I stayed a week to ski and board. While chatting with Pascal the owner, I learnt that he is an experienced backcountry skier. He brought me out for a backcountry ski daytrip which was an incredible experience and i had an absolutely fantastic time! Thank you!

The bnb is clean, organized and comfortable. As a single traveller whose agenda is to be outdoors, the room 3 that I got is nicely adequate and fits my budget.

Plus the location is very convenient, only a few steps to get to the ski bus, and 2 blocks to banff ave downtown.

Overall the blue mountain bnb is good value for money, serves a good healthy breakfast, owner is friendly and chats most readily, location is great. If you are an outdoor enthusiast and will like great tips, this will certainly be the place to go to.

Highly recommended. Thank you Pascal for a most pleasant week's stay.

We recently returned from a trip to Banff, Lake Louise and Jasper. I had made reservations at three different types of accomodations, the first being the Blue Mountain Lodge. I talked to the Proprietor (?) on the phone and my notes indicate that we had a first floor bedroom for my 89y.o mother- I said she could go up a few from the street. First disappointment was that her room was on the second floor up a steep flight of stairs! Ours was in the 3rd floor attic- up another flight of even steepr steps! At the point of check-in there was not much to do about it.
Anyway, her room was simple but sufficient. Ours was SO unique, with beds under the eaves and taxidermy accents. Not quite what I had expected from the pictures online. Now, we are in our 60s and climbing over each other in and out of bed is a little uncomfortable- so we used the 2 beds. I kept hitting my elbows on the ceiling, however. Other than that, my mattress was comfortable- my husband wasn't as happy with his. The location of the lodge is great- within a short walk of downtown and the walking path on the river. There was no large gathering room to sit around as other B & B's I've been in- a small table in the entrance parlor was there, but not too comfortable for even the 3 of us. There was an outdoor table near the back parking lot and we did sit out there and enjoy wine and cheese, but not too attractive. The small, fenced front yard looked as if it would be the perfect place for a picnic table or two, but it was rather unkempt. Breakfast was a continental style with coffee, cereal, yoghurt in the small dining room (which was not open to guests during the day.) I saw many younger persons as well as retirees. Most looked ready to hike and enjoy the lovely outdoors in the area, as we were. I had hoped that my husband and I could leave my mom with a book and do something a little more strenuous, but there was really no place for her to sit around in comfort. In fairness, I did NOT want a motel style accomodation, and this certainly fit the bill! Had I not had my mom, I wouldn't have mattered so much. She was a good sport and added another experience to her bucket list! There were many guesthomes/b & bs around in the area. This was not barebones pricing, so I am not sure I feel it is a good value for the money. But Banff is expensive for sure.

Stayed with our 3 kids and felt welcomed in this wonderful home. Kids loved it too! Will definitely choose again on return trips!

As noted by others, this B&B is over 100 years old. I enjoy old places that have been nicely upgraded, but this one has not. The only good thing that I can say about it is that it was clean and reasonably quiet.

There is practically no common area OTHER THAN a common kitchen where some guests prepare their own complete meals. There is a common refrigerator, and if you want some ice, you had better bring your own ice tray and freeze it yourself. There may be some ice available from the main kitchen, but it and the dining area are normally closed to guests, and a manager is often not present.

Our room was dubbed the "RCMP Room" because it contains a few pictures on the wall of guys dressed in red uniforms (one being "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon" who was a U.S. movie actor) and a few other cheap antiques supposedly related to the RCMP. The room was tiny, with a bare fake-wood floor and crude, white painted carpentry. It was clean and had a small, old TV. The bathroom had a shower stall that was anly about 6 feet high and would have been barely usable by anyone taller than that. The queen bed had clean sheets, but a saggy mattress and could only be entered from one side because the room was so small. It is necessary to keep the windows open for ventilation, and traffic noise can be a problem because it is on the corner of two streets that are close to the downtown tourist area. At least that is a short walk away.

Breakfast consisted of a serve-yourself buffet with plastic utensils, the only particularly good, fresh feature of which was some fresh, warmed croissants. The coffee was OK.

An annoying and silly house rule was to remove shoes before going to the rooms upstairs. That would be reasonable in winter when shoes would have dirty snow on them, but I have never stayed in an inn that expects guests to remove their shoes under normal conditions -- especially when the rooms are not even carpeted. (The stairs had worn, nondescript carpeting that would require vacuum cleaning, as would routinely be provided in any inn.)

Banff is a very high priced tourist town (trap) and this place is less expensive than most, but I would only recommend it to people who absolutely want to spend time in Banff as cheaply as possible (short of camping).