Montreal, QC Celebrity favoriteA fixture on Sherbrooke Street since horse-and-carriage days, Montréal's grande dame hotel is located in the museum/financial district and caters to celebrities and guests of more modest renown.
Down comfortThe 229 guestrooms and suites provide comfort with down pillows and terry-cloth bathrobes, as well as contemporary conveniences such as high-speed Internet connections.
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What to expect: Designed to be Montréal's first high-society accommodation, the hotel now attracts travelers who desire opulence and leisurely dining. Elizabeth Taylor wed Richard Burton in the hotel, part of a history that's seen six generations of celebrities and royalty blend with an international clientele of business and leisure travelers.
Amenity highlights: Guests pass from the lobby through a little dark-pink rotunda into a dining/socializing section that includes a bar/lounge with velvet walls, a restaurant decorated in Provençal style with potted flowers on tables, and, in summer/autumn months, an open-air café looking into a private garden with a duck pond and banks of flowers. Menu choices include dishes such as New Brunswick fiddlehead soup and arctic char in puff pastry. Tea is served daily. Guests enjoy complimentary access to an athletic club one block away that includes an indoor swimming pool.
Dinining
- Le Café de Paris Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and afternoon tea served daily. Sunday brunch. Provençal decor featuring terracotta walls, blueandwhitetile accent wall, bluegreen columns, upholstered chairs with brocade upholstery, flowers in pots. French/American breakfast choices. Lunch choices including full meals, salads, sandwiches. Dinner choices such as New Brunswick fiddlehead soup with porcini oil, Angusbeef carpaccio, mascarpone risotto with lobster, braised halibut with truffles, arctic char in puff pastry with cervil butter sauce. Fixedprice and caviar menus offered nightly.
- Le Ritz Bar Bar/lounge serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, and afternoon tea daily from same menus as Le Café de Paris. Light bar menu, also. Open until after midnight for cocktails. Graytan velvet walls, plants in pots. Pianist on weekend evenings.
- Le Jardin du Ritz Openair café open in summer and early autumn adjacent to flower garden with duck pond. Enclosed awning erected in inclement weather. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and afternoon tea served daily from same menus as Le Café de Paris. White wroughtiron chairs. Pinkandwhite linens.
Property amenities
Although frequently updated since opening in 1912, the hotel retains its original opulence, evident in its golden-toned lobby with marble half-columns and floor, heavy satin drapes, brass light fixtures, black reception desk with gold piping, plants in pots, and fresh flowers. Wide hallways lined in silver floral-pattern wallpaper feature crystal light fixtures and antique furniture.
A fitness center contains cardio machines, free weights, and a Universal gym. Jogging maps of the neighborhood, complimentary bottled water, and towels are provided to guests in the lobby each morning. A 24-hour self-serve business center includes two computers with high-speed Internet connections and two laptop-computer stations for accessing the Internet. (Surcharges for Internet access.)
Valet parking:
The charge is CDN$30 per day with in/out privileges. Price and U.S.-Canadian exchange rate are subject to change without notice.
List of property amenities - 24-hour front desk
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- ATM/banking
- Audio-visual equipment
- Ballroom(s)
- Banquet facilities
- Bar/lounge
- Beauty services
- Business center
- Business services
- Coffee in lobby
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Concierge desk
- Conference room(s)
- Currency exchange
- Doorman/doorwoman
- Dry cleaning service
- Elevator/lift
- Exhibit space
- Fitness equipment
- Hair salon
- Internet access in public areas - high speed
- Internet access - wireless
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Meeting rooms (small groups)
- Multilingual staff
- Number of floors: 9
- Number of rooms: 229
- Parking (surcharge)
- Parking (valet)
- Parking garage
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant(s) in hotel
- Room service (24 hours)
- Safe-deposit box - front desk
- Secretarial services
- Security guard
- Shoe shine
- Tour assistance
- Umbrella
- Use of nearby fitness center (complimentary)
Recreation
Mount Royal Park five blocks away offers hiking/biking trails and running paths and cross-country skiing and ice skating in winter. In addition to the hotel's fitness center, hotel guests enjoy complimentary access to an athletic club one block away that includes an indoor swimming pool. Maps of the neighborhood, complimentary bottled water, and towels are provided to jogging guests in the lobby each morning.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Ice skating nearby
- Swimming nearby
- Running track/path nearby
- Aerobics nearby
- Yoga classes/instruction nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
Room amenities
- Internet access - high speed
- Premium TV channel(s)
- Cable/satellite TV
- Video-game console
- Pay movies
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Complimentary newspaper
- Air conditioning
- Climate control
- Blackout drapes
- Internet access - surcharge
- Voice mail
- Multi-line phone
- Internet access - dial-up
- Minibar
- Microwave (on request)
- Wake-up calls
- Housekeeping (daily)
- Turndown service
- Designer toiletries
- Bathroom telephone
- Bathrobes
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Makeup mirror
- Massage - available in room
- Sewing kit
- Bathroom scale
- Shower/tub combination
- Child care (in room, surcharge)
- Electronic/magnetic keys
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Television
- Desk
- Clock radio
- Window opens
- Rollaway beds
- Cribs (infant beds) available
Rooms
The hotel offers 229 guestrooms and suites in a nine-story building. Beds are dressed in Frette Italian linens, with down or non-allergenic foam pillows. Bathrooms feature heat lamps and tub/shower combinations, bathrobes, makeup mirrors, scales, and hair dryers. Writing desk and chair. High-speed Internet access(surcharge). Cable TVs with premium channels also allow playing of video games for a surcharge. DVD players and VCRs are available on request.
Wireless Internet Access
This hotel offers Wireless Internet access (Source: JiWire Inc.)
Policies
Extra person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.There are no room charges for children 12 and younger occupying the same room as their parents.Rollaway beds (in king rooms only) and cribs may be available and fees may apply; both should be requested at time of booking.All bedding requests are subject to availability and should be requested at the time of booking.Photo identification and credit card or cash deposit are required upon check-in for incidental charges.All special requests are subject to availability upon check-in.Pets are allowed with a non-refundable fee payable to the hotel.
- Pets accepted
- Pet fee charged at hotel/condo
- Check-in time is 3 PM
- Check-out time is Noon
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