Great place to stay, very clean rooms, big kitchen with a sit down area to watch tv or nice garden…read morewith tables to enjoy the view. Meals were very good, we recommend this B&B for sure.

We found this restaurant purely by chance because it was under a different name. We came in on…read morethe Prince Rupert to Port Hardy ferry which docked two hours late so we weren't even in our motel room until 2:00 am Sunday morning. Our particular motel did not offer continental breakfast so we were at a loss as to where to eat. Thanks to yelp we found this place and our breakfast was superb! Our only regret was that we did not discover them the night we were there before our trip to Prince Rupert. The dinner menu looks fantastic.

Poutine! Just passing through but seemed like there were a lot of people eating here. Very nice…read morestaff and clean establishment. You can get window seating with a beautiful view.

Very nice 3 yrs old…read moreGood beds Great food Excellent service Good location Quiet Our group loved it.

Omg! What a beautiful hotel! Exquisite rooms and very quiet. The one downside is there is…read moreonly one elevator, so when the ferry lets out, try to beat the buses to check in! Fabulous continental breakfast included with the room. Great coffee, hot foods and a nice selection of fruit and yogurt. Super pleasant efficient staff. If I ever go back to Port Hardy, this is my hotel of choice.

Historic, small very charming, peaceful, beautiful location, cabins, lodge, camping, hiking, whales…read moreeducation center, access to fishing, whales watching, grizzly bears, kayaking trips eco tourism all in one place! Have a good restaurant, a good pub, a great coffee bar. Great hospitality.

This resort is a unique mix of cabins, historic homes and modern condos. They seem to be booked…read moremuch of the time. We were only able to get a one night accommodation-we needed 2 rooms. We were placed in a historic home in the upper floor where we had 2 bedrooms and a bathroom as one unit in a 5 bedroom house. There was a common living room area for the building. These homes date back to world war II and rooms are pretty basic-bed nightstand, chest of drawers. At each historic house, there is a plaque with information about its history. We were in the Wastel house. The resort includes the Stubbs Island Whalewatching office, a whale museum, restaurant, outdoor picnic tables, and resort office as well as a coffee shop (just a counter to get coffee and pastries mainly), an outside cafe and the marina. It was convenient for us to stay there as we were doing the whale watch there so was fine for a single night. It's about 12 miles off the Island Hwy so nothing else around there.

This is a great accommodation in Alert Bay. The Island itself is one of the hidden gems in British…read moreColumbia. Located right on the waterfront so your room will overlook the blue sea, and a 5-minute walk from the ferry station. This is also not too far away from the Cormorant Island's ecological park (where the lovely marshland is located). This has plenty of character. The wooden balcony surrounds almost the entire second floor. This is a perfect spot to read your book in the summer. This lovely "beach" house displays First Nations masks at their front desk which adds a lovely touch to their "welcome" area. The lady (perhaps the caretaker) was friendly right off the bat. We thought we lost our keys, and had called her to help us find it. She seemed happy to have helped us. Our room was extremely clean with a cozy and comfortable bed. I would absolutely recommend this to my family and friends.

Lovely peaceful place. Sitting just outside the door to our room watching the water and listening…read moreto the sounds of the water are so relaxing. Very clean rooms with all sorts of lovely detail in the restored wood used in the rooms. Can't wait to go back again. Bed wonderful, bathroom roomy and with heat and great water pressure. Barbecue other deck good for fixing your own dinner.

These lodgings were only built a few years ago and still have that 'new car' smell and feel. The…read moresuite I rented was roomy and clean. All of the furnisings were made of solid pine and most importantly the bed was comfy. The resort is set up so that all of the rooms to the doors are accessed from the great outdoors so you can pull up and park right in front of your room. Since I travel a lot and hate carrying luggage down long hallways, drive up rooms always apeal to me. The front desk is located in a small building in the parking lot and beside this is a covered area with a few bbq's for guests to use. An indoor pool, hot tub and sauna is located in the building across from the office for guests use. The price of the room includes breakfast. Normally I wouldn't mention this, but I was pretty impressed with what they offered. Which included fruit salad, boiled eggs, various types of bread for toast, instant oatmeal, cold cereal, orange juice, yogurt, cottage cheese, a variety of teas and coffee, and for a little wow factor, waffles that you make fresh yourself. The resort has free wireless internet, but it doesn't reach all the rooms. If you can't get a signal they have internet cables at the front desk. The free toiletries (i.e. soaps, conditioner, shampoo etc.) are nothing to write home about so I won't discuss these any further. My room came with a microwave, a small bar fridge, and coffee maker. I think one of the best features of the Black Bear Resort is the view.

I really enjoyed my stay here. Friendly staff, good food, and clean rooms. I left something behind…read morein my room and they shipped it back to me quickly and professionally. Highly recommended!

