Castles fit for an ice queen (travel article)

December 23, 2001
Source: The Observer (London)
Original story - link verified on December 23, 2001
By Lucy Siegle

A huge, spiky, mock-Scottish castle, the Banff Springs doesn't so much nestle among the Rockies as jut out into the winter sky like an overgrown Harry Potter film set. If that weren't imposing enough, the vast reception lobby, with its six-metre windows overlooking the Sulphur mountain range, provides final confirmation that we are in the heavyweight league of luxury hotels here - and indeed the Banff Springs weighs in with 770 rooms, an impressive spa and more 'beverage and refreshment centres' than you can shake a ski pole at.