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Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise
Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada

Lake Louise is considered to be one of the most beautiful places in the world and Fairmont's Chateau Lake Louise is the crown jewel sitting on the banks of Lake Louise a glacier lake high in the Rocky Mountains. The hotel is an older hotel that is kept in impeccable shape and constantly remodelled to keep up with the times. Our room was small, and our bathroom wasn't big enough for two people to stand in at the same time without getting claustrophobic but the view, looking straight out onto the lake and glacier more than made up for it. I probaby would have given up my first born if I could have had a jacuzzi tub with that view, but you can't have everything!

One of the hardest parts of staying at hotels for my husband and I are pillows, they are usually terrible and not enough of them. The Chateau, being a higher end hotel gave us plenty of super comfy pillows and I slept like a baby. I would awake around the crack of dawn and just watch the sun come up as I worked on my laptop and marvel at exactly how lucky I was to be in this spot at this exact moment. After a leisure hour or two on the computer I would get ready for a day of exploring and hiking. The shower head in the bathroom was a saving grace and the water pressure was more than adequate.

If you have the time, energy and strength we highly recommend climbing up to the Tea House up higher on the mountain. It is a long uphill journey but it is an accomplishment you will be proud of forever and know you are one of the few that visit Lake Louise yearly that make the journey. Keep in mind that depending on your level of fitness it may take 3 hours to get up the mountain and there are not many spots to take a pee break even in the bushes so when you finally make it to the tea house, make sure to use the out houses provided there.

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I think one of the reasons I became so interested in bathrooms in hotels and resorts is because of my need to use them so often. There is nothing worse than having to go to the bathroom badly and hotel staff giving you directions to a bathroom that appears to be several miles away. The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise impressed me with the shear number of bathrooms they had in the guest areas of the hotels. It seemed every turn you made there were bathrooms of various sizes tucked away. Even better was the fact that each one had its own personality, were almost always empty, smelled very pleasant and were spotless. This particular bathroom in the hotel was well lit, had an inviting feel and surpassed my standards.

Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise
It is the little touches a hotel adds to a bathroom that make all the difference. In this particular bathroom at Fairmonts Chateau Lake Louise a table with fresh flowers and a lamp added a touch of home feeling and made you want to just sit and stay a while. This served no function to the bathroom except to give you the feeling of elegance and invited you to just take a moment to relax, unwind, slow your pace down just for a moment before rushing off to your next adventure. The Chateau won my heart, and will be on my places to vist forever

Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise
As you can probably tell by now, I am a fan of large, heavy wooden doors in hotels. They are usually found in the older hotels when the quality of workmanship was often superior and hotels spared no expense on anything, including the bathrooms which were often used as sitting rooms by the ladies of the day. These beautiful dark wood doors did not have a scratch on them and they gleamed as if they were freshly polished. We took many more pictures of The Chateau's bathrooms but alas our laptop died taking with it all the pictures we had uploaded to it, so we only managed to save a few pictures that were still on our camera. On our next visit to Lake Louise we will take a lot more!
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