Went to Jasper this April on my honeymoon. Stayed at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge. VERY good, very good food, but way out of your price range. The Bison steak (or whatever fancy name they had for it) and Prime Rib meals was to die for (almost didn't need a knife to cut the meat), but also ~$50 for the entree alone.
Stayed one night at the Sawridge Inn and Conference Centre. Hotel was modern, clean, and overall pretty good. That said, the food at the hotel restaurant was not good. Perhaps bad timing on our part, as it was the first night of a new menu. Cedar Plank fish was literally fish on a plank of Cedar, and the fish was barely big enough to get any actual food off of it. Other food that we ordered, and that others in the restaurant ordered, was not good, not cooked well, etc.
DO NOT stay at the Athabasca Hotel. It was built in the early 1900s, and still looks like it. Even the non-smoking rooms still smell like smoke.
Hotels are kind of hit and miss. I'd definitely recommend looking for those that have an AMA/CAA Approved logo advertised.
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