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Our intimately situated loft in the quiet neighbourhood of Victoria's Gordon Head is an invitation to serenity. Open, airy, well-lit, and very private, it's situated over the garage of our architect-designed home. With its elegant custom woodwork and soft, natural lighting, this suite is perfect for those with the aesthetic sense to appreciate fine, creative details. And it's ideal for those who want a sensuously romantic getaway. The deluxe, spacious bedroom is open and integral with the suite, which features sunset and sunrise views over the treetops, and out into gardens.

A spacious roof garden with comfortable wooden deck chairs and ottomans makes lounging in complete privacy very inviting and relaxing. There are pots and containers all around the deck that are filled with annual flowers, colourful grasses, roses, and clematis climbing a cedar privacy screen. Pick your own herbs and vegetables in season; prepare them in the impeccable kitchen, which is outfitted with everything that the owners like in their own home -- right down to the corkscrew and champagne glasses. Dine at the custom maple table overlooking this peaceful roof-top garden.

A sliding glass door and dining room window look east into the roof garden -- and up over distant treetops to the sky. Tall windows near the bed face west -- partially into a neighbouring garden, through vines and trees. Four obscure-glass windows help to further softly light this charming, one-of-a-kind getaway.

Offering the perfect opportunity to relax and unwind, the seclusion of ALoftInVictoria provides serenity for all who come to stay. Some of the adjectives ALoft's guests have used are: "fabulous", "terrific", "take this place in a heartbeat", "peaceful", "little nest, quiet and perfect", "most restful, relaxing, comforting and quiet", "great location, wonderful hospitality, fabulous accommodation".

For a lot more information, please go to our website at www.ALoftInVictoria.com .

Local Area Details

ALoft In Victoria is conveniently located within an 8-minute bike ride, 20-minute walk or 4-minute drive of the University of Victoria. After studies, conventions or research there, you can relax and drive to a fine selection of beautiful golf courses, listed here from closest to farthest: Henderson Park Golf Course, Mt. Douglas Park Golf Course, Cedar Hill Golf Course, Cordova Bay Golf Course, Royal Oak Golf Course, Victoria Golf Club, with 6 other fine golf courses within 20-30 minutes' drive further out.

ALoft is within walking distance of secluded Arbutus Cove Beach and Glencoe Cove Beach. And it's just six-minutes' driving distance to another of Victoria's many expansive beaches -- Cadboro Bay -- while it'll take 12 minutes to get to Cordova Bay, or Willows Beach. Most are great for kayaking, wind-surfing, skim-boarding, sailing, sand castle-building or simply beach-combing and sunbathing. Each offers its own fabulous views of the B.C. Coastal Mountains, Mt. Baker and/or Washington State's impressive Olympic Mountain range.

Within 4 minutes' drive, you can be walking in beautiful, wooded, Mt. Douglas Park which is filled with trails and exquisite views. The Galloping Goose Trail, great for bicyclers, horseback riders, inline skaters, photographers and walkers alike, winds 60 kilometres from Sidney through Victoria to Sooke, and you can access it easily within a few minutes' drive from ALoft.

Victoria is known as the City of Gardens, with Butchart Gardens only 20 minutes' drive from ALoft, Hatley Gardens 30 minutes, Beacon Hill Park 20 minutes, and Abkhazi Gardens 15 minutes. On Saturday nights through the summer, Butchart's has a breaktaking son-et-lumenaire fireworks display. For that, we love taking a picnic supper out to the gardens and staying `til dark. Or, as a treat for the dedicated garden-lover, book a personalized tour of unique private gardens with Victorian Garden Tours Ltd.

ALoft is only a 15-20 minute drive to the downtown Inner Harbour of Victoria, with much to entice. Take a horse-drawn carriage or Pedi-Cab tour, then hop aboard one of the 12-passenger Victoria Harbour Ferries and tour the Inner Harbour, get close to the seals, otters and seabirds while travelling up the Gorge Waterway or over to Fisherman's Wharf for some of those famous Barb's Fish & Chips. Or book an awe-inspiring whale-watching tour through Prince of Whales. Join a tour of old Chinatown or take a ghostly cemetery walking tour and fill yourself with local lore. Or watch a scuba-diver play with a local giant octopus in the Undersea Gardens. Stroll through the crafts market and maritime museum in Bastion Square. Be sure to take a tour inside the Parliament Buildings by day as well as outdorrs at night, when it's lit up with 3,000 bulbs. Any time downtown, you'll enjoy the garden baskets that hang colourfully from every lamp-post.

A downtown must-see is the world-class Royal B.C. Museum with its First Peoples' gallery of original masks and homes, its Modern History gallery with ships, mines, farms and Chinatown displays, and the Natural History dioramas, fully life-size. Dining out in and around Victoria includes huge variety in restauraunts such as the romantic Caf頂rio, the Japanese Sen Zushi, the super-nutritious vegetarian Rebar, Matisse French Restaurant, or a selection of yummy Thai and Chinese restaurants. Or take in brunch at Smugglers' Cove Pub, dine elegantly at Deep Cove Chalet (near Sidney), and remember to stop for a fabulous English tea at Butchart Gardens.

For art lovers, Victoria is a mecca, and ALoft is only 15 minutes from the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and even closer to many artists' studios which are linked to ALoftInVictoria's own website.

Victoria is a theatre hotspot, with numerous Hollywood movies being filmed here which are fun to view from the sidelines, and theatres such as The Belfry, The McPherson, The Royal, Theatre Inconnu and Langham Court all with entertaining stage productions. Music and theatre festivals entertain intermittently throughout spring and summer.

The InterCultural Association hosts a multi-cultural Folk Fest with singing, dancing, food and fun June 28th to July 6th, as well as Luminara, a night of midsummer magic July 24th, with hundreds of home-made lanterns, dances and songs drifting along the paths, floating over the ponds and around the hills of the downtown Beacon Hill Park.

For those keen on fishing, there are several lakes good for trout and bass fishing within 10 to 30 minutes drive from ALoft. For those who prefer salt-water fishing, the salmon, halibut and cod are most prevalent in waters only 6 to 20 minutes from ALoft's door. A weekly website fishing report will keep you up-to-date on where which fish are biting most.

Of course, Victoria is home to several recreation centres, with public swimming pools, saunas, whirlpools, and indoor slides. The closest of these is 2 minutes by car or 5 minutes' by bike. University Heights, with a 4-theatre cinema and full shopping centre, is ALoft's closest of Victoria's 11 shopping malls, only 4 minutes by car or bus, which is 3 blocks from ALoft. There are outdoor markets, farms to visit, small secluded shops and even mini-golf courses on the peninsula where ALoft lives.

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Property Features

* Close to a golf course

Contact Information for ALoft In Victoria A Suite Full of Serenity Canada

Name:	Robin Roberts
Telephone:	250-477-2751
Alt Telephone:	888-88ALOFT-
Fax:	250-477-2751
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