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| - We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express in Montreal this summer. The Sheraton was full, so I decided to give holiday Inn a chance.
First I should go down Memory Lane, this new modern hotel is about a block away from Chinatown, where my parents always used to take us when we were kids.
Our room was a "family suite" it featured a kitchenette, sans oven, a living area with two queen beds, and a separate room with a sofabed and an office desk. This was built as a condo. As such it lacks Central air on the floors. All of the units have mini-split AC units. Great if you're going to convert the building into condos - bad if you're trying to use it as a hotel.
Plusses
- 5 minute walk from the Metro
- 5 minute walk from the Desjardins Complex
- Desjardins complex has a full grocery store in it, so you can stock up on food and drinks for your fridge
- free continental breakfast
- our TV broke, and the maintenance guy was there in 10 minutes and had it fixed in 30 seconds
- fully bilingual staff
- Rue St Catharine is just north of you and has a lot of good restaurants for dinner, and one nice creme glacee stand.
Issues
- The AC unit is in the separate room, so if your kid closes the door at night, the rest of you lose out on air conditioning.
- there is a small parkette nearby with hobos. We saw one hobo making out with one of the statues of a Separtist on Boulevars Rene Levesque.
- wireless internet does not work too well. It works quite well in the front lobby, but intermittently in my room. We complained a few times to the front desk staff, but they were of no help.
- the hotel cannot control this, but there are streetwalkers on Boulevard St Laurent. Keep that in mind if you're taking an evening walk with your kids.
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