Banff Ptarmigan Inn

Pros: Great location - walk into town. Nice breakfast buffet. Employees friendly and helpful.

Cons: The walls must be a little thin as the rooms tend to be on the noisy side. Not a huge deal as we would stay again.

Great location, but room with no windows?

Pros: The Ptarmigan Inn is located right in Downtown Banff within a block of the "Downtown strip" and has great underground parking so you don't have to really venture outside into any bad weather.

Cons: What I was not impressed with and that was not on the travel web site when I selected my room is that a large number of their rooms have no external window and only look-out onto one of two interior courtyards. This can be ok if you are not on the main floor, but the room I received was a main-floor room and we could not keep our blinds open because of the constant stream of people walking by a few feet from our window. Another annoyance is that our room did not have ANY heating controls and was very warm. This must be a known issue with this room as the hotel also equipped it with a desk fan. This is NOT the kind of room I would expect from a hotel billing itself as a 3 or 4 star accommodation and charging $300+ for the night.

Cons: construction but it wasn't too bad