Banff Trip in June

Thank you

I forgot this one, it’s pretty solid

https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/travel/banff-alberta-canada-review-and-photo-journal/68928985/

Thanks again. I’m going in kinda expecting a little less impressive version of Switzerland which was the best trip I’ve ever taken.

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Plain of the Six Glaciers Tea House.

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Oh wow that sounds awesome. Will 100% look into this.

You must go to the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. Go have a cocktail, dinner, and maybe even take the tour. It’s a stunning place, stayed there around 20 years ago.

Highly recommend looking up the Canada Icefields Parkway that goes up to Jasper. It's been a number of years, but I believe we drove up and stayed one night in Jasper. If I recall correctly, there was a visitors center where you could see multiple glaciers from one location and they had buses bring you right up to one of them.

If nothing else, figure out how far up the parkway you can day trip and try to catch a few of the stops along the way.

Icefields Pkwy Website

Not sure which Gondola you have planned, but look at Sunshine village. The lodge is up on the mountain. I know you have an air bnb, but doing the gondola up, spending the night, leaving the next day would probably give you a wonderful experience. In the winter you can actually “ski-out”. Possibly can “hike out” in Summer.
As others gate said, drive the rental to the fairmount lake Louise. It’s not a bad drive. Though crowds could be an issue. Consider the same thing there, get a room for a night, though I am sure it’s expensive so may be out of budget.
This will chew up 4 days round trip, fill in the other 3 with relaxation or trail close to your bnb. Banff is a quaint little village, a unique experience to walk around that will probably happen organically, but hard to recommend a dedicated “day” in the village unless you need a break as you are committing to a fair amount of travel time.
Hopefully the glacier will still be there, :lol

Drive over to Yoho National Park, about an hour west from Banff. Main attraction is a very famous fossil quarry high on a ridgeline, the Burgess Shale. You book a guided hike well in advance via Parks Canada or the Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation. It's about 14 miles rt over steep terrain. While in that area book a whitewater raft trip on the Kicking Horse River...serious rapids.

Calgary itself is an oil town with a nice selection of museums and restaurants...things that higher incomes generate.

Lake Louise / Fairmont live cam