Crowne Plaza Saint John Harbour View by IHG
Coastal harbour views with a full family entertainment centre
About this stay
The renovated rooms and coastal outlook set this apart from the highway hotels near the airport, and the Family Entertainment Center is the real signature: bumper cars, bowling, laser tag, mini golf, an arcade and an ice cream parlour under one roof, enough to fill a full evening without leaving the building. The heated indoor pool and hot tub cover the classic wind-down after a day of Uptown sightseeing, and the fitness centre and business centre keep the hotel workable for a mixed leisure-and-business trip. Saint John Airport is a genuine 24 km out, closer to a twenty-five-minute drive than a quick hop, so this suits a stay built around the harbour and Uptown rather than an early flight. Meeting spaces and a restaurant round out a property built to hold a full family or business day on site.
- Family Entertainment Center
- Heated indoor pool
- Hot tub
- Renovated rooms
Our take
This earns the luxury tag on renovation quality and the entertainment centre, not on room size, which stays comparable to other 4-star Saint John hotels. Families who want bowling and laser tag on a rainy evening should book here over the harbourfront hotel down the road. The 24 km airport distance rules this out for anyone chasing a five-minute transfer after a late flight; that traveller should book Best Western or Hampton Inn instead, both genuinely closer to the runway.
- ✓Reserve Family Entertainment Center activities in advance during summer weekends, since bowling and laser tag lanes book out fast.
- ✓Confirm your airport transfer time expecting a real 24 km drive, not a five-minute shuttle hop like at the airport-strip hotels.
- ✓Ask for a harbour-facing floor when booking, since standard rooms on lower floors face the parking structure instead of the coast.
Why we love it
- A full Family Entertainment Center under one roof
- Heated indoor pool and hot tub
- Recently renovated coastal-facing rooms
- Bowling and laser tag on site
Why guests love itAn evening built around the Family Entertainment Center typically runs from bowling straight into laser tag with barely a lull, and the arcade absorbs whatever energy is left before the ice cream parlour closes out the night. The heated pool the next morning covers the group that skipped bowling for a swim instead. The 24 km run to the airport means this works better as a base for a harbour-and-Uptown stay than a last-night-before-an-early-flight stop.
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