushrooms that are up now in and around Sooke:

Wild MUSHROOMS – Delicious or Deadly?

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Increase your comfort level eating wild mushrooms by knowing what not to eat. During this introductory workshop, Ingeborg Woodsworth will highlight varieties of toxic mushrooms, their effects on humans, and their treatment needs. Through slides, field guides and live specimens (where possible) - you will learn to identify dangerous mushrooms and review what to do if someone has eaten a toxic one. May 15th, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at Mayo Creek Gardens, near Lake Cowichan, BC Cost per person $45, includes hand-outs. Advance payment required to...

Zip, zodiac or kayak adds adventure to daily grind

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http://www.countymarket.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2542598 Who wouldn't want to add adventures to every day life. Pamela Irving takes us with her on her adventures, zipping through the tall trees, then exploring the ocean and the whales, all of this in our little town of Sooke. I invite you to spend a few days with us at Sooke Harbour House and you too can add exciting adventures to your life soothing, relaxing and flavourful times at the end of the day while staying with...

In a few days the students from the Culinary Program of Edward Milne Community School will create with our chefs at Sooke Harbour House a multi course dinner, buy your tickets now!

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http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_south/sookenewsmirror/community/85992957.html The culinary program at EMCS is one of the best ones in British Columbia. Pia Carroll Chef- teacher with the collaboration of Marion French is making learning and cooking delicious and nourishing dishes an exciting event for every one of their students. On that day they will learn, under the guidance and encouragement of our chefs at the Sooke Harbour House, how to organize a menu and prepare that menu for fifty guests. It has been, for the last few...

Sooke Harbour House is romantic by essence..and much more!

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www.bestromanticinns.com Vancouver Island’s Spa Hideaway is our Sooke Harbour House and yours!. A place where we want each one of you, our guest to forget for a few hours, a few days, the outside world! A place where cell phones, computers should be checked in upon arrival, you won’t need them ( no withdrawal, just kidding!). A place to watch the otters play in front of the dining room, a place to linger for hours savouring the creations of our chefs, a place to soak in our deep hot tubs, a place to stare at the ocean, or in the...

Sooke Harbour House:Authentic Luxury Travel by Elizabeth Hansen

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authenticluxurytravel.elizabethhansen.net A very nice article published by Elizabeth Hansen in 2009. “This author shares ideas for savoring local cultures and exploring the road less traveled without sacrificing comfort and convenience” the article is titled Victoria, BC – Beyond the Obvious. It is always nice for all of us at Sooke Harbour House to read good things about what we do every day, striving of course to do our best. It is with your support, your suggestions, your encouragement that we can keep on going, improve,...