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| - "Location, location, location" sums up this hotel pretty nicely. That's not to say that my stay at the Hotel Lord Berri was unpleasant though. It was quite the opposite.
The receptionists at the check-in desk are fluent in French and English, which relieved my friends and I of any concerns in regarding to language barriers. The person whom we spoke to was quite nice and the overall checking-in process went by smoothly.
In terms of amenities, the hotel was furnished well, at least for its price point. Although I am no connoisseur in regards to the quality of beddings and mattresses, there were no incidents of bedbugs or anything of the sort during our stay for the interest of future tourists; the room is quite sanitary and clean.
The air-conditioning functioned well; when I first entered the room, it was fairly cold due to the strength of the air conditioning. It is easily adjustable though as I experimented on the later days of the trip, but it may be worth to mention how powerful the air conditioning system can be for those who dislike heat.
TV is available for free and while the TV remote can be finnicky at times, all of its features are operational.
The hotel does indeed offer free WiFi. In my experience, the network was stable and decently fast (I was able to stream video on it consistently throughout my stay) despite being tricky to connect to initially for those with mobile devices such as iPhones. Regardless, such devices were able to connect after a couple minutes of tinkering. However, it seems that the connection is strongest during the night and much weaker during the day from my experiences.
The bathrooms were quite clean and well managed. Although there were no handheld shower fixtures, all other amenities were present. The center of the floor in the bathtub is designed in such a way that it is not slippery, so the bathmat offered by the hotel was not needed.
However, there were a couple of issues in the end. For one, the bathroom door lock was malfunctioning, where if the locking mechanism on the doorknob was pressed, the door would remain locked if it was not shut and would remain unlocked if the door was shut, making it essentially useless. Another issue was with the cleaning up of our room during the day. There was an issue later in the week with the supply of towels, where in the end, the maid did not clean my room that day. My room remained uncleaned for the following 2 days as well. While we did occasionally leave the hotel at later times in the morning, approaching 12pm, 3 days is a bit of a stretch and I expected the staff to have had cleaned it in the afternoon if the room was occupied in the morning.
As other reviewers have said though, Hotel Lord Berri is situated in possibly the best location in Montréal. It is in the intersection of two major (and one minor) metro lines: the Green, the Orange, and the Yellow lines, where the metro station (Berri-UQÀM) is literally 1 minute away from our hotel by walking. This made travelling simpler with fewer transfers and I highly recommend this location for those that are planning to use the metro to travel to their desired locations. Many tourist attractions such as La Ronde or the Notre Dame Cathedral are easily accessible by metro.
All in all, the Hotel Lord Berri is great value for your money and despite the finnicky service occasionally, its amazing location is able to offset this issue greatly. For those who expect the finest luxury, this hotel may not be ideal for you. But for those who desire decent amenities at a clean hotel that is close to the metro at a good price point, I would recommend Hotel Lord Berri to them.
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