Hotel Deer Lodge^{(3 stars)}

Our first through Expedia prebooked on the internet room was small and significantly more expensive than the room for the spontaneous second night. During our stay (June) you could have been anywhere still room, we never used a sign "no vacancies" seen. The hotel features both rooms two beds (either two queen-size or a queen sized bed and a king size) with good mattresses. The furniture is a bit well worn but perfectly acceptable. Modern furniture would also be careful not to lodge-character. The bathroom of our first room was small, the second extremely big, but ended up with the same equipment -- except for a convenient small table for the storage of bath amenities. Except for the dryer wasn't miss anything. The hotel has free wireless internet, but only in the salon work.

The highlight of the Deer lodge is without doubt their restaurant. The buffet breakfast is almost the European layout but upscale hotels. Beside the usual heavy American breakfast the Pioniertage there is cereals, cereals, even different hams, Rostbeef, different cheeses, lots of fruit and acceptable bread and pastries. The breakfast was the best on our trip. The restaurant offers various steaks for dinner from the Elk (Wapiti), Caribou (reindeer) and by the specific bovine ALBERTA's, everything very delicious. There are a few good wines (from Canada, USA and Australia or, New Zealand) as well as good Canadian beer in several kinds of. You will enjoy the restaurant nice views of the surrounding mountain Giants.

At the hotel, the staff was friendly, even in the attached restaurant extremely friendly. All in all, you can not complain about the service for this category of hotel. Foreign language skills (except maybe french) you will not expect in Western Canada. You could without any English skills. E. North America only in a group travel.

The hotel also features a sauna, sun deck with jacuzzi. The near Lake invites you to canoeing a, but could be for swimming for most people always be too cold; well, he is the half-year icy! A Gletschersee! Apart from that the region as paradise for hikers -- and Bärengebiet. For anicipation hiking is so no shortage; but most busy paths were from bears avoided. We stayed on our hike to the Plain of the six Glacör Lookout no see a bear -- luckily. But near Icefields Parkway several Schwarzbären and even a Grizzly, about what a rarity is protected by the car or in a supposedly safe away.

The Deer lodge in the second row on the beautiful Lake Louise fits through their North American Lodge style very good in the mountains of the Canadian Rockies. The hotel is small and unobtrusive next to the right on the lake, grand hotel The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise, whose location without a doubt is spectacular. The hotel is clean, especially the bathrooms, although a lot could have been carefully renovated, not been updated, in particular the carpets. The hotel has u. A.. A nice lounge. Here you can get Bed & Breakfast-atmosphere. Breakfast (up to 19 CAN $), lunch and dinner (main course up to 40 CAN $) you can at the very good restaurant and is charged separately.

In few minutes walk you can easily walk to the Lake Louise, the most photographed lake in the Rocky Mountains, The hotel is an ideal starting point for hikes. The crackling open is nothing short of spectacular (14km, 400 meters altitude, 5 -6 hours) for Plain of six Glacier Lockout with a nearby view of the Viktoria glacier. This is done by taking a separate Travel Tip set. In the town Lake Louise itself (approx. 4 km) is a, among other things, a smaller supermarket and more hotels, their location but distinct disadvantage.