Receive 15% off your consecutive overnights when you stay at HI-Edmonton during any one of our city's 30 plus festivals! Just show your valid festival ticket or wristband at check-in and let the savings and fun begin!

Head North to Edmonton!
Edmonton, Alberta's capital city, was voted Canada's cultural capital in 2007 and is known for its friendly citizens and festival-packed summers. Edmonton's popularity is no longer a secret - it's now the top tourist destination in the province.

HI-Edmonton is in the heart of one of the coolest neighbourhoods in the city, Old Strathcona, where you can check out all sorts of fun and exciting things - from a huge farmer's market to every kind of pub, restaurant and shop imaginable.

"Funky and unique, the Old Strathcona Historical Area is definitely Edmonton's most exuberant shopping area.  The heart of the action is along 82nd Avenue, otherwise known as Whyte Avenue, where punk rockers and street artists rub shoulders with families and business people against a backdrop of antique stores, gift shops and bookstores." Dream Shopping Streets, Canadian Travel Magazine, Fall 2002

Getting Around
HI-Edmonton rents bikes for a daily fee of only $8 for members and $10 for non-members. Being so close to the river valley and the quiet streets of the Strathcona community, we have an ideal location for cyclists needing a rest.

If you don't feel like walking or biking to the numerous nearby attractions, you can catch a quick bus ride only one block away from the HI-Edmonton that will take you every where you want to go!

Edmonton Attractions & Must-do's

• Witness West Edmonton Mall, the world's largest shopping centre, occupying 48 city blocks and offering 800 shops and numerous attractions,
• Smell the roses at the Muttart Conservatory housed in 4 greenhouse-pyramids,
• Bike through the river valley (one of North America's largest urban parks),
• Experience life in the 1920's at Fort Edmonton Park,
• Visit the Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture at the Royal Alberta Museum, and
• Finish up your day at one of the many cafés along Whyte Avenue in Old Strathcona, one of Canada's Coolest Neighbourhoods (enRoute Magazine April 2002).

Festivals
Edmonton is Canada's Festival City, and that's not just some hype dreamed up in the marketing department. We have earned the title because of the way Edmontonians have created and embraced an astounding array of festivals.

Every year there are two to three million visitors to Edmonton's festivals - including a growing number of visitors from around the world. Highlights include the

• Edmonton Folk Music Festival - considered North America's top folk festival,
• Theatre shows at the International Fringe Theatre Festival
• Eat your way around the cultural feast that is the Heritage Festival
• Improvaganza - a premier improv theatre festival.
• Edmonton Blues Festival.
• The Works Art & Design Festival - walk around to see over 200 free displays of artwork around downtown.
• Edmonton International Jazz Festival - 10 days and over 90 performances at 14 different venues with over 270 musicians from around the world.
• Edmonton International Street Performers Festival.