Alberta Place Suite Hotel

... even have a fast food burger joint. · Every day, the staff publishes a brochure called the Cruise Compass. It's delivered our suite and outlines the activities for that particular day. Of course it is full of sales promotions of "Don't Wait", "Get ...

... I wasn't looking too hard as I was driving. It is a fairly abrupt change in geography when you travel through Crow's Nest Pass into Alberta. The mountains end quickly and the plain opens up in front of you. All that you can see on the horizon and closer, ...

... sea lion show); an 18 hole golf putting course; 10 pin bowling, and over 100 eateries, 13 movie theatres and over 600 stores. There was even a bison on display. Back at the hotel, where it was nice and warm, we watched the snow flurries from our ...

... elk farming (for velvet and meat). The road conditions were pretty good apart from the occasional shower and a little snow. Arrived in Edmonton a little too early for the 4pm check in so parked the car at the hotel and wandered to the City Centre ...

... .  Very much like West Yellowstone and Jackson Hole.  I know I will enjoy wandering the stores (I mean sights) of Banff. Our hotel is the Rimrock Lodge. Once again, CO has done an amazing job researching the perfect place for us to stay.  ...

... lunch, we dropped our things off at the Fantasyland Hotel, which is right in the West Edmonton Mall. We had an absolutely beautiful suite on the eighth floor that sat at the corner of the building, so we had panoramic views of the city skyline. Min and ...

... the completion of the transcontinental railway in 1885 - in 1884 the lake was name Lake Louise in honour of Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria.  Guess the name of the large glacier you see in the distance from the ...

... that I didn't expect but nothing beats being in the cradle of the mountains in Banff.  I lucked out because the hotel that I originally considered staying at was not only available but cheap!  I guess that proves that in the off season I should ...

... Today it rained all day and did not let up though.  We spent the morning shopping in the townsite after our free hotel breakfast.  Jym wanted a last stop at Wild Flour for some fabulous croissants.  We then decided to drive back up to Lake ...

... .com we started calling places from the book (yep, there's cell service all the way up the road!) and managed to find a reasonable place 60kms out of Jasper. So up we trekked with John Denver belting out this Rocky Mountain High as best he knows how on ...

... tailed deer. No chance of a photo, of course.    To top off a great trip and a seamless transfer to the hotel - a king size two-level suite! On the budget hotel plan! Bliss! Silky smooth sheets and no early ...

... départ de notre "ICE walk" à l'heure (I.N.C.R.O.Y.A.B.L.E!). Petit trajet en camion, arrêt pour prendre d'autres clients au Fairmont Hotel (nous n'avons pas les mêmes valeurs!) et rencontre avec Wapitis et biches, cela ne nous fait plus rien, c'est ...

... .  The icefields are made up of 6 glaciers that feed three ocean, the Arctic, the Atlantic and the Pacific!  Pretty cool place, and windy and cold too.  The glaciers are retreating awfully fast, it's estimated that it will be gone in a 100 ...

... petit pic-bois!  Je suis aussi allée du côté des lacs Vermillion - d'ailleurs c'était la route originale mais suite à des découvertes archéologiques intéressantes et des trouvailles retraçant plus de 10,000 ans d'histoire humaine, la route ...

... Banff itself was going to be too congested for us and spent a lot of time surfing for alternatives. We wanted more than a hotel room, didn't care about a full resort setting, but did want a kitchen so we could cook. We came across the Paradise ...

We farewell Jasper and head to Edmonton but before we leave the Jasper area we do quick visits to Pyramid, Patricia and Medicine Lakes along with Cavell and Angel Glaciers. Each lake is special in its own right and the reflections at Pyramid and ...

... few rock avalanches occurred and wiped out the area. The scenery is breathtaking, and it reminded me of the Badlands in Alberta. Next, we visited El Estaqueria. This is a pre-Nasca (Huara people?) ceremonial site. At one time, people believed ...

... what more can I say??? Best Dinner:  A 3-way tie, here. Joey's, Winnipeg, Manitoba AND Tumbleweeds, Medicine Hat, Alberta AND Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. All three were memorable meals - delicious, tasty, different, used ...

... place we rented, the owners wanted to use it so they took it on us and in return we ended up in an apartment suite in the Star City Hotel instead. We are still on the harbour and close to sights and the rail transit so the kids will easily get around on ...