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| - Excellent location and beautiful modern decor combine to create the best hotel experience I've ever had.
The rooms are BEAUTIFULLY decorated in a modern fashion. The hotel is mostly made of thick concrete, so the rooms are VERY quiet. The decor is so good that I didn't even notice the concrete until the 2nd day.
My wife and I don't speak French (yet) but it wasn't a problem at this hotel. Only one of the front desk staff was difficult to understand while speaking English (thick accent) but he was very polite and slowed down and used easy to understand gestures to communicate.
Each room has it's own WiFi network (which I'm sure still results in shared bandwidth) which is nice, and more reliable than most hotel WiFi I've used.
The restaurant had good food, though a limited menu, mostly inspired by Italian food (which was weird to me, as I felt as if I was in a French city). We had to wait over an hour for our food, which resulted in the server comp'ing our drinks.
Calling the front desk was a little frustrating as I often had to call multiple times to get an answer but I loved the location enough to overlook this.
Hotel Zero 1 is right downtown and literally across the street from Chinatown. It's a few blocks from 3 different train stations and surrounded by bus stops. You can get anywhere Montréal public transit system (and the system is GREAT) can take you, and it's so easy. One of the 3 train stations is even a large transfer station (Orange, Yellow and Green lines).
My wife and I were able to walk a block and find a great hole-in-the-wall (on the second floor) restaurant in Chinatown on our first night. The hotel is also walking distance from some great shopping and many restaurants. A short bus ride will get you to the "Underground City" which is basically a bunch of GIANT underground malls that are all interconnected.
If you're staying at a hotel for the service and amenities, Hotel Zero 1 might not be the best (it's still pretty darn good), but if you're looking for a great location, look no further. Anywhere on Levesque may do just as well, but the next time I'm in Montréal, I'm staying at Hotel Zero 1 again.
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