This past summer, we stayed in Valemount as a jumping-off point for a backpacking trip to Mount Robson Provincial Park. I had found this B&B on bbcanada.com, which usually does not lead me wrong. Although owner Sharon was friendly enough, we found our room (the Moon Viewing Suite) was not very clean. The carpet was damp and dirty (perhaps from someone else's hiking boots - we left ours at the front door), and the bathroom had hair on the toilet and mould growing in a corner of the tub. The window latch was broken, meaning it could be opened only all the way, or not at all. The adjacent room was being occupied by a couple of workers who were on a long-term stay to work on a pipeline that was being installed, and they rose at the crack of dawn to go to work. We could hear everything through the walls.

Breakfast was generous and tasty, and the best thing about the place was the gorgeous view from the sun deck.

Valemount is a very small town (perhaps even a... more