Best Western Airport Inn, Calgary

Advantages: Very nice and clean city
Disadvantages: -

...about 18 pounds per night and person. Besides there is a Holiday Inn, a Ramada hotel, a Sheraton hotel (direct at the Eau Claire Market), a Mariott (near the Calgary Tower), a Westin etc.. In the east of the city, outside of Downtown, there is a youth hostel. Likewise there are hotels near to the airport. MEALS ~~~~ You can get a good breakfasts in one of the many Coffee Shops or smaller restaurants. At each corner there is Starbuck's. If you want to have a really good breakfast you have to search a bit. We discovered then however a small cosy shop in typicall American style, where you can eat very good without paying so much money. There are Sandwiches, ham, roasting potatoes, small sausage, eggs... in addition, salads etc.. For a sandwich and a Cappuccino I had to pay about 6$. The disadvantage is that the small restaurants... Read review

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Advantages: Loads to do. Compact downtown area. Fly direct from UK
Disadvantages: VERY cold in winter/spring.

.... In the 1950’s Calgary became the fastest growing Canadian city, growing from a population of 100,000 in 1947, 200,000 in 1955, 325,000 in 1965. In the latter part of the 1990’s Calgary saw some of its most rapid growth, and since 1990 the population has increase by 22%, to around 860,749 (as of March 2002). Calgary is probably best remembered for the Winter Olympics, which it hosted in 1988. When the infamous Michael (Eddie the Eagle) Edwards, a plasterer from the UK finished 58th (last) in the 70 meter ski jump, and 55th (last) in the 90 meter jump. The Olympic village is worth a visit, and if you can stand to climb the ski jump tower then it will give you some idea of how totally of his trolley Mr. Eagle was! As you can imagine the city is host to other sports too, such as football (The Stampeders), Baseball (The Canons... Read review

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Advantages: None to speak of.
Disadvantages: Dirty, noisy, no food, BAD location, creepy staff.....

...Oh boy! Where to start. We stayed here on the first night of a recent ski holiday. We wanted somewhere close to the airport and cheap as we picked up our hire car to head to Radium, BC, early the next morning. The hotel is not particularly close to the airport and is in a terrible location next to an industrial park. The only food in the area is from 'Boston Pizza' and is not particularly good and is definitely expensive for Canada. Well, our room was small - the queen bed suspiciously so - didn't feel or look particularly clean was noisy and all in all pretty poor. Good job we 'only ' paid C$100 (£50) for the night! (See my review of the Fairmont in Calgary to see what onother C$30 gets you). I would not have wanted to eat here - even if food had been available. In the morning we even decided to leave without showering because... Read review

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