Greater Victoria’s newest hotel is gearing up for its official opening this spring near the Town of Sidney’s commercial core on Victoria International Airport lands.

 

 

The three-storey TownePlace Suites by Marriott Victoria Airport Sidney has been under construction since 2024 at 2165 Beacon Avenue West, at the hands of Ontario-based developer Kothari Group.

 

According to Marriott’s booking system, TownePlace Suites will open on April 8th, although its 129 rooms are not available for booking online (as of the publication date of this article) until May 1st where starting nightly rates are priced in the range of $300, plus fees.

 

The airport Marriott comes as Sidney’s long-time Cedarwood Inn lodging property along the 9500-block of Lochside Drive closed down in April of 2024, removing just under 50 hotel rooms from the town’s core. The ocean view site is slated for redevelopment into a nearly 100-unit condominium and townhome project known as Coast from Victoria-based GMC Projects.

 

Meanwhile, another TownePlace Suites property is under construction in the region, over in downtown Langford. TownePlace Suites by Marriott Langford started construction last year in the 800-block of Goldstream Avenue, and will deliver 103 rooms across six floors in 2027. The project will become downtown Langford’s first full-service hotel.

 

 

And in downtown Victoria, Vancouver-based Chard Developments is in the early stages of re-started construction of an eight-storey, nearly 170-room Hyatt Centric Victoria Hotel on Broad Street between Yates and Johnson streets. The Hyatt will complete in 2028 as the first hotel in downtown Victoria since the early 2000s when Humboldt Street’s Marriott reached occupancy.

 

Victoria’s hotel sector has been pivoting towards a capacity rebound in recent years, following several decades of sustained hotel room losses driven primarily by aging properties and conversions to full-time rental uses. Multiple high-profile city centre hotels like the Harbour Towers in James Bay, the Victoria Inn in James Bay, the Dominion Hotel in downtown-proper and the City Centre Hotel in Burnside Gorge (among others) along with its neighbour Paul’s Motor Inn, all saw their transient lodging spaces converted to housing. The City Centre Hotel has even been razed in recent months, to make way for redevelopment into three rental towers.

 

Since the 1990s, it is estimated that more than 2,000 hotel rooms were removed from the Capital’s transient lodging inventory. C

 

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