Adults-Only

Adults-only hotels in Canada are small inns, not resorts, and the age limit changes from one house to the next. Of the 13 stays on this page, four set a rule that keeps children out: Abigail's Hotel in Victoria, the Banff Boutique Inn, the Swiss Hotel in Ottawa and the Brookside Inn Boutique Hotel in Abbotsford. A fifth, the Auberge Wild Rose Inn near Moncton, is listed as adult-only on some booking sites only. None of them is a large all-inclusive resort. Read the age line before booking with a teenager: it runs from 12 to 19. Abigail's is the one I would book first: an adult-only inn of 30 rooms in a 1930s Tudor mansion about three short blocks from Victoria's Inner Harbour, with a three-course breakfast and a 9.6 rating from 962 reviews. The hotel's own booking page sets a minimum age of 16, so a younger teen cannot come. In the Rockies, the Banff Boutique Inn (9.3, 687 reviews) is on Cave Avenue, the street to the Cave and Basin National Historic Site, a walk from Banff Avenue. Listings say the main guest must be 18 to check in, and there is parking on site. The Swiss Hotel in Ottawa (8.6, 228 reviews) is the strictest: Expedia says no guest aged 18 or under, Priceline gives a minimum check-in age of 19. It has no elevator, so ask for a lower floor if stairs are a problem. In the Fraser Valley, the Brookside Inn (9.0, 163 reviews) only turns away children under 12; it has six rooms with fireplaces, serves a continental breakfast and may refuse stag and bachelorette party bookings. The Auberge Wild Rose Inn near Moncton (8.9, 765 reviews) is adult-only on some booking sites, while others accept a young child in the parents' room, with no cribs or rollaway beds: ask before you book. The rest of the list, SOHO Residences Lisgar and the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Ottawa, the avid Hotel in Vaughan, the Hampton Inn in Mississauga, the Comfort Inns in Saint-Jérôme and Lévis, Objectif Santé in Longueuil and the Northern Motel in Sault Ste. Marie, can work for a couple, but none of them, as far as I could check, publishes a policy that keeps children out. If a child-free building is the reason you are booking, choose among the first four, or Wild Rose once you have asked.