HotelChatter - Tag: Canada Hotels

Jasper: A Hotel Pool You Can Swim In When It's Below Zero

MsRebecca — 2012-02-06T09:30:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/30451/FairmontJasperPool.JPG" class="top">Many parts of the U.S. are having mild winters but that doesn't mean it's hotel pool weather everywhere. Up in the snowy mountains of Alberta, Canada, you can swim all winter long--even if it's minus 40 outside. We were skeptical when we first spotted this outdoor pool at <a href='http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel/local/3161'>The Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge</a> last week. It is heated, of course, but look at those mountains! And the snow surrounding the pool edge! Lucky for us, it wasn't minus 40 as it has been recently in Jasper, but the temp was still hovering in the mid-30s. Of course, curiosity got the better of us and we dragged ourselves out of our snow boots and parka and into

Victoria: For A Little While Longer, You Can Name Your Price At The Hotel Grand Pacific

ASchechter — 2011-10-31T09:00:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/VictoriaPWYW.jpg" class="top">It isn't often that a hotel lets you have a say in the price of your stay. But that's exactly what Victoria BC's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Grand+Pacific/local/2310">Hotel Grand Pacific</a> is offering for the next two weeks. Running through next Friday November 11, prospective guests can visit the <a href="http://paywhatyouwantvictoria.com/">PayWhatYouWantVictoria</a> site, answer some survey questions, and enter a price that they feel best reflects the "worth" of a one-night stay at the waterfront hotel. When we first heard about this, we immediately thought of when Radiohead released In Rainbows in 2007, becoming the <a href="http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1666973,00.html">first band</a> to ever release a digital album without an actual pricecustomers chose how much they wanted to pay, and that was that. By doing so, the

West Montreal: Get Comfortable While You Enjoy New Art At Le Centre Sheraton Montreal

ASchechter — 2011-10-12T09:06:13-05:00

Le Centre Sheraton Montreal has acquired the rights to 40 archival photographs from the city's nearby McCord Museum, and the photos are to be displayed exclusively in the hotel's meeting rooms. A recent $40 million renovation enabled the artsy purchase, as well as the addition of some swanky new banquet chairs.

Designed with fidgety, conference-bound business travelers in mind, these aerodynamically-configured chairs provide laptop storage space underneath the seat and a hook on the back of the chair (for backpacks, umbrellas, fruit cornucopias). In short, the hotel is doing away with beds completely, and now asking frazzled business travelers to get cozy in their banquet chairs for the duration of their stay.

Halifax: A Hotel With Its Own Train Station: The Westin Nova Scotian

JetSetCD — 2010-08-25T16:28:07-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/HalifaxWestin.jpg" class="top"> See that classy red brick building in the center of the photo above? That's nothing other than the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Westin+Nova+Scotian/ian/116622">Westin Nova Scotian</a>, well the back of it at least. This view is from the port, as we spent our brief tim in Halifax onboard a ship theremore on that tomorrowand yet we want to talk about the Westin and trains. If you arrive to Halifax by train, by VIA Rail Canada to be more specific, then you'll be pulling into a station right next to the Westin Nova Scotian. You can even see it in this picture; it's the lower, lighter red brick building between Pier 21 and the large hotel. Although the Westin Nova Scotian isn't

Montreal: Size Matters: Smaller is More Intimate at Le Petit Hotel in Montreal

AnneLise — 2010-06-09T09:56:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/lepetithotel500.jpg" class="top"> Montreals buzziest new hotels have two things in common: Resurrected antique architecture and chill lounges. <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/LE+PETIT+HOTEL+MONTREAL/local/1770">le petit hôtel</a> is lexample parfait. The 24-room boutique hotel lives in a lovely 19th-century building in Vieux-Montreal. Ease into the evening with a glass of Quebecois ice wine at the low-lit lounge and, as the hotel folks put it, "mingle, munch, and unwind." As for the design? Also parfait. Weve researched lots of boutique hotels, and some can seem forced in their boutiquey-ness too cute, and conventionally unconventional. Here, though, we love the mischievous and inviting interior. Tang-orange color accents play against old stone throughout the hotel. A monochrome suite with a grey-slate wall is offset

HotelChatter - Tag: Canada Hotels

Jasper: A Hotel Pool You Can Swim In When It's Below Zero

Victoria: For A Little While Longer, You Can Name Your Price At The Hotel Grand Pacific

West Montreal: Get Comfortable While You Enjoy New Art At Le Centre Sheraton Montreal

Halifax: A Hotel With Its Own Train Station: The Westin Nova Scotian

Montreal: Size Matters: Smaller is&#133; More Intimate at Le Petit Hotel in Montreal

Montreal: Size Matters: Smaller is More Intimate at Le Petit Hotel in Montreal