Glenmore Inn & Convention Centre

Overall, another good stay. Room 501 in the tower this time. Not updated… yet. No handy outlets in bedside light or on the desk. Hallways have failing wallpaper border I noticed on the 6^th floor as well.
Upside for me, I got the latest checkout time ever… and I don’t need it this time! Oh the irony.
Still no microwave in room. :(But, fridge, and little coffee maker, iron & board, luggage rack.
Black light sweep was average. Black light shows drapes need laundering — that’s not something I thought I’d see. Black light also revealed that the carpet had some areas needing cleaning. But! Bed was clean. Quiet enough, although the #01 rooms are right beside the elevator lobby and some yahoos don’t get that. Another toilet leaking — I think it’s likely that they have all aged and many it’s just time to have the guts replaced. This time I was smart enough to shut off the water to the toilet *before* going to bed! Yes!
Rods to close drapes missing or broken. Still flimsy and too short for a 5’0 tall human to use when reaching over furniture. Forces a person to grab the drape, which causes premature wear.
TV remote doesn’t have a sleep feature I could find, seems typical of most of the rooms I’ve had lately.
Towels were great. Shower water pressure at 8am fluctuated a bit. Koehler shower head nice but spray a little light to get shampoo out of thick hair. Kudos for the hair dryer! It was a rocket! Great new little Andis unit.
Luggage carts have solid wheels. Never flat. Thank goodness with all the stuff I have to shuttle.
Dining in the Café was reliable and gluten free available. Check out my Carving Board review for the low down.
Front desk staff helpful and great to deal with. Sandy has become an excellent member of the team. :-) I met her when she first started learning the ropes. You need something done, she’s your hero, she is ON it.

We go here for the dinner buffet every once in a while. It’s not gourmet exquisite meals, but it’s very good for the price. Lots of salad bar items, and desserts to choose from. The dinner usually consists of either rice or potato, vegis, roast beef and a pasta. Soup too. They change it up a bit but this is the usual gist.
For us, it’s great that there’s always something I can feed to a toddler and can be easily mashed up for baby. I’ve always left satisfied anyways, and the service has always been friendly and helpful (and we’ve gone about once every one or two months for the past few years). Great little place.

Sunday brunch has gone downhill over the last few years but this finally took the cake. The scrambled eggs were like a jelly of some kind. Looks like it was rolled out in a tub and cut up. Horrible flavour. They haven’t done anything to update the food over the years (like add Turkey bacon). I think this was the last time my family will partake in their brunch buffet.

Great taste, limited selection. Only 2 meat choices. Salad bar was huge. Turkey and roast beef. They were delicious but at a buffet I need more choice for the pricepoint of $ 18

Very impressed with the value of the hotel. All recently remodeled, polite staff and a reasonable price. Due to the short length of my stay I didn’t get the chance to try the pool, fitness room or any of the restaurants but I did attend a catered event that was extremely well catered. I recommend this hotel to anyone. Stopping the five stars is the location and surrounding area, located in the industrial area of Ogden in Calgary.

After spending 2 nights here earlier in the week and having the all time worst room service during that’s time, we attempted to spend one more night there tonight.
We arrived at 1:00 am only to be turned away with our US Visa Debit cards as we were tod by the management they couldn’t run preauths on out debit cards?
I have traveled extensively in the US and Canada and never been turned away with my Visa Debit card. We left upset and ended up at the Blackfoot where they treated us the way customers deserve to be treated. I found the Glen ore to be outdated as well as overpriced for what we got. The service at 1am was embarrassing.

Buffet was decent for the price and the service was great. I’ve been to buffets where dirty plates piled up and we stayed thirsty. Glasses stayed topped up with complementary jugs of Orange Juice and tables stayed cleaned. I’ll return.

I went for sunday brunch with my father. It had a very nice set up and was nice and cool in the seating area. Being the end of stampede the place wasn’t as busy as I thought it would be.
We were sat immediately and coffee and juice was poured as soon as we sat, our coffee lady was very attentive and kept refilling my fathers cup, even when he wasn’t around.
Food:
Its a buffet. so I kind of knew what to expect. The sausages and bacon were rubbery and they eggs were obviously powdered, but the hash browns were really good. Dad went and got a waffle and then asked what kind of eggs benny they were offering. The gentleman who was working the station clearly didn’t speak english and asked dad if he wanted pancakes. Dad just shook his head and walked away in frustration.
I had some fruit and little desserts to finish off which were really good. And it wear a nice time with my dad.
Overall the experience was good. But they need to improve on their food rotation so food doesn’t get cold and rubbery. Also i’d recommend putting a person who speaks fluently in english to man the station where they actually have to talk to people.

