Budget
Centro Motel Calgary
4540 16th avenue nw, +1 403 288-6658, fax: +1 403 288-6657, (http://www.centromotel.com). boutique motel with rooms that have free wifi, free phone calls, free parking, and free breakfast. 32 rooms all with a modern, stylish design.
Wicked Hostels - Calgary
Wicked Hostels is Calgary's newest hostel and only independently-owned boutique backpacker accomodation. This 63 bed backpacker/international youth hostel provides a plethora of free amenities such as free breakfast, free internet, free wifi, free long-distance calling, free parking, it even offers golf clubs and bikes you can hire for free. Rooms are quite small and crowded and a party atmosphere is prevalent on weekends. Located across from the Calgary Stampede grounds and the Victoria Park/Stampede station. It is also in on the corner of the 17th Ave entertainment avenue.
SAIT Polytechnic
On the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology SAIT campus in southwestern Calgary address is for the administrative office, not the residences.
University of Calgary Guest Accommodation
On the U of C campus in northwestern Calgary address is for the administrative office, not the residences. Offers 17 hotel rooms year round, and hundreds of apartments and student dorm rooms from early May to late August. Access to on-campus services like laundry, parking, cafeterias. See if you can book by sending a credit card number through email or phone, and skip the somewhat awkward form which they want you to print out, fill in, and fax back.
Mount Royal College
Fully furnished one-, two- and four-bedroom apartment and townhouse units on the Mount Royal campus in southwestern Calgary address is for the administrative office, not the residences. Each room has local phone service, voice mail, and Internet access via Ethernet cable.
Midrange
Hampton Inn & Suites Calgary-University
(http://www.hamptoncalgary.com/), 2231 banff trail nw, +1 403 289-9800, fax: +1 403 289-9560, [email protected]. how to get there: from vancouver: go east on the trans-canada highway highway 1 stay on it when you get to calgary then turn left northwest on banff trail and it will be the 2nd or 3rd building on the left.
Hampton Inn & Suites Calgary-Airport
(http://hamptoninn.hilton....), 2420 37th ave, +1 403 250-4667, fax: +1 403 255-5788, [email protected] how to get there: follow the trans-canada highway highway 1 then turn on to barlow trail and head north till you get to 37th avenue then take a left and it will be about the last building on the right.
5 Calgary Downtown Suites
The combination of fairly low rates with a full suite layout including furnished kitchen and living room located right downtown makes this a great deal. Pets welcome, for a fee. Restaurant, bar, spa, and parking in the building. Free wireless internet access. Self-serve laundry in basement available anytime, $4.50/load washed & dried. Toll-free phone +1-888-561-7666.
Best Western Hospitality
Very friendly services in a nice and convenient location near MacLeod Trail, and 10 minutes from the lively Downtown Core. Also very nice suites.
Nuvo Hotel Suites
(http://nuvohotelsuites.com) 827 12th avenue sw, +1 403 452 6789, fax: +1 403 764 0902, modern suites situated in the heart of the beltine, all including furnished kitchen, complimentary wireless internet and phone calls. rates start at $119 per night. weekly and monthly deals available.
Top end
The Fairmont Palliser
The original landmark hotel in downtown Calgary, originally built in 1914 by the Canadian Pacific Railway in the era when luxury was an art. Along with the other former CP hotels The Banff Springs Hotel, The Empress, The Chateau Frontenac, Hotel York, etc., this is one of the grand old dames.
Kensington Riverside Inn
1126 memorial dr nw calgary , ab t2n 3e3 t: 403 228 4442; f: 403.228.9608; (http://www.kensingtonrive...). this is a boutique hotel in kensington, just across the river from downtown. they have an amazing exterior display of "whoville" from "the grinch who stole christmas" during the holidays.
Calgary Marriott Hotel
across from the calgary tower (https://www.marriott.com/...). 110 9th avenue, se, phone: 1-403-266-7331, toll-free: 1-800-896-6878. the calgary marriott hotel features the city's largest rooms, an indoor pool, whirlpool, and outdoor patio areas in a downtown location. rates from $136 /night.