December 2011 - The Ottawa Citizen - Michele Sponagle
Take someone special to one of these romantic getaways
A kiss is just a kiss, but when you add that something special - a great view, a cosy corner or a once-in-a-lifetime-bonding moment - it can be elevated to an entirely new level...

December 2011 - The Australian - Christine McCabe
Hotel of the Week - Wickaninnish Inn, Tofino, Canada
MOST resort operators would prefer to do without a rainy season but at the Wickaninnish Inn on Canada’s Vancouver Island, management and guests positively revel in the wild weather...

November 2011 - The Weather Network
Embracing the storms in Tofino, BC
Stormy weather often means running for cover or hunkering down inside, but not on the West Coast. On Vancouver Island, where winter storms can whip up hurricane force winds, people go outside to get wet and cold on purpose...

November 2011 - Huffington Post - Margie Goldsmith
Grouse Grind And Other Adventures In B.C.
It's Sunday morning and I'm huffing and puffing up the Grouse Grind a 2.9-kilometer climb on Grouse Mountain near Vancouver. I'm trying to see how fast I can climb because it's my last day in Canada and I can recover on the long plane ride home...

November 2011 - Travel + Leisure Online - Adam H. Graham
World's Top Storm-Chasing Destinations
One December morning, a 30-foot wave and hurricane-force gales pummelled British Columbia’s Chesterman Beach. The tidal surge brought the water right up to Wickaninnish Inn, giving guests a spectacular view of nature’s unremitting fury - just as they’d hoped...

October 2011 - Calgary Herald - Yvonne Jeffery
Weather proof
Wet and wonderful on the West Coast's Relais & Chateau trail

We humans aren't the only ones who eagerly anticipate the fall salmon runs on Canada's west coast. Turns out, the grizzlies are waiting, too. That's good news for those who love both bears and fish (not such good news if you're a fish)...

August 2011 - Modern Dog Magazine - Sara Lima
“Ruffin” It in Style
Tofino’s dog-friendly Wickaninnish Inn

When contemplating the options for a dog-friendly vacation destination, one fundamental requirement immediately jumps to my mind - the beach, a kingdom in which Dog is free to divulge in his deepest desires: swimming, digging, running, chasing, rolling in dead stuff...

July 2011 - In Classic Style - Justin Bogdanovitch
The Pointe Restaurant, Wickaninnish Inn, Canada

There are so many activities to choose from at The Wick that building up a hearty appetite goes hand in hand with the territory. The group I was with usually would head to the resort’s On The Rocks Bar & Lounge first to order a welcome cocktail before dinner...

July 2011 - In Classic Style - Justin Bogdanovitch
The Wickaninnish Inn, Tofino, Vancouver Island, Canada

I first heard of The Wickaninnish Inn when my longtime friends, Martin and Dale, traveled there during the winter for storm-watching season. Located on the west coast of Vancouver Island, and minutes from the small village of Tofino, where there are, proudly, still no stoplights...

July 2011 - enRoute Magazine - Natasha Mekhail
Moody, Mysical Tofino
10,000 years old and still full of secrets

Tofino: one of those rare places on earth that you can still experience with the awe and wonder of the first people who laid eyes on it. On this rain-drenched Vancouver Island peninsula, temperate rainforests give way to driftwood-strewn beaches and you can still spot the animals depicted on totem poles – ravens, bears, orcas, sea lions, eagles – in the wild...

June 2011 - Travel World Online - Monika Fuchs
Kunst und Natur hautnah im Hotel - Das Wickaninnish Inn in Tofino, British Columbia, beschäftigt lokale Künstler

Auf meinen Reisen durch die ganze Welt habe ich ja schon viel erlebt, aber so etwas noch nicht. Das Wickaninnish Inn, eines der Top-Hotels in Kanada, beschäftigt lokale Bildhauer und Schnitzer, die fast alle Kunstwerke herstellen, die im Hotel zu ausgestellt werden...

June 2011 - News of the World - Bruce Preston
Anything You Canado
Enjoy Royal Welcome Just like Wills & Kate

SORRY William and Kate, but been there, seen that, bought the T-shirt. And you don’t have to be royalty to be treated wonderfully well in Canada...

May 2011 - Vancouver Sun - Darah Hansen
Elopement coordinator ‘the most fun job ever’
Laura Watson’s business card says “elopement coordinator.” But her real job encompasses so much more than that. She is the umbrella holder, the Kleenex passer, pet handler, child minder, official witness and, on more than one occasion, the person who adjusts the back of a nervous bride’s gown moments before the vows are exchanged...

