The Travel + Leisure 2012 World’s Best Awards Readers’ Survey Results of
Top Resorts and Islands

SOOKE, BC, Aug. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Travel and Leisure Magazine Readers’
Poll has dedicated a category exclusively to Canadian properties for
their World’s Best Awards. Today, Travel and Leisure has recognized
Sooke Harbour House as Canada’s #2 best resort for 2012, and on its
list as one of the World’s Best Hotels and Resorts. Vancouver Island
was selected as their best island travel destination.

“It is very satisfying to know that our guests value the quality of our
services, comfort and atmosphere. Whether it is the local art work, our
romantic, intimate oceanfront guestrooms, our certified organic gardens
and farm or our regional, seasonal cuisine, everything here at Sooke
Harbour House is a celebration of Southern Vancouver Island,” said
Frederique Philip.

“I am extremely happy with this recognition for our hotel and for our
Chef, Robin Jackson and his kitchen staff, and for our wine staff for
having created an internationally recognized wine cellar with a wide
selection of British Columbia wines. I hope that people from across the
world will come to Sooke Harbour House to relax and experience the
stunning, natural year round beauty and peaceful, pristine coastal
setting of our area. We still enjoy the luxury of being surrounded by
unspoiled nature, marine mammals and seabirds, and the view of the
towering, majestic mountains across the Pacific”, said Sinclair Philip.

In a previous edition, Travel and Leisure Magazine described the 28 room
Sooke Harbour House as a “charming clapboard inn overlooking a dramatic
Pacific beach and the Olympic Mountains, 45 minutes from Victoria.” The
cutting edge, as stated in the T+L 500, is the “inventive Pacific
Northwest cuisine that has made this a legendary food and wine
destination.”

At Sooke Harbour House, meals are savoured in a candlelit dining room
warmed by a wood burning fireplace with spectacular views of the ocean
and Olympic Mountains. After dinner you can spend the night in one of
their 28 rooms featuring stunning ocean views, wood burning fireplaces,
soaker or jetted tubs and steam showers for two.

During the past year, the Sooke Harbour House Restaurant has been
recognized by numerous publications for providing outstanding quality
food and holding fast to its original philosophy of sustainable, local,
seasonal, organic cuisine. Under the leadership of Head Chef Robin
Jackson, the Sooke Harbour House kitchen team continues its creative
development of use of wild indigenous foods of Vancouver Island and a
Farm-to-Table and a Fishing Boat-to-Table approach. Sooke Harbour House
participated in the Oregon Truffle Festival of 2012 featuring Chef
Robin Jackson as an International Guest Chef.

This year Conde Nast placed the Inn on their Gold List for the World’s
Best Hotels and Resorts. Zagat recognized Sooke Harbour House as the
number 1 most popular restaurant on Vancouver Island .

Other recent awards:

Gold List, World’s Best Hotels and Resorts , Conde Nast Traveler, 2012
Most Excellent Eco-Resort’, Conde Nast Johansens, Awards for
Excellence, January 2010 Audubon International, Four Green Leaf Hotel

SOURCE Sooke Harbour House – Hotel and Restaurant