We paid £185 for one night here, expecting a luxury getaway. A number of gripes, mean't that we went away feeling that this was definately overpriced.
We had a queen bed room, which I'm sure feels very cosy in the winter with an open fireplace, and chopped logs outside the room. Unfortunately in the height of summer, and temperatures of +30C what we really needed was some air-conditioning. The room was very hot and stuffy, and the large number of insects meant that opening the windows and doors was just not an option.
Also, why have no televisions in the rooms, but have a communal TV room? Either its a complete get away or its not. Just put one in each room, people dont have to turn in on do they?
Bizarre pricing at the breakfast. Avoid the buffet unless you want to eat loads. For instance the blueberry pancakes on the menu were very large, and costs about half the price of the self-service buffet that looked pretty shoddy from where we were sitting.
On the plus side, the lake setting is pleasant enough, and a canoe or swim in the lake is definately recommended.
Overall - not the best place we stayed in, but definately the most expensive.

We spent 3 nights here in July and the room was very nice (a little dusty but ok) with a very nice enclosed porch and view, plus a gas fireplace. No TV or radio, a complete get away. The food was very nice but the wine (Canadian) was pricey at the bar and restaruant ($15 a glass at the bar). I'd highly recommend dinner in the dining room.

It is a beautiful place and I would definitely go back but I'd recommend asking for a room (or cabin) towards the back of the resort because of the many tour buses that come by to take photos (it is very picturesque). One day we found a man sitting in a chair on our entranceway, resting. I'm sure they are not supposed to do this, but you may want to try for a room in the back.

Our unfortunate experience with Emerald Lake Lodge is that upon arrival with a confirmed reservation held by a credit card, the hotel did not have any rooms available for our stay. It appeared that the hotel was oversold with a wedding going on, although we were told that there were "maintenance" issues that caused our room to be unavailable. Apparently, we were told, the problem occurred in the AM, and they had secured a room in Field in a guest house for our stay. Not what we were expecting as we had booked a lake view room. To make matters worse, when I had booked this night at Emerald Lake Lodge, it really was to enjoy this particular lake as we traveled towards Lake Louise - and I had cancelled one night of a confirmed reservation in order to enjoy and stay at Emerald Lake Lodge.
In addition, we are a family of 4 - and the guest house accomodation (an apartment under a house) only had one bed, so our children then had to sleep on the floor and couch. By the time that we arrived at the hotel at 7:00 P.M. after a full day of travel - we were told that all other hotels in the area were sold out (as it was a Saturday night). I asked the asst. manager to check the Chateau at Lake Louse and Post Hotel - which seemed to surprise him (so we really do wonder if they ever truly contacted any other hotels) - but as it was late, he told us that they too were sold out. I also have to wonder if they ever checked their sister property Deer Lodge during the day?
The hotel did pick up the tab for the guest house, and they did pay for our dinner in the Dining Room (although they did want us to pay for our own wine - after being told to go enjoy ourselves fully on them), but the entire experience left a sour taste in our mouth for Emerald Lake Lodge. We definitely would not recommend this hotel for anyone traveling through the area.
By the way, as we departed the Emerald Lake Property following our dinner, we could not see any rooms that seemed to be closed due to maintenance - just lot's of people.

We toured across canada east to west and stayed at lovely hotels, but Emerald Lake surpassed all expectations, the location superb, make sure you get a lakeside view room, it is all log cabin type accommodation, in blocks of four, its not the largest room we stayed in, but was more than made up by the wonderful location, each morning open the shutters and walk out on to the balcony to see the emerald lake with a back drop of the rockies, as my husband said if you died and went to heaven you would never get a view like this. The food is wonderful, the resturant is in a separate building with very attentive staff, again a window seat has the same wonderful views. The car park is separate to the resort, as Emerald Lake Lodge is surrounded on three side by water on leaving the car, press the bell if the hotel bus is not in the car park and within three minutes it is there to pick you up and take you back over the little wooden bridge to the Lodge, as you can image it is so peaceful there with no cars in the complex the bus runs 24 hours a day. How's that for service.