ALT Montreal Griffintown
Savvy young hipsters and budget-conscious creative types flock to ALT in Griffintown for its highly affordable set rates, and for sleek rooms with designer furnishings, expansive views, and no set check-out time.
8 Best Hotels in Montreal, Quebec
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.
ALT Montréal Griffintown
This stylish, tech-savvy Griffintown hotel appeals for its affordable set rates, modular loft-style rooms, partially open seventh-floor terrace, light eco-footprint, and the ultimate luxury of no set checkout time. Ask for a corner room; for about $25 more you've upgraded to a more spacious and brighter room with better views.
Auberge le Jardin d'Antoine
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.
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Casa Bianca Bed & Breakfast
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.
Château Versailles
History lovers—and lovers of the romantic variety, too—appreciate the style within the Versailles' two elegant beaux arts mansions, with high ceilings, plaster moldings, antique furnishings, and a twinkling chandelier in the entryway. If you need light, request a room other than the basement room.
Hôtel Château de l'Argoat
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.
Hôtel Terrasse Royale
A good home base, the Hôtel Terrasse Royale, near the Oratoire St-Joseph, is a comfortable, recently renovated (2019) hotel in a busy neighborhood with convenient access to a métro station (across the street) and proximity to multicultural markets and restaurants, where you can dine cheaply and well.
ALT Hotel Quartier Dix30
If you have a car and don't mind driving to and from the city, you will appreciate this stylish, tech-savvy hotel for its miraculously affordable set rates, its modular loft-style rooms, light ecofootprint, and the ultimate luxury of no set check-out time.
