44 Best Hotels in Montreal, Quebec

At the foot of Mont-Royal, in the heart of Downtown, this stylish 17-story hotel uses its colorful yet understated elegance (if the beautiful lobby carpets, made by the same company that carpeted Versailles for King Louis XIV, can be called understated), excellent service and details, and convenient location to attract a well-heeled international crowd.

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 is also home to two restaurants, Taverne Gaspar and Pincette Lobster Bar, in addition to a rooftop bar in summer.

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.

Le Reine Elizabeth's 2017 retro-chic makeover 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 (John and Yoko's 1969 "bed-in" suite [1742] has been carefully restored and enhanced 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 menu. Vegetarians—and vegans in particular—can be accommodated but should call ahead.

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 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 a brand new uber-modern design hotel and condo construction that opened in June 2021. The H-shaped complex, the first "smart vertical community" in Montréal, consists of three linked glass towers of 9, 19, and 39 stories 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 royal blue accent chairs, and lots of poufs and cushions in bright pops of yellow, aqua, and fuchsia. 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 wood 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.

Opened in 2019, this retro boutique hotel-slash-museum is an ode to the Montréal of the 1960s and '70s, when the city hosted Expo '67 and stood at the forefront of the art, culture, and design scenes in North America. Each floor is a bespoke mélange of art, history, and design, in addition to a film, music, and photo archive thanks, in part, to 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. The furniture was custom built and the wallpaper is bespoke. 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 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.

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.

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. The buffet breakfast offers dishes like quiche and breakfast wraps and an assortment of cereal, yogurt, and breads, served in front of a stained-glass wall under a skylight.

After extensive room renovations in 2016, the InterContinental definitely got its groove back, catering to a variety of travelers—from families and their pets, to the business and fitness cliques. It offers lodgers personal service; a great gym and saltwater lap pool; a solid in-house restaurant and bar, serving southern French cuisine; and the plush Sarah B., the city's only dedicated absinthe bar.

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 2020 purchase by Hilton's Curio Collection and 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; rounded walls in all common spaces; and a mid-century modern contemporary lobby featuring a burnt-orange banquette, sculptural lighting, and 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, of Westmount's Café 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. 

This stylish, tech-savvy Griffintown hotel appeals for its affordable set rates, modular loft-style rooms, partially open 7th floor terrace, light ecofootprint, and the ultimate luxury of no set checkout time. Ask for a corner room; for $20 more you've upgraded to a more spacious and brighter room with better views.

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.

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.

History lovers—and lovers of the romantic variety, too—appreciate the luxury within the Versailles' two elegant Beaux arts mansions, with high ceilings, plaster moldings, antique furnishings, and a twinkling chandelier in the entryway.

Business travelers and jazz and comedy festival performers cycle through the Delta's airportlike lobby every year, taking advantage of the hotel's minimalist 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.

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. 

Housed inside a 19th-century building, the Hôtel Bonaparte is a gem. The swank lobby, completely overhauled in 2014 with stark white walls, mirrors, faux ornamental molding, and a wall-mounted electric fireplace, belies the rest of the hotel's old-world style. The rooms feature exposed stone walls, hardwood floors, and original wood details. With old-fashioned good service, one of the best French restaurants in the city, 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.

From the Brutalist concrete façade to its modern and fabulous lobby (latest renovation in 2019), 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.

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.

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.

Whether or not you like the art deco style, 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.

Le Germain Montréal was popular with creative types and international hipsters who appreciate contemporary design and stylish details even before the 2019 top-to-bottom overhaul. Now, in an impressive engineering coup, the formerly drab 1967 concrete building has actually expanded upward, with the construction of an additional six stories of glass-walled rooms. A kaleidoscopic mural, Dazzle My Heart, by Canadian artist Michelle Hoogveld, appears on the 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.