Accommodation

If you are planning on staying overnight in Chilliwack, we suggest....

The Royal Hotel is just a 4 minute walk to Bravo.  When you book, mention you are dining at the restaurant and would like the 'Bravo Rate'.  They have standard or upgrade to one of their antique rooms.  Breakfast included!!

http://www.royalhotelchilliwack.com/

Harrison Hot Springs Resort & Spa

www.harrisonresort.com

If you really want to pamper yourself...Harrison Hot Springs Resort & Spa is a 20 minute drive from downtown Chilliwack. 

334 guest rooms, cottages, and suites are located within five distinct areas of the property and provide a wide selection of views, bedroom configurations, and rates to meet your individual preference and budget.

As a guest of the resort, you'll enjoy access to the five natural mineral hot spring and swimming pools, tennis courts, and nature trails.

Greendale Pottery & Country Guest House

 The Country Guest House, an all-new Chilliwack Bed & Breakfast, is located on 14 acres in the heart of Greendale.  This rural community on the outskirts of Chilliwack, BC enjoys open farmland, incredible mountain views, two golf courses, world-class salmon & steelhead fishing, a Blue Heron Nature Reserve, and hiking/biking trails along the Vedder Canal Dyke.

 Located over our Pottery, with fabulous views from two decks, our Country Guest House has a separate entrance with keyed gate, and privacy abounding!

If you are looking for four star accommodation in Chilliwack, B.C, our Country Guest House has it all.  

visit: www.greendalepottery.com

Tourism

While in the Upper Fraser Valley, enjoy not only the scenic beauty, but the attractions as well.

Our recommendations for stops while out here:

We are pleased to be part of the Chilliwack Circle Farm Tour.  Maps for all the self-guided tours are available at Bravo.

Check out their website.

www.circlefarmtour.ca

Farm Tour about more than just the Farms

Robert Freeman ~ Chilliwack Progress

Chilliwack's agri-tourism circle farm tour is about more than farms. 

The 13 attractions on the tour are about the country lifestyle, about meals made with farm-fresh poducts, about exploring the backroads of Fraser Valley farm country. 

"The neat thing about it, it allows people to explore another option for their food-buying needs," says Brian Coombes, tourism director at the Chilliwack Economic Partners Corporation.  "Why not get out and enjoy the scenery, drive the rural roads, have a high-quality, fun experience?" 

"People from the city don't think there's too much to do in Chilliwack," says Shirley Pye at the Chilliwack River Valley Natural Honey Ltd., one of the circle tour stops. 

She says the circle tour is "an excellent opportunity" to show the city folks what lies just off the freeway, and it's a chance to sell more of her all-natural honey. 

"City people don't realize there is a lot to do out here," she says. 

The other 12 stops on the Chilliwack tour include:  the Chilliwack Exhibition and Rodeo, Happy Days Dairies Ltd., Chilliwack Corn Maze, Greendale Pottery & Guest House, Greenhill Acres storybook farm in Cultus Lake, Carol K Gourmet Bakery & Gardens, Country Garden Ltd., Honeyview Farm, Cherry Meringue Bake Shoppe, Bravo Restaurant & Lounge and, of course the popular Minter Gardens in Rosedale. 

Last week, the BC government announced a highway signage program to promote farm tours in six Fraser Valley communities, collectively known as 'Mighty Fraser Country.'  Each community has a brochure and road map available directing visitors to a variety of specialty farm-gate vendors, open-air markets and restaurants in Abbotsford, Agassiz, Chilliwack, Mission, Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows, and the Township of Langley. 

The selection of specialty foods available direct from the farms includes flower-petal salads, naturally-raised chicken, turkey, pork, and eggs, hormone-and antibiotic-free beef, organic produce, chestnuts, Russian Red garlic, goat cheese, hazelnut oil, Wasabi greens, and kosher honey. 

With more than half of BC's farm revenues coming from the Fraser Valley and much of its population next door in Greater Vancouver, the circle tour program aims to get more direct sales going between the two. 

"It's about visiting aa business, an agri-tourism operation, that's set up on a farm," Coombes says about the goals of the program.  "It allows them in some cases to enhance their on-farm income so it can remain sustainable for them." 

All six community brochures are available on-line at www.circlefarmtour.com and at Tourism Chilliwack's visitor information centre on Luckakuck Way.

Harrison Hot Springs Public Pool

Where are the Hot Springs? This is the most commonly asked question in Harrison. Of course there are Hot Springs here! They are reached by walking west on the raised sidewalk, that runs alongside the beach, past the Harrison Hot Springs Resort and onto a gravel road (the top of the dike). The Hot Springs is a short 5 minute walk past the Resort. The source of the hot water is surrounded by a cement structure and swimming is not permitted at this location (the water is far too hot). The Hot Springs water is pumped from the source to the indoor public pool in the centre of the village and, into the many pools located within the Harrison Hot Springs Resort.  Open 9am to 9 pm  Monday to Sunday.

World Sandcastle Compitition:

The Vancouver Sun Tournament of Sand Sculpture Champions, Competition and Exhibition.  May 10 ~ October 9, 2006.  The Harrison Hot Springs Sand Sculpture Society invited former World Champions and multiple-medal winners from the past sixteen years of the World Champoinships of Sand Sculpture to compete as Doubles in the inaugural Vancouver Sun Tournament of Sand Sculpture Champions.  These proven winners submitted their design for pre-formed blocks of sand in April and the Societyhad them ready to carve when they arrived in Harrison Hot Springs on May 9th.  All entries started carving from the top down over the next thirty-six hours of competition.  They worked eight-hour days on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday and finished at noon on Mothers’ Day.

Bridal Falls

Beautiful Bridal Falls is located on BC Highway # 1, just 16 km (10 mi.) east of Chilliwack, and south of Hope.

For years this sixth highest falls in Canada has beckoned people to stop and stay awhile.The falls drop 122 metres (400 feet) to the valley floor at Bridal Falls Provincial Park and flows into Bridal Creek which makes its way to Cheam Lake Regional Nature Park and the Fraser River.     Watching over this profusely green forest retreat is spectacular Mountain Cheam towering 2107 metres (6910 feet) high as it reaches for the sky.

Othello Tunnels

These are the Othello Tunnels also known as Quintette Tunnels as there is actually five of these tunnels. However the Tunnel #3 almost appears to be one long tunnel, but there is a small opening about half way along. These tunnels were designed by Andrew McCulloch to save going around the Coquihalla Canyon. The railbed crosses the Coquihalla River several times and the views are well worth the trip. The trestles have all been converted to walkways now, and it is a provincial park. It is located about 5km outside of Hope.