• Construction start: 1886
• Construction finish: 1888
• Designed by: Bruce Price
• Type: Hotel

» It is said that a long deceased bellman named Sam is still helping guests with their luggage and giving them other assistance, especially on the ninth floor. When Sam's duties are concluded he vanishes. » It is said that the ghost of a young bride inhabits the castle. According to legend, on her wedding day she was descending a staircase when a gust of wind from an open window moved her train, causing her to trip and fall to her death. » Visitors say they still see a vision of a woman in a white wedding dress descending the staircase, or dancing in the ballroom. » There are also reports of unexplained gusts of wind startling visitors on the staircase. » The owner of this web site was once kicked out of this hotel. It is not surprising since at the time he was on what Australians would call a "walkabout" and hadn't eaten, bathed, or shaved in days and had virtually no money.

There are six comments.

  We recently had a company trip there and there were many stories of strange happenings. TV turning on by itself, alarms going off by itself. Others have felt a presense in a room and when the lights are turned on, the strangeness stopped. Others have woke up in the middel of the night ina frozen state and they cannot move. The scenery was amazing but we will never come back to this hotel again.

Linh - Sunday, July 27th, 2008 @ 6:11pm  

  Me and my girlfriend went up to banff for the weekend we stayed at banff springs when i went to bed i covered my self up good and when i sleep i dont tend to move at all and always covered... in the middle of the night around 5am i woke up the sheets were underneath me perfectly made on my side of the bed freaky A

kevin hamilton - Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 @ 2:00am  

  when i visited the hotel, i had a great day, then.... I went to bed and un-tucked the sheets and wrapped them around my body. I woke up in the morning with the bed sheets perfectly back in shape and the sheets were tucked under the matress, like it was the dat before. Strange stuff.

chanelle - Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 @ 3:39pm  

  Like all the hotels in the former CPR chain there is so much Canadian history that took place in or about its stone walls that I just go there to imbibe its atmosphere. No one can manage to bring all this together easy but I invite anyone to learn about its storied past and query employee Dave Moberg on arrival at that baronial castle in the Rockies.

Lynn Barber - Monday, January 29th, 2007 @ 7:13pm