From luxury suites to shared hostel rooms, Winnipeg hotels offer deals such as the city is known for. High quality often meets fair price in this frugal mid-sized metropolis. During times that try the travel and accommodations industry, expect Winnipeg hotels to offer aggressive deals that beat most across the country.
With increasing occupancy rates that beat the Canadian national average, Winnipeg hotels could quietly cash in. But a hotel in Winnipeg can help stretch any tourist’s budget, helping visitors to Winnipeg more enjoy this great city.
Hotels in Winnipeg span the city, from the historic and artistic downtown to suburbs that can stand as destinations on their own.
Hotels in downtown Winnipeg
With theatre, ballet, live music venues, the MTS Centre arena, nightclubs, and a historic warehouse district all within walking distance, hotels in downtown Winnipeg give easy access to the best the city can offer.
A few downtown hotel highlights:
- You can see windy Portage and Main down the block on Main Street from the front door of the Hampton Inn and Suites, and you’re only a four-minute walk from Canwest Park where the Winnipeg Goldeyes play baseball. Rooms start at around $120.
- The Delta Winnipeg sits across the street form the 100-year-old St. Mary’s Cathedral, only a few blocks from the centre of the city. It also serves as a node along the kilometers-long indoor walkway system that protects us in winter. Rooms here can start at around $140 a night.
- The Radisson Hotel Winnipeg Downtown is close to the stunning new Manitoba Hydro Building and next door to the MTS Centre where the Manitoba Moose play hockey. And the ventilation louvres around the hotel’s above-ground parking garage sing with the gusts on a windy day. Rooms here start at around $130 a night.
Hotels near Winnipeg airport
The hotels near Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport offer short trips to Winnipeg’s earliest shopping mall, newly renovated, as well as Winnipeg Stadium, where the Blue Bombers play football. Also, you can take a walk to see Garbage Hill, the city’s highest nearly-natural geographic point. (It’s really a nice place. We covered the garbage with soil and grass years ago.) Access to the rest of the city is easy, too, with direct routes spreading out from nearby in every direction.
Notable hotels near the airport:
- The Dino Beach Water Park at the Victoria Inn and Convention Centre helps the hotel sell its weekend family packages, adding to their meetings and conference business. Regular rooms start at $125, and suites start at $210.
- Four Points by Sheraton Winnipeg International Airport provides 132 rooms and suites connected directly to the airport. It’s ideal for a quick stay that still allows roaming into the city at large. Rooms here start at about $155 a night.
- The free wireless internet access, desks and speaker phones in the rooms at the Hilton Suites Winnipeg Airport cater to the working traveler. Rooms here start at about $140 per night.
Mid-priced Winnipeg hotels
People might call us cheap, but Winnipeg grew largely out of the efforts and effects of merchants dealing with farmers. A frugal bunch, Winnipeggers are known for demanding good quality at a fair price. You can hardly travel more than a kilometre without seeing one of scores of hotels that represent us well. In or near downtown, for example, the Best Western Charterhouse Hotel offers rooms starting at around $130; rooms at the Norwood Hotel start at $109; or stay at the Marlborough Hotel for as little as $75 a night. The locally-based CanadInns chain keeps more than half a dozen hotels in Winnipeg with prices ranging from $90 to $145.
Hotels around Winnipeg
What we now know as Winnipeg grew out of a collection of smaller burgs in the early 1970s. Neighborhoods around Winnipeg virtually stand as independent cities, all with their own attractions and never far form the rest of the city.
Selections around the city:
- Located in the St. Boniface area, the Travelodge Winnipeg East lets visitors get to know Winnipeg’s own French quarter. Museums and historic sites nearby show a rich history of one of the city’s founding cultures. Basic rooms here cost about $100 a night, with suites going for $160.
- A little west down Portage Avenue might bring you to the Assiniboine Gordon Inn on the Park. The name comes from nearby Bruce Park, a fine spot that is only a short walk from the city’s greenest gem, Assiniboine Park. And modernist architecture fans will enjoy the surrounding St. James neighborhood. Rooms start at around $75 a night.
- South of downtown, into the Fort Garry neighborhood, visitors to the Holiday Inn Winnipeg South can stay on a main artery to downtown, only blocks from Crescent Drive with its great golf course and park. Every visitor to Winnipeg should walk along the Red River there. Rooms here start at $120.
Luxury Winnipeg hotels
Even with a reputation for being cheap, Winnipeggers appreciate the value of plush comfort. For a big farm town, we have a good share of four-star hotels in Winnipeg. Winnipeg boasts more than 10 hotels rated four stars or better by Canada Select – nice work for a prairie town. Most of them are downtown hotels, with a few near the airport, but the luxury list includes bed and breakfasts, too.
Notable Winnipeg luxury hotels:
- History buffs will enjoy the Fort Garry Hotel, completed in 1913 looking like a smaller version of New York’s Plaza Hotel. It sits nicely between a downtown residential district near the Legislature, and the superb park we built around the junction of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. Stay in a room here for about $160 a night.
- The Fairmont Hotel sits near the office towers that rise above the Portage and Main intersection right in the middle of the city. With five types of guestrooms and suites to choose from, the Fairmont Winnipeg offers packages starting at $150 a night.
- The earliest settlers in the place we call Winnipeg came thousands of year ago to the river junction location of the Inn at the Forks. Now, one of the city’s newest hotels is a stone’s throw away from shops in renovated railway buildings on one side and a fantastic skateboard park that Tony Hawk gave a thumbs up to. Package deals available here start at about $180 per night.
Other accommodations
Lots of visitors here find Winnipeg an easy city to know – even through winter, it’s comfortable here. You’ll find little pretense and a wealth of information if you. The many bed and breakfasts here can give you a citizen’s view of the city, and the local Hostelling International’s Downtowner has room for over 150 guests in a renovated downtown hotel. Dorm room beds start at $30, with single rooms going for $70.
For a complete list of all accommodations in Winnipeg, visit the Winnipeg.com Accommodations Directory.