Bella Coola Valley Inn
In the winter season, we are the main guests of the Bella Coola Valley Inn. It is a comfortable and quiet full service hotel with 3.5 star rating (Canada Select Rating).
Your hosts, the Duong family, make you feel like the special guest that you are. Enjoy the local setting by cruising about the town, going for a run by the deep sea wharf, exploring temperate rainforest below the big mountain scenery.
The Bella Coola Valley Inn amenities include:
- Massage Therapist on site during our ski programs.
- Full service bar with large screen TV for viewing the day's footage.
- Comfortable bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms (double occupancy is included with each Dream Catcher Heliskiing package though single upgrades are also available).
- Brand new cedar sauna room.
- A la carte (hearty) breakfasts served daily. The dinner menu includes Korean, Japanese, Canadian cuisine, as well as local seafood. Special diets accommodated.
- Internet broadband cafe on-site and wireless access throughout the entire hotel for all DCH clients.
- All local amenities are located within a short walk of the hotel: grocery store, pharmacy, liquor store, bank, gift shops. We also take you further afield to visit local Aboriginal Art galleries, smoked salmon and seafood suppliers, other local dining experiences.
- Dream Catcher Heliskiing's on-site ski shop and guest lounge.
The M.V. Ocean Explorer 1
One hundred percent of our amazing big mountain terrain can be accessed by a short flight from the water's edge. Dream Catcher Heliskiing contracts the use of the M. V. Ocean Explorer I, a 110 foot long steel vessel, for our Boat Tours and Combo Tours. We truly have the flexibility to provide the world's most extraordinary powder skiing in Canada.
The design of this ship is optimum for the most unique marine/heliskiing combination adventure in the world, as well as providing both comfort and luxury while aboard, and rugged durability on the water. You may see killer whales, pods of northern porpoises, groups of curious sea lions during our Boat or Combo Tours.
The ship allows the guides and sea captain to choose the best of the best for your vacation ~ powder snow and calm waters for evening entertainment and a good night's sleep wrapped in the mystique and awe of the world's largest temperate rainforest.
Newly completed renovations to the M.V. Ocean Explorer 1 includes all the comforts and amenities of home, with a deluxe interior boasting a spacious lounge, bar and dining area, state-of-the-art galley, nine private staterooms, four washrooms with showers, and a top deck with a hot tub. The boat crew includes a captain, chef and housekeeper.
E&B Helicopters
Based in Campbell River, BC, Canada, E&B Helicopters have been providing Charter Services, Pilot Training, Sales, Helicopter Maintenance and Avionics to this area of British Columbia for over 15 years. They provide us with quality pilots and aircraft for our heliskiing operations (Bell 407 aircraft).
Pacific Coastal Airlines
The Smith family run quality airline services the western coast of British Columbia. The King Air 1900 is the most common daily aircraft that takes you from Vancouver to Bella Coola. Our clients have found the direct/daily flight from Vancouver to Bella Coola (and return) able to accommodate last-minute schedule changes with no fuss. The staff at Pacific Coastal Airlines are even relaxed when our guests madly change out of ski clothes on the tarmac - all so they can squeeze in every last vertical foot of their Dream Catcher Heliskiing holiday!
