Banff Day Trip from Calgary by Private Car: Itinerary Can you really do Banff in a day from Calgary? Yes, and plenty of people do. You will not see everything, and you should not try to. What works is picking three or four things you care about, leaving early and letting someone else handle the […]
Calgary to Jasper: Drive Time, Route & Stops On a map, Calgary to Jasper looks like a long but doable drive. In practice the answer to “how long does it take” has two versions. The no-stops version is about five and a half to six hours. The version where you stop at every lake, waterfall […]
Emerald Lake & Yoho National Park by Private Car Most visitors to the Rockies pick Banff and Lake Louise and stop there. A short drive further west, across the Alberta–British Columbia border, is Yoho National Park, which is quieter, a bit wilder and every bit as pretty. Emerald Lake is the main draw. Here is […]
Larch Season in the Rockies: Private Day Trips from Calgary Most conifers stay green all year. Subalpine larch does not. For a short stretch each autumn its needles turn gold before dropping, and high mountain slopes in the Rockies glow like someone left a lamp on. It is one of the best-kept secrets of the […]
Calgary to Banff in Winter: What to Expect on Highway 1 Most winter trips from Calgary to Banff are uneventful. The road is wide, it gets plowed early, and a lot of people do it in a regular sedan without a hitch. But “most” is carrying a lot of weight in that sentence, and the […]
Calgary New Year's Eve Limo & Safe Ride Guide Every year somebody in Calgary spends the first hour of the new year standing on a cold curb, watching the app tell them a car is eleven minutes away, then fourteen, then not available. If you take one thing from this guide, make it this: sort […]
Holiday Party Limo in Calgary: Book Early Guide Ask anyone who has organised a company Christmas party and they will tell you the same thing: the venue is the easy bit. The hard bit is getting forty people to it and back without somebody driving after one drink too many. In Calgary, December adds snow, […]
YYC Airport: Limo vs Uber vs Taxi vs Shuttle You have just landed at Calgary International. It is late, your bags are heavy, and you have four options: a taxi, a rideshare, a shared shuttle, or a driver holding a sign. They all end up at your hotel. What differs is the price you pay, […]
Calgary to Canmore: Private Car vs Shuttle vs Rental Canmore sits about an hour west of Calgary, right where the foothills run out and the real mountains begin. It is the town people choose when Banff is full or too pricey, and a lot of visitors end up here without much thought given to how […]
YYC Meet & Greet for Executives: Corporate Pickup Checklist The executive lands at 4:45 p.m., has a dinner at 6:30, and an assistant who has been told the car will be waiting. Whether that actually goes well comes down to a handful of details that nobody wrote down. This checklist is for the person doing […]