After parking at southern Alberta’s Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton Lakes National Park, the front desk broke the news about Margie: “She took off with the bellman.” Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * After parking at southern Alberta’s Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton Lakes National Park, the front desk broke the news about Margie: “She took off with the bellman.” Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? After parking at southern Alberta’s Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton Lakes National Park, the front desk broke the news about Margie: “She took off with the bellman.
” I beseeched, “Where?” With an English accent, a staffer revealed, “Lifted her. To the fourth floor, then the fifth.” Forty years ago, I neglected to lift Margie over even a threshold.
Photos by Gord Mackintosh / Free Press High on a hill, the Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton, Alta. has been pampering guests and withstanding penetrating chinook winds since 1927. The Prince of Wales Hotel is Canada’s quirkiest grand hostelry.
It relies on one of North America’s oldest hand-operated manual elevators. Guests summon a bellhop for a lift. And the elevator doesn’t ascend all floors.
Our fifth-floor room was reached by more stairs. That’s where I got back together with Margie — a second-chance relationship. With all our baggage.
The bellhop apparently relinquished. It’s charming when motels boas.