May 2011 - Barbara-Jo McIntosh - Books to Cooks Blog
Waving the Weather
Barbara-Jo recently enjoyed a stay at the Inn and sent this letter, which she also posted to her popular Books to Cooks blog, to Managing Director, Charles McDiarmid ...

April 2011 - John Owrid - Sunday Telegraph
Sea-kayaking in Vancouver's wild islands
The VHF radio crackled noisily as our water taxi pulled away from the jetty. The look on the driver's face completed the words eaten by the static interference. "There's a fishing boat missing," he eventually remarked, "a small boat, probably turned by a freak wave." ...

April 2011 - AOL Travel - Michelle Hopkins
Pure Indulgence in Tofino
Fuelled by coffee and the sheer exhilaration of being in Tofino, we hit the beach bright and early. With the sun beaming down on us and the wind whipping our faces, we were in complete awe of the wild beauty of Chesterman Beach...

March 2011 - National Post - Amy Rosen
Exotic Canada: The grey escape -- why visitors to Tofino hope for rain

I’m not sure if it’s the wind or jet lag or the flickering light from the fireplace that wakes me up ahead of the sun, but I’m up. I draw the curtains to see what it’s doing outside. The towering spruce trees are swaying madly, the rain is sheeting down my bedroom’s picture window and the waves are battling each other for supremacy on Chesterman Beach...

March 2011 - Alaska Airlines Magazine - Eric Lucas
Coastal Playground: Tofino is an elegant destination on rugged Vancouver Island
I’m riding my bike along the very edge of the North American continent. Sounds precipitous, but it’s actually a swath of golden sand that spreads ever so gently hundreds of yards wide between a lovely forest and the Pacific Ocean...

February 2011 - San Francisco Chronicle - John Flinn
Tofino an outdoor adventure paradise
It came screaming out of the Aleutian islands, gathering force and fury as it swept down through the Gulf of Alaska. Now as the winter storm made landfall, it was smacking violently into the very first obstacle in its path: the hurricane-glass window 18 inches from my nose...

January 2011 - Traveller Magazine - Melissa Graham
Shelter from the storm
Vancouver Island witnesses dramatic weather in winter, when storm-watching is a key attraction at the Wickaninnish Inn near Tofino. The Inn’s managing director Charles McDiarmid describes this spectacular event...

December 2010 - Peter Greenberg Worldwide - Meg Pier
Peer to Pier Interview: Charles McDairmid of Vancouver Island's Wickaninnish Inn
In part two of her series of interviews with eco-lodge owners, Meg Pier chats with Charles McDiarmid of the Wickaninnish Inn in Tofino, Vancouver Island, about growing up on the rugged island, and the ties that brought him back to the community...

December 4, 2010 - Calgary Herald - Mark Sissons
Storm Watchers
A peculiar sub-set of tourists opt for the Pacific's tempestuous seas in winter

Gnarly gusts violently buffet the Orca Airways eight seater aircraft, sending my stomach into a tailspin as we descend through the dripping rainforest draped mountains toward Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island's Wild West coast...

November/December 2010 - VIA Destinations - John Lee
Stormy Weather
Vancouver Island's most popular beach resort town attracts tourists and surfers in summer. But in recent years, many have come back in the off-season for a very different experience: facing down the Pacific's storms!

November 2010 - CAA Magazine - Paula Kozbial
Discover Tofino, B.C.
Located on Vancouver Island's west coast, the community of Tofino is bounded by the open Pacific Ocean, world-famous Pacific Rim National Park Reserve and the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. But don't let its small size mislead you...

October 2010 - Harrowsmith Country Life - Tom Cruickshank
Stormy Weather
When the gales of November come early on the western shore of Vancouver Island, they can pack quite a wallop...

September 18, 2010 - The Guardian - Kevin Rushby
Wild Wood: How a Canadian Village Kept the Loggers at Bay
In the 1960s the village of Tofino, on Canada’s Vancouver Island, attracted draft dodgers, surfers and wilderness freaks.  It’s easy to see why, says our writer, as he explores the infinite forests...

September 2010 - Departures Magazine - Cari Grey
If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Snowing In Saskatchewan
From Whistler to Banff to Montreal, this winter’s best places to ski, snowboard—and even surf—in Canada...

Summer 2010 - SpaInc. - Jason Hagerman
Bringing the Vision to Life
The exterior of your spa may be one of the most important factors in drawing clients in to the spa, but keeping them inside, and coming back for more, is a different task altogether...

