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Tsawwassen, Delta — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Tsawwassen is a residential peninsula community in the City of Delta, holding the BC Ferries terminal that sails for Vancouver Island.
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Where to stay in Tsawwassen
Where the beds are, and what that means for the visit.
Ferries set the rhythm. Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal stands at the far end of a 3 km causeway into the Strait of Georgia, and a bed in Tsawwassen is most often booked for an early BC Ferries sailing to Vancouver Island or the Gulf Islands. The community itself is residential.
Streets on the peninsula in the southwestern corner of the City of Delta run to houses rather than hotel rows, with 56th Street carrying traffic on toward Point Roberts, Washington.
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By the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal
Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal sits at the end of the causeway into the Strait of Georgia, so a first sailing is caught without the drive out from the Lower Mainland.Find hotels in By the Tsawwassen Ferry TerminalDrivers running down 56th Street to Point Roberts, WashingtonAlong 56th Street
56th Street is the only road access to Point Roberts, Washington, and it carries the length of Tsawwassen to the southern tip of the peninsula. Lodging is scarce in this area; reserve in advance.Find hotels in Along 56th StreetCrews and trainees using Boundary Bay Airport outside TsawwassenToward Boundary Bay Airport
Boundary Bay Airport trains pilots a short drive from Tsawwassen, and the Roberts Bank Superport works the same stretch of shore nearby. Lodging is scarce in this area; reserve in advance.Find hotels in Toward Boundary Bay AirportHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
About Tsawwassen
What are the main landmarks in Tsawwassen?
Working structures make the list. Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal, built in 1959 and reached along a 3 km causeway across the shallow bank, is the one nearly everyone passes through on the way to Vancouver Island. Two more sit close.
Boundary Bay Airport handles training flights along with local aeroplane and helicopter service, while the Roberts Bank Superport works the shore nearby, and neither is the sort of monument a visitor photographs.
What is the history of Tsawwassen?
The terminal dates from 1959. BC Ferries built Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal to carry foot passengers and motor vehicles from the Lower Mainland to the southern part of Vancouver Island and the southern Gulf Islands, which is the work that gave this peninsula its role. Geography forced the causeway.
Because Tsawwassen touches a shallow bank, the terminal had to be pushed to the southwestern end of a 3 km causeway running out into the Strait of Georgia, well clear of the residential streets behind it.
Where is Tsawwassen?
Tsawwassen covers about 13 square kilometres of peninsula in the southwestern corner of the City of Delta, on the Strait of Georgia.
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What is the best area to stay in Tsawwassen?
By the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal: Passengers holding an early BC Ferries sailing to Vancouver Island. Along 56th Street: Drivers running down 56th Street to Point Roberts, Washington. Toward Boundary Bay Airport: Crews and trainees using Boundary Bay Airport outside Tsawwassen.
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Updated October 2026