Originally Posted by
Jasper2009
The majority of the Gold rooms at CLL is located on the 7th floor and the Fairmont Gold Lakeview rooms indeed are much larger (~360sq.ft.) and finished to a much higher standard than Fairmont Lakeview rooms.
However, a few years ago CLL decided to designate some of the rooms on the 8th floor as "Fairmont Gold", and those rooms have the same dimensions as other non-Gold rooms. So the size listed on the Fairmont websites essentially is "starting at...."
Why the hotel didn't simply call those rooms "Fairmont Gold Lakeview room" (8th floor) and "Deluxe Fairmont Gold Lakeview room" (7th floor), I have no idea.
Indeed. The 8th floor rooms (of which I think only about 5 of them are Gold Lakeview rooms), plus a few at the far end of the Glacier wing on the 7th floor are 'regular size' rooms. If you're booking a Gold Lakeview Room, there's no harm in making a request for a room in the 705 to 771 number range. You'll end up with double the size of a typical non-Gold room. Since they don't publish those distinctions, most people probably don't know the difference or know to ask.
Originally Posted by
tcook052
Really? The regular CLL Fairmont Room shows on the hotel's website as 230 sq. ft. while the CLL Fairmont Gold Room is listed at 215 sq. ft.
Have a look at Post #5 earlier in this thread. I laid it all out, including floor plan image comparisons showing the room sizes.
Edit to add...
To make it easier to see, I went back to my photo collection. Here are floors 5 through 8. Sorry, in all the time I've spent there, I've never stayed below the 5th floor, so can't say for sure what the lower floors look like.
