We stayed in a lodge above the restaurant. The lodge is clean, not that big and has a private bathroom. A 5-10 min walk will put you in the center of Jasper.

Staff was very helpful and the breakfast is GREAT!!!

We stayed for two nights and if we return to Jasper we would stay here again.

We enjoyed our comfortable is basically equipped self catering chalet. The location right by the river is excellent to just sit and relax.

We had just spent two really disappointing and over-priced nights at Patricia Lake Bungalows (same price of $200 per night for far less quality), then a night backcountry at Shovel Pass Lodge, so all we were really looking for was something decent. Then again, we'd just gotten engaged, so something special was in order. Tekarra Lodge blew us away. Fantastic!

We had great service at the front desk, were really impressed with how cute and clean the room was (and the bathroom and bed were excellent, most importantly), and then were blown away by the (slightly pricey, but well within acceptable for how incredibly high quality it was) food at the restaurant. All in all, an amazing stay and a place we will emphatically recommend to any friends who head to Jasper.

A few notes - it is a short drive or bit of a walk out of town, but on a beautiful bit of river. The cabins are rustic little rooms, but we thought very very high quality for the price.

We booked an Athabasca Cabin (sleeping for 7) at Tekarra for a one-night stay this past August. We were a group of seven (four adults, three children) traveling together. We chose Tekarra based on reviews here, tour book advice, and their availability of the large cabin. The setting is, truly, spectacular. The lodge is located outside the town proper, but is really quite close. Aside from other guests driving through to reach their cabins, you will encounter no noise. That said, the cabins are very old and dated. The word "rustic" comes to mind, but without some of the good connotations that come with that word. The Athabasca is basically one large room, with an alcove with one double bed (literally filling the entire alcove, with the bed touching the wall on three sides), a small separate bedroom with a single bed, a sofa bed and another double bed (also touching the walls on three sides) in the main area, along with a small eating table and VERY basic kitchen. The bathroom is narrow and cramped. It is impossible to change in there, and we designated the small single bedroom as the "privacy room" for changing, etc. While nice to look at from the outside, the cabins are really showing their age. It was very difficult for so many people to share basically one large room and one bathroom. Every floor board creaks, as do the beds, so ANY movement by ANY one during the night can wake the others. The cabin also had a damp smell to it, but it looked clean. The bathroom was particularly "rustic" and none of us felt the least bit clean after showering.

All that said, if you are a smaller group of people traveling and if you want a stunning setting and are willing to put up with what basically amounts to camping-style accomodations, then you will love the Tekarra. I do not say that tongue-in-cheek, either. We spoke with many other people staying here (several couples) and they were all very happy. I think our experience was different given our party size and the level of comfort we'd become accustomed to at other cabins during our Rocky Mountain trip through Alberta and British Columbia.

p.s. Be sure to go on an early-morning hike on the cliff-side trail beginning near the cabins. In the span of a few minutes, we saw three moose and half a dozen Elk, all right along the river below the Tekarra. Spectacular!