travel42 Hotel Review: Fairmont Banff Springs

Fairmont Banff Springs travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Few properties can match this hotel's majestic perch and history of hospitality. As part of the original Canadian Pacific series of hotels along the railway, this grand dame presides over the mountainside like an ocean liner on the high seas.

It is set on beautifully landscaped grounds overlooking the Bow River Valley. Sitting at 3,800 feet above sea level, the grand "Castle in the Rockies" dates from 1888 but has been kept up through continual expansion ...