Fairmont Vacation Villas: Riverside, Hillside & Riverview

Nestled in the pristine Canadian Rockies, Fairmont Vacation Villas recently celebrated its 27th anniversary and is recognized by industry leaders as Canada’s premier vacation ownership project.
The resort currently handles more than 800,000 visitor nights per year and generates an estimate $60 million for the local economy as published in the 2003 Kootenay Business Magazine.
Fairmont Vacation Villas continues to grow with the recent completion of a 5,000 square-foot pool and a 4,600 square-foot water park which features a three storey waterslide and will also be opening in the future a family entertainment centre adjacent to the water park.
The centre will include a golf simulator, bowling lanes, an arcade, a sports bar and a restaurant.
The villas are situated in a low-elevation mountain trench that separates the Canadian Rockies
from the Purcell Mountain range. One mile (three kilometers) from Highway 93, the main highway linking Fairmont with the U.S. and Alberta, Fairmont is 176 miles (285 kilometers) from Calgary, 356 miles (578 kilometers) from Edmonton, and 252 miles (405 kilometers) from Spokane, Washington. An on-site airport meets all international and federal guidelines and has a 6,200-foot paved runway capable of supporting 737-sized jets.
Riverside consists of eight buildings of 10 two-bedroom lock-off villas each and a large recreation
centre. Lock-off villas contain two separate fully equipped units, each with a kitchen, dining, and
living room area and one bedroom. The two villas are divided by a vestibule that contains a washer/dryer. These versatile two-bedroom lock-off villas can be “locked-off” to create two separate villas or can be used as one villa to accommodate larger families and guests.
Riverside also includes a large recreation and check-in centre complex that includes an indoor swimming pool, sauna, steam room, library, lounges, tennis courts, games room, store, fi tness centre, playground, spa and administrative offi ces. Hillside has eight larger buildings containing 138 villas (116 lock-off villas and 22 terrace or two-bedroom villas) and a large water park and recreational amenities including a tennis court, beach and sand volleyball court and
playground. The fi rst building at the new Riverview Villa location opened in 2005 with 32 two-bedroom lockoff villas (64 one-bedroom villas) and another two 32 two-bedroom lock-off villa buildings are planned. The property includes eight-person luxury “lock-off” villas featuring stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, slate entries, an elevator and 42-inch-screen TVs.
Amenities at Fairmont Hot Springs include 45 holes of golf, a ski hill, mineral hot pools, orseback riding, biking, fi shing, a spa, shopping plaza, grocery store and Fairmont Hot Springs Lodge. The surrounding Columbia Valley includes 14 golf courses, fi ve ski hills,
lakes, rafting and abundant wildlife, great restaurants, boutique
shopping, 300 bird species and major wetlands habitat, outdoor recreational pursuits galore and four season activities on nearby Windermere and Columbia Lakes, the headwaters of the Columbia River.
Standard amenities in the Fairmont Vacation Villas one-bedroom
and two-bedroom villas include two-person jetted tubs, fi replaces, dishwasher-equipped kitchens, and high-quality comfortable furnishings.
All villas are fully self-contained. Each villa has an outdoor deck with barbeque, up to four televisions, VCR player, stereo system and washer/dryer. Fairmont Vacation Villas is managed by Columbia Villa Management Ltd., an affi liated company that operates an annual budget in excess of $5 million with 105 on-site employees.