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Montréal is a city of neighborhoods with distinct personalities, which creates a broad spectrum of options when it comes to deciding on a place to stay. The Downtown core has many of the big chain hotels you'd find in any city, while Old Montréal, the Plateau, and other surrounding areas have unique auberges (inns) and boutique hotels.
Most of the major hotels in Downtown—the ones with big meeting rooms, swimming pools, and several bars and restaurants—are ideal for those who want all the facilities along with easy access to the department stores and malls on rue Ste-Catherine, the museums of the Golden Square Mile, and nightlife on rues Crescent and de la Montagne. If you want something a little more historical, consider renting a room in one of the dozen or so boutique hotels that occupy the centuries-old buildings lining the cobbled streets of Old Montréal. Most of them offer all the conveniences along with the added charm of stone walls, casement windows, and period-style furnishings.
If your plans include shopping expeditions to avenue Mont-Royal and rue Laurier with maybe a few late nights at the jazz bars and dance clubs of Boulevard St. Laurent and rue St-Denis, then the place to bed down is in one of Plateau Mont-Royal's small but comfortable hotels. Room rates in the area tend to be quite reasonable, but be careful: the hotels right in the middle of the action—on rue St-Denis, for example—can be noisy, especially if you get a room fronting the street.
Catering to a variety of travelers—from families and their pets, to the business and fitness cliques—the Intercontinental Montréal offers lodgers personal service, a lap pool and a 24-hour gym, a solid in-house restaurant, and the plush Sarah B., the city's only dedicated absinthe bar.
Modern and comfortable, this newly-renovated 124-room hotel reopened in May 2025. The convenient location, on-site Spanish restaurant, and simple, minimalist design make it a good choice for business travelers and conference attendees wanting to be within walking distance of the Palais des Congrès convention center while also being within easy reach of Old Montréal.
Built out of two adjoining houses with a signature yellow front door, lacquered-barn-board façade, and welcoming flower boxes, this turn-of-the-20th-century residence overlooks Parc Lafontaine and one of the city's major bicycle trails. Rooms, which have exposed brick walls, come with plasma TVs and windows that open. A parking card to park on neighboring streets can be obtained for C$9 on a first-come, first-served basis.
Business travelers and jazz and comedy festival performers cycle through the Delta's airportlike lobby every year, taking advantage of the hotel's simple and quiet rooms, saltwater pool, squash courts, high-tech gym, and family-friendly restaurant.
Overlooking the Place des Arts plaza, where the Just for Laughs and International Jazz festivals stage their free events, this Doubletree has loyal clients who return for the minimal-chic rooms and the hotel's fantastic location right downtown. It is across from the Musée d'Art Contemporain, beside the Complexe Desjardins shopping mall, and an easy walk to Chinatown.
This ode to Feng Shui on the edge of Chinatown has an enviable location across from the Palais des Congrès convention center and is just a five-minute walk to Old Montréal. The guest rooms are huge, with dark wood furnishings, and the public area includes a pagoda restaurant-bar and a lobby with a massive koi fish pond.
Its exterior may be part art nouveau from 1914 and part modern brick-and-concrete, but the hip clientele, sleek and modern interiors and furnishings, and art throughout make this centrally located hotel all cool. Since it appeals to a young, buzzy party crowd, you may spot models, actors, and musicians milling around the lobby.
From the Brutalist concrete façade to its modern and fabulous lobby, the Bonaventure delivers style and value, along with a heated outdoor pool, 2½ acres of rooftop gardens, a pond and waterfalls inhabited by dozens of mallard ducks, and updated bedrooms (most renovated in 2021) with white bedding, gray walls, dark wood, granite countertops, and modern bathrooms.
Situated on the eastern edge of Old Montréal, the Hyatt Centric forms part of a new six-acre mixed-use development, Place Gare Viger, a visionary complex built around the 19th-century Canadian Pacific Railway hotel, the Château Viger. The hotel itself is housed in forward-looking cantilevered buildings. The lobby, a nod to train stations in the early days of railway travel, features a marble reception desk, squared bronze arches, and a terrazzo floor. Rooms are understated and practical, with walls and furniture in muted whites and grays, including a gallery wall of black and white photos above the bed (s), the one splash of color being the teal armchair and desk chair.
After a $US 25-million-dollar renovation of the 30-storey brutalist building, Hyatt launched its first Hyatt Place hotel in Montréal in 2022. The new hotel's contemporary interiors can best be described as muted. Think neutral grays, whites and blacks, interspersed with a few touches of blond wood. Comfortable guest rooms are a good size, featuring pillow-top mattresses, white marble bathrooms, and either a sofa-sleeper or a single lounge sofa chair to relax on. Located on the edge of the Village and Downtown, and even closer to the Latin Quarter, Hyatt Place Montréal is ideally situated for business travelers, partyers and night owls.
This comfortable hotel is in a great location for shopping, museums, and restaurants, and made more so special with features like a year-round heated pool, hardwood accents, fireplaces, and soundproofed windows.
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