Hotel & Spa Carré Saint-Louis

This hotel is a little gem in a super area of downtown Montreal. The room was spotless and the bed was very comfortable, with high-quality sheets and a good selection of comfortable pillows. A kitchenette made it very easy to pick up salads or snacks to refrigerate or reheat leftovers from a restaurant the night before. Breakfast is included and there’s a good selection of fruit, boiled eggs, smoked salmon, deli meats and yogurt. Cereals as well. While there were scrambled eggs, I tried them twice but not cooked to my taste. Having said that, there were fresh pastries and bagels, so a bagel with cream cheese and smoked salmon with some fruit served very well. This hotel is very walkable to Notre Dame, Place des Arts and several theatres and museums. Lots of great restaurants to suit anyone’s tastes. The subway is literally a 3-minute walk and in 10 minutes, you can be at the Jean Talon Market, which has a plethora of foods and drinks to suit anyone’s taste palate. I’d highly recommend Hotel and Spa Carre St. Denis and will definitely be back next time I visit Montreal.

Nice Montreal Hotel Nice rooms in a nice neighbourhood with a park close by. The rooms are well-appointed and seem to have been updated recently. Also close to subway making it super easy to get around.

The main thing this hotel has going for it is Location-Location-Location. We walked everywhere. Thrift shops, record stores, restaurants, theatres, cafés… it’s all there. One thing worth mentioning is that the hotel is a maze. You can get lost looking for your room. After a certain time at night, the front door is locked and a door beside it opens with the room key. From there, we made it up the stairs in a corridor with rooms… nothing else. It took us some time to figure out that you have to leave the hotel by going outside on a balcony (on the second floor) and find another door to re-enter the hotel. Then, we walked through some maintenance room/hall and ended up back in a familiar part of the hotel and found our room. Coming back from the bar Saturday night, it was quite a surprise not knowing where to go or what to do. The front desk is empty, all the lights are off… it didn’t feel safe. Maybe a little heads up or a warning from the front desk would have gone a long way here. While we’re at it, the $25/day parking was convenient since we didn’t need our car at all. It has to be the tightest parking lot in town, snuggly located in a tight back alley where you need to do a 90 degree turn on a dime while avoiding a brick wall, an thick iron fence and a car that didn’t pull into it’s spot all the way… not impossible but not simple. I want to end my review on a good note. We did have a good trip and the hotel’s location can’t be beat.