By Gary Watson | July 23, 2014 Estimated reading time 1 minute, 51 seconds.
A new hotel is being built as part of the Calgary Airport Authority’s (CAA) $2 billion airport development plan. The hotel will be integrated into the new terminal building, providing hotel guests with direct access to the hotel lobby from the arrival and departure levels. The location of the hotel will provide guests with an unobstructed view of both airside operations, downtown Calgary, and the Rocky Mountains.
At a news conference in Calgary, Delta Hotels and Resorts was named as the hotelier by the CAA. “Our new hotel will consist of 318 ModeRooms [Delta’s custom branding for upscale rooms catering to the business traveller],17,000 square feet of conference and meeting space including a 6,000 square foot ballroom,” said Ken Greene, president and CEO, Delta Hotels and Resorts. “Joining it to the arrival and departure levels was too good to pass up. We are also looking at emerging technologies to provide our guest with a seamless experience of checking into the hotel and even ordering room service before they even collect their baggage at the arrival levels.”
Advance airline passenger and baggage check-in at the hotel is one of the services the hotel is pursuing. The hotel is in the “middle size” of Canadian-owned Delta hotels, and will open in conjunction with the new terminal in the fall of 2015. No decision has been made in regard to the future of the existing YYC Delta hotel, which was opened in 1977 with the original terminal building. If the original hotel remains open, this will give Delta over 600 rooms with immediate access to the terminal.
