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| - how can you give this any less than 5 stars? it's the freakin' ritz, baby.
the first time i rolled up in here - in my 93 camry with a blown muffler, jeans with a huge hole in the knee, stan smiths, and my classic fruit of the loom t - i admit i felt a little underdressed. the staff, however, did not bat an eye. ahhhh . . . a hotelier's discretion. for all they knew, i was a millionaire. and, since i was staying in a suite and had selected one of only 5 in the hotel with a working fireplace, for weekend i could live like one (and, at $1,100.00/night, you'd pretty much have to be. happily, we had 5 people in that piece). so, when i went back up recently, and compared prices on travelocity, i went back to it (but just a regular room this time).
marble, marble everywhere. the lobby, the bathroom, the elevator . . . .
the decor is, as you might expect, somewhat traditonal, staid and conservative. the rooms, however, are spacious. the location cannot be beat. you are one block off the main drag and have literally dozens of restaurants within 3 or 4 blocks. you are central to downtown and walking distance to old montreal.
certainly not the cheapest hotel in montreal, but not the most expensive either. suffice it to say, the regular room was substantially more reasonable than the suite.
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