CHEAP MONTREAL HOTELS

Best Western Ville Marie Montreal
This hotel offers 171 guestrooms on 20 floors. Accommodations overlook Mount Royal or the city. Wireless Internet access (surcharge) is available on floors eight through 20. Rooms also include cable TV with premium channels and pay movies. Other amenities include air conditioning, coffeemakers, hairdryers, irons, and ironing boards.

Days Hotel & Conference Centre - Montreal Metro
This hotel is in Montreal's business district, two blocks from Catherine Street shops, restaurants, and nightlife. The hotel offers an outdoor pool, a gift shop, and a restaurant with an adjacent bar. A car wash is available on-site for a surcharge. Self parking is available for $15 CAD per 24-hour period. Fee does not include tax and is subject to change withour prior notification.

Delta Montreal
What to expect: Families and business travelers frequent this quiet, centrally located hotel, built in 1986. Earth tones and mahogany furnishings dominate the lobby and mezzanine, where the work of Canadian artists is displayed. A relaxed atmosphere prevails in the bar, which has an all-you-can eat luncheon buffet on weekdays, and restaurant where kids under age 6 eat free any time.
Amenity highlights: The health club offers free weights, various exercise machines, access to the squash courts, a swimming pool, and complimentary aerobics classes. The 24-hour business center has a computer with high-speed Internet connection, scanner, fax, printer, and Webcam, as well as Ethernet connections for laptops. An unsupervised playroom has games and activities for youngsters; an outdoor playground is available in the summer.

Hotel de la Montagne
Located in downtown Montreal, this 19-story hotel has an outdoor swimming pool with a swim-up bar, wireless Internet access in public areas, and laundry facilities. Airport transportation can be arranged for a charge.

Hyatt Regency Montreal
What to expect: Located atop the Complexe Desjardins shopping center, the hotel's lobby is situated three stories above street level. Ornate floral arrangements and elevator doors painted by local artists add an air of urban elegance. Favored by business travelers, the hotel blossoms in the summertime when the rooftop garden is accessible from the lobby, providing elevated views of the downtown core.
Amenity highlights: The hotel offers a workout room and indoor pool with adjacent lounge area. The business center is available at all times, providing guests with copying, printing, and Internet use (fee charged). Underground access to Place-des-Arts and the city métro system are available through the Complexe Desjardins, on the hotel building's lower levels.

Marriott Chateau Champlain
What to expect: Families and businesspeople frequent this centrally located downtown hotel. Doorstaff welcome guests into the lobby, which has an opulent yet relaxed feel with arched ceilings, mahogany furnishings, and rich colors, and includes access to the metro.
Amenity highlights: The Samuel de Champlain restaurant serves Continental breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily, and the Bar le Senateur is an intimate sports lounge that serves a light lunch as well as cocktails. L’Ultime spa offers massages and body wraps (surcharges), and extensive, 24-hour fitness facilities include an indoor pool, sauna, steam room, and spa tub. The hotel’s top floors offer a panoramic view and can be reserved for conferences. Hotel guests have direct access to the metro and to 15 miles of underground shopping and restaurants from inside the hotel.

Novotel Montreal Centre
This hotel has 226 guestrooms and two suites. Standard rooms have views of downtown Montreal or the entertainment district, high-speed Internet access (surcharge), and cable TV with a video-game console and pay movies. Executive rooms have an additional sofa bed, CD player, and a 32-inch plasma TV.

Plaza Hotel Centre-Ville Downtown
What to expect: Large brass chandeliers illuminate the large marble lobby with its delicate painted murals and Chinese furniture and jardinieres. With 19 meeting rooms and a huge ballroom, the hotel caters mainly to business clients, but its proximity to the boutiques, restaurants, and European ambience of St. Denis Street also attracts leisure travelers.
Amenity highlights: Guests recharge at the indoor lap pool with its spa tub, open until late night, or in the 24-hour well-equipped fitness center, which has windows city views, a TV, lockers, and saunas. The hotel's large restaurant is open all day and has a separate bar area as well as an outdoor terrace overlooking bustling Sherbrooke Street. Wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge in public areas.

The Omni Mont-Royal Hotel
What to expect: The spacious lobby features large crystal chandeliers, flowing gold draperies, and Oriental rugs covering the marble floor. Oversized floral arrangements and sculptures divide the sofas, loveseats, and wingback chairs of the comfortable sitting areas. The hotel is popular with leisure travelers seeking an urban resort ambience.
Amenity highlights: At 31 floors, the Omni Mont-Royal offers spectacular views of Mount Royal, the downtown core, and the river beyond. Extensive spa and fitness facilities are available, including an outdoor pool (mid-May to mid-September). In summer, guests can sit under umbrellas on the patio that surrounds the pool. In cool weather, guests swim to the main pool from inside the hotel via a narrow waterway.