[The_Cat]

I think Edmonton would do well with multiple transportation options to the International Airport. What percentage of travellers go to visit West Edmonton Mall or Rogers Place? What about summer festivals? What about academics and students? Are they staying in hotels or AirBNBs?

With the growth of Edmonton and Leduc, LRT is becoming a greater possibility. Bus service is becoming more established with service from Leduc and the International Airport. If we build clientele, this will become a reality, especially with an LRT network that has over 50 stops.

 

[Gronk!]

I reckon that a good chunk of tourists are attending hockey games and concerts at Rogers Place, or checking out summer festivals such as the Taste of Edmonton and The Fringe, or attending events such as the hydrogen convention at the Edmonton Convention Centre or the Edmonton Expo at the Expo Centre. Thus it makes sense to have lots of hotel space downtown c/w LRT access (which is coming soon to WEM). But is there enough downtown hotel space? You have the Hotel Mac, Courtyard, Westin, Chateau Lacombe, Sandman, JW, Delta, Matrix, Holiday Inn Express, APA (currently u/c), Comfort Inn, Days Inn and Hyatt - but that's it, really.

 

[MakeYEGGreatAgain]

^For a city or metro of 1.7 million, Edmonton has very little hotel capacity downtown. Never mind that most of the stock is also pretty old and dated.

 

[TAS]

^For a city or metro of 1.7 million, Edmonton has very little hotel capacity downtown. Never mind that most of the stock is also pretty old and dated.

I don't think too much dt hotel space has been added in the past 25 years despite the city growing from 640,000 in 2000 to nearly double that now.

Lots of growth in accommodation in other areas though along outer edges.

 

[Gronk!]

There's a chain of hotels along Gateway Blvd and another chain of hotels along Stony Plain Rd west of 170 St.

Downtown needs more hotels:

• Tower 101 site
• SE corner of 101 St/104 Ave
• 100 Ave/102 St
• 2 more near the convention centre
• 1 or 2 on the 104 St promenade
• Ice District phase 2
• another 1 on 105 St north of Jasper Ave
• 1 or 2 near O'day-min Park
• 1 or 2 near MacEwan
• at least 2 more near the Legislature grounds

A few more hotels in Old Strathcona wouldn't hurt.

 

[The_Cat]

There are more hotels in Sherwood Park/Yellowhead Trail. I think a hotel around 107 Street/102 Avenue might work, given the proximity to the LRT, MacEwan and Norquest.

 

[David A]

Some of us have not so fond memories of the Airporter, which offered service downtown and was the only non-vehicle way to get to YEG for a long time

I had used it a number of times and it didn't seem bad to me, it actually worked quite well. However I sense what is being proposed here may be a bit different, a larger bus with leaving from a central location with fewer stops.

 

[Oilguy]

There's a chain of hotels along Gateway Blvd and another chain of hotels along Stony Plain Rd west of 170 St.

Downtown needs more hotels:

• Tower 101 site
• SE corner of 101 St/104 Ave
• 100 Ave/102 St
• 2 more near the convention centre
• 1 or 2 on the 104 St promenade
• Ice District phase 2
• another 1 on 105 St north of Jasper Ave
• 1 or 2 near O'day-min Park
• 1 or 2 near MacEwan
• at least 2 more near the Legislature grounds

A few more hotels in Old Strathcona wouldn't hurt.

You’d like 15 hotels to be built downtown? That seems like a recipe for an incredible over supply. 1-2 is all I can imagine the market bearing.

 

[ChazYEG]

You’d like 15 hotels to be built downtown? That seems like a recipe for an incredible over supply. 1-2 is all I can imagine the market bearing.

Depends on size and market positioning.

We could probably do with either a larger 4-5 star option, or two smaller ones (a Hyatt Regency and a Four Seasons wouldn't be bad) and maybe two larger or three smaller 2-3 stars (and ALT would be great here), between downtown and 124 Street, and maybe another couple of hotels around Whyte Ave.

Hotel occupancy rates in Edmonton are actually quite high, even at the more upscale hotels.

 

[Gronk!]

You’d like 15 hotels to be built downtown? That seems like a recipe for an incredible over supply. 1-2 is all I can imagine the market bearing.

My apologies, I was just laying out some options on where some of these hotels can be located.
The first 3 or 4 options should be a given.

I'd also like to see a couple of hotel options on 124 St near Stony Plain Rd.

 

[Airboy]

Porter Just announced flights between YVR, YYC and YEG starting in the spring.

 

[blue12]

Porter Just announced flights between YVR, YYC and YEG starting in the spring.

Is there a source for this….? I can’t find any information about it anywhere.

 

[Airboy]

Is there a source for this….? I can’t find any information about it anywhere.

I got it from my Brother in law, It was announce in TO this morning to Staff. Ill pull up what I can. Trying to get a copy of the release now.

 

[Vanfan123]

Porter Just announced flights between YVR, YYC and YEG starting in the spring.

Porter starting flights between Vancouver & Edmonton will make Air Canada, WestJet & Flair cut back on few weekly flights on this route & consolidate more between YEG & YVR.

On the Calgary- Vancouver - YYC , WestJet /AC & also Flair will match Porter additions / offerings on this route.

“Competitions is good for sure”, but at Edmonton YEG airlines cut back to consolidate more, year round.We seen this happen plenty of times already previous years & will continue to!

 

[Glenco]