Hotel The Fairmont Banff Springs^{(5 stars)}

Quiet, great beds but riesenmöbel in the too small room. Bathroom was nice but also closely with stylistic bonds in the 30's. More storage space would be desirable. For sleeping ok. But to stay nothing on duration.

Under all sow! But totally overpriced No matter where you had the feeling, the staff, the not so well know, what it actually speisenmäßig does, served guests, the not so well know, what you should expect, but all are happy! Example: Large oneself with the morning buffet (also the price) and then the three kinds of meat- and wurstwarenaufschnitt with stale by superimposing (so-called kühlschrankgeschmack ), although calgary about 50 kilometer nearby -so no hardship. Pastry through the bank so, as with us badly ausgebackens one to two days old pastry - crumbly, dry and soft. Cans in gastrogebindegrößen on the counter the spending of warm dishes. Resulting in italian restaurant got my wife the salatstandard caesar's salad so mushy and sunken, as if the schichbeginn with dressing angestzt and we then at 21,00 o'clock food. The dishes made somehow the impression from fantasieprodukten, like someone italian cuisine to hear-say vostellt. Altogether terrible (and this is also in Canada better) On the other hand one must also say, that culinary excursions - except a breakfast- in banff, norquay and sunshine village at totalausfällen on the almost foodsektor directed. Significant will be, that we after our two-week skiing safari the best food at cheapest rates flughafentermianl in calgary got!

Actually as everywhere in upscale, canadian houses flawlessly and immaculately and extremely accommodating. Brilliant but is the in-house ski cellar: private staff return a ski and shoes from, the shoes of course heated storage etc. The equipment not into the sleep is sung, everything is. Phenomenal and so never experienced.

As mentioned: Art deco the thirties but with hot source and hence great outdoor pool. Only: must as the paint in the outdoor pool was chipped or rosteflecken on the ceiling? Sauna there's but only for solid extra charge in the spa, nice prude in clothes and fine sexually separately. We saved then, since, as we in the bird resieverlauf experienced, the canadians indicated wllnessbegriff after european standard neither to-nor kundenseite know nothing start.

The box is ambivalent: Naturally as großese eisenbahnhotel the pacific in the late twenties as luxury hotel of the finest quality after nordamreikanischen taste built, it is virtually a time capsule. Massive halls (for example a 50 times 20 times 10 meters lobby in bahnhofshallenformat!?!) , difficult and, of course, with all kinds of architectural applications to the damailgen eisenbauten of trains, as riveted steel beams etc. Make the building definitely worth seeing and erlebeneswert. On the other side is the box thus naturally colossal heavy and dark. Partly with the vaguest of furniture inexplicable function equipped, with many, massive halls in turnhallenformat and even a - in Nordamerika already doubly strange appeared knight's hall bombastic scale, one expects, that either clark gable in the art-deco -well-behaved indoor swimming pool around the corner comes, Jack nicholson with the axe by the endless courses and flurfluchten shinigmäßig floats or even the bad Heinrich with his henchmen from the ' rittersaal'herausstürmt. Therefore also the somewhat provocative title, since a swiss, i later met, regardless of this association had. Overall the hotel is certainly not (more) up-to-date on the latest, european standards but again, a very special place. Altogether includes some shops, a private ice-skating rink before great mountains, some restaurants and a series of buildings around with a small grocery store, liquorstore included private eislaufsee and german 'waldwirtshaus' and bar in the private park. A huge complex, on all kinds of maze connected with one another is, and so especially cozy in the winter also indoor they were extensively repaired explore leaves. But The extra charge policy of house is evil: cdn 15:00 per day for wireless internet access, cdn 30. - per day for a car on the hotel-own parking or over cdn 200-for a round of golf, as we have heard, are not up-to-date anymore and merely as a greedy be designated. Altogether is the building overpriced. Clearly less would be appropriate for the quality of the offer.

Banff is easily on foot in about 2 kilometer on bürgesteig reachable. The banff springs, a private ministadteil dar with a small square and statue of the founder in a small valley. At the back it is surrounded by a beautiful backdrop with a view of a unverbautes river valley. Really nice. The winter sports region norquay and sunshine village by the hotel shuttle bus driven to and are quickly reachable. Even the circa 60 kilometer away, lake Louise is bedinet. Beautiful selection for alpinsportler.