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Catalogue 02 — In the City
These entries sit inside or beside a city centre, and each is weighed the same way: what is within walking distance of the door. The street, the water, the neighbourhood and the open land at the edge of town matter as much as the room, so they are written into every description here.
A 4-star hotel in Medicine Hat, Alberta, carrying the resort character of its wider property into a city compact enough to know on foot. Outside the door, the open countryside sets the horizon and the surrounding grounds make a day easy to fill.
A 4-star resort hotel on the Fraser's Richmond shoreline — close enough to Vancouver's core to count as a city stay, near the airport to suit the traveller. The waterfront position makes the river the first thing read about the neighbourhood.
Set where Gatineau meets the water, this 4-star hotel plays the city card by how close the riverbank is to the door. A lakeside resort in a small city: the walk to the water is the walk to the town's main attraction.
A 4-star casino resort at the edge of Enoch, just outside Edmonton in Alberta, where the city ends and open land begins. The countryside setting is the whole proposition: a full resort life, set against the prairie.
Everything practical — what is open, what is available, what the current facilities are — sits with each property's official listing, which the button on every entry above leads to. The method behind these entries is explained in Reader Notes, and if the building itself is the attraction rather than the street, the Landmark Stays catalogue is the other half of this guide.