The Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge

... overnight train from Vancouver to Jasper, Alberta in Canada.  We arrived aboout noon on July 7th.  We took a cab to Jasper Park Lodge and went for a BBQ fror lunch.  We spent the afternoon enjoying the outdoors with a bike ride and a walk ...

... , without prior reservations. Settled for Greek, as the Japanese place was busy as usual. Dark by the time we checked in to Jasper Park Lodge; tough time looking for the entrance of the room. Next morning, the bright sun was trying its best to soak up the ...

... was good, if a bit hot in the vehicle. A quick pit stop at Tim Hortons in Hinton, before continuing to The Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, arriving 1620h. It was straight to the pool before getting the keys to our lakefront cabin. Amazing how this resort ...

... We met some nice people on the train and this made the journey better. Wednesday and Thursday nights we stayed at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge - this was also very posh but was about 4kms outside the town of Jasper and so very isolated for people ...

Our two nights in Canada's Jasper National Park were truly elegant.  Upon arrival at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge we received a welcome basket of wine and cheese.   The next day, we hiked the trail to Mt. Edith Cavell and gazed at a ...

... RV with a cup of tea!  While the kids took a nap after lunch (and so did Lee-Ann), we took a drive to the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge.  Very nice indeed! Once back at the RV Park, we all went for a relaxing walk, keeping an eye out for any ...

... Inca Trail but still have time to get fit). Alanna motored through it easily as usual. We decided to head to the Fairmont Jasper Lodge to have a look. This place is in a great location with magnificent views. We decided we had earnt one of there ...

Yay, internet again! We arrived into Jasper Park Lodge yesterday at about 5:30pm, and I would have posted this blog then, but the "free wireless internet" in the rooms may be free, but it is non existent, so I spent most of the night on the phone with ...

... Hotel Group. Styled according to appropriate mountainous themes, these hotels provide the best in ski slope luxury.   The Jasper Park Lodge is built in the style of a Canadian hunting cabin, the main structure gazing out to the turquoise Lac ...

... - complete with his hat and check-jacket.....I didn't see any bears around Lake Louise but we were curious whether we had seen some interesting evidence in the snow - the evidence did not look like the elk evidence all around Jasper Park ...

... not stopped at on the way to Mosquito Creek.  The place itself is sadly over commercialized, and there is a huge, really huge Fairmont hotel on one edge of the Lake.  The Lake is beautiful, just like all the postcards, with turquoise water and ...

... . We passed the snow-capped Mt Robson the highest in the Canadian Rockies, before arriving at Jasper and catching a taxi to the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge. The next day we left early on a bus for Lake Louise, stopping midway for a snowcoach ride on the ...

... we left the bike running this time! It was awesome. The sheep/goats that we saw were at the entrance to the Jasper National Park. Once we got to the Fairmont, Mom was waiting for us outside. So we met up with them and then went to our room, which was ...

... shopping. Jasper itself s quite small, and there is not much to do once you have seen it. I wouldn't recommend more than 2 days in Jasper to anyone. I was here for 3 days the first time I came to Canada, and there was NOTHING to do, and so it went from ...

Left Sun Peaks early in the morning for the day travel to Jasper and Peter, our coach driver, all of a sudden applies to brakes - and we saw a Mama Bear and her 2 cubs walking across the road - she was brown like a Grizzly and one of her cubs was black ...

Our trip to and through the Canadian Rockies filled our eyes, our spirits, and our tummies!  Beautiful mountains, lakes, and wildlife gave us thrills every day!  The Fairmont properties lived up to their ...

... away.  Continuing on to the lake, the road climbs and twists until it comes to an end in a massive car park that gives way to the famous Fairmont Hotel, right beside the lake.  Just back from the lake about 200 metres or so is the more modest ...