marybethmc
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We hope to travel from San Francisco to Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria continuing on to Jasper and the Canadian Rockies. Are there any good places to stay with close proximity to the highlights of these areas. We do tow a dinghy but love convient public transportation.
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Bounder Lew
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You mention coming to Victoria. The Ferry to Vancouver Island was $225 one way for my 31 ft MH and tow car hooked up! I would suggest you enter Canada at Blaine WA. camp somewhere south East of Vancouver and roam around that area. You could leave your rig and take the towed on the Ferry which will be about $130 return, have a look around Victoria (which people always say is the most beautiful city they have visited) and stay overnight in a hotel for a couple of nights, Butchart Gardens is a half day must see.
then back to the lower mainland and continue your journey East to Jasper and Banff.
I guess I am saying that bringing everything to Vancouver Island is expensive and if you do it you would want to stay for a couple of weeks and tour around. There are four ways to get on the island with your rig. Port Angeles WA to downtown Victoria, Anacortes WA to Sidney , Tawaasan (the major Ferry route with large boats every two hours, outside of Vancouver BC) to North of Victoria and Horseshoe Bay N of Vancouver to Nanaimo (3 hrs north of Victoria).
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You are casting a pretty wide net, with your request. Are you asking about RV parks? If so, there aren't a huge number of them in the Vancouver area.
However, with your comment about loving public transportation, you 'could' park on the mainland side and take a ferry/bus into Victoria and have a great day doing that. Early ferry over and late coming back and you'll see lots. Or perhaps park the Rv on the mainland side and take the car. With the $$ saved, you could motel it for a night too.
As far as Vancouver, it is very transit friendly. Park your stuff in one of the mall parking lots, hop on the Skytrain and there you are.
Once you leave the lower mainland, you are not going to find a lot of public transit to the places you are not going to want to see.
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Here are some good places we stayed in 2009 on a very similar trip
Lake Pleasant RV Park http://www.woodalls.com/campground/campgrounddetails.aspx?campgroundid=41506900&index=0&type=PlacesToCamp&subtype=RVCamping Bothell Washington
Burnaby Cariboo RV Park http://www.bcrvpark.com/index.html Vancouver British Columbia
Riverside RV Resort & Camp http://www.whistlercamping.com/home.html Whistler British Columbia
The campground in Vancouver was close to the Skytrain and we went into town 3-4 times on it.
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marybethmc
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Thanks for that information and suggestions. I have been thinking we would park on the mainland side and just take the ferry over to Victoria for the day or overnight. It is good to know the cost though.
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paulj
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You can also take a day trip, or overnight, to Victoria from Washington. Port Angeles and Seattle are both points of departure. Probably one of the towns to the north as well (Anacortes or Bellingham). Some of those companies advertise overnight packages.
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Rr nailed the good places to stay for sure. In Vancouver another option would be Capilano under the lions gate bridge. Easy transit there too.
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driveby
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Oh and a day tr to Victoria will be a long day. Downtown hotels have tour busses like "landsea tours" who are good to go with.
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Tothill
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There is a beautiful RV place in Victoria West Bay You can watch the boats and Sea Planes from your site. It is a nice long walk to downtown or you can take the harbour ferries.
We are local, but love to spend a couple nights there over Canada Day. We can enjoy the fireworks and not have to worry about the traffic getting back home.
If you are going to go to Vancouver Island, you can do a loop on the Island that will take you back to the Mainland. You can visit Victoria, the Cowichan Valley, great food, wineries, big trees and suspension bridges, then up to Nanaimo, and back to the Mainland.
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We stayed at the RV park under the lions gate. It was typical urban camping, but totally serviceable and certainly convenient.
For travel to the island, drive your toad to the ferry terminal and catch the ferry to Naniamo, take the bus from the ferry terminal on the other end into Victoria and rent a scooter or two - you can cover a lot of land at your own pace for not a lot of cash...and scooters are fun. 
It'll be but a fraction of the cost of taking your car with you.
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