42 Best Hotels in Montreal, Quebec

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.

Site of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's legendary 1969 "bed-in", Le Reine Elizabeth boasts contemporary mid-century modern interiors; a huge market and food hall; a gorgeous pool redo and new spa; and creative meeting hubs, all the while preserving the property's iconic heritage. Indeed, John and Yoko's "bed-in" suite [1742] was carefully restored and enhanced in 2017, with artifacts from the day. Atmospheric Art Deco restaurant Rosélys, helmed by Paris-trained chef Edgar Trudeau-Ferrin, is popular with locals for its posh cocktails, friendly and attentive service, and ever-changing top tier menu. Vegetarians—and vegans in particular—can be accommodated but should call ahead.

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.

At the junction of Downtown, Old Montréal, and Chinatown, Humaniti, a member of the Marriott Autograph Collection, is an uber-modern design hotel and condo construction that opened in 2021. The H-shaped complex consists of three linked glass towers of different heights, housing the hotel and restaurant/bar, condos, offices, wellness options, a bakery, and a grocery store. The hotel lobby, a vision of retro-chic design, features asymmetrical black flooring, canary yellow sofas, rounded accent chairs, and lots of poufs and cushions in bright pops of color. Adorning the reception area are bold artworks by local artists, from the owner's personal collection. Rooms are sleek and contemporary with low, Scandinavian-inspired wooden bed frames and back paneling, mustard yellow club chairs, floor-to-ceiling windows, and modern bathrooms with peacock blue tiles. Guests can also avail themselves of the spa and the two-story hypergym with eco-friendly NOHrD equipment and a yoga studio.

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.

Brainchild of Silvio Sicoli and Gino Melatti, owners of hotel group Epik Collection, this retro boutique hotel-slash-museum is an ode to the Montréal of the 1960s and '70s, a period when the city hosted Expo '67 and stood at the forefront of art, culture, and design in North America. Each floor is a distinct mélange of art, history, and design, in addition to a film, music, and photo archive. They couldn't have done it without the collaboration of Archives Montréal, Bibliothèque et archives nationales du Québec, Library and Archives Canada, and the National Film Board (NFB). Each of the 33 rooms is completely unique, with custom built furniture and bespoke wallpaper. Guests will find vintage records to play on old-school turntables, NFB film footage to play on TVs, rotary phones on the bedside table, and more. Uville is not just a hotel or an immersive museum; it's a work of love.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

Le Crystal's luxury suites are all about dramatic style and comfort, designed to showcase the rooms' sleek kitchens, spa-style bathrooms, separate soaking tubs, and floor-to-ceiling windows. A nice perk is the on-site Starbucks.

With the construction, in 2019, of an additional six stories of glass-walled rooms atop the roof, the formerly drab concrete building looks, if not more attractive at least more interesting. A kaleidoscopic mural, Dazzle My Heart, by Canadian artist Michelle Hoogveld, appears on the hotel's façade. Inside, rooms are contemporary 1960s chic with vintage touches like ridged wooden paneling, “bubble” chairs, spherical lamps, and, in some cases, round beds. The 1960s theme continues in the luxurious bathrooms, which are papered with murals of retro newspaper highlights in a nostalgic homage to hip '60s-era Montréal. Egyptian cotton and bamboo linen sheets, plush cotton bathrobes, and Ruby Brown vegan bath products exclusive to Le Germain Hotel Montréal round out the luxury experience.

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.

This boutique hotel, named for Québec's most passionate poet, Émile Nelligan, is known for its lobby atrium and rooftop terrace offering views of Old Montréal and the harbor. Occupying four historic buildings from the 1850s, the hotel is just a block south of the Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Montréal.

Forget fussy oil paintings or rococo furniture—behind its 19th-century Beaux arts façade, the St. Paul boasts a chic lobby furnished with jewel-toned velvet sofas and a giant alabaster fireplace built of backlit blocks of "ice." Rooms have also undergone a redo with an airier, more contemporary feel and design in line with the lobby.

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.