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Echo Valley Ranch, British Colombia Vacations, Honeymoons Luxury Hotel Packages
For a unique Guest Ranch & Spa experience, come to Echo Valley Guest Ranch & Spa! Located in the beautiful Cariboo country in British Columbia, Canada, we are the perfect place for family vacations, ranch holidays, family reunions, honeymoons or corporate retreats. Our deluxe guest ranch offers luxury accommodations and healthy, gourmet meals made by our own renowned chef using the freshest ingredients and organic produce. Echo Valley Guest Ranch and Spa also offers many exciting ways to spend your days. Our BC guest ranch offers horseback riding for all levels, hiking, fly fishing, birding and more. Get pampered in our European and Thai spas with world-class spa treatments that will relax and invigorate you. Our BC guest ranch has personalized packages you can customize to your needs. Come to Echo Valley Ranch & Spa, in a wilderness setting, and explore much more.
Echo Valley Ranch Accommodations The "Dove Lodge" is of log construction with six spacious guest bedrooms each with a private ensuite bathroom. The rooms have queen-sized beds complimented with cozy duvet covers, fluffy pillows; unique country lamps, hardwood floors and plush throw carpets. All rooms offer spectacular views through large picture windows, and four have private balconies. All guest dine in the Dove Lodge which has an welcoming dining room and sitting area with fireplace, large games room, sauna and outdoor hot tub. The lodge is constructed of large logs that are over 100 years old. Look-out Lodge
Cabins Two log cabins offer guest the seclusion of their own place combined with the availability of the Dove Lodge facilities, and the pampering of prepared meals. Cabins include a private out door deck; large bedroom with king sized beds, living area with pull out sofa bed, a loft area with twin beds and a special bathroom with Jacuzzi tub. Honeymoon Cabin The Honeymoon cabin offers a romantic get-away for the newly married or for that special anniversary celebration. The log cabin overlooks a rambling creek and the Echo Valley. Enjoy your private deck. Inside you will find a lushly furnished living area with fireplace and an antique four-poster bed, private ensuite bathroom, refrigerator, mini bar, sink and coffee maker. A honeymoon package including a variety of activities is available. Baan Thai Dr. Pinyo Suwankiri, architect to the Thai royal family, designed the traditional Thai structure of the Baan Thai. A combination of teak from Thailand for the interior, and Canadian cedar for the exterior give Baan Thai its unique appeal. Master Craftsman in Thailand carved many of the decorative pieces, which have been transported to Canada and integrated into the project. The top section of the building is a complex of two Thai houses, a pavilion and an entrance gate, all surrounding a tiled courtyard. The Thai houses, with their Pagoda-like roofs, house a spa treatment facility and a luxury suite. The Pavilion offers a shaded area to relax and drink "Numcha" (a traditional hand picked Thai herbal tea). The 3000 sq ft ground floor is available for workshops, meetings and entertainment. Facilities There is nothing to do – or everything to do! Curl up with a good book in the Dove Lodge surrounded by honey-colored log walls, unique rod iron lamps and exquisite country end tables. Dark hunter green drapes frame the large picture windows offering panoramic views of country fields circled by magnificent mountain ranges. Downstairs, a large pool table beckons to the billiard buffs, and is surrounded by an array of game tables, shuffleboard and darts. A variety of movies and/or karaoke can be viewed on the large 62" screen, as can International News via satellite. Try a sauna or step outside and use the hot tub. For fitness fanatics, walk over to the Spa center and use the complete range of exercising equipment followed by a Thai massage, or try the indoor heated swimming pool – then have a massage! Echo Valley Ranch Dining Echo Valley Ranch & Spa offers enticing meals created by our professional chef. Gourmet food is expertly prepared, in our open Walk around our organic gardens and see what’s growing in our greenhouse. Ask to see our large root cellar were we store our vegetables – perhaps you will even get to visit the wine cellar too! Watch our chef, Kim, prepare your food in his open kitchen and ask him about his recipes. Kim has lots of secrets about cooking that he will share with you. Kim served an apprenticeship as a chef in Europe and first came to Canada to be chef for the Danish Embassy in Ottawa. Kim has won two bronzes and one silver medal in the Culinary Olympics and has been awarded the coveted Cordon Bleu Award. Other accomplishments include organizing and preparing the G7 Summit meeting banquets at the Halifax Delta Hotel, were world leaders were served, and acting as the private chef to Norwegian Royalty in their home in Norway. During the summer months Echo Valley offers its guests a Traditional Thai Night. Always a special treat we offer this night to our guests once a week. The evening is complete with wonderful authentic Thai Food and then after dinner there is traditional Thai dancing where we get everyone involved. We can also provide Thai cooking lessons by special request. Cooking classes with Kim can also be arranged if you wish. The gourmet food, presentation and service are in keeping with what you would expect to find in some of the better five star hotels. But the Lodge offers a home like ambience with meals served family style around large tables. Enjoy the company of other guests as you savoir our culinary delights. Find out what real organic and farm grown food really tastes like!
Echo Valley’s magnificent Baan Thai offers a unique BC spa package experience. The spa pavilion is a sanctuary for calm, care and inner harmony. Experience the soothing effects of herbal steam treatments and an herbal oil massage combined with the rejuvenating qualities of our luk pra kob (herbal bag). Experience other Thai therapies such as kud rang guy (herbal body scrub), nued nha (Thai facial using hands only) and pog rang guy (herbal wraps). Relaxed, refreshed and enlightened, you can now connect with the harmony of Echo Valley’s surrounding beauty.
