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| - This is a beautiful hotel with very nice rooms but be prepared to pay for them - and everything else you might want while staying.
Unless you are able to get one of their "valet parking" deals, you are looking at $30-40 per night for valet parking - $30 Fri/Sat and $40 Sun-Thurs . That is beyond ridiculous and I don't know how they are getting away with it. The hotel offers NO alternative parking. They know that parking is impossible downtown and they take advantage of their guests by charging insane rates for valet. I don't want valet - I would happily park in a normal parking lot, which every other downtown Calgary hotel I've stayed at has offered (either for free for for MUCH cheaper, i.e. $10 a night or less).
Want Wifi? Add on another charge. And don't expect any kind of "complimentary" offerings from them.
We DID have a nicely wrapped box of cookies in our room that seemed like it might be complimentary; however, we didn't risk touching them as there was nothing anywhere stating clearly that they were complimentary. There was a nice array of food ($9 mini-bottle of vodka or $4 ramen noodles, etc.). Our room also had a nice card welcoming someone by the name of Mr. Van Der-something. (Not us.)
Overall - yes, the rooms are nice. Clean, comfortable bed, quite roomy. If you are happy to overpay for that, then this is a great hotel.
If you're looking for a suite hotel that is just as nice (or nicer, actually) go for the International Hotel in downtown Calgary. The suites are much larger, accommodations are just as nice, rates are cheaper (especially parking!), you get a balcony, and last year when I stayed we got upgraded and had a complimentary bottle of wine waiting for us.
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