9 Best Hotels in Montreal, Quebec

This showcase for 19th-century architecture—think casement windows, exposed beams, and brick—is the gold standard for intimate boutique hotels, attracting A-listers and well-heeled romantics with its mix of old-world charm and modern comfort. In the rooms, the historical architectural features are paired with high-tech gadgetry (like Harman Kardon S3 Bluetooth speakers) and stylish contemporary bathrooms with multi-jet rainfall showers. Accommodation options include hotel rooms as well as lofts and apartments in separate buildings. The hotel also houses two restaurants, Taverne Gaspar and Pincette Lobster Bar, in addition to a rooftop bar in summer.

With its rustic stone walls and exposed beams, this inn was the first of its kind in the Old Port when it opened in the late 1980s, and the new owners continue to honor its tradition of calm excellence while adding modern comfort and contemporary design accents throughout. Rooms have faux fireplaces, flat-screen TVs, safes that accommodate laptops, and roomy desks. 

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.

Budget travelers flock to this small, shabby-chic hotel for its free Wi-Fi, métro access, kitchenettes, and deluxe continental breakfast, but its best-selling point is its location right on rue St-Denis, among the Latin Quarter's trendy restaurants, movie theaters, and poutine joints.

Popular with love-struck couples visiting friends on the Plateau, this renovated mansion is an ode to French Renaissance Revival architecture while also promoting an organic and vegetarian ethic, from all offerings at breakfast to all bedding and cleaning products. Its quiet and uncluttered entrance still has an original terra-cotta fountain, hardwood floors, and fancy moldings from 1890. Rooms are painted stark white and have broad, low beds.

Hôtel Bonaparte's lobby, with its stark white walls, gleaming white tile floors, faux ornamental molding, and a wall-mounted electric fireplace, belies the 19th-century building in which it is housed, as well as the rest of the hotel's old-world style. The rooms feature exposed stone walls, hardwood floors, and original wood details. Given its old-fashioned good service, one of the best French restaurants in the city, a concierge Clef d'Or, and comfortable rooms, what's not to love? Rooms near the rear have views over the private gardens of the Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Montréal.

At the nexus of the Plateau, the Quartier Latin, and the Quartier des Spectacles, the Château de l'Argoat consists of two Victorian-era cream-colored stone homes, some of whose original character and gorgeous wood features have been retained. The owner, originally from Belgium, is an art lover, and tableaux adorn the rooms and hallways of the property, which she views as a hotel-gallery. The superior rooms are quite lovely, with large, Italian-tiled bathrooms in the eastern half of the hotel, while the part containing the standard and comfort rooms is much more basic and in need of renovation.

The second of the Petit Hôtels, the Petit Hôtel Notre-Dame opened in early 2025. Decor and design are sleek, modern and minimalist, featuring exposed brick and limestone walls--as is to be expected in this part of the city--low platform beds, simple white bedding, and inoffensive taupe and white tones throughout. The headboard with built-in electrical outlets, reading lights, and USB ports makes it easy to charge your phone and other electronics as you lie in bed.

  Another, the first, Petit Hôtel is located three blocks away at 168 rue St-Paul Ouest.

Little sister of Auberge du Vieux-Port, this boutique hotel marries creative design with old stone walls, exposed beams, a narrow lobby with a counter coffee bar and a 7-foot orange sculpture, and—contrary to its name—not-so-petite rooms. The ample rooms have king-sized beds with fluffy feather bedding (can be swapped for nonallergenic), bamboo floors, desks, and panels to connect electronic devices.  A second Petit Hôtel location opened in 2025 at 39 rue Notre Dame Ouest in Old Montréal.