The main
Visitor
Information Services ,
part of the Calgary Convention
and Visitors Bureau, is on the
main floor of the Calgary
Tower Centre in the Calgary
Tower, 139 Tower Centre,
101-9th Ave SW (mid-May to
mid-Sept daily 8am-8pm;
mid-Sept to mid-May Mon-Fri
8am-5pm, Sat & Sun
9am-5pm; tel 263-8510 in
Calgary, tel 1-800/661-8888
elsewhere in North America;
recorded information tel
262-2766). It doles out huge
amounts of information and
provides a free
accommodation-finding service.
You can also access Travel
Alberta on the Internet (
www.travelalberta.com
). Minor offices operate at
the airport (Arrivals level),
the Canada Olympic Park and on
the westbound side of the
Trans-Canada Highway between
58th and 62nd Street NE. The
informative monthly
Where
Calgary is free from
shops, hotels and the Visitors
Bureau.
For all its rapid
expansion, Calgary is a
well-planned and
straightforward city
engineered around an
inevitable grid . The
metropolitan area is divided
into quadrants (NW, NE,
SE and SW) with the Bow River
separating north from south,
Centre Street-Macleod Trail
east from west. Downtown - and
virtually everything there is
to see and do - is in a small
area in or close to the SW
quadrant. Streets run
north-south, avenues
east-west, with numbers
increasing as you move out
from the centre. As with
Edmonton, the last digits of
the first number refer to the
house number - thus 237-8th
Ave SE is on 2nd Street at no.
37, close to the intersection
with 8th Avenue. It's easy to
overlook the quadrant, so
check addresses carefully.
