What the site is for
Most hotel websites answer the question "why stay here". Few answer "how do I get in from exit 240 with a trailer at midnight". This guide is built for the second kind of question: distances, opening hours, room layouts, parking, and the things the hotel leaves unpublished. It covers one property properly instead of ten in passing.
Where the facts come from
| Rank | Source | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The hotel's own pages | Rooms, dining hours, casino hours, the event calendar, packages, the conference floor plan |
| 2 | Official bodies | AGLC for the age limit and self-exclusion; Alberta Health Services and GameSense for helplines |
| 3 | Tourism and transport | The Travel Alberta listing, YYC airport pages, the Calgary Stampede's dates |
| 4 | Maps | Google Maps for the place card, the pin position and route estimates |
| 5 | Encyclopaedia, marked as secondary | Wikipedia for Deerfoot Trail and Barlow Trail exit numbers and history |
House rules
- No source, no fact. The hotel does not publish check-in times, room sizes or its opening year, so this site prints none of them.
- Contradictions stay visible. When two hotel pages disagree, both figures appear with a note.
- Estimates wear a label. Drive times come from Google Maps at a quiet hour and say so. Rush hour is its own climate zone.
- No invented guests. There are no reviews signed "a happy traveller". Public rating figures appear on public ratings with the platform and the date they were read.
- Illustrations are illustrations. The pictures are painted-style images made for this site, not photographs of the hotel, and each caption says so.
What the site is not
Not the hotel's website: it cannot change a reservation, look for lost property or speak for the casino. Not a gambling site: it takes no bets, links to no betting operator and leaves casino promotions out. Not a booking engine either: the room request is a message to a person who checks the details and writes back.
The record
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Started | 2026 |
| Domain | deerfoottrailstays.com, registered through Namecheap, Inc. on 31 October 2026 |
| Hosting | DigitalOcean server in Toronto, Canada; served through Cloudflare |
| Income | Commission on confirmed stays — how the desk is funded |
| Contact | hello@deerfoottrailstays.com |
| Last full fact check | 31 October 2026 |
Corrections
Hotels change menus, hours and prices faster than any guide can follow. If a page here is out of date, write to hello@deerfoottrailstays.com with the page address and what changed; a link to the hotel's own page speeds things up. A correction goes live once the new fact can be checked at its source.