Easily access all info and links mentioned in this video, in this one PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1yco5i3yYBhEL0F3NX93njY3jXCXOBKh1/view?usp=share_link

From a person who has lived here for 30 years, thanks for reminding me what a beautiful place I live !!

i had to drop a like because every time i had a question about what was being said, he literally addressed it in the next sentence!

I was in Banff September 2023, plan to return next year. I agree with you about the Glacier and skybridge.... Thanks for the helpful video.

Ok, so we backed up 10 seconds, and paused.. LOL.. Love your sense of humor, and this trip!! Thank you for the details!

Just starting to plan a trip this summer to Banff, your tips are so helpful, video is so entertaining and well narrated! Thank you!

Another great video! We spent three nights in Banff prior to taking the Rocky Mountaineer train to Vancouver. Your tips match up with what we experienced. We actually booked a shuttle from Calgary airport to our hotel in Banff and used the Roam buses to get around town and it was super easy. Something else about when to visit, we visited in early September. We arrived on a Monday to a blizzard that had hit that morning. We ended up with 3 feet of snow and had to go to town to buy warmer clothing. The day before we arrived it was 80 degrees Fahrenheit! The nice thing is the town has plenty of shops for whatever kind of clothing you need for the weather so don’t worry about a freak blizzard or two. Glad you all had fun on the trip!

Your videos with subtitles really help me to learn English, and of course these amazing scenerys make them really interesting

we just spent 10 days in Canada last November (about 6 days in Banff and the area you just discovered). It was great to re-live some of our memories through your video. 🤩

Always look forward to seeing your travels. Very relaxing ❤😊

Suitcase Monkey back at it again with another gem. Currently on holiday in Japan with some inspiration taken from you. Keep up the great work of showing these amazing locations with such great presentation!

Love this channel it hasnt gone down the Luxury / aspirational route as many channels have. Please Keep it real and reasonable.

Great views out there. The hike looks so enjoyable! Spectacular views. Greetings and thanks for sharing.

You do a FABulous job at being a Travel Guide! So much helpful information! ❤

Always great tips. You guys do your homework. Harriet and I have been to Banff and Lake Louise . We had a wonderful time there. The video hit all the right notes🎵🎶 Sending you Best Wishes and Safe Travels to you and Julie🙏🙏 Jim and Harriet Richmond, Va.

One of my favourite holiday locations of all time. Your KZfaq travel video's are thorough and well presented. Great job -keep up the good work. I agree the glacier experience is a waste of time and money.

Excellent resource! Heading to Banff this summer, booked literally a year ago 🙄. This was very helpful as we prepare for the trip. Thanks for sharing!

Absolutely great work 👏 👍 👏👏👏👏😍👏👏 informative, attention to detail, and video graphics 👍👍👍

My husband said you need your own travel show and I agree!!! Your vlog is incredible and so thorough! Thank you so so much. For the detailed information and humor

This is perfect! Going June 4th and this was so helpful! 😍

Thank you so much for this helpful video! We are heading to Canada in 4 weeks time, travelling from Vancouver to Calgary over 3 weeks, and have found some great tips and ideas from both of your videos. Especially grateful for the heads up on the access to lake Louise via the shuttle bus!

Taking the time to make the pdf, that’s commitment, thanks mate 🙌🏻

Great video with so much good information! Beautiful photos also.

Great video!🎉 planning motorcycle trip to Canada in 2024, really great info! Thanks! And Nice photography!

Beautiful video. Very interesting to see. Thank you for the upload, have a nice new week!

Fantastic resource for anyone wanting to visit Banff/Lake Louise. I took a screenshot of the maps and used this as my main source of information on which lakes/attractions to visit during our July, 2023 trip. We would have missed so many great lakes had I not followed your route. Great job Suitcase Monkey. I am Canadian and this was a trip of a lifetime for my family and I. I have you to thank for it because my teenage girls kept saying "was this lake on the Suitcase Monkey list?" And of course I said yes!

We have been in Canada for almost the whole June and absolutely loved it!

Thanks for all the information provided!! I saved this videos as a favorite for my trip to the natural parks in Alberta!!

Backed up 10 seconds. And a great video!! Really appreciate the details and costs etc thanks for the help!!! Looking forward to going soon!

