Travel Tips

Accessibility & Special Needs

By law, all Canadian transportation carriers such as airlines, railways and ferries are required to ensure that travellers with disabilities do not encounter undue obstacles while using their services.

A couple dines at Shuck Taylor's a seafood restaurant in Victoria, BC

Travelling with a disability

Public buildings have ramps, properly equipped washrooms and automatic doors. Many commercial buildings have similar facilities. At all public buildings and shopping malls, parking spaces for the vehicles of persons with impaired mobility are designated and reserved. Vehicles using these spaces are required to display a disability sign in the vehicle window.

Watch for the Access Canada logo identifying inspected and rated accommodations offering services for persons with disabilities.

A person with a disability accompanied by a guide animal has the same rights, privileges and obligations as a person not accompanied by an animal. A fee may not be charged for a guide animal accompanying a person with a disability.

Victoria Disability Resource Centre

Accessible Greater Victoria

Follow your own path, down some of ours. Greater Victoria welcomes visitors of all abilities to experience our one-of-a-kindland on the Pacific coast.

Accessible Greater Victoria
Eagle Wing Whale Watching in Victoria, BC

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Destination Greater Victoria is honoured to be based on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples of the Songhees Nation and Xwsepsum Nation, whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.