Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Located in the heart of downtown Toronto, the Fairmont Royal York is within walking distance to the business and theater districts, and the city's best shopping and dining. Nearby attractions include the CNN Tower, Skydome, Hockey Hall of Fame, Chinatown, St Lawrence Market, Harbourfront, and the Air Canada Center. Toronto's busiest sports and services are connected to the hotel by the city's extensive underground walkways and shopping mile--tens of miles of them.

With its grand stature and elegant interiors, the Fairmont Royal York depicts the elegance of its past while providing the finest in modern conveniences for today's travelers. Within the past 10 years, over $125 million in renovations have restored lobby, guest rooms, and corridors, which included the addition of an award-winning health club, American Express Travel Service Center, and the 19th floor executive meeting rooms. Most recently, a $12 million dollar renovation resulted in establishing EPIC, a new Four Diamond fine dining room.

For business travelers there is the Fairmont Royal York Xerox Business Center. Featuring private work stations, modem and Internet access, and an on-site printing house, it is ideal for meeting planners and guests alike. There are also over 800 business equipped guestrooms available at no extra charge.

But two hours north wolf packs silently lope through forests, fish leap, stars smile in a pollution-free sky, and vacationers enjoy the other Canada.

Delta Grandview Resort

With hundreds if clear freshwater lakes framed by dense forest and granite rock outcroppings, the rugged natural beauty on Ontario's Muskoka region is admired around the world through the paintings of the acclaimed group of seven.

Muskoka is also a recognized international gold destination. Clublink owns and operates three high-quality golf courses and owns two resorts, operated by Delta Hotels, in the distinctive Canadian Shield region, which is surprisingly accessible--just a two-hour drive from Toronto on mainly a six-lane highway. With its natural features and reputation for quality and service, ClubLink's properties in Muskoka beckon discriminating golfers looking for a distinctive experience.

The Mark O'Meara Course at Grandview Golf Club adjacent to the 120-room Delta Grandview Resort in Huntsville is where the 1998 Masters and British Open champion made his debut as course designer at the Grandview property. "We felt it was important that the first O'Meara Design was on a beautiful piece of property," said the 1998 PGA Tour Player of the Year. "ClubLink is a tremendously successful company that shares my vision. And with such a great site, it was natural."

Delta Grandview Resort is a renowned eco-tourism resort with special outings and an extensive NatureTrails eco-Adventure Program that includes astronomy, discovery programs for children, and moose watching expeditions in Algonquin Park, Ontario's largest provincial park, which is only a 25-minute drive away.

The resorts' astronomers take tour groups to the observatory to admire the heavens. Delta Grandview Resort is also the home of Echo Valley Astronomical Observatory, Canada's first resort-based astronomical observatory. Participants have the opportunity to view the skies through state-of-the-art telescopes and explore the planets, nebulas, and distant galaxies and imitate wolf calls to solicit a response from our domestic dogs' more savage cousins.