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King Pacific Lodge

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Along with down duvets and soaker tubs in every room, this luxurious floating lodge (moored next to an old-growth forest in northern B.C.) has real political clout—it participated in the negotiations that won the Great Bear Rainforest protection from logging and development in 2006. Next, it's tackling its carbon footprint with a plan to offset guests' transportation emissions this year and to cut resort emissions by 50 percent in the next half decade. One initiative: working with the Gitga'at Nation to build a no-dam hydro plant behind the property, generating carbon-free electricity for the lodge and a new stream of income for the tribe.

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From Travel + Leisure , NOV 2007

Along with down duvets and soaker tubs in every room, this luxurious floating lodge (moored next to an old-growth forest in northern B.C.) has real political clout—it participated in the negotiations that won the Great Bear Rainforest protection from logging and development in 2006....MORE>>

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From Food & Wine , JAN 2004

You can only get to the King Pacific Lodge on Princess Royal Island, British Columbia, by seaplane. The lodge, on an old Navy barge, has no TVs, and the satellite phones are too expensive to use often....MORE>>

– Dirk Standen The Relaxation Report

From Travel + Leisure , FEB 2003

Wilderness-lovers are making the trip up the north coast by floatplane to a 17-suite retreat without phones or televisions. No need to share a sleeping bag: luxury accommodations prevail, along with guided hikes in bear country; midnight kayak trips through phosphorescent waters; and soaks in deep Osaka tubswith bath salts, petals, and floating candles. The staff will even prepare a picnic and drop you both on a beach alone, with only a walkie-talkie to connect you to the outside world....MORE>>

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From Travel + Leisure , FEB 2002

Anchored on Princess Royal Island, hundreds of miles from any other civilization, the floating King Pacific Lodge is as romantic as the wilderness gets. Take a picnic for two—by helicopter—to a deserted beach or an untouched mountaintop. Then go on a night cruise in Barnard Harbour by the light of the sea's neon phosphorescence....MORE>>

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Last updated November 2007