The English Inn

Lots of stairs to climb, windows too high to use, and slippery leather chairs. Very handy to Macaulay Park and Saxe Park - also to downtown Victoria. Enjoyed the continental breakfast, and staff are friendly and helpful.

Great old English mansion. Easy walking distance to the water front walkway. You can walk from downtown or take a water taxi. The rooms were comfortable, quiet and had full amenities. I would definitely recommend this place for someone who wants something a little different, but really cool.

Beautiful old building with lots of character. Very clean, and staff were great! Upgraded us to a two bed room at no cost. Fresh croissants in the morning! We enjoyed ourselves. Thanks English Inn! Pat & Lindsey

Nice location and very quiet, really run down grounds, outside of the building looks very nice but once we were in our room we were disappointed, parking is good. Throw the comforter on the floor looks like they have not been cleaned in a while. Don't stay in room 7 when they turn on or forget to turn off the main kitchen exhaust fan hood in it rumbles thru the floor. When we go back to Victoria next year we will not be staying at The English Inn.

As this inn developes and returns to its former glory with all the gardens flourishing its hidden gem status will be less hidden. The breakfast was fabulous. We are sorry that we had to leave before the theater performances could commence. The personell helpfullness was unsurpassed in reestablishing the internet after the storm. The made me another key to the back door of the manor when we discovered it wouldn't work.

The hotel was mostly vacant; the grounds barely maintained. This place seems to be running on a skeleton crew. There is no restaurant on site. Although we arrived in the afternoon, tired, we had to carry our bags up 3 flights of stairs. no elevator, said the conceirge- because it was historical. After settling into our room we had to go into Victoria for something to eat.15 minutes by car. further if you are thinking about getting around by bus.if you want to be in town-stay elsewhere

Room was very large. Grounds look good. But only one poor staff person who we felt sorry for because she was the only one on duty. garbage in room from previous guests...begs the question were the beds changed? We forgot our microscope and a couple of drinks diminished the worries but did not change the bed. Also there were bugs, could not identify all of them as we forgot our biology texts at home.

The hotel web site does not display the age of these units or the lack of maintannace and up keep. Our room was an obvious conversion from a personal room to a hotel, the room it self had a good amount of room in it but was completely run down. It was it bad need of paint and repairs. The curtains blocked plywood in the window and the handle on the garden entrance was broken. We had a neve ending supply of bugs in our room, everywhere. The building is just old and not sealed well at all. The dinning room was never even set up or staffed when we were there. There were no cups to drink with in the room but there was plates and silverware? It is located in the middle of residental homes so no where else to visit by foot. The staff was helpful but was responsible for many jobs at once like bartender, frontdesk, operator, and bell hop. We would never stay here again, and if we could have got our money back we would have left the first night.

The place was a cool older manor and the rooms had a great old English feel, nice furniture and the bed was awesome. (JCPenny tags kind of ruined the old feel) but the rooms were very clean. Only complaints were the guy staff members were not very friendly and the internet didnt work all the time. It was very cool to stay there though, the back yard felt like the secret garden, very european. The location was kind of weird, down a residential side street and a little walk to the bus stop, but not bad. Very quick ride downtown. Very well worth the money spent though.

It was really nice. I love the building. My only complaint was the squeaky bed. Other than that , really good.