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| - So we were going to be in Montreal for a night, and I wanted to stay someplace cool. My wife started looking for rooms at chains where we had points, but I wanted something just a little bit different. Something that fit my image of Montreal as being so close, yet so far culturally speaking.
Nailed it.
The room was beautiful and beautifully decorated. The art was nice, the bed was nice, the sitting area was nice. The bathroom was maybe the best I've ever had in a hotel, with white tile, glass shower and gorgeous tub. A tub so big it could comfortably fit even my fat ass. Which I tested out...twice in one day.
In fact, the stay started out perfectly! We arrived on a cruise ship that morning around 8, and headed to the hotel to drop our bags off. I had called the day before to make sure they had a secure place to store our luggage until our room was ready, and the (very friendly) staff did us one better: they actually had our room ready for us at 9:30 AM.
As to location, it's a 10-15 minute walk to the Museum. McGill's campus is a couple of blocks north, and the amazingly beautiful Cathedral Marie Reine du Monde is a couple of blocks south (I highly recommend Mass in French). Also within three blocks walk is a flagship store for the Roots clothing brand, an Avis car rental facility, plenty of bars, lots of restaurants and patisseries, ice cream, fun shopping, and movie theater. There are, I'm not even joking about this, no fewer than three good coffee places within one block. Yes, including a Tim Horton's.
But the best compliment I can give this hotel is to repeat something my wife said. As I marveled at the tub, and the view, and the Tivoli stereo that was already playing Montreal's classical music station as we entered (and which we had on all the time we were in the room, and awake, for excellent mood setting), my wife said, bemusedly, "I've never seen you be in a hotel room for ten minutes without complaining about something."
Yep. That sums it up.
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