Fish Creek Provincial Park, Calgary

Advantages: Safe, friendly, good transport
Disadvantages: Extremely cold winters

...and then hopping on a bus which will take you to the entrance. That will only cost about £2.50! The park was used to film "Cool Runnings" and the Jamaican bobsleigh used in the film is in the gift shop. You can hold one of the Olympic torches, watch the Canadian national team practicing the the luge and bobsleigh in the ice house and tour the park. You can also take the lift up the 95m ski jump - remember Eddie the Eagle Edwards? That's the one he jumped off of. During the summer the park is open for tours and mountain biking and in winter it is a major training camp for international athletes. If you have longer in town, you can visit the zoo, play golf on numerous courses, fly fish on the bow river, go horse riding, take a trip to Drumheller, famous for dinosaurs, or if you are in town in July, take in the world famous Calgary Stampede... Read review

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Advantages: Very nice and clean city
Disadvantages: -

...and restaurants. Everywhere in Downtown you can see signs with the +15 WALKWAY, this are some buildings which are connected by courses and one can wal kilometres without getting wet when it rains or snows. The only disadvantage is that you must know all the ways, because otherwise you end in a dead end;) Beside business and offices there are here also some Cafés and restaurants. In the North of Calgary you can find the EAU CLAIRE MARKET, a beautiful house with restaurants, IMAX cinema, small shops and a Hard Rock Café. Not far away from here is an island in the Bow River of the PRINCE'S ICELAND PARK. There was much snow and the river was frozen and covered from snow; the sun was shining and it was so beautiful! We sat down on a bank and had a beautiful view of the skyline! It was really fantastic with the frozen river and the skyline... I didn... Read review

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Advantages: ----
Disadvantages: So much!!

...nice! You can get tickets in hotels or directly in the bus! PARKING ~~~~~ There is multi-storey car park at the opposite of the terminal, one for long and one for short time. We paid 3,5oCAN$ in the short time parking, whereby the first half hour was free. The other multi-storey car park costs a dollar per hour. Likewise there is a lot of free parking. For unloading or loading you can shortly park just in front of the terminal. Here a man walks around and sees to it that the people quickly move on so that there’s no chaos as I know it from other airports You can’t pay at the automat as I was used to. Before the exit there are several switches, where one can also pay by credit card. ARRIVAL ~~~~~~ In the afternoon we arrived in Calgary. First we went a long course along, which was quite dark. The walls mostly consisted... Read review

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