Originally Posted by
tripweb
I want to see both Seattle and Vancouver and do a short stop in Victoria.
How does this sound:
Day one (Friday), fly into Victoria arriving around 11AM or 4PM depending on the flight. See sights around the center of Victoria and stay overnight.
Day two, helicopter from Victoria into Vancouver Harbor after checking out of hotel around 11am.
Days are shorter that far up north, so if it's going to be 4 p.m. arrival, you won't have any daylight to speak of after clearing Immigration and going to town.
YYJ is a long way from town, so taxi to downtown runs about $60C (I only do this for midnight arrivals). YYJ Shuttle is much cheaper, but sometimes you have to wait for it.
I normally try to take public transportation, and if the little bus from YYJ to McTavish Interchange won't be coming along anytime soon, I just walk it and catch 70X to Parliament Building. Not much longer than shuttle, but much cheaper.
One of Victoria's biggest attractions of course is Butchart Gardens, but that is halfway between the airport and Victoria, though not exactly on the highway (IIRC a bus does run there).
But you can certainly just hang around Inner Harbour and downtown Victoria and surrounding parks.