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| - We just spent a week in Montreal at this hotel. There were four of us, so we stayed in a room with two queen sized beds, which ended up being the fourteenth floor on the top, so we kept telling people we were staying in the penthouse suite. But penthouse suite it definitely was not. One of the beds was crammed up against the wall that had the closet in it. Basically, if you wanted to get into the closet you had to climb over the bed to get to it. So hopefully when you climbed on the bed, there wouldn't be someone sleeping in it....
First off, there was a piece of what I think was glass, stuck to the floor in front of the fridge. I don't know how it got there, or why it was stuck, but it wasn't moving, and really it shouldn't have been my job to move it. Apparently housekeeping only works once a week? So our room, as filthy as 4 drunk people make it, was never cleaned until we left. It was pretty gross by day 3, so imagine day 6. Thank god no one threw up in there, however it came pretty damn close.
The kitchenette was nice and big, which was good, since I always seem to have trouble finding veggie restaurants in Montreal, so we were able to eat breakfast and lunch in our suite. It had an oven, coffeemaker, toaster, microwave, and a DISHWASHER! Sadly there weren't enough dishes to necessitate a dishwasher, so we washed our items by hand, which of course meant we had no dishsoap except for what was provided in powder-form for the dishwasher. Ah well, now I know for next time. I used the oven once, to make a frozen pizza, the only problem was that the fire alarm went off when I took it out. P.S. It was NOT burnt.
With no housekeeping, this meant we had to exchange our dirty towels at reception for clean ones. Not a big deal, but kind of weird. There were also ants in our hotel room. Yes, ANTS. They seemed to be hanging out around the base of the bathtub and by the broken glass stuck to the floor by the fridge. I mean, its not like they were bedbugs right? Ugggh...
I guess my experience was okay, I would probably look around before booking here again. I really did like the location, since it is on the border of Old Montreal/Chinatown and the bar area, so that is definitely a win, and the staff were all very helpful and nice. I guess I just had some reservations about the way the room was set-up and the policies of the hotel, especially since I didn't see anyone else on our floor, so it seemed odd to me that if none of the other rooms were full, why they would have booked us in the one with ants and broken glass?
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