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| - My husband took me to Montreal on a weekend getaway recently and we stayed at the St. Martin Hotel.
The hotel is very clean and the staff are nice. I was slightly disappointed that it took us 25 minutes to check in though because they only had 1 staff member working the front desk at 8pm on a Friday night.
I don't know if all the rooms are like this, but our room had a glass wall separating the bedroom and the bathroom, so one person can lie in bed and watch the other person take a shower (!). Great for lovers on a romantic getaway, but probably not so great for roommates or "just friends" sharing a room on a trip. There was a wooden sliding door with slats/blinds on it though, so you can close the door and blinds for privacy. However, the person in the bedroom has control of the sliding door, the person in the shower has no control of the door. You have been warned...
I loved the fact that this hotel is just across the street from the Metcalfe and de Maisonneuve entrance/exit of the Cours de Montreal, so when the weather is terrible, you can just duck into the Cours de Montreal and access all the other downtown malls, including the VIA train station, all underground.
Now on the website, they state that they have a "turn-down service" where they come around with a cart of free treats (nuts, chocolate, chips, etc.) between 5pm and 8pm. Other reviewers have mentioned this too. Unfortunately, we never got to experience this :(
The WiFi is really fast and reliable.
Toiletries are from "Acca Kapa," which I had never heard of, but when I looked them up online, I found that "Acca Kappa" (with 2 p's) is a company in Italy that makes luxury spa products. I am looking at the toiletries from the hotel right now and they all only have 1 p in "Acca Kapa," so I don't know what's up with that (?!?).
Overall, a clean hotel that looks very new. I would stay here again.
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