Planning a trip for Bannf and Jasper for September 2024. Great information. Thank you! (And yes, I rewound for 10 seconds..)

what a beautiful trip and thanks for the tips! i enjoy planning trips too

wow, such wonderful sceneries ! Appreciate all the complete tips and information. 💛

Lots of great tips! I live in Calgary and was surprised that I needed to take a bus to Moraine Lake last year during a family visit. It turned out to be a nice, stress free way to see the area actually, just chilling on the bus and enjoying the views! We found out later that we could have driven as my mother has a handicapped parking pass - but on future visits I'd still probably take the bus.

I visited Banff & Lake Louise in the middle of July, best places I have ever been. Cute scene when the squirrel got startled.

Camera work was phenomenal well done most enjoyable and informative thank you both

An amazing and excellent video‼️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Thank you so much. Planning my trip next month. This is very helpful.🚘

Great tips! What a wonderful video and we're thrilled you enjoyed your visit to Banff National Park 💜

Wonderful video as always! I was happy to see that 'Hello Mr Bear' was included :)

Excellent video and tips. Thank you.

I live 3h away from the Canadian Rocks. Your video is fenomenal. Very well done.

Great vlog, thank you. My gf and i are visiting Canada from the uk in late june and are travelling via hire car from Vancouver to Whistler then Kamloops and stopping in Canmore for 6 days. We have already booked the gondola, plan to do an early am hike up to the Big Beehive, probably afternoon tea at the hotel at Lake Louise.

Amazing vlog!!!! Super grateful to watching it

Omg this is amazing. Thank you so much. Lake Moraine is my favourite too. Plz plz organise a trip

Very informative. Thank you for sharing. We are planning a week trip to Banff staying at Canmore x 7 nights this August.

you transported us to a beautiful amazing place. thankyou this is what we want to do..

Very thoughtful and comprehensive. Thank you.

Absolutely fantastic!

Love your sense of humor. Reading the full page of text made me chuckle.

awesome work, bro! Your videos are of pro quality - photography, editing, bg music and of course your narration with a touch of humour makes it classy. Also a major plus - you guys r not pretentious and not selling stuff! Keep it up!

I have said this before and will say this again. Your channel is the best when it comes to video guides and vlogs. Perfection cannot be improved. Be you 😊 Oh yes, I did skip back and pause 😅

You made such a good job of explaining your trip and showing us all the places you visited I will not have to go there thank you so much

Nice job Paul! We visited all those locations on our honeymoon….wanted some nostalgia so watched your video not knowing it was you! I was like, “I know him!” From many years ago back in R092. Hope you are well, congrats on the videos. Looking forward to more! Christian

Fantastic video with so many great tips! Yes I backed up on your list and read every word of it. Did the same thing with the driving tips page. 😅 I will be visiting Banff and Jasper next week for 16 days and I’ll be in Jasper to enjoy their dark sky festival. I have liked and subscribed . Your channel is worth following!

Super nice natures beautiful it’s wonderful to see all your videos good memories and sharing 😃⭐️⭐️⭐️😊🤩

This was super helpful. We are looking at doing a self drive trip around the Rockies as we are not tour bus people and like the flexibility of going at our own pace. Didn't know you needed park passes, etc, so the tip about annual passes and the bus situation at Lake Louise was great info. Thanks for also posting about costs, it definitely helps with "ball park" figu I watched the other vlog on the area you did and thought that was excellent too.

More great information! Thank you!

aha totally went back, paused the video and read all the test 😀great video as usual!

Very instructive, thanks a lot

Nicely put together travel vlog I live in Calgary Alberta and I visit many of these places regularly with family and motorcycle travel.

5:29 - I just skipped back and read through all the text... Thanks for the content! My sister and her husband are in Canmore/Banff this week for vacation and I sent them your videos! It's been 5.5 years since I went up to that area with my wife, but we are hoping to go back again soon!

Beautiful locations ..very informative video I must say...I like the red cottages u stayed at ❤

Very helpful! Thank you for sharing.

Thank you very much for sharing info. Very concise and useful.

Another excellent video!

Yes, I had to rewind. Day after pie day (pi π day), I was all set to see what maths Paul was about to teach me. I enjoyed the real answer. Which means, you are explaining how to best engage your itinerary. Therefore only 10 days is required.

Very informative travel guide. Both of your Banff videos really capture the beauty of the area and are incredibly well made videos! I like your comment about driving time, as someone from the area I consider anything within a 2-3 hour drive to be "close by" but that is definitely not the case around most of the world. Only thing I would ad is a warning for people not to feed any of the animals regardless of how cute, friendly, small or hungry they appear. We have a local saying "A fed bear is a dead bear". Parks Canada has even gone as far as shutting down all access to some areas for a year at a time if animals have been fed there.

Thank you as always for the cheeky commentary.

