The travel blog for couples - Written by Melanie Waldman
Continued from Post Hotel
Just up the road from the Post Hotel is one of the star attractions of Banff National Park, Lake Louise.
A natural wonder, the lake (though half-frozen when we visited) is ice blue, a result of mineral run-off from the massive, protective mountains around it. A UNESCO World Heritage Site that’s reached by a short path from a public parking lot, it nonetheless feels like the corporate property of the iconic Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise. [Read more...]
Continued from Arriving in Banff National Park
In Banff National Park, we were especially excited about our digs, the elegant, red-roofed Post Hotel in Lake Louise.
On this May 2008 trip, we went against our usual grain and stayed four-star all the way; that year, the Post had been reviewed by Travel & Leisure Magazine as the #1 hotel in Canada.
Can’t tell you if it’s the best in the whole country…but it was pretty darn wonderful.
In an attempt to sideswipe the astronomical prices of Europe in early 2008, Adam and I headed to Western Canada – or as we like to call it, “America’s Hat” — for 8 days in late May.
In a conservative twist for us, we planned to go only to incremental parts of the country rather than try to tackle huge amounts of terrain in a short time. I thought it might be good to leave ourselves open to at least the concept of a nap.
