The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise
I was lucky to have a chances to stay in the Beautiful Chateau Lake Louise.
The Room:
We got room 447 a room on the 4th floor with a great view over the frozen Lake Louise.
Let me start with our room. The Fiarmont Chateau Lake Louise is an upper class hotel (believe it has 5 stars) so you expect something from you room.
Our room was nice and roomy it had with 1 bed a table / desk with a wired Internet connection and a nice bathroom.
The room also had it’s own save that you could program with your own code and one that was big enough to put your important belonging in (big enough to hold my laptop).
The Bathroom was not very big but big enough. It had a Bathtub, toilet and sink.
Our TV had a lot of options that i quickly looked at. It even came with a wireless keyboard so that if you wanted could use it to Internet (at an extra charge).
The room had a connection for my laptop and of course i wanted to use that 
Normally this service cost almost 14 dollars a day but if you decide to join the “presidents club” then you can use it for Free. And the membership to the presidents club is free so why not join 
The room was well kept but the duster could be used a little bit more often, specially the bathroom had a lot of dust on all it’s chrome parts.
Cleaning was done daily and they did a good job. but after a couple of days i wondered if we would ever find a chocolate or mint on our pillow (it never happened)
The Hotel:
The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise has a big name and I have to say that it was nice to stay in a hotel where things are organised this well. The personnel is extremely correct and friendly. The hotel has a lot of services of witch i will list some now:
- Valet parking
- Free shuttle bus to the ski hills
- lots of shops
- lots of restaurants (of witch some open 24 hours a day)
- Indoor Swimming Pool
- Whirlpool
- Steam room (closed for maintenance when I was here)
- Spa
- Out door activities and excursions
I will not go to detail of all these services (and i probably for got a few ) But there are some that i would like to go in to a little bit deeper.
Let me start with the Pool. The indoor pool is nice but not to big, this is OK on week days but on saturday it was almost impossible to fit in the Pool. The same point is made for the Whirlpool, it was a nice one but it was basically just hotter water.
I was staying in Chateau Lake Louise with my wife who was here for a conference so i had a lot of time on my own. The Hotel has some nice shops to look at you can find things like a Photography store (with print service) a hairdresser, bookstore, jewelry store, clothes store and more so that makes it nice to just stroll around and enjoy the hotel.
Or course the outdoors is there to. The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise is situated on the shoor of Lake Louise. The lake is frozen between November and June and I our case it meant frozen enough to walk on it. So one day i got my snowshoes and of i was I crossed the lake to the other side and saw people ice climbing on a frozen water fall. There where lots of people cross country skiing on the lake. Often you can also ice skate on the lake but the ice rink was closed when we stayed there.
On the other side of the little village of Lake Louise there is a ski area and the hotel offers a free shuttle service to the slopes. They also can keep your ski equipment in storage and even have equipment to rent. So if you like to ski then this is an extremely nice place to stay.
Lake Louise is just a tinny village with not really anything happening but they have the necessary stores and a helpful tourist information. And don’t forget Lake Louise is situated in the Banff National Park and is only 74 km from the village of Banff so ideal for a day trip.
Let me close this story with my conclusion:
The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise is an extremely nice hotel to stay at. The atmosphere of the hotel the surrounding are just impressive and i would say even if you are not able to stay in the hotel just go look at it one day when you are in the area.
I hope that we will find a new changes to visit this hotel, maybe next time when the lake is not frozen and then hike up to one of the six glaciers above the lake.
Written by George on March 30th, 2007 with
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