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Pacific Northwest Hotel Guide: Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise's Lake View

Where: 111 Lake Louise Drive, Lake Louise, AB, Canada, T0L 1E0

HotelChatter contributing editor Tim Leffel wraps up his jaunt around British Columbia and Alberta in Canada, seeing the hotel scene from a family travel perspective. All prices are in Canadian dollars--which currently trade slightly higher than U.S. dollars. Enjoy.

Like the Moraine Lake Lodge ten minutes away, the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise has one of Canada's most spectacular settings all to itself. In this case it's Lake Louise, a stunning blue glacier lake surrounded by dramatic peaks topped by ice that's been there since the Wooly Mammoth days.

But while Moraine Lake Lodge is an intimate experience, this hotel is built to serve the throngs of visitors it knows it will receive all summer. When we were there six of the seven sit-down restaurants were all booked up during prime dinner hours.

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Cubicle Dreamin': Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise in Banff National Park

Where: 111 Lake Louise Drive, Lake Louise, AB, Canada, T0L1E0

Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? Send the story our way.

In this episode, Hotel Maven BarbaraB heads to Canada. Enjoy.

When people used to tell me they were going to the Canadian Rockies, I was all yawns. Something snapped recently when I set eyes on a photograph of the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada. The lake is an incongruous turquoise. In the background looms Victoria Glacier; surrounding the lake are those mountains, endless mountains. In the foreground, sits the hotel, a charmingly asymmetrical chateau-style structure.

I'd reserve a Deluxe Lakeview Room with two queen beds. I'd need two, because for this one, I'd definitely bring my son. The Boy, who's ten, is just wild for wildlife. The hotel is set in Banf National Park, in an area that also happens to be a United Nations World Heritage site. There's not much else to do in the surrounding environs but partake in the Great Outdoors.

Details on achieving a Canadian Rocky Mountain high after the jump.

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