Best Western Cedar Park Inn

Nice location. Building is old, but renovated and well kept. Got a great price online. Staff are very friendly and free breakfast.

Don’t stay here if you expect air conditioning. This place is a hot box.
I have been a regular guest here but always stayed in the winter months.
This is more than likely my last stay here.
Staff are not the brightest. Not familiar with the local surroundings. Bar tender didn’t speak English well not could even mix a rye and coke. She didn’t even know what Crown Royal was…
The meal I ordered was microwaved. The Turkey was like plastic.
Over all I have become very disappointed, I used to like staying here.

The hotel is nice, location is situated around restaurant chains and supermarket, with in walking distance, which is a plus for me.

Stayed for a bit over a week. The rooms had beds, walls, and floors, which was nice.
Aside from the structural requirements to be considered a hotel, the hotel also has such lovely features as snide staff, outdated amenities, subpar housekeeping, and lovely «visitors» at night to keep you entertained.

Abysmal food and service, it took forever for the food to arrive, my steak was undercooked, the poutine was mediocre and my garlic toast was inedible.

I had a good stay here, really comfortable and the staff were nice. The restaurant downstairs didn’t impress me but the bar/​lounge was VERY comfortable and isn’t that what a business traveler wants?
Next time I’m in Edmonton I’m going to stay here again, definitely.

I loved this hotel. It was obviously built in the 80’s, not the 70’s. And I could tell it was a high class 80’s. The oak furniture is solid, the patterned brass door on the elevator was once top notched and still looked pretty good for it’s age. The wallpaper in the room and definitely the molded tub with an oval entrance was a treat for me. It was like being in an episode of the Golden Girl’s or some other 80’s show.
The lobby and the restaurant (which I never ate at) have been updated and the lobby is quite welcoming and well done.
There were a few minor annoyances which prevented me from giving it a 5 star rating. The bed was comfortable, but I found the pillows to be the kind that are stuffed well but have very little give. I prefer soft pillows. Being situated where it is, some road noise was to be expected and it is very tolerable but still. I was staying on the 5^th Floor and I don’t think anyone else had a room up there during my 1 night stay on a Thursday so I couldn’t really tell if the room was soundproofed well. The noise that I did hear that bothered me was when the suite below me used the bathroom shower. It did transmit through wet wall and it was this that woke me up.
I would stay there again, if nothing else for the fact that I love once expensive retro décor.

The location is central and situated around many restaurant chains that are within walking distance. I booked a standard room with a king size bed, I found the service to be friendly and efficient. I stayed on a weekend, and it was quite busy-​but was not overly loud in the hall ways.
Their lounge is cozy with 8 or 9 VLT machines, and the beer on tap was good. They have a full room service menu available, and have the usual directories in the room-​so its is user friendly.
It is a non smoking hotel, and the rooms are well kept. I found the location a little noisy with the cars and truck driving by in the morning. If its really late and you get hungry-​there are several cash machines in the lobby, and a crack machine with prices around 2.00 to 2.50 for small bags of chips and other snacks.
They have a restaurant/​lounge off the main elevators, and during your stay give you a 10% discount card to use while being served in the restaurant. the only restaurant is large and very open, and seemed to be recently renovated.
They had a 12.00 breakfast buffet with all the usual fixings; I ordered a steak and eggs breakfast, and with coffee and a side food order –the bill came to 16.00 which was tasty and well prepared. The room rates for the weekend were around 129.00 plus tax.
It seemed to be a family friendly establishment with several free Internet stations in the lobby. There is a major bus line that picks up passengers travelling on red arrow in the rear of the building. A good location to go to, and then to walk to many restaurants and lounges if you want to leave the hotel. Basic service and a clean hotel-​is what they have going for them.

