Public Parking in Victoria

[cmyers]

We are staying and renting a car in Sidney and driving to Victoria inner harbor. Where do you park and do they charge for public parking?

[Putterdude]

You won't find parking right at the Inner Harbour but there are parkades and level lots within a block or 2 of the water. Daily parking rates will run about $6 to $12 check with your car rental company, if they have a location downtown they may allow you to park for free. Here is a link to Robbins Parking who are the largest parking lot operators in Victoria. http://www.robbinsparking.com/

[scottbee]

We are staying and renting a car in Sidney and driving to Victoria inner harbor. Where do you park and do they charge for public parking?

 

The easiest place to park is on Superior Street (which runs behind the parliament buildings). Meters on the street

[cmyers]

Thanks for the responses - one more question- What's the best route to get to the parking? What exit do we take from Sidney and where do you find a good map of the area?

[Putterdude]

You are welcome, the highway from the Swartz Bay ferry terminal/Sydney will bring you right into town as the highway ends (about 35 min drive) you will find yourself on Douglas Street as you get into the downtown business district you can make a right almost on any street and that will take you down to the Innner Harbour. Victoria is only about 350,000 people and its pretty hard to get lost there. As for a map why not just go to mapquest and pull one down with directions as to where you want to go in Victoria.

[cruiseryyc]

When you pick up your rental car, they should provide you with lots of free maps and directions to where you want to go.

[Urban trekker]

Assume you are taking the ferry over to Victoria - the information racks on the ferry are fill of maps for Victoria - there are at least three different ones that I can think of - all will have large scale maps of the downtown core.

 

Hope this helps

 

Cheers

 

Dennis

[bcscot]

You are welcome, the highway from the Swartz Bay ferry terminal/Sydney will bring you right into town as the highway ends (about 35 min drive) you will find yourself on Douglas Street as you get into the downtown business district you can make a right almost on any street and that will take you down to the Innner Harbour.

 

Actually you will be on Blanchard (parallel to Douglas), only merging with Douglas beyond the city centre. If you turn right off Blanchard onto Yates & keep straight on across Douglas & Government, you will find a multi-story car park on your left. This is the one that we always use. It is handy for the centre & inner harbour & is about $10-12 per day. You can get a map on the ferry.

 

Graham.

[scottbee]

Actually you will be on Blanchard (parallel to Douglas), only merging with Douglas beyond the city centre. If you turn right off Blanchard onto Yates & keep straight on across Douglas & Government, you will find a multi-story car park on your left. This is the one that we always use. It is handy for the centre & inner harbour & is about $10-12 per day. You can get a map on the ferry.

 

Get off the ferry follow the traffic. You'll be on Hwy 17 (called the Pay Bay Highway by locals). Keep going straight. At Saanich Road, it turns into Blanshard Street (and reduces to a 50kmph zone watch out). Follow it all the way into downtown.

 

 

 

 

He's almost completely correct, except it's Blanshard Street once you get south of Saanich Road. North of that