Activities Being at Echo Valley Ranch & Spa is a tranquil experience. The ranch is set in the foothills of Mount Bowman and overlooking a valley that crosses the Fraser Canyon. The area is free of all forms of pollution. The air is fresh and clean, the water sparkling clear from one of the five natural springs on the ranch. Relax, and listen to the sounds of silence. On clear nights gaze at the countless stars twinkling above. Enjoy the facilities at the resort, and for the more adventurous, explore the four distinct biomes that surround you. Horseback Riding Echo Valley Ranch & Spa is home to more than thirty-five Tennessee Walking Horses. These horses are famous for their smooth gait and excellent for all levels of riders. Numerous and various trails surround the ranch offering one to six hour rides. Novice riders can enjoy a two-hour trail ride to the "look-out". Advanced riders can take a packed lunch and ride the range all day, or take a 3 - 5 day guided overnight pack trip. Terrain covered includes wooded trail rides and alpine meadows, with steep as well as level riding conditions. A full size riding arena is available for horseback riding lessons and special clinics. No matter were you ride, you will feel at one with nature. Hiking Echo Valley Ranch & Spa offers a variety of trails for the casual walker, as well as challenging hikes for the adventurous explorer. The EVR Guest Trail is a one-hour circle route on the property passing through the horse and cattle fields. Other unguided trails will take you along a choice of six nature trails, another to the historic Rynehart barn. Guided hikes will take you to the top of Mount Bowman (7,460 feet elev.), or through the forest and down the side of the Fraser canyon to desert conditions at the Fraser river below (abt. 3,500 foot descent), or through lake and marsh lands. No matter which walk or hike that you take, you will be in awe of the natural beauty of the land. White Water River Rafting Echo Valley Ranch & Spa is close to where the Chilcotin River flows into the mighty Fraser. The scenery is magnificent, wild life abundant, and the ride down the river in a raft thrilling. Three nights or day trips are available throughout the summer months. Gold Panning Starting in 1857, within a year thousands of miners and fortune-seekers had arrived in BC and had journeyed up the Fraser River, eager for a piece of the marvelous, but elusive riches that the river promised. Claims were staked for hundreds of kilometers along the river's banks and on it's sandbars, and the word "Fraser" became world-renowned virtually over night. Although the pay load was later to be discovered elsewhere, by Billy Barker in a town that became Barkerville, it is almost assured that a would be gold panner's will always "show color", when panning for gold, in gravel taken from the Fraser quite close to Echo Valley Ranch & Spa. Gold panning lessons and slide shows are given at the ranch, and our one time gold prospector, from way back, takes guest out to try their luck in his "secret spots" nearby. Bird Watching & Falcon Training Being located in the midst of four distinct biomes results in diverse ecosystems that serve the needs of many species of birds. The "bird list" accounts for over 170 sightings of different birds in and around Echo Valley Ranch & Spa . Bird watching trips are lead by Brian Davies, our resident naturalist, who takes guest to the habitats of the birds that reside or pass through our area. Brian has had a love for birds since he was a young boy and was the manager on the Reiffel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, near Boundary Bay, for fourteen years. Brian also has a passion for raising and training falcons and was the first to work with The Canadian Research Council (NRC) to determine if falcons could be used to deter birds from flying near major airports. At Echo Valley Ranch & Spa you can see demonstrations of how Gyrfalcons and Peregrine falcons are trained and cared for. At and around the ranch you can enjoy a unique bird watching experience and perhaps add to you "life list" of birds spotted. Fishing Good Rainbow trout fishing available at numerous lakes with-in a 30-minute drive from the ranch. The uniqueness of the geographic location of Echo Valley Ranch & Spa becomes dramatically evident when viewed from the air. A one hour "four biome" flight in our Cessna 172 aircraft takes you over rolling grasslands to the Gang Ranch, back down the Fraser Canyon with steep walls, hoodoos and desert like conditions (which, in this location, compares with the Grande Canyon!)to the High Bar Indian reserve; Fly out of the canyon and over the Edge Hills to the Marble Range mountains, circle Mount Bowman at 7500 feet altitude, fly along Starvation Ridge to a Cariboo plateau at 3000 feet of lakes, marsh and forest. Ask to experience water landing before returning back to the ranch! There are many other flight-seeing experiences to be had, how about taking a close-up view of a glacier or two? Save time, money and stress! For reservations: Fill out the vacation planner to be contacted by our British Colombia, Canada vacation specialist. Contact: Travelwizard.com Phone: 1-800-330-8820 or 1-415-446-5252 |
The "Look-out Lodge" has nine large bedrooms each with a private four piece ensuite bathroom, including bathtub. The rooms have king sized beds that can separate into two double beds. Four bedrooms have lofts and all are complimented to the same high standards as the Dove Lodge. Each bedroom has a mini bar and coffee making machine. The lodge has two common sitting areas, both of which are tastefully furnished and decorated with Native art. The main floor sitting area has a fireplace and an eight-foot totem pole. Out door decks surround the building. All of the rooms offer spectacular views, and four have private balconies. 
kitchen, using our very own farm produce. When in season we serve local wild mushrooms, herbs and berries, which we gather from the surrounding forest. For the vegetarian we can offer many vegetable varieties, many of them from our own organic vegetable garden. We also have a great berry and herb patch! For those of us that like meat, we raise our own cattle, pigs, turkeys, rabbits and chickens. For seafood, we buy only the best from our sources in Vancouver. Last, but by no means least, all of our water is taken from one of our five springs – it is pure and sparkling! 
Guests at Echo Valley Ranch & Spa who have been looking for that special BC spa package soon realize they have found a sanctuary for care and inner harmony. This is the place to restore your passion for life. |
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