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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.
The legacy, the elegance, the celebrity chef, the pool—all are good reasons to splurge on a room at the Ritz, the city's grandest hotel and icon in the Golden Square Mile, near museums, McGill University, and all the best boutiques.
After a more than two-decade absence, the second incarnation of the Four Seasons Montréal offers all you would expect from the iconic brand: world-class design, luxurious rooms, chic social areas, and impeccable service. Notable accents at this Downtown property include black-and-white marble surfaces, burnished copper and brass countertops, subdued cherry-blossom-pink velvet fabrics, and an intact, glass-encased, giant pink crab shell in the reception area. Stylish, contemporary rooms are done up in fresh, soothing tones of baby's breath white and dove gray with a long white marble counter and marble bathrooms.
Once a cotton factory in the 1800s, this five-story heritage boutique hotel has loftlike rooms, suites, apartments, and terrace-suites with soaring ceilings, French windows, cast-iron columns, and an artsy design vibe that doesn't sacrifice comfort for style. The bathrooms are equipped with freestanding tubs, heated floors, and plush bathrobes.
Civility reigns at one of the city's most celebrated Grande Dame hotels, a member of the Leading Hotels of the World group and popular with celebrities (from Hollywood moguls to European nobility) who appreciate the splendor of this former Mercantile bank and its discrete staff. Guest rooms include lavish furnishings and large marble bathrooms with separate tubs and showers.
Set in a restored neoclassical landmark once owned by a Canadian railway pioneer (as well as a new 11-story tower behind the original mansion), this boutique hotel features contemporary guest rooms with state-of-the-art comforts (chromatherapy showers, Japanese [Toto] toilets, heated floors, and Nespresso machines) as well as ornate interiors that include original features, such as 300-year-old stained-glass windows and intricate woodwork.
With its ongoing renovation, the Sofitel Golden Mile remains a stylish address in Montréal's hospitality scene. The redesigned restaurant, Renoir, and new cocktail bar, NINI, which opened in April 2025, incorporate a lot of curves and colors while guest rooms feature simple contemporary decor with a few pops of color, Nespresso coffee machines, and marble bathrooms.
Committed luxury shoppers love the location—across the street from the posh Holt Renfrew Ogilvy and steps away from other destination fashion boutiques on rue Ste-Catherine and the Golden Square Mile. A refurbish of the rooms and lobby between 2020 and 2023 make the hotel swankier still. Style changes include a redesigned two-story floor-to-ceiling glass-and-steel façade and a mid-century modern lobby featuring a suspended mirrored bronze fireplace. On the epicurean front, YAMA, a modern Japanese eatery from Montréal chef Antonio Park serves Latin-influenced Asian plates while French pâtissier Bertrand Bazin makes top-notch French pastries and bistro fare. Rooms boast gently curved, pale pink love seats at the foot of the bed,Vogue magazine cover art, and marble bathrooms that include a separate shower and whirlpool bath.
Once the Canadian headquarters of the Birks jewelry empire, Canada's equivalent of Tiffany's, the glamorous Hôtel Birks wisely preserved the jewelry store's original stained glass, pendant lamps, and ornate crown moldings when it was converted in the late 2010s. Rooms are elegant and contemporary, boasting damask bedcovers, linen drapes, gold accenting, and marble bathrooms.
Drawn to its Baz Luhrmann–style flamboyance, young culture vultures love that Chez Swann fully commits to the idiosyncratic design, with swirly black ceilings in the hallways, original art, custom furniture, textured rugs, sink-in sofas, a spin room, and free calls within North America. Cost is more reasonable if you select the prepaid, non-refundable rate.
Whether you like the Art Deco style or not, HONEYROSE is a showstopper. All burnished golds, soft velvet pastel tones, fluted wood paneling, a glass-block statement wall, and pink and coral marble textures, this hotel, newly built and unveiled in June 2023, evokes the Great Gatsby era in all its splendor. The Commodore, the hotel's main restaurant and bar, which does sophisticated French bistro cuisine, pays homage to the 1930s Streamline Moderne grand ocean liner style—think curved booths, terrazzo flooring, leather banquettes, rounded rectangular mirrors, a short underlit stairway, and the pièce de résistance: the circular bar at the restaurant's entrance. More subdued are guest rooms, featuring rounded furniture, pink glass showers, lustrous and velvety fabrics, and large windows.
Popular with A-listers and creatives, the Hôtel William Gray marries the deep history and contemporary cool of Old Montréal, with its two 18th-century stone buildings topped by an eight-story glass tower. The lobby is alluring, with its low-slung design furniture, gas fireplace, hanging Edison lightbulbs, and modern glass, marble, and steel stairway. Rooms feel fresh and airy thanks to the white oak floors, white walls, and gauzy curtains.
