Montréal and Quebec Hotels

I haven’t yet stayed with this hotel group but plan to my next trip to Quebec. They are highly recommended by a Montreal local with extensive experience in the food and travel industries. Locations in both cities.
https://www.germainhotels.com/en/le-germain-hotel/montreal

Hello, Claire, please do post again when you have stayed with this hotel. While I generally trust and use RS guidebook hotel recommendations, I know kickbacks abound with many guides and guidebooks.. I am actually hoping for a recommendation from someone who has recently stayed in hotels in Montréal and Quebec. One of the things I just love about this forum is that most of the posts reflect personal travel experiences.

Novatel in Montreal is reasonable, in a decent location and close to transportation options. Not far from McGill and great restaurants nearby.

Where else in Quebec are are going?

Bob, we are just going to Montréal and Quebec City. Thank you.

If you take a look at Road Scholar, you can see what hotels they use for both cities. Always well-located,

Thank you. We have travelled with RS and their hotels are really well-located!

I'm going next month and have bookmarked this...but feel free to bump it up and remind me to report back on the hotel in about a month👍

Ahhh, Quebec City. We stayed at the Clarendon Hotel in the old Quebec which is centrally located and easy to walk to most sites. Rooms on the smaller side but clean and comfortable. We were out exploring so this didn't matter much.

I stayed at the Fairfield Inn near the University of Quebec-Montreal, which I was happy with. Nothing fancy, but good location near the Berri-University metro stop, and the airport bus stop is on the same street. I found this convenient location to access Mt Royale/McGill University area, Old Montreal, and Space for Life/Olympic Park by metro. Seemed walkable to Old Montreal, but I had weekly metro pass so I saved steps. I noticed a Hyatt Place(?) around the corner in the same area.

Thank you, everyone, for your posts. We have chosen Hôtel Manoir l’Esplanade for our Quebec stay. We decided on Fairfield Inn for Montréal. Thank you for your Fairfield Inn recommendation, SQ! I will post an update upon our return. We don’t usually spend a lot of time in the hotel, and would rather spend our money on sightseeing, but do want a clean, quiet, centrally located place. We also like to have a nice breakfast before heading out for the day. I have celiac disease so we were happy to find places that offer more than just croissants for breakfast- eggs, fruit, etc. are always appreciated. Happy travels all!

For the benefit of others who may come upon this thread while researching hotels for Montreal and Quebec City….just a bit of clarification for my suggestion above. My source is not a guide who receives kickbacks. She is actually the ‘David Lebovitz’ of Montreal with a similar professional background and expertise. I know he is well regarded on this forum for ideas for Paris where he has lived for 20+ years; my source has lived in Montreal most of her life except for periods of time living in France. They are actually friends with each other and have utilized recommendations from each other for both cities.

The hotel group is also highly rated on Booking.com, another trusted resource popular on this travel forum.

UPDATE on hotels in Montréal and Quebec City:

Just back from a wonderful trip to these two great cities!

The Fairfield on Rue Berri, in Montréal -as someone had written- did have a very noisy AC, breakfast just okay, except the specialty coffees were great. Not much space to set out travel stuff in the room. Wouldn’t stay there again. Instead, I would highly recommend Hotel Saint Denis, which is about a block away. We stayed there our last night, before flying out, and we wished would have stayed there our entire time in Montréal. The AC was a mini split- quiet and very effective. Room was very clean. Bed was very comfortable, shower was good, bathroom was spacious (although lacked shelf space) hotel room itself was spacious and there were lots of spaces to set out travel things. No breakfast, but the closet held a small refrigerator and we went to an IGA grocery on Rue Catherine for bread, cheese and ham, and Leo’s Cafe on Rue Berri is a great place for morning coffee! There is also a common area downstairs with a table. Both hotels are about a block away from the 747 airport bus stop, which was highly convenient. The Saint Denis reminds me of so many Rick Steves recommended hotels we have stayed at out the years- older, but very clean and such a great location- many, many restaurants on St. Denis are just down the street, outdoor stages for some of the free concerts of the many Montréal music festivals are nearby, off of Ontario street. It’s a fun area! And the $112 per night we would have saved staying here instead of the Fairfield could have more than covered our evening meal. If you are a traveler who doesn’t spend a lot of time in your room, just needs clean and comfortable, and you don’t need a fancy lobby, this is a good find. Caveat- elevator was not functioning during our one night stay and as it was the weekend, it couldn’t be fixed. We were grateful to be on their second (US third) floor. The stairs are very good- wide steps and landings.
https://en.hotel-st-denis.com/

We stayed at Hôtel Manoir de l’Esplanade in Quebec City. It was a superb location- right near the Saint Louis Gate. Breakfast was good- European-style breakfast room, calm setting (such a relief after the manic breakfast room of the Fairfield.) We had a dormer room- would have been nicer not to. We overlooked the park. Price was about the same as the Fairfield in Montréal. (We booked later so not sure how this compares to similar hotels in QC that one finds when booking early.) Only complaint is that the younger people working the reception aren’t particularly helpful. You have to ask for a map; they don’t offer it, even though it is the free one available at the T.I. But I would stay there again. Easy access to both upper and lower town.