We finally had a bit of time to sneek away and do something fun as a family, so it was a nice overnight trek to Edmonton that we figured might be fun. Our first attempts to get a hotel was those around West Edmonton Mall, but since they were booked up we looked to the Best Western chain due to our positive experiences with them elsewhere. This one, not so much.
When we placed the reservation through the 1 – 800 line, we were told that we were booked for a double queen for two adults and two children and that we were past the ability to refund. Sounds fine. However, when we arrived we were given a single queen and a very small room that we were barely able to squeeze in a cot and a playpen by the door. We asked to upgrade, but it was booked up, so no dice.
Aside from that, the hotel is an older building and is definitely dated. That date is the 70’s. However, the place is well maintained and clean.
the pool is small and a little too cold. If you want to unwind with the kiddos, it will do in a pinch, but definitely not a great pool to play in if there is more than a few families there.
Like the other reviewer had stated, the parking lot is too small and not well lit. With the hotel so busy it was very difficult to even find a spot.
Overall, I wouldn’t go out of my way to stay there again with the number of other newer hotels we passed and wished we would have picked. If it was just me and my husband, we would have been OK, but with the kids along, this hotel was a big downer.
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Stayed here on biz late Oct 2010. I have never stayed in a Best Western before, and I was pleasantly surprised. Easy to get to by road, it’s served by 2 main Edmonton arteries either side. Supermarket and fast food etc nearby.
1^st impressions of outside of Hotel, is that it looks a bit like a futuristic prison. No big deal, as inside is nice enough. Lobby and reception area, corridors, elevator (the other one was new) and décor, rooms, carpeting, one can tell this hotel was either built, or last renovated in the 80s. I’d say mid 80’s, going by the light oak abound.
Was checked in quickly and with minimum fuss, 5 mins or less.
A few patterned concrete bits on the inside of the building, together with taupe brick walls here and there, and each side of the room. Distinctly late 70s maybe? Only mentioning this as some people may not like that, but personally, at least seeing a real solid brick wall in your room, you KNOW it’s gonna be quiet hotel. And it was! :) If I was the hotels management, id drywall over the brick, to update the look.
My room was large, bed very nice, like sleeping on a cloud! Pillows nice, crisp linens. Towels a little on the thinner side, but not excessively so. Décor and light oak furniture/​brass lighting has that cheesy 80s look to it, but it has a charm of it’s own, obviously been ‘well loved’ but it’s all in good clean condition and order, so doesn’t really matter.
The room was clean, bathroom was clean. Shower pressure a tad on the low side, but not enough to be bad. More booster pumps in the floors would probably cure this.
Room heating was ok, one has to crank the old thermostat up, I found it was reading a little optimistic, having to put it at 26c, to get to what felt like 21c. The rear of the room nearest the door can be a little cooler, and the bathroom even more so. Perhaps a heated towel bar in there would take the chill off. Again, not a huge deal.
TV was adequate. Picture pretty poor, but thats normal for hotel TVs haha. Anyway, who goes on travels to watch TV?! Didnt use internet. if there was a gym or pool, I have no idea, I didn’t use them, so can’t comment on that. Interesting to note, using one of the PC’s in the lobby, the security software had expired, and it was infected with a worm. Might not want to use that for email or banking!!!
Breakfast in the morning was buffet style, usual things, continental, juices, cereals. Pleasant surprise is that they had REAL breakfast basics, scrambled eggs, sausages, bacon, hash browns, pancakes. Bottomless coffee from nice efficient server guy. Breakfast room was pleasantly quiet, even at 930am.
Best thing about my stay? My room was as quiet as a tomb! I guess those brick walls do their job! I was at the front of the hotel facing the supermarket and the main road, and sure, one does get a little traffic noise, but it’s well blunted by the double glazing, and the only real noise I did hear was people talking as they walked past my door, or nearby doors closing. But you get that in most hotels.
If I could nitpick ONE thing, the corridor lighting on the 4^th floor could do with a boost. Dim lighting in hotels can give it that shady feeling.
In conclusion, it’s quiet, good rates, brekkie is good, and even though the décor is cheesy and dated, it’s not like it affects anything and to be fair the hotel is currently undergoing a refit, and from the illustrations in the lobby, the new room refits look quite modern. :)