Australian Reacts To Canada's Incredible Fairmont Banff Springs!
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- Australian Reacts to Staying In North America’s Famous Mountain Hotel - Fairmont Banff Springs. The perfect hotel for the Top 1%, offering everything you could want and more.
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There are at least 2 reasons for Scottish connection.
One, the original management of the CPR(and Canada overall) were Scottish.
2, Banff was named after a town in Scotland
Staying at Banff Springs is a lovely event and one that I wish more people got to enjoy. I have been fortunate enough to enjoy for pleasure and work. The scenery is breath taking and seems too immense to be real.
The $300 a night he mentioned was for the Chateau Laurier cheep room he stayed in in Ottawa. This guy has a weird outlook, one doesn't stay in a luxury resort hotel with a concern for the cost, you stay in one for the security, services, professionalism, and location. There are cheaper places to stay in Banff though not by a lot.
This is definitely a place for a stay of a lifetime. Unique enough to parallel anything I have enjoyed world wide
I live in Alberta, I have been too both Banff and Jasper many times and I would tell everyone that if you have never been, you should go.
You do remember the welcome as it sets the stage for the rest of the stay even if less than perfect. I will say one of my most memorable stays was also at a Fairmont (MacDonald in Edmonton) a Highland attired door man always addressed and welcomed me by name as he called bell boys and valet to manage my arrival and others folks at the same time but you felt personally welcomed as you stepped out of an unidentifiable rental car (I stayed at no regular interval) This gentleman was magnificent and I don’t know his system but that personal welcome would make the Banff springs perfect if it could happen. Yes they can welcome you at check in but they have cheat sheets not just fantastic memory aid.
More accurately, the Banff Spring Hotel is done in Canadian Chateau Style. It's a mash up of Scottish baronial and French chateau and speaks to the demographic makeup of Canada a century ago (heavily Scottish and French). Many of the other grand railway hotels are also done in Canadian Chateau Style (Royal York, Chateau Frontenac, Chateau Laurier). It's an architectural style only found in Canada.
When I was traveling quite a bit for work, I was staying at Fairmont properties quite often. When we travel for personal reasons, we always consider the Fairmont first. The service, and buildings have always been great. Though, I have had to explain the $700/night expense items a few times.
as a Canadian Banff Springs I found it to be a tourist trap, Jasper hot springs has the same features and cheaper for a 30 mins longer drive.
Come visit!!
Did he mention that the pool is heated by the Banff Hot Spings? So you can go out in early spring and the water is plesantly warm. I never heard him mention that the hotel is connected to a golf course which I am sure is a major draw in the summer. He also briefly talked about the spa but when I visited there 20 years ago it was recognized as one of the best luxury spas in Canada.
I've stayed at the 3 Fairmont hotels in Quebec..great service.
Don’t forget the turquoise blue water of Lake Louise not so far away.
The drive to Banff is gorgeous and you can do it for free.
You don't have to eat at the hotel, with a short 10 minute walk you are in downtown Banff with many bars, nightclubs and restaurants for every kind of budget , everything from McDonald's to steak houses and everything in between . I worked and lived in Banff for 2 years in fact I worked at this vary hotel.
Wait till you see the Château Frontenac in Québec City.....
OJB, you seem to be under the impression that Banff is an isolated town in the middle of nowhere. It is actually on the southern trans Canada Highway and fairly close to Calgary, a city of 1.4 million. The highway to Banff is a freeway until one enters the Banff Park gates. Once through the Park the highway continues through British Columbia...a very busy highway. In the summer Banff is inundated with tourists and in the winter the town is visited by the many skiers that ski the three large ski resorts between Banff and Lake Louise.
I spent a week at the Banff Springs Hotel many years ago and it is even more majestic than this post could depict.
It’s in the building as Banff is a bit if a distance.
That's Fairmont. not Fairmount. I wish it was still CP Hotels and Resorts.
I was looking to see who else noticed the narrator saying it wrong. It was annoying every time he said it wrong too.
THANK YOU - I just posted my own comment to that.
@@beccasmama63 Me too! If only I scrolled down to see that I was not alone!
It's FairMONT, not FairMOUNT. I've never stayed at an iconic Fairmont property but would love to in Vancouver, Victoria, Banff, Quebec City, etc....but those old "Railway Hotels" are amazing. And I just love the Canadian Rockies, especially Banff National Park.