June 2010 - National Post
Rest, Relax & Relais
Usually when I arrive for an interview, my subject finds me a two-legged stool to sit on and, if I’m really lucky, a glass of room temperature tap water. Not so at Langdon Hall Country House Hotel & Spa, a Relais & Chateaux property in Cambridge, Ont....

June 2010 - Fido Friendly Magazine
Beautiful, Stormy Weather
No matter the season, Fido is in for a treat and his pet parents are, too. Conde Nast Johansens readers voted Wickaninnish Inn as the Most Excellent Romantic Hideaway in North America for 2010...

May 2010 - Western Living
Luxury Road Trip
There's a scrum of reporters across the street at the courthouse shouting questions at a lawyer, a fire truck wails up Robson Street and the traffic is locked in place. From beneath the blue and gold awning of the Wedgewood a doorman waves and greets you by name...

November / December 2009 - IGNITE Magazine
A Private Hideaway on Vancouver Island's West Coast
Tofino is the end of the road on Vancouver Island’s west coast, a quirky outpost surrounded by the tidal waters and temperate rainforests of Clayoquot Sound. Not too far off this road, the Wickaninnish Inn stands serenely on the westernmost point of residential Chesterman Beach...

November 2009 - AAA Journey
Embracing the Elements
The storm waves that pound Tofino’s beaches make the earth shake. Windows flex and rattle, and red cedar buildings groan as they bend against 80-mile-per-hour winds...

October 2009 - Victoria's Times Colonist
Scenery, surfing perks of these jobs
When Tofino's renowned Wickaninnish Inn looks for employees, some of the key attractions are its spectacular scenery and outdoor activities....

June 2009 - telegraph.co.uk
Diana Krall's Heaven on Earth: Tofino, Vancouver Island
The singer Diana Krall finds it "impossible to resist the charm" of Tofino, a little fishing village on Vancouver Island...

March 2009 - Forbes Life
Private Jetaway - Secluded Long Weekends
The math is brutally simple: The more time spent en route, the less time spent en suite. That's especially harsh if you really want to get away from it all-say, to the far shores of Vancouver Island (Wickaninnish Inn)...

Autumn 2008 - Nuvo Magazine
Storm Watching On the Edge of the World
Charles McDiarmid looks out to the horizon. Thick grey clouds are scudding overhead, a gale is howling onto the shore, waves crashing on the rocks.
"Storm coming," he says, rubbing his hands. "Going to be a good one."...

May 2008 - Canadian Geographic Travel
Son of the Beach
First I was a beach bum, then a proud father watching my kids splash in the waves. Now I am back. Long Beach keeps calling me home...

January/February 2008 - Coastal Living
Wet and Wild
Every winter, lovers of outdoor drama and indoor comfort flock to Tofino, on the west coast of Canada’s Vancouver Island...

July 2007 - Robb Report
Private Landings
Only a masochist would crave foul weather on a pleasure trip, unless the jaunt is to Tofino, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island's rugged west coast, and the haven from the elements is the Wickaninnish Inn...

June 16, 2007 - Globe and Mail
Getting lost on Tofino time
"What day is it again?" my daughter Kathryn asked as we strolled barefoot along Chesterman Beach early one foggy August morning. Sooner or later, everyone loses track of the calendar in this part of the world. The locals call it "Tofino time," a curious and illusory lengthening of minutes and days that effectively slows the stride and speech of even the most manic arrivals to this tiny seaside town on British Columbia's far left coast...

June 2007 - Islands Magazine
Follow a storm-chaser's odyssey on Canada's west coast
I've finally lost my mind. In the back of my head I can hear my Southern mom saying, "My boy's misplaced all the good sense God gave him."

April 28, 2007 - The Ottawa Citizen
Revelling in 'Tofino Time'
Something about the sound of the ceassingly pounding surf -- rolling all that way across the Pacific from Japan -- calms the stride and senses of even the most tightly wound traveler. Within 48 hours, you'll have lost track of the days of the week -- and that's when you know you've settled into that peculiar Canadian time zone known by locals as "Tofino time." Four days of vacation here is as good as a week anywhere else...

March 16, 2007 - Victoria Times Colonist
At least once, everyone should dine like this
Chef Andrew Springett is softly spoken and not given to boastful anecdotes, but his career path is worth noting...

March 2007 - Outside Magazine
Spin the Globe
We've been tracking the adventure world for more than three decades. Our latest discovery? The planet is more wide open for exploration than ever...

