Tales from the Honeymoon Part 4: Getting to the Point

In Victoria, Canada, Melanie and I stayed at the Laurel Point Inn. It had a slight Japanese influence that made our room the most unique of the honeymoon. Although it was a suite, the room was not particularly large. The bathroom was probably the most luxurious aspect, although the balcony (which was separated from the neighboring rooms only by semi-transparent glass) had a breathtaking view of Inner Harbour and overlooked the hotel’s lush Japanese garden.

Our suite had the most telephones of any room on our trip. There was a phone on the headboard-of-sorts behind the bed, a cordless phone on the desk just in front of the bed, and another telephone right beside the toilet.


The bed, as located just behind the “living room.” If you click on the picture to see a bigger version, you may notice the little beige blob above and between the two pillows. That’s one of the three phones in our suite. About ten or eleven feet away, you can see the black cordless phone on the desk.


Just to give you some perspective, this is a picture from the opposite side of the bed. The room isn’t much wider than this, so you’ve pretty much seen it all.


The marble “coffee table” in the living room. I thought it was cool. I didn’t get a picture of the TV, but it was tiny and pointless if you were lying in bed.

Although I didn’t care much for the room, I thought it had the coolest bathroom of the honeymoon. It was completely tiled with a nice, inset deep-soaker tub on one side and a sleek glass shower on the other. Even the faucet on the tub was way cool. It spit out water in a broad, flat stream that descended at an angle into the tub. Rather than gushing straight down into the tub, it looked like a cascading waterfall. To quote Will Smith, I was jiggy wit it.


The bathroom doors, two Japanese-esque sliding doors (I’m sure there’s a cool architectural name for such things, but don’t ask me). They’re pretty cool, but you can’t lock them so be careful!


The right-side of the bathroom, looking in from the doorway. I can only assume that’s a doggy bed underneath the sink. It was one of many mysteries we encountered on the honeymoon, just like the overly common “shoe mittens” (later realized to be simple shoe-cleaning cloths).


The left-side of the bathroom. Here we see the glass shower, the final telephone, and the remote-controlled television right next to the toilet. Yes, I watched some TV while doing my business, just so I could say I did.

As I said, our balcony had a tremendous view of Inner Harbour and the hotel’s Japanese garden. Let’s take a look!


Here we look west (I believe), just glimpsing the harbor as it meets with two other waterfront hotels. That colorful spectacle in the foreground is the beginning of our hotel’s Japanese garden. Awesome, wouldn’t you say?


A longer, angled look at the pond that makes up the bulk of the Japanese garden. Here, we face east, spying what appear to be apartments or condominiums. Probably pretty pricey ones.


An external shot of the Laurel Point Inn. This was taken from “downtown,” zooming in from across the eastside of the harbor. As you can see, the Victoria Clipper ferries dock right next to our hotel. We had no need to use our taxi vouchers to get from the dock to the hotel or vice versa. It would have been embarrassing to use them.

I had originally planned on also writing about Butchart Gardens with this post. However, that would result in such a long post, I’m sure nobody would read it. But let me assure you, it will mostly be a slideshow, and a pretty darn good one at that. Once we’ve visited Butchart, we can move on to Vancouver, at which point our honeymoon will almost be over. Stay tuned!