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Super, Neighbours in British Columbia: Sonora Resort – part 3 of 8

A couple of years back we took home the Georgia Straight's BEST OF award for " Best Navel Gazing Web Site ", and while our non-profit organization that supports our web site ( Vancouver Is Awesome, Inc ) is focused on celebrating all of the awesome t

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In this current series of posts we're taking you on an adventure to Sonora Resort up in Desolation Sound. In the FIRST post I showed you what it's like to fly there with their sister company, London Air Services, by helicopter. In the SECOND I showed you our room. Today I'm sharing a few of the things to do outside of hanging out in your room sitting in front of the fireplace and admiring the incredible view.

A couple of years back we took home the Georgia Straight's BEST OF award for "Best Navel Gazing Web Site", and while our non-profit organization that supports our web site (Vancouver Is Awesome, Inc) is focused on celebrating all of the awesome things that make up our city one of those things is it's proximity to other awesome places. In Super, Neighbours in British Columbia we take you on adventures to other B.C. locales that we think you should check out.

Something that I should have pointed out in my last post is that Sonora Resort is a Relais & Châteaux property. Relais & Châteaux represents a collection of luxury hotels and gourmet restaurants, of which there are only 5 in all of Western Canada, and only 500 in the world. Founded in 1954 in France, this logo below lets you know that you are in close proximity to the absolute peak of hotels and food.

I'm going to start off with one of my favourite things: the 12 seat theatre where we watched the Canucks beat the Sharks on a seven-foot wide screen with THX surround sound! It would've been uncivilized not to have watched the game while on holiday in BC, in fact it would have been downright criminal.

It's nice that it's here and I imagine it's a fantastic and quiet place to get some work done but for your own good, please don't spend much time in the business centre! There may be a wall of computers, printers, free long distance to anywhere in the world but I think you need to get your priorities straight!

Get some "business" done on one of the two 12 foot wide golf simulators. Or if you want the real thing you can pay to take a boat over to Storey Creek's course which is not far away.

In the same games room as the golf simulator there are an XBOX 360 and PS3, shuffleboard, pool, fooseball, and yes that is a signed Lui Passaglia jersey on the wall.

More business to get done on the tennis court. And there are plenty of racquets available if you didn't bring your own.

Artwork lines the walls of every single building, these two below are a couple of my favourite pieces.

If you're done with being indoors, you can take a hike on one of the many trails.

And once you're done with all of that business, you might want to relax at the spa. We were treated to a couples massage and it was pretty much exactly what my wife and I were both in need of.

Here's the view outside of the second floor of the spa. Perfectly relaxing.

Coming up in the next post: the trout pond! Stay tuned.