The heart and soul of this very charming and beautiful bed and breakfast is Pam, the free spirit who runs the place. She is a feisty soul who has explored and lived in much of Canada, including the arctic, and will be glad to regale you with stories of her colorful life and inform you what the real Canada is all about (which is full of characters like Pam). It's the feistiness that turned-off the people who wrote the bad reviews, but they didn't look under the surface. Underneath the bluster is a warm-hearted person who got up at 4am (really!!!) to bake us fresh english muffins (with quinoi and whole wheat!) for a gourmet Egg Mcmuffin and fresh fruit salad with yogurt and served it to us at 5am because she guessed correctly that we wouldn't have time to get breakfast at the airport. Breakfast is normally scheduled between 8:30 and 10am.
All her rules make sense, like taking off shoes- the owner put in beautiful but very soft birch floors throughout.
The rooms are very interesting and each one is unique. The beds are extremely comfortable. And the breakfasts are amazing and are all Pam's unique creations and made from scratch- in her itinerant life she was also a chef! She kindly gave me the recipe for a breakfast veggie burger (with quinoi and walnuts-wow!) after I begged for it.
In addition, the location is extremely convenient for walking or if you have a car or if you take the metro- it's located downtown next to a metro station and a freeway which connects to the airport, and nearby sights.
We definitely will be back and hope Pam will be there to greet us with her tough love!
