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The quick read: Three Kelowna hotels, Hotel Eldorado, Manteo Resort, and the Four Points by Sheraton Kelowna Airport, raised $5,397.61 for the Salvation Army's wildfire relief work. Their Okanagan Strong campaign gave a share of room revenue collected from August 17 to September 17, 2026. The Salvation Army spent the summer feeding firefighters and evacuees at wildfires across British Columbia, including fires near West Kelowna, Boston Bar, Chilliwack, and Kamloops.

Three Kelowna hotels turned a month of room nights into help for wildfire victims.

Hotel Eldorado, Manteo Resort, and the Four Points by Sheraton Kelowna Airport raised $5,397.61 for the Salvation Army's wildfire relief work.

The money came through the hotels' Okanagan Strong campaign, which donated a share of room revenue collected from August 17 to September 17, 2026.

The hotels pledge 15 percent of proceeds from the Okanagan Strong offer to local charities aiding wildfire relief.

The Salvation Army is one of the charities the campaign supports, alongside the Central Okanagan Food Bank and Mamas for Mamas.

Where the money goes

The Salvation Army's emergency disaster teams had a busy summer across British Columbia.

Since June, they have served food to firefighters and people forced from their homes at wildfires in West Kelowna, Comox, Boston Bar, Chilliwack, and Kamloops.

In mid-June, teams deployed to a wildfire in West Kelowna, then travelled to Comox to provide meals for firefighters.

In early July, they supported evacuees from Boston Bar with meals, snacks, drinks, hygiene kits, gas vouchers, and emotional and spiritual care.

Since July 24, the focus has been an out-of-control fire that displaced residents of Clinton and 70 Mile House, with evacuees sheltered in Kamloops receiving three meals a day.

It is unglamorous, hands-on work: hot food, clean water, and a place to sit down, delivered to people having the worst week of their lives.

Businesses stepping up

The hotel campaign is not a one-off gesture.

The Okanagan Strong offer dates back to the fierce wildfires of August 2023, when the Eldorado and Manteo first pledged a share of proceeds to wildfire relief charities.

Argus Hospitality's other properties, including the Four Points Kelowna Airport and the Hampton Inn and Suites Kelowna, have adopted the initiative as well.

Three years on, the program is still running, and still writing cheques.

That is worth noting in a season when wildfire fatigue sets in fast and the cameras move on.

Governments will argue for months about fire budgets, fuel management, and who should have done what.

Meanwhile, a hotel guest booking a room on the lake quietly puts a few dollars toward the next meal for a firefighter or an evacuated family.

Small money, honestly given, and it adds up.

This time it added up to $5,397.61.

Sources: Kelowna Grapevine newsletter, week of November 13, 2026; Hotel Eldorado, #okanaganstrong, November 9, 2026; The Salvation Army, Salvation Army Responds to Wildfires Across British Columbia, August 13, 2026.