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Pacific Northwest Hotel Guide :: Killer View at the Fairmont Banff Springs

Where: 405 Spray Ave., Banff, AB, Canada, T1L 1J4

HotelChatter contributing editor Tim Leffel is moving 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.

We have highlighted the Fairmont Banff Springs before as a hotel with a killer view, but our other correspondent was there on a misty mountain day. Here's what the views are like when it's clear and sunny.  

It's enough to wow even the most jaded traveler when the curtains open up in the morning and the snow-capped peaks of the Canadian Rocky Mountains are spread out in all their glory. It doesn't stop there however.

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Good Rate :: A Castle for a Song at The Fairmont Banff Springs

Where: 405 Spray Ave., Banff, AB, Canada, T1L 1J4

[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same city and decide which is better worth your hard-earned benjamins. The rate here was valid on October 17, 2006 and is subject to change.]

If you have the flexibility to hit a place during "shoulder season," you can often get luxury for less. Witness this chance to get a $106 room at the spectacular Fairmont Banff Springs in Alberta, Canada. It's a special running through Expedia, for two-night mid-week stays from October 29 through November 27. If you want to stay more nights, it's $126 per night.

You'll have to bump it up to $158 a night to rise above the standard room level, but that's still an attractive deal for a place that commonly gets described with phrases like "heavenly service," "amazing views," and "first class all the way." Whichever room class you choose, it's less than half the usual rates.

Of course the room charge is just the first of many. You'll shell out plenty for parking and one guest notes that "not-so-high-speed internet access is $14/day." But hey, at these prices, you'll have plenty left over for incidentals -- including some indulgence in the 38,000 square-foot spa.

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· Fairmont Banff reviews [TripAdvisor]