Stayed at the Glenmore Inn as it was recommended to me by the organizers of a course I attended nearby.
The area it is located in looks sketchy — I don’t know Calgary very well, but there seems to be an absence of people in this area at night. When we came to check in, the front desk person looked at my reservation as if I had just plunked down the two tablets of the 10 commandments. After staring with awe, making photocopies, and conferring with his superior, he admitted they did not have my reservation on their system. He seemed to be doing quadratic equations in his head for about 20 minutes when he decided to test the revolutionary idea of looking at the 2^nd name on the reservation — this name WAS on their system, so he was able to get each of us a room.
Room was comfortable, flat screen TV and free WIFI made up for the fumble at the front desk, and the Globe & Mail in the morning was a nice surprise.
Restaurant wad short-​staffed. Noted on the menu «no substitutions», which I translate to «we don’t aim to please». Luckily, I’ll eat anything and my skillet was quite good.
Overall, the place is quite dated, staff was mediocre, but it didn’t seem like there was another hotel in the immediate area and it had the flat screen TV and free WIFI, so for the price paid, I’d say it was good value and I’d probably stay there again when I’m back in Calgary for another course.

I have never stayed overnight at the Glenmore Inn and Convention Center, but I have attended their conference center for trade shows.
Also, very young in my career, I also had a part time job there in catering. Yes, among my limited talents, inlcludes carrying 3 plates with one hand. Seriously ;)
Lets talk about their conference space first. My perspective is one of an attendee. I have not organized an event there, but as an attendee, there were some obvious pluses that i wanted to mention.
1. The atrium there is beautiful. It is starting to balance on the cusp of dated, but there are a lot of plants there that give a zen feeling when you walk into that space.
2. The trade shows that I attended were primarily in the arena of independent small business expos, and the space was perfect for these types of shows. It was well laid out, in a nice space.
3. There is ample parking there. Bonus!
4. Access is extremely easy for me, since I am in the general area in Riverbend. However, my belief is that this space would be convenient for «most», because it has easy access from Glenmore, which in essence also translates to easy access from Deerfoot. So those are main arteries from many locations in this city.
Back to my catering days there, I cannot speak for the Glenmore Inn today, but based on the experience 15+ years ago, they did actually care, so I have to assume that they do today. It was a flexible part-​time job, but when you were there, you were expected to work and take care of customers. Needless to say, when working there, I ate a lot of meals there. They do hire chefs there (as opposed to cooks), and the food was always good according to my palate back then. They also had a wide variety of spaces for people to rent. I have worked both big and small weddings there in a variety of spaces.
This is not a high-​end venue, where you would waffle between the Palliser and the Glenmore Inn. However, for its location and services, it is worth taking a look at. I can’t speak for any of the guests experiences, but I do know as someone who worked there a long time ago, they do care (or at least they did at that time). It was a good experience as an employee, and it is a look at the back end of how they work.
Further, they are a good corporate citizen (which I know is always worth mentioning). The Glenmore Inn has donated on more than one occassion to charitable events that I have organized, so they do their part to support Calgary charities as well.

We stayed here this weekend because it was close to the venue for our friend’s wedding. The hotel wasn’t terrible, but… the whole experience was disappointing.
They told us when we booked that check in was at 4pm, and seemed pretty inflexible about that on the phone, even though when we got in at 11 it was no problem checking in. We were told that the hotel has a deal with a cab company for a flat rate to the airport, but didn’t tell us we had to arrange that in advance. They don’t have conditioner in the rooms, only shampoo. Front desk staff were very unhelpful regarding local directions. Check out time is noon, but our keycards for our room weren’t working around 11:30 after we got back from coffee in the restaurant downstairs. And the dishes in the hotel restaurant weren’t clean. My friend was given a water glass with egg or something in it. Dirty glasses and bad customer service seemed to be the norm in Calgary this weekend, unfortunately.

As my fiancé & I shopped around for wedding locations, it was only natural that we stopped into Glenmore Inn. They are known in Calgary for being one of the most convenient hotels in Calgary for weddings. It is a big part of the event business for them.
Glenmore Inn is an all-​inclusive wedding venue. For a single fee, you are covered for the location, food, alcohol, and pretty much anything else you can think of. It’s very convenient, as you are not running around paying a bunch of different people. But it’s also not cheap. Our estimate worked out to around $ 80/​person. Not exorbitant, but not inexpensive either.
When we went to sit down with their wedding coordinator, it was a really great experience. She was very thorough and asked all the right questions. They are able to accommodate the ceremony, which you will quickly discover is not the same for all hotels. They usually have their ceremonies in their restaurant, which is open and nice enough that it would actually look really nice.
In the end, we decided that the price, location (we were looking for somewhere downtown or further north), and room didn’t fit what we were looking for. But as I’ve mentioned before, the people you deal with should define your choice. And the event coordinator we dealt with was fantastic. If you’re looking for a wedding venue, you really can’t go wrong with Glenmore Inn.