February/March 2007 - mare Magazine
A Stormy Love
Those who come to Vancouver Island come for the wind and waves, for nowhere is bad weather more beautiful than in the Wickaninnish Inn...

January 7, 2007 - New York Times
Embracing Winter Instead of Fleeing It
Balmy waters, sandy beaches and relentless sun might be the most obvious features of a perfect winter getaway, but after a while it gets a little hackneyed to be just another slab of pale flesh nursing a midday daiquiri...

November 10, 2006 - New York Times
A Canadian Resort Goes Hollywood
The Wickaninnish Inn in the British Columbia town of Tofino has Champagne breakfasts, individual plunge pools overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and a guest book that the inn's owner, Charles McDiarmid, tries hard to keep under wraps...

December 9, 2006 - Globe and Mail
Calm Before the Storm
Jake MacDonald and his girlfriend needed a break. She wanted hot stones massages, and he wanted to watch the tempests rage. At a pair if Vancouver Island inns, they found what they were looking for - and then some...

November 2006 - Special Events Magazine
Destination Known
Weddings, corporate meetings and incentive programs flourish in the far corners of the world, resulting in attendees experiencing not just a special event but also a special location...

December/January 2007 - Opulence Magazine
Wild Winds and West Coast Waves
Sinking back on the sun-warmed wood of a deck chair, I find myself sighing...again. I am sheltered in a nook of the wall of the Ancient Cedars Spa, wrapped in fleece blankets over my thick cotton robe...

October 20, 2006 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Vancouver Island is a Beauty of a Dining Experience
Just a drive and a ferry ride away, Vancouver Island inhabits a different, more distilled culinary land than Seattle, a verdant, cloder-to-nature version of our citified longings for fresh foods and smooth style...

October 24, 2006 - The Vancouver Sun
Tofino and Oyster a Perfect Combo
The annual festival of the zinc-packed seafood delicacy makes a trip to Vancouver Island in November alluring...

October 2, 2006 - The Daily Telegraph
The Perfect Storm
Elemental wildness meets 21st-century comfort. Jannette Griffiths samples a storm-watching holiday on the remote coasts of British Columbia...

Summer 2006 - InnFocus Magazine
The Wickaninnish Inn - A Family Dream Come True
Charles McDiarmid was born and raised in Tofino, although he wasn't technically born there. His father was the only doctor in Tofino at the time, and since doctors cannot deliver their own children, Charles' mother went to Winnipeg to give birth...

March 2006 - eco-structure.com
A Canadian Hotel Offers Guests a Chance to View Nature up Close
When staying at a hotel, there are certain things you expect from your home away from home - a comfortable bed, opaque drapes, a well-stocked mini bar, wireless Internet and, perhaps, a chocolate on your pillow...

February 1, 2006 - The Vancouver Sun
No More Naked Dashes to the Pacific
My last (and only other) spa-type experience on Long Beach on Vancouver Island was in 1970 and involved sweating in a home-made driftwood-and-tarp sauna and then dashing naked through the rain into the rolling Pacific...

Winter 2006 - Western Living Magazine
The Beach
In western Canada there is really only one spot to build a home on the open surf. Welcome to Chesterman Beach , home of the world's weirdest land rush...

Autumn 2005 - The Chef's Table by Jurgen Gothe, Nuvo Magazine
Andrew Springett: Sublime Food at Pacific's Edge
The chef is not unfamiliar with the stresses of cooking for the occasional culinary critic. But 80 of them? All at the same time? And for the whole weekend?...

May 4, 2005 - The Globe and Mail
Top B.C. Chef, Winemaker to Team up at Tofino Fest
Foodies, take note: Next month, the Tofino Food and Wine Festival will feature a winemaker's dinner combining the skills of Andrew Springett, the chef at the Wickaninnish Inn's acclaimed Pointe Restaurant...

April / May 2005 - Christophorus 313, The Porsche Magazine
Sand Castle: The Wickaninnish Inn is a Beach Hotel in the Truest Sense of the Word
Even the latest model plasma flat screen TV could get a full-blown inferiority complex here in Tofino - not even the fanciest among them could stand up to this. The competition? Wall-to-wall, ceiling-to-floor...

March 10, 2005 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Around the Northwest: Pampering's Always in Season at the 'The Wick'
VANCOUVER ISLAND -- It's common wisdom that you can never guarantee having good weather on vacation. How about bad weather, though?...

August 15, 2004 - Houston Chronicle
Nature's Edge: Storms Unleash Fury, Awe Vacationers
The wind was howling a gale off the Graveyard of the Pacific. Thirty-foot waves pummeled rocks scant yards from shore. A bone-chilling rain...

