Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Saint John Harbour Side by IHG
Five minutes from Reversing Falls and Old City Market
About this stay
Two of Saint John's signature sights sit within a five-minute drive: Reversing Falls, where the tide overpowers the river twice a day, and Old City Market, one of the oldest continuously running farmers' markets in North America. The New Brunswick Museum, Interaction Theatre Company and the Canada Games Aquatic Centre are close enough to reach on a sixteen-minute walk, which makes this one of the more walkable harbour-side bases on this list once the car stays parked. Rooms keep a fridge, microwave and coffee maker for anyone who wants to bring market finds back rather than eat out every meal, and the indoor pool and hot tub cover the evening wind-down. CopperHead Pub sits attached to the hotel for lunch and dinner without a walk, and the daily continental breakfast gets a market morning started early.
- Near Reversing Falls
- Near Old City Market
- Indoor pool and hot tub
- CopperHead Pub on site
Our take
This is the pick for Old City Market and Reversing Falls together over any hotel further out near the airport strip, since both sit inside a five-minute drive and the walk to the museum and aquatic centre actually works at sixteen minutes. Couples rate the location well, and the pool-and-hot-tub combination beats a plain fitness centre elsewhere. Anyone chasing a fast airport transfer should book Best Western or Hampton Inn instead, since this trades runway proximity for harbour-side walkability.
- ✓Walk to Old City Market for breakfast on a market morning instead of the hotel's continental spread, since the vendors open early.
- ✓Time a Reversing Falls visit around slack tide using the posted schedule, worth planning around the tide, not just the clock.
- ✓Book the sixteen-minute walk to the Canada Games Aquatic Centre if you want a lap swim, since the hotel pool suits soaking more than laps.
Why we love it
- Five minutes from Reversing Falls by car
- A sixteen-minute walk to the New Brunswick Museum
- CopperHead Pub attached for lunch and dinner
- Indoor pool and hot tub together
Why guests love itA family that walks the sixteen minutes to the New Brunswick Museum in the morning usually drives the short five minutes to Reversing Falls in the afternoon, timing the visit around the tide schedule posted at the falls. CopperHead Pub next door covers dinner without loading everyone back into the car, and the hot tub afterward works better for tired kids than a full pool lap. Old City Market makes an easy stop for breakfast supplies before heading out for the day.
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