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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.
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.
Four splendidly ornate neoclassical commercial buildings were merged to create Old Montréal's largest boutique hotel, pleasing honeymooners and business execs alike with its old-fashioned grandeur, exposed brick walls in rooms, hammam (Middle Eastern–style steam bath), rooftop terrace, and unobstructed views of the Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Montréal. In late-2024, Le Place d'Armes was awarded a Michelin key, a distinction reserved for hotels that the organization judges as excellent in five categories: architecture and interior design, quality and consistency of service, overall personality and character, value for the price, and a significant contribution to the guest experience in a particular setting.
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.
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.
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.
Often accommodating movie crews and performers who make themselves at home in the sun-filled laundry room and glassed-in rooftop pool, this apartment-style hotel is full of basic rooms and suites—all with fully equipped kitchens and living rooms with flat-screen televisions.
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.
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.