April 15, 2004 - Coast Magazine
Northern Light
Vancouver and Vancouver Island offer all a romantic traveler could want, from vibrant city life to luminous natural wonders...

November 30, 2003 - The Denver Post
Riding the Storm Out
Bad-hair day means good time on Vancouver Island's west coast
Many stormwatchers flock to Tofino, British Columbia, where winter storms and hurricane-force winds bring 40-foot waves crashing onto the shores...

November 27, 2003 - The Toronto Star
Victoria is the Perfect Fit, Even in Winter
VICTORIA-Frankly, I'd never been in a rush to visit Vancouver Island. I figured it was a trip that could wait until I was old enough to apply for my pension...

January 12, 2001 - Airlines
West Coast Storm Watching
We could almost taste the salt air whipped up by wild winds and turbulent seas as we set out for Pacific Rim National Park on Vancouver Island's west...

December 31, 2000 - The Philadephia Enquirer Sun
Daily Life Revolves Around the Tide
Daily life revolves around the tide. Folks begin their day by looking at the tidal charts. A 14 foot differential...

December 17, 2000 - The San Diego Union Tribune
Forget Skiing... Forget Snow Shoeing. This Winter, I Want to go back to the Wickaninnish Inn...
Forget skiing... Forget snow shoeing. This winter, I want to go back to the Wickaninnish Inn on the west coast of Canada's Vancouver Island to...

November 1, 2000 - Food Arts
The Perfectly Watched Storm
A thicket of Sitka spruce arcs away from the ocean, their treetops bent by the relentless Pacific Ocean tempests that sculpt the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia. In mid March, bulges in the ocean, rising and ebbing every...

September 1, 2000 - Departures Magazine
Abundance is Everywhere
On the wild west coast of Canada's Vancouver Island, nature is symphonic presence. Fierce winter storms thump against the glassed-in enclave of Tofino's Wickaninnish Inn, where tourists actually gather to...

May10, 2000 - L.A. Times
Northern Comfort
My cat had fallen asleep on top of my Bose radio and, with the volume button at her epicenter, produced and exquisite oxymoron: the soundless alarm...

Mar 1, 2000 - Canadian Living Magazine
A Romantic Getaway
You don't just happen upon Wickaninnish Inn. It's a destination, a romantic getaway perched over the frothy waves of the Pacific Ocean on the rugged...

January 20, 2000 - USA Today
Foul Weather Fun
TOFINO, British Columbia - To old-timers who've weathered decades of winter tempests along the wild side of Canada's Vancouver Island, the weekend squall is barely worth hauling out the oilskins and duck boots: a bout of light snow...

January 19, 2000 - The Globe and Mail
Storm Watch
It really was shaping up to be a dark and stormy night. Still, we had only the promise of a storm as we approached the west coast of Vancouver Island. The marine forecast...

October 3, 1999 - Sunset Magazine
Tempests in Tofino
Pray for wind and rain to hit Vancouver Island about this time of year. It's the beginning of storm season in Tofino, the small fishing...

October 1, 1999 - Vogue German Edition (German)
Wickaninnish Inn
"Wickaninnish Inn", ein luxuriöses Hideaway mit 46 Zimmern. Und was tut man dort?...

September 3, 1999 - Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin (German)
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Wenn sich kein Lüftchen regt und die Sonne richtig schön scheint, können die Gäste hier schon mal sauer werden. Schliesslich kommen sie wegen des schlechten Wetters: Es ist Stormwatching-Season...

August 1, 1999 - Abenteuer & Reisen Magazin (German)
Abenteuer und Reisen
Zu den herausragenden Attraktionen zählt hier das Wetter: je schlechter, desto besser! Regen allein reicht nicht, es muss ein richtiger Sturm sein, der haushohe Wellen...

September 5, 1998 - Alaska Airlines Magazine
British Columbia - Island Retreat
Things are rugged on Vancouver Island's west coast in the winter. The climate is chill and tempestuous. Days are short and gray. The Pacific thrashes the coast like an...

July 25, 1998 - The Times
Back on Dry Land
Back on dry land, I followed the flow of the rivers to the coast and headed to Vancouver by car along the Sea-to-Sky Highway. From Vancouver I took one of the regular light aircraft...

January 4, 1998 - Sunset Magazine
Toast of Tofino
Because we got a late start from Seattle, missed our ferry, reached Nanaimo during thick afternoon traffic, and took an hour longer than planned crossing the snowy mountain pass to the west side of...

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