Our Secret Season: Spring on Galiano

When it is still Winter in Canada....it is Spring on Galiano Island

Our "Secret Season" in the Gulf Islands is just as fabulous as our summers...just not quite as crowded. So the beaches and trails may be yours alone to enjoy.

While the snows are receding from country roads and city streets across Canada, Galiano Island is awash in daffodils and tulips...And with more sunshine and less rain than Vancouver, most of the activities are just as enjoyable as in the summer...

golf
kayaking
hiking
beaches for exploring or relaxing
bicycling and bicycle rentals
bird watching
wildlife viewing and photography
scuba diving

And most of Galiano's famed artistic community open their studios to visitors who want to tour their arts and crafts or take home a "taste of the islands".
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Activities at the Inn

Renew!

Yoga: private instruction
Spa Treatments that make the most of the Gulf Islands' natural bounty
Couples Treatments: Take time for each other
Hiking, bicycling, bird-watching...all can be done right from the Inn

Yoga Later this year, our group Yoga classes will be held indoors in our new glass and wood beam yoga studio set in the Flores del Iris Gardens. Until then, we offer one-on-one yoga instruction (individual or couples) in the privacy of your guest room. Also, subscribe to our newsletter for information on spa and yoga retreats.

Nature's Bounty Unique to our Madrona del Mar Spa, you will enjoy many of our celebrated new special treatments:

Blackberry Vinotherapy

Hemp and BC Glacial Clay

Blueberry Experience

Together time: Enjoy together time in our Garden Cottage in any season:

Massage, facials, and more...

Whether you are a "couple" or a couple of friends, traveling with a favourite sister or your mom, enjoy your treatments together, at the end of a beautiful garden path in the Flores del Iris Gardens.

Relax!

The Classics Speaking of relaxing....imagine yourself (it's easy to do) sitting in a big rattan chair by the wood-burning fireplace in the restaurant, rediscovering that person you are with and rediscovering the Classics . Classic cocktails, that is...

Champagne cocktails
Sazerac
The Perfect Manhatten

Or explore our Atrevida house specialties:

Madrona Drive Decadence
Sturdies Bay Sunrise
Brandenburg #3
....and of course our famed Galiano Blackberry Martini (a touch of summer's fruit just to remind us that summer is just around the corner).