So I am going to give you a little background of our
Banff experiences. We honeymooned in
Banff at the
Rimrock, which was honestly the most amazing place ever. It has perfect. He had fuzzy robes and slippers, a gorgeous pool, hot tub and sauna with eucalyptus spray, spa, patio dinning looking at the mountains, divine really. Love that place, and to me that is
Banff. Giorgio's for dinner,
Rimrock , and we got a special " honeymoon breakfast in bed" day of shopping on the strip. AMAZING. right? that's
Banff. Here are some pictures so you get the idea of the elegance this place has. ( I prefer it to the
Banff springs hotel, way nicer staff etc..)



Well when your poor and have kids the above picture is where you go when you go to Banff for your anniversary. Banff Voyager Inn. But there is a few things we learned
DON'T GO TO BANFF ON A BUDGET
DO NOT STAY AT THE BANFF VOYAGER INN NO MATTER HOW CHEAP IT IS!
wanna know why?
the first room we went to we opened the door. all you could smell was mold. not like moldy air need to open a window mold.straight up mold that has been there for 10+ years. so naturally we requested a different room. guess where? the room right beside it
now this room smelt like stale moldy air(probably from the room beside it) mixed with generic Lysol. SICK so because we didn't wanna be "THAT" couple we decided okay well lets open up the balcony door air it out and if its just as bad we will complain again. And the hot tub seemed like a good idea.....
ooo the hot tub. first of all its in the basement, where the floors are gross. second the first thing we see is missing tiles on the floor of the hot tub lovely third black floating pieces of the sealant that is SUPPOSED to be holding the tiles down......yum! so we cancel that idea and head back tot he room to have a warm bath instead. room smells a little better, we close the door head into the bathroom (don't get me started on the bathroom, shampoo and soaps from a different hotel?, not cleaned walls etc...) when we get out of the bathroom (which was some time) we realize Ummm why is it still freezing in our room?
yup you guessed it, our heater was broken in our room, after some phone calls and walks to the front desk they FINALLY believe us and semi fix it, but only at a BARELY warm temp. we ask for space heaters ?what? what are spacer heaters they say?
Needles to say I slept in 3 shirts 2 hoodies 2 pants and 3 socks covered with 3 blankets!
so then we are nestled into bed almost asleep (yes at 9:45....hey we are getting old and have kids...sleep is precious) we hear this HORRID yelling from out side. there is a drunk man in the pool yelling at his kids. grrrrrrreat. we figure we can bare the 15 mins until the pool closes at ten so we hold out and fall into a deep sleep
so now it is the next day at 7am. darn in the habit from my kids getting up that i can't sleep it. darn darn darn! so we head for the "free breakfast" sweet one more thing we don't have to pay for. the breakfast was 20 mins late and this is what is was
expired yogurt, stale bread, stale muffins, stale cereal, milk in containers that i was too scared to try because of the expired yogurt and coffee YAY for free breakfast............that we didn't eat
bottom line pay the extra 50 bucks for a "fancier" place
but I do want to say thank you to my hubby who bought me fudge and chocolate snails that were a ridiculous price so i wasn't upset and went to MY fav restaurant instead of going to his! it was a nice weekend
just not the hotel