John was an absolutely amazing fishing and wildlife guide! He was an incredible host, with some…read moreamazing stories to share, and went out of his way to ensure we had the best experience possible. We visited Broughton Island and fished off the back of Malcolm Island. We saw more humpback whales than I thought possible, lots of porpoise, and had a memorable visit with the sea lions. Thanks John for such great memories, we thoroughly enjoyed our day out on the ocean.

Wonderful way to see grizzlies, safely, while respecting their space and natural environment. We…read moresaw 6 or 7 grizzly bears on shore, including 2 cubs, plus a black bear all from 15 to 20 meters. Even on my old iPhone, I could easily take photos, and my son, being a photographer, got close ups using a standard 300 mm telephoto zoom lens. Our tour left from the end of the boardwalk in tiny Telegraph Cove before 7 am, so we arrived the night before, enjoyed a salmon BBQ and tented in the forest campground nearby. 12 tourists enjoyed coffee and muffins on board the fast boat, as we were whisked across and up Knight Inlet to Glendale Cove, before being transferred to a small skiff. Skipper Nate & Naturalist Perry quickly pointed out the exceptional wildlife, including Dahl Porpoises, Bald Eagles, a Humpback whale, myriad birds, and seals. But we weren't there for sea cucumbers; we were there to see the magnificent coastal brown grizzly bears! We immediately saw two eating sedge at the water's edge, took plenty of time watching them stress-free from our double-decker skiff, quickly broke for sandwiches, and again spotted two more plus two 6 month old cubs nearby. After exploring a shallow little channel to learn more about their habitat, we zoomed back to port in the afternoon. Considering the excruciatingly high prices to stay 3 nights at a floating lodge by float plane, this tour is a great, reasonably priced alternative way to see the same bears and other wildlife. Of course there are no guarantees, but Rip Tide will do their best to get you out to see the grizzlies, whether they're feeding on shore grass, hillside berries or river salmon, depending on the season. I highly recommend the long drive up Vancouver Island to take this tour!

As photographers (professionnal or passionate), we feel abused by the information received before…read morebooking the tour and we do think that this is not a tour to take. Go on this tour if what you want is watching a lot of grizzlies (and cubs) without paying much attention about how close you get. We enjoyed the food, the kindness of Mat and the boat (we didn't feel like it was too crowdy even if it was fully booked). We also had quite a lot of good and interesting information (even if some were approximative). But we do have something to say about the information we were given before taking this tour. We came directly at the desk of Telegraphe Cove to ask some questions about the tour. As photographers, our main concern was how close we could get from the bears. To be sure we would be well understood, we explained that we had already seen 10 grizzlies during our road-trip so our main concerned wasn't the number of grizzlies we could see but how close we could get from the bears. We were told that the rule was 50 meters and from our undertanding, we could obviously understand that it was the norm. The lady also told us that in some occasions (when the grizzlies go towards the boat), we could get as close as 15/20 meters from them. In these circumstances, we understood that we would have great chances to get up close to 50 meters. But 50 METERS IS NOT THE NORM, even if we could have approached them from a much closer distance (for a great part of the 9 grizzlys we saw, 50 meters could have been reached very easily), we stayed quite far away (at the minimum of 100 meters/150 meters). At the end of our time in Glendale Cove (where the grizzlies are) we saw 1 female with 2 cubs (from this year). The boat stopepd much more than the 50 meters "rule", didn't move even if we would have had a much better view only 20meters in front of us (and it was very deep there), and then left! Yes the time was out! I was myself running a company and I can't imagine I would have said that to a customer for a few minutes. In these circumstancies, we didn't feel at all respected at all as customers. The lady at the desk was obviously pushing us to go on the tour with wrong information even if there was no chance for us to be happy with it (except if a bear would have swam towards the boat or if one would have been doing a lapdance). 50 METERS IS NOT THE NORM. We of course went to the office to speak about that and express our feelings about it. But we didn't feel at all like the "manager" - the woman in charge of the boat that day, was trying to understand us. It was obvious that she was only trying to defend the company: "I understand you feel frustrated, it is wildlife" But this was not the point! We sometimes look for one animal during days without any sights! WE FEEL ABUSED BY THE FACT THE INFORMATION WE WERE GIVEN DIDN'T MATCH AT ALL THE REALITY OF THE TOUR. This was dishonest. We would have never gone if we had known 50 meters was not the norm when watching a bear there, it was at least 100 meters. To that she said to us there is never a guarantee. Of course we know how wildlife is unpredictable, but one more time this was not the point. We could have come much closer but we didn't. It is like playing loto. We don't play, but if tomorrow we are told we have 1 chance up to ten to earn 1000 loonys, we would of course start to play! Saying that wouldn't been honest if in reality you had one chance up to 1500. "You didn't win but anyway we said there was no guarantee"! We spoke also at the lady at the desk but she was also unwilling to understand our position: it was like: "you saw 9 grizzlys so why are you unhappy" A tourist will be, probably a big part of them, a wildlife photographer (professional or passionate, at least someone with a telephoto lens), won't (except if he likes playing loto).