Recent reviews Calgary
[magdadh, 26/11/2010] We spent a happy afternoon touring the Glenbow Museum after our visit to nearby Calgary Tower. It is a good regional museum, with an excellent collection and enough variety to maintain interest even of those who are not big museum buffs.
The Mavericks exhibition is really good. The introductory video is very gushy-American in style (but then Alberta seems to be the most American of Canadian provinces, more American even than Toronto area despite not having that grating accent), but the displays are fascinating and imaginatively presented, with pictures, maps, 3-D tableaux and audio. My favou
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[magdadh, 25/11/2010] We spend a whole morning walking the paths in the Calgary Zoo and the time we had (about three and half hours) was not enough to see everything at out leisure (and we didn't see the furthest-away animals anyway). In a way, Calgary Zoo is one of those too-large zoos which charge you arm-and-leg for the entrance and leave exhausted without actually even seeing everything but you can't come back because it's simply too expensive. But one shouldn't complain about there being too much on offer, really.
By far the best section of the zoo is the (fairly new) Destination Africa. Largely under the r
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[magdadh, 24/11/2010] The views from the observation deck are very good. The city spreads out below the tower in its wide sprawl (Calgary takes up the area of New York while having less than a tenth of New York's population), the Bow river can be traced in its course, and on a fine day you will be able to see all the way to the mountains. This is the Holy Grail of this part of Canada, and our first glimpse of the snowy, craggy, out-of-this-world tops of the Rockies, raising tantalisingly in a long line at the very horizon west of us.
Apart from the views towards the Rockies, the biggest attraction of the Calgary T
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[thomas1234, 21/08/2009] Great Hotel, Great Staff and Excellant Breakfast
[jo145, 13/08/2008] Close to airport and downtown Calgary, this is a suite hotel and charged as room only, so you can eat in the restaurant or go out for meals as you please. An indoor pool and gym is available or relax in the 4th Avenue Lounge. Comfortable, clean and good value. The 4th Avenue cafe has an Asian twist to the menu, but a large selection of dishes to choose from and reasonably priced. Starbucks coffee is served.
