8 bijou hotels that go the extra Montréal mile

Recipient of a prestigious Clef MICHELIN, the Place d’Armes is an iconic property in Old Montréal located in four storied greystone buildings with gorgeously carved frontage and warmly appointed rooms. They stand out for their restaurants, among other things: Kyo Bar Japonais is one of the city’s best sources of Japanese street food. It’s the ideal post-meeting wind-down, especially thanks to the award-winning staff.

Guest rooms: 169

Total surface area for exhibition: 1,022 m² / 11,000 ft²

Local sales contact: info@hotelplacedarmes.com, 514 788-4008

Few hotel bars feel as warm and welcoming as the W’s, which greets all passersby from the hotel’s very lobby, beckoning them in for house developed craft cocktails like the French Toast Milk Punch (a comforting mix of Buffalo Trace, Tia Maria, maple syrup and cereal milk). That’s just one way this Old Montréal hotel sets the party tone: its utterly unique Vinyl Bar is a bi-monthly event that invites guests — cocktails in hand — to enter into an immersive experience produced in collab with Fono Creatives, where music is meant to be heard, touched… and lived.

Guest rooms: 152

Total surface area for exhibition: 293 m² / 3,159 ft²

Local sales contact: wmontreal@whotels.com, 514 395-3100

Walk into the lobby and you’ll feel like you’re in an art gallery. The Humaniti is a scenester’s hotel with its finger on Montréal’s cultural pulse, literally across the street from the Palais des congrès de Montréal, aka the Montreal convention centre. From its luxurious rooms to its courtyard, it features art by local creatives throughout the property, including the stunning metallic tree sculpture by Marc Séguin that sits proudly outside: titled H-Anima, it’s made with 2,000 aluminium panels painted in all sorts of colours, swaying like leaves in the wind.

Guest rooms: 209

Total surface area for exhibition: 370 m² / 3,985 ft²

Local sales contact: ventes@humanitihotel.com, 514 657-2595

For attendees who want style, comfort and convenience in equal measure, the Vogue is a polished downtown base. Set in Montréal’s elegant Golden Square Mile, it places guests steps from boutiques, museums, galleries and the city’s cultural scene. Spacious rooms feature generous work areas, while high-speed Wi-Fi keeps business moving. Eleven flexible meeting and event spaces, audiovisual equipment and inviting networking areas make it especially well suited to conferences and productive stays for busy professional travellers.

Guest rooms: 148

Total surface area for exhibition: 605 m² / 6,517 ft²

Local sales contact: yulmq-salesadm@hilton.com, 514 285-5555

Downtown’s Warwick Le Crystal is all suites. Yes, that alone is a selling point for a property located smack-bang in the thick of the excitement, but in addition to the spaciousness and like-home lifestyle having a suite with provide all your attendees, the Warwick has impeccable amenities redecorated and dressed to the nines thanks to a recent refresh that includes Nespresso machines, rain showers and beautiful work stations. Some rooms even have fireplaces.

Guest rooms: 131

Total surface area for exhibition: 682 m² / 7,345 ft²

Local sales contact: info.montreal@warwickhotels.com, 514 657-8111

Truly like a miniature village unto itself, the William Gray comprises generous social spaces — from a coffee stop to a corner shop, streetwear boutique, vast restaurant, spa and beautiful terrace — that are so genuinely hip and happening that they attract as many locals as they do travellers. The four-seasons outdoor dining is a reason to book: Terrasse William-Gray has an incredible view on Old Montréal that you can even gaze on in winter, thanks to heated see-through domes.

Guest rooms: 127

Total surface area for exhibition: 929 m² / 10,000 ft²

Local sales contact: ventes@graycollection.com, 438 387-2015

Another hotel that offers all-suites, Hôtel Saint-Sulpice — located a stone’s throw away from the Notre-Dame Basilica, Montréal’s most popular historic landmark — is remarkable for its community engagement, hiring local artists and designers to decorate its suites. In its pretty lobby boutique you’ll find souvenirs produced by those same creators, like cushions printed in the same Montréal-landmarks toile pattern by Mezari Atelier that features in some of its wallpapers.

Guest rooms: 108

Total surface area for exhibition: 213 m² / 2,289 ft²

Local sales contact: reservations@lesaintsulpice.com, 514 350-1156

If you’ve got shoppers in your group, this is the hotel to book. A worldwide symbol of quality and luxury, Montréal’s Four Seasons splashes its stunning aesthetic throughout the property, from its 4th-floor lobby bar (all swooshy shapes, velvet and brass) to its restaurant (resplendent in black and white marble). But the kicker is the automatic door right by that bar and that restaurant that leads you directly into Montréal’s premium luxury shopping department store: Holt Renfrew Ogilvy.

Guest rooms: 169

Total surface area for exhibition: 988 m² / 10,636 ft²  

Local sales contact: kaisha.ferres-oxime@fourseasons.com, 514 843-2735