Butchart Gardens Express Bus Times (Victoria, BC)

[zackarykeef]

Hi, all! We were thinking of booking this tour on our own, as it is cheaper than the ship tour. It's the express bus tour that leaves from the Empress Hotel. Has anyone used this?

 

The tour site shows times with 2 hours at the Gardens, but my question is...can you take any return trip (they are hourly), or do you have to take the exact return that corresponds to your drop off? I guess I don't know if you can catch any bus, or they have a certain amount of people on each bus and you are bound to your exact return time. If anyone has any info, I would appreciate it! Thank you!

[Octavias]

We were just in Victoria last month and did this tour.  We were able to take any return trip on the same bus, which was a good thing as we finished seeing the gardens a lot sooner than we expected and took an earlier ride back to the Empress than we had planned.