BC Ferries Langdale Terminal

As a tip don’t be just on time — come early especially on Sunday. The line can get pretty long on Sunday and you might need to wait for the next ferry if you don’t come early. I have to say its very organized here. Signs are very clear. Once you are on assuming you a taking your car with you, the staff are very directive in where you should park your car. If you have questions, they are very helpful.

It’s a lovely practice that the ferry staff wish everyone a happy new year during the sailings. Kinda helps to keep the transit experience from feeling overly corporate. Gibson side experience differed greatly from the Horseshoe Bay. The departing trip was marred with confusion having missed the 1:20 sailing that was listed as 1:35 due to a glitch that didn’t update the schedule beyond Oct 2013 on my (usually)handy iPhone. So instead of cruising into boarding we were told sales were held for the next sailing 2hrs later– yikes. We were saved by local Starbucks for Java and wifi but having never chosen to leave the ferry cue with the car then had NO idea of how to return to the vehicle ticket purchase area and car cue. Through a series of potentially highly illegal reverse driving maneuvers found our way back to the car ticket cue. Proceeded to get somehow lost while looking for lane 82 (which can only be found if there is enough thoroughfare to the front section of car cue). We found absolutely NO BC Ferrie employee to aid us in the next massive reverse driving expedition. In fact I suspect tower employees got a good laugh watching us try to navigate the ‘real-​life’ version of the puzzle game Traffic Jam in trying to get to the needed wheelchair access lane. When we finally found an employee to assist they did reassure us that we were not the FIRST to be stuck in that way– which kinda led to my belief that there were birds-​eye view bets on how long and how many moves we would take to get our car to the correct exit. Happy NY– lol!