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The 18 Best Hotels in Montréal

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The best hotels in Montréal, according to the experts: Forbes Travel Guide, Michelin Guide, and The 50 have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Four Seasons Montreal comes out on top.

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The Ritz-Carlton Montreal and Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth hold the next two places. Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with Forbes Travel Guide next.

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  1. A dark glass tower above the Golden Square Mile, with Marcus Samuelsson running the food and a Guerlain spa waiting when the city wears you out. The hotel leans hard into a boudoir-meets-enchanted-forest aesthetic, all pink hues, velour, and a wraparound marble bar that makes leaving feel slightly irresponsible. Private residences on the upper floors mean some guests never actually leave, which tracks.


  2. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton got married here, which tells you most of what you need to know about the register this hotel has always played in. A grand, old-school property anchoring the Golden Square Mile, it sits close to the Museum of Fine Arts and a stretch of serious shopping. The rooms run quietly luxurious, the service formal without being stiff, and the whole place carries the easy confidence of somewhere that has never needed to explain itself.


  3. John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their famous bed-in for peace here, which means this downtown Montreal hotel has been living off that story ever since, though a massive renovation has given it some new ones. The lobby pulls in local art and a genuinely urban energy, the rooms are warm rather than grand, and a 24-hour wellness center handles whatever the conference schedule did to you. Selected by the Michelin Guide.


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  6. A neo-Renaissance mansion in the Golden Square Mile, built for one of the city's 19th-century power brokers and now operating as a luxury hotel. The bones of the original residence are hard to miss: grand proportions, ornate stonework, the kind of architecture that communicates wealth before you've touched a door handle. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key. It sits well outside the old port's hotel cluster, which is either a selling point or a cab ride depending on your mood.

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  9. Robot room service is either the future or a sign we've given up on human contact, and Hôtel Monville has committed fully to finding out. This sleek, tower-style hotel in downtown Montréal leans hard into the ultra-modern, with architecture that turns heads on a street where cobblestones are usually the draw. Selected by the Michelin Guide, it appeals to guests who'd rather book everything on an app than talk to anyone at check-in.

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  10. A Marriott Autograph Collection hotel in downtown Montreal, Humaniti fills its rooms and corridors with works by Québécois artists alongside colorful Modernist interiors by Lemay + Escobar. An expansive spa, rooftop pool, and a restaurant and lounge run by celebrated local chef Jean-Sébastien Giguère round things out. It's the kind of hotel that has done its homework, which in this category is less common than it should be.

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  12. A 36-room hotel on Rue Saint-Jacques where the art installations are the décor, not something hung on top of it. Rooms are open-plan with modular seating that converts from desk to lounge to dining corner depending on the hour, and projections and textural materials run throughout. It has the energy of a boutique hotel that genuinely cannot decide if it's a gallery, which, depending on your mood, is either a feature or a lot.

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  18. The alabaster fireplace in the lobby glows like a lantern, which is a strange thing to find inside a ten-story Beaux-Arts building in Vieux-Montréal. That contrast is the whole point of the St. Paul Hotel: a seriously spare, design-magazine interior dropped into a grand historic shell. High ceilings and big picture windows help. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels, and the neighborhood alone earns its keep on a long weekend.

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