3. Oak Bay Beach Hotel
Victoria’s Oak Bay Beach Hotel impresses guests with its breathtaking setting, quality customer service and its well-equipped rooms, all of which feature fireplaces, flat-screen TVs and bathrooms with heated tile floors. For dining, you’ll find The Dining Room, which offers breakfast, lunch and dinner in an elegant setting. There’s also The Snug pub and the new FARO restaurant, which serves pizza made from its very own wood stone oven. Also on-site you’ll find the Boathouse Spa, which offer a variety of treatments, and on-site mineral pools, beautifully located right along the sea. For more adventurous endeavors, sign up for a whale-watching excursion or enjoy wine-tasting in popular wineries found in villages like Saanichton and the Cobble Hill district – both of which are located approximately 20 miles north of the hotel.
4. Fairmont Banff Springs
An imposing structure set against a backdrop of Alberta’s picturesque mountains and forests, “Canada’s Castle in the Rockies” has been wowing guests since its opening in 1888. The Fairmont Banff Springs possesses a grand exterior, and recent guests say that this historic hotel’s interior matched their high expectations. Each of the 757 guest rooms and suites offers views of the woods, courtyard or the mountains. The food at this Accor Hotels outpost’s six restaurants and bars also does not disappoint. And guests describe the Willow Stream Spa as gorgeous, though its services lean toward the expensive side. Plus, active visitors can take advantage of the Fairmont’s spectrum of activities, including skiing, hiking and horseback riding. If you enroll in the ALL – Accor Live Limitless program, you can earn and redeem award nights and take advantage of other benefits for choosing to stay here. You’ll find the property located about a mile south of downtown Banff.