Best Western Hospitality Inn, Calgary

Advantages: Very nice and clean city
Disadvantages: -

...'t see much of CHINATOWN. I liked the CHINESE CULTURAL CENTRE and the roads. Even the lanterns are in the Chinese style... Here you can also eat very good! In the Northeast on George's Island lies the CALGARY ZOO with more than 1.ooo animals in enclosures quite true to nature, a botanic garden and a prehistoric park with dinosaur models - not only for children! If you go along the Highway you can see already a bit of park. To get there I think the best way is going by car. I also wanted to visit the HERITAGE PARK and the HISTORICAL VILLAGE, an open air museum, but it's not opened in the winter. In the Southeast of CALGARY you can find the EXHIBITION STAMPEDE PARK, where each year the Calgary Tampede takes place in July. Here you also find the SADDLE DOME. In former times it was the olympic stadium, today the ice hockey team "Calgary... 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: Independently Owned & operated Good Quality
Disadvantages: Very Few

...Best Western Hotels are among the world’s largest hotel brands but is actually somewhat unusual. This international hotel chain is made-up of individually owned and operated hotels and inns around the globe. However, reputedly it is not easy to qualify for membership of Best Western – prospective members must meet some very exacting standards and each hotel in UK is independently inspected on an annual basis by the AA. Globally there are around 4,000 hotels in the group whilst there are several hundred in the UK. Some are bustling city centres hotels, others are nicely converted Elizabethan lodges and some are plush Georgian style country manor houses. Among Best Western hotels in London are the Delmere Hotel, Hyde Park, the John Howard Hotel, Kensington, the Mornington Hotel, Lancester Gate, Raglan Hall... Read review

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