This hotel was the absolute pits. My friends and I could not believe we paid so much money to stay in such a horrible hotel. It's an absolute disgrace that they haven't renovated it.
I have to admit the location was great, only a few minutes away from the bars and restaurants.
However, the hallways had no A.C. the elevator always got stuck on the 15th floor so we'd have to wait, push the 16th or 14th floor, get off and walk up or down a flight of stairs.
the rooms were disgusting. the carpets were horrible and had stains everywhere. the living room coffee table, dresser and table to eat off of were all different furniture and were a different color.
I can keep writing for days as to how bad our experience was. we had gone up for grand prix weekend and paid an arm and a leg for 4 nights.
My recommendation, bite the bullet and pay an extra 50 bucks a night and stay somewhere really nice. it's so much more worth it and having a piece of mind that your hotel is clean is key.

We stayed at this hotel because of a recommendation from a friend on the basis of it's central location. There were good things but lots of problems. It WAS a great location - easy to walk everywhere we wanted to go (or to a Metro station for those farther away) and we were very happy with the location. We stayed in 2 rooms - in the first there were 3 of us and we had one of the larger rooms on the 14th floor and it was fine. No complaints other than rather dated decorating.

The second room however was a different story. We were moved to the 2nd floor and there were only 2 of us so it was to a smaller room (we choose to do this). The room however, was not very good. The following were our complaints:
1) Curtains were stained (brown) and had holes in them
2) There were cigarette holes in the sheets (it was a non-smoking room).
3) The fridge light was out
4) The power outlets in the kitchen above the sink were dead
5) The pillows were not very comfortable
6) The outlet on the stove came out of the stove when removing a plug
7) The view out the window was of a Honda service station
8) There was no hotel info in the room (including what time was check out etc; this was true of both rooms).
9) There was no climate control in the room
10) We had a ridiculously loud noise in our room that seemed to be air in the water pipes - sounded like a trumpet going off both early in the morning and at night. This was the worst because none of the staff attempted to remedy the problem - which kept us up.
11) One of the elevators was broken on our last night and were still broken the next day (when we were checking out) and all the access to the stairs said they were alarmed. We ended up going out them anyway as we couldn't get out any other way (elevator that was working was full)
12) Despite asking for our room to be cleaned, our bathroom was only superficially cleaned. While we got new towels, our old ones remained on the back of the door and some dirt on the floor was there after the cleaning as well.

When all is said and done though, it was a fine place to stay - we didn't have any really significant issues, just irritations at the end of our stay.

I stayed at this place twice (the last time in March 07) and both times had a pretty nice experience. I have to say that I found the hotel a bit ran down since my previous visit (in January 05). It could definitely use some renovations.

Overall, my room was clean, and we had no issues (no bed bugs as some other reviewers seem to have found). The people in the main desk were helpful, and when we needed to stay an extra night, we were charged the same amount as per our reservation, although the upfront price was about $30 higher.

The location is great (across the street from the American Consulate, in downtown, minutes away from subways stations, Montreal's main information center, and Le Complex de Jardins - I hope I spelled it right).

Thanks, we stayed only for one night. This hotel is so outdated, carpet floor is so disgusting, even the doors can't be closed, kitchen is dirty, bed is hard like a wood floor. We have a 6 mos old baby which she couldn't sleep because the room was so warm even if AC is functioning. So we called the management almost middle of the night, they responded they can't do anything because there is no maintenance people present at that time.

What frustrate us a lot is about the advertisement on the website that RATES INCLUDED BREAKFAST (in bold letters), this is one thing I considered when I booked the hotel but surprisingly, hotel never served us breakfast. The Manager said that breakfast is not included, the excused he made is the rates is already low and breakfast is only free for Grey Cup Promo. We said RATES INCLUDED BREAKFAST is wriiten on the front page of the website with no specific exclusions and I showed the print out I have on-hand, after some discussions, the manager committed he would give us a discount equivalent to our breakfast, but as soon as we checked out, the manager (his name is Rashid) denied about the discount, said he never said giving us the discount. When we tried to make a conversation, he raised his voice and shouted on us. What a terrible experience, we are Canadians and we are giving our cousins a little tour of Canada (our cousins came from Netherlands). Its frustrating, really a bad experience.

What we want to know, if hotels are allowed to put all the nicest things people are looking for when booking on a hotel but ignoring their promises after ckecking in on the hotel.