Fairmont Express is Good As Gold in Victoria B.C.

Jill Weinlein

Recently, the Fairmont Express Hotel successful historical Victoria, B.C., completed a $60+ cardinal dollar restoration to bring the Grand Dame of Canada into a caller epoch of modern luxury.

Located connected Vancouver Island, Canada’s Castle connected the Coast debuted its caller Fairmont Empress Gold. Now visitors person a 'hotel wrong a hotel' acquisition portion exploring stunningly beauteous British Columbia.

Not overmuch was touched connected the exquisite exterior, a motion to French Renaissance with Tudor architecture. Gorgeous heavy stones, bricks, neo-gothic dormers, gables, and turrets supply a measurement backmost successful clip and European feel. 

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Inside the towering lobby is simply a stunning crystal chandelier soaring above. Shaped arsenic angiosperm petals enhanced with 250,000 hand-cut crystals, this eye-catching escaped signifier sculpture is simply a motion to the Garden City, and to the roseate plot successful the beforehand of the hotel. Throughout the day, the crystals dazzle successful colour arsenic the prima shines into the precocious windows bathing the lobby with earthy light.

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Beyond the lobby are 431 beautifully appointed impermanent rooms and suites, portion of the caller Fairmont Gold Experience. Designers took erstwhile impermanent rooms overlooking the harbor, and converted 22 rooms into Gold Experience rooms. 

Spacious 1 chamber Inner Harbor presumption suites connection elegant decor successful the surviving country and abstracted 1 bedroom. Luxurious thread number sheets are fitted connected the comfy pillow-top king size bed. The spa similar marble bath features a soothing rainfall ablution with 2 ablution heads. 

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On the archetypal level of the Fairmont Empress Hotel is the Fairmont Gold Lounge overlooking the Inner Harbor and gardens. Guests staying astatine this level cheque successful and cheque retired connected the archetypal level alternatively of the lobby. Staff pb you to your country oregon to the caller Gold Lounge for a refreshment and wound to eat.

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Walking into the Gold Lounge feels arsenic if you are a impermanent successful someone's elegant estate. The ample afloat room offers complimentary coffee, juice, smoothies, blistery and acold breakfast, each time snacks, evening tapas and desserts. Beverages, wine, brew and cocktails are besides provided to guests passim the day.

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A caller and unsocial culinary acquisition is Sunset Sips astatine Fairmont Empress. Downstairs beyond Q astatine the Empress Restaurant successful the elegant beverage lounge is simply a caller evening cocktail and tapa experience. As the prima sets down the Inner Harbor, guests bask crafted tea-infused cocktails and mocktails poured from colorful teapots. 

Dan McGowan, General Manager of the edifice and his squad created Sunset Sips. 'This iconic country was acheronian successful the evening aft our fashionable day beverage work finished. This is 1 of the champion spots to seizure the beauteous sunset views of the Inner Harbor. Now we person an elegant evening venue for guests, cruise passengers and locals to bask portion visiting the hotel,' said McGowan.

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During sunset, the entity successful Victoria showcases orange, reddish and purple colors. Sunset Sips tea-infused libations see the Mad Hatter made with dill-infused tequila, Cointreau, raspberry lemonade beverage syrup, pineapple and lime are poured into wide solid beverage cups.

Other cocktails see the tropical and creaseless Daisy Ricky made with citrus punch tea-infused Barcardi, and The Spare & The Actress made with Rose Congu iced tea, Marker's Mark, Aperol and lemon.

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To acceptable the ambiance, euphony from the 1920s plays successful the inheritance arsenic guests bask a Prohibition-style evening. Three-tiered beverage stands are brought to the array featuring savory tapas and saccharine desserts.

Savory bites see a gluten-free lukewarm achromatic Cheddar food and chive biscuit with orangish marmalade butter; grilled avocado and herb tartine connected gluten-free multi-grain, and slow-roasted roast beef stuffed Yorkshire pudding with caramelized rosemary reddish onions. The section smoked sockeye salmon connected sourdough is topped with crispy capers, reddish bulb and sliced brushed boiled egg.

Sweet treats see a strawberry-rhubarb tart, gluten-free tapioca violet mousse and cocoa profiteroles. This peculiar evening Sunset Sips is $45 per person. Extra tapas tin beryllium ordered for an further charge.

Summers successful Victoria B.C. are sunny, lukewarm and filled with a kaleidoscope of beauteous flowers. Right present the iconic 1908 Fairmont Empress has special offers that see Good arsenic Gold to enactment successful 1 of the newer Gold impermanent rooms with entranceway into the stunning Gold Lounge, arsenic good arsenic an Empress for the Day bundle astatine the Willow Stream Spa.