Somewhere Only We Know...?

Sun Peaks, "near" Kamloops, photo by vikingchild

Back to the holiday slides. You know how it is booking things online - never quite know what you're going to get. So driving towards the Rockies my better half found a good deal - a very nice sounding 5-star hotel near Kamloops, a place called Sun Peaks. Well, "near" is a relative word, of course, and after a few false turns, stopping to ask directions then driving about 40 miles straight up, we finally found our hotel - by which time it was dark. So all we knew was that it was a small village with lots of fairy lights, and that it was very quiet indeed.

The hotel - wow....but given the quietness it was somewhere between Twin Peaks and The Shining. Really. I ran along the corridors in case I got chased by some scary kids on trikes. The inexpensive price was the off-season rate, of course - we'd rolled up to a ski-resort. It had the kind of foyer that you could hold a fairly large ball within, and the requisite log fires and wooden decoration.

Next morning we woke to brilliant sunshine and the view over a pseudo-Alpine resort, transplanted into the Canadian mountainside. Apparently it is owned by a Japanese company (Nippon Cable Co.) or at least the Canadian branch thereof, and is still expanding. Of course, off season it was still deathly quiet during the day - just the odd retired couple out for a morning stroll. In some ways we were sorry to leave, but on the other hand - Red Rum, Red Rum....