Glacier View Lodge

This is the only hotel for miles around and the closest to the Athabasca Glacier. You can do day tours without staying at the lodge that runs the tours and has places to eat, BUT the benefit is when all the tourists leave and you can have the area all to yourself. We didnt want dinner that night so we made sandwiches in our room. But you can make reservations for a fancy dinner if you chose to. We had lunch in the cafeteria style place and breakfast in the sit down restaurant and had a great lunch buffet after we went on the glacier. We elected to stay 2 nights as we just wanted to chill and sit and look at this view. With our stay we got a tour of the glass sky walk when all the day tourists had left as well as we got to be first out onto the glacier so well worth it. I will do a separate video about the tours . this was just for the room tour. The only downside to this hotel is there is NO heat in the rooms. We were quite cold and I went to the front desk and they thankfully had a few heater to give out and we got one. I heard someone after us ask about it but they didnt have any more heaters. The lobby has a complimentary coffee maker and water and teas that hit the spot.