7 hotels
Grand railway hotels
Built by railway companies to receive their passengers, these hotels gave cities their silhouette: châteaux in Canada, Gothic Revival in London, Victorian stone in Edinburgh.
Château Frontenac
The 1893 railway château above the St. Lawrence River, where Allied leaders met in 1943 and 1944.
610 rooms
Château Laurier
The 1912 railway château beside Parliament Hill and the Rideau Canal, at the heart of Ottawa.
The Balmoral
Edinburgh’s 1902 railway hotel on Princes Street, whose clock tower runs three minutes fast.
St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel
George Gilbert Scott's 1873 Midland Grand Hotel, closed for 76 years and reopened in 2011 with its grand staircase and painted ceilings intact.
207 rooms
Fairmont Hotel Vancouver
Begun in 1928 and finished in 1939 for the royal visit of King George VI, the green copper roof of the Castle in the City.
Fairmont Banff Springs
Opened by the Canadian Pacific Railway on 1 June 1888, the Castle in the Rockies rebuilt in Rundle stone inside Banff National Park.
724 rooms
Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth
The Montreal hotel above Central Station where John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their Bed-In for Peace in Suite 1742 in 1969.
950 rooms