As an old CDN I don't regret retiring to Nova Scotia but, you make me think otherwise!

Greetings from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina USA Really enjoyed BOTH of you and your wife's Canada trip. Such a beautiful place 😍

Great information! We are going for the first time in June staying in Canmore as a home base for 9 days.

Brilliant. Thanks for this

I totally paused to read the text 🙈 Excellent tips and great idea with the PDF. Very happy to hear 'Hello Mr Bear' at the end!

Banff and Jasper are beautiful..... Postcard perfect 🎄 🐻

Amazing of landscape there ❤❤❤

Definitely ended up pausing, going back 10secs to read that entire text.. lol Also, great accurate info, especially the new changes to Moraine Lake access.. thank God I visited in 2022 in my car not knowing that would be the last time I could use my own vehicle to get up there 😂

superb as ever - love your trips and tips

This is a very informative video - this is not a criticism, just some information regarding skiing. I'm a ski instructor. The best time to ski starts in December as in November the snow coverage is minimal and limited runs are open. Personally, I think we get the best snow in February and March but February can be brutally cold. Some ski resorts local to Calgary are open until early May. In fact, last year Sunshine Ski Resort was open on July 1 weekend!

Really informative and very helpful video ahead of our forthcoming trip to this beautiful area in September. My husband will be buying the bear spray and singing the song haha. Thank you for sharing

Fantastic video. We actually live about one hour south of Banff. We watched your video as if we’ve never seen Alberta before😂

Extremely good vlog

Incredible video as always! Yea, I paused to read the note 😂

Excellent filming

This is such an amazing presentation of this beautiful destinations. Keep that content coming, Suitcase Monkey!

Hi from Canmore once again! Another really great, informative AND incredibly accurate video! The only thing that I could add after living in Canmore for many years is that September is typically a much better month weather wise than June. June can be volatile and September, in most years, can be very nice:). Great job Suitcase Monkey!

Unbelievable nature view superb Canada really beautiful country we know

Great video, we head off to Canada in May and really appreciate the information you provide! Love the pink back pack, can I ask what brand it is please?

Fantastic

Great Info. I am going in early June this year and I suspect that El Niño is having its effect? My weather app says its up to 26C today in mid-May!

The icefield parkway is iconic because it shows how much it has retreated over the last few decades. If you don't do the tour and do the short hike up, you'll see the signs which says the year the glacier was there. So don't recommend the tour, but do recommend going!

very useful!

Thank you for making this video! I enjoy your work! We are coming from the US and heading to Banff, Jasper & Yoho in July. Going to brave the crowds, but we are early risers so we are hoping to beat the worst of it. I keep debating on whether or not to spend the money for the Athabasca Glacier walk. We are spending $$ on gondolas and the Maligne Lake/Spirit Island tour for sure. We have never been on a glacier before. We will be in the area for 2 weeks, and will be on the Ice fields Parkway in the middle of our trip, so I thought about booking it on our way back to Banff. About how long is the experience including the ride in the monster bus? (Not including the Skywalk). If we don’t do this, we would just hike to the Toe of the Glacier. But it seems like you can’t get that close. Plus I hear it’s quite cold on the glacier. I just don’t want to regret not doing it. Ugh.

Fantastic look into the Rockies. Am hoping to visit this september Going solo. How much isa car to rent Calgary to Jasper. Thanks again for this great vlog. Well done on this.

I’m planning for September and your video is priceless! So many videos are just useless. No talking at all, or just some narcissist posing everywhere.

Re: the glacier hike Unfortunately, you hiked it when it is indeed least exciting as it has a deep covering of snow on top of it that accumulated over the winter. In September, towards the last days the hike is open, it looks completely different as the sun and summer heat has melted a a few feet of the snow off. Crevasses open up and huge, cavernous moulins are shocking to behold. These form where the surface water has been rushing down across the surface of the glacier and then made a hole for the water to descend down through it. If I have visitors staying with me from the UK, I take them on this hike in September and their astonishment at the features on the glacier is a joy to watch. Note to avoid confusion for anyone, I'm referring to the hike from the car park and not the hike after getting off the tundra bus. They stop much higher up on the glacier and it does not have the same features that you can walk next to.

Ahhhh........that Englishman's sense of humour....so appealing.

Welcome to 🇨🇦 Waterton national park is gorgeous in summer

Canadian Rockies are awesome!

Thanks for your video @Suitcase Monkey 😊. We plan to visit Banff NP in the middle of May. Is that possible? Are the attractions and roads open at that time? Thank you.

Beautiful