There are a lot of places to stay and you can still go up to the banff springs to eat and look around . look at a video.of banff , its not your ordinary town
I moved out there spring of 1999 for the year. I worked as a waiter at the clubhouse of the golf course. Which is equally incredible as the hotel. The hotel back then was CP Banff springs. The hotel housed us and fed staff each day. You had a meal card. And every day staff could go to the underground staff kitchen area and get three meals a day. Being prepared by other furie chefs. They deducted I believe 150$ a pay for that!!! One of the most beautiful places on earth. Love Banff!
Hiya OBJ. FYI, the Fairmont Banff Springs is not really in the middle of nowhere. It is in the small town of Banff (population just a bit over 8300), but is only 127km from Calgary, a city with a population over 1 million. Just wanted to pass this on to you. Cheers from 🇨🇦.
I attended the Business Management School in Banff which is located above the city and to the left of the Banff Springs. There was no better place to learn economics.
To be fair, Calgary is a wealthy head office city of 1.7 million people and the 2nd most populous metropolitan area in western Canada. Calgary would have all these foods already so the hotel is shipping most of this stuff from 1.5 hours away.
CPR hired Swiss mountaineers & skiers, to introduce those pastimes to N. Americans in Banff.
It is very strange to fault a luxury hotel for price, or because there wasn't enough free stuff. Free stuff is offered by mid to low range accommodations in order to attract guests ... a luxury hotel offering a whole bunch of free stuff would essentially be lowering its status and advertising itself as a marketing scheme only to attract a class of guests sometimes best characterized as cheapskates and complainers. Further, once an establishment becomes all-inclusive the quality of all of the offerings goes downhill, or, true luxury all-inclusives are far, far more expensive than the Banff Springs. If you're going to the Banff Springs, you already know it's going to cost you. That said, there were many things that were included for "free". Essentially, it appeared you could eat for free the whole time, as it seemed you could easily make entire meals just from the buffet/lounge offerings. There should have been a comparison with similar hotels in similar settings around the globe in order to make the cost comparison, so wonder why that wasn't done, instead of just saying there were a lot of other offerings but that they all cost money. I'm not aware of many historic world class accommodations/locations that are still within the limits of the pocketbooks of the general public and that are also all-inclusive.
Has the guy in the video ever eaten in Toronto or Vancouver? $70 for prime Alberta beef is not out of line. Nothing seems out of line. Who goes to a luxury hotel to jget everything for free.
The fellow reviewing the hotel brushed on the maintenance costs but failed to recognise the massive cost of keeping such a unique edifice as impressive as it appeared. It is absolutely impossible to compare the cost at any other hotel in the area to the Fairmont Banff Springs. The quick pictures that were shown, of other less expensive hotels in the area presented ersatz alpine buildings that offered sleeping accommodations and that is about all. In the CDN$300 range, they were certainly over-priced if being compared to the Fairmont Banff Springs. A Rolls Royce and a Kia are both automobiles and provide transportation, but only an idiot would attempt to compare them for cost. The General Entrance Adult Fee to Warwick Castle is £22 - 39. The Self-Guided Adult Entrance Fee to Buckingham Palace is £30 and a guided tour is £95. It is completely up to you which one (or neither) you choose. Such is life. Chimo
Sounds like this guy's biggest pet peeve is that he actually has to pay money for goods and services.
Banff Sunshine is the highest ski resort 2,730 m elevation ... there is a few others
Chateau Lake Louise Too !
Canada has a strong relationship to Scotland. A lot of the early pioneers, explorers and settlers came from Scotland. Most of the English speaking politicians in the early days were Scottish. Scottish surnames are among the most common in Canada, with names like Mclean, McLeod, McKenzie being the stereotypical "Canadian" names. Nova Scotia means "New Scotland."
British Columbia was almost named "New Caledonia" which also means "New Scotland. (Caledonia was the name the Romans gave to Northern Scotland.
Bagpipes are pretty common at special occasions. Some Canadian divisions during World War One also wore quilts into battle. (The Black Watch Highlanders.)
Banff is in Canada.. its CAD.. not USD
Most of the rooms are TINY AND OLD
As a general rule, Canadians and Americans head south in the winter, not north. 23:13
Why would he spend $300 US if he is in Canada. Wouldn't it make more sense that he is paying in Canadian dollars?