Christmas Party at Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel...

Here's a bunch of pictures from our trip to Banff, Alberta, this past weekend.

This is the front of the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, aka The Castle.

This is what you walk in to after going through the huge revolving doors...

Some great views...

Lee and I at the Christmas party, just after dinner.

It sounds like next year the party will be held at another hotel, so this may have been our last time to stay in this beautiful hotel.  

On a side note, I was wandering through the hotel sometime before the party began to see areas of the hotel I hadn't seen the last time we stayed, and I met a couple from Edmonton celebrating their Anniversary.  The hotel had to bump them from their room and they were placed into the Presidential Suite!  They asked me if I wanted to see it.  I think they were pretty excited about their "bump"...  I know I would have been.  It is where the Queen would have stayed in past visits, as well as celebs.  Very cool, and very cool of them to invite me.  Of course I checked it out.  There were 360 degree views, with this room being at the very top of the hotel. 

:)

Edited to add:  I was asked about pictures of the Presidential Suite.  I didn't take many photos, and the ones I did don't do it justice.  So instead, I found a link to a virtual tour on the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel website.  Just scroll down to the Presidential Suite at the bottom of the page...