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Montreal's Hotel Vogue Will Pack a French Picnic For You
Oh, Montréal, ever the cultured temptress: Culture hounds forgoing their Parisian jaunts this summer can get their French art fix in our northernly neighbor. To help them out, Loews Hôtel Vogue is offering a package called “Culture and Nature à la Montréal Style,” which helps guests “experience the beauty of Montreal both indoors and outside.”
In other words, that means overnight lodgings, two museum passes to the renowned Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and an oh-so-French picnic lunch for two packed in a keepsake backpack. (Think sandwiches, baguette with local cheeses, mixed salad, pita chips, fresh fruit, cookies, and bottle water.)
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Inside the Famous Bed-In Suite Used by John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Montreal is in full gear celebrating the 40th anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In For Peace which happened in 1969 at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in rooms 1738 and 1742.
Jaunted's own Shira Lazar was there at the hotel this week and she got an exclusive tour of the suite with Richard York, a journalist who visited with the couple during their week-long stay.
Here's a look inside the famous bed-in suite.
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The Five Best Hotels to Experience La Vie a Montreal
When you were in college, Montreal was a veritable fantasy land for the adventurous 20-year-old American: a lowered drinking age, a different culture with no expensive flight required, a lowered drinking age, interesting people, and a lowered drinking age. Plus: lots of cheap hostels!
Now that you're a bit older and your priorities have changed, it's time to hit up Canada's cultural capital again — and this time around, you can afford to (and you probably want to) stay in a real hotel while you get the most out of what the city has to offer. Also, they say French is the language of love (don't they?) so why not take your honey there for Valentine's Day? Or, you know, just take yourself there for a vacay. After the jump, we've rounded up the Five Best Hotels to Experience La Vie a Montreal.
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Fairmont Montreal Will Host Toothless But Hot Men This Weekend
[Update: Fairmont has let us know some players are starting to arrive today! Eeek!]
The Fairmont Queen Elizabeth in Montreal has scored the cushiest gig of them all, sure to make fellow Canadian hotels very jealous--it's the official hotel of the NHL All-Star Game happening this weekend.
Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth decked to the NHL nines as it prepares for this weekend’s NHL All-Star game in Montreal. As the official hotel, the Fairmont will host a series of exciting events throughout the weekend.
No word on what those exciting events are just yet but for any serious action, you'll have to hit the ice. Or if you have a thing for brutish, toothless yet somehow still attractive men, staking out this hotel is a good start to get cross-checked without any penalty time. Wink, wink.
Surprisingly, room rates are very affordable here starting at $289CAD this weekend for a Fairmont Gold room.
[Photo: TwitPic/Fairmont]
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The First-Ever Aloft Hotel Gets Sized Up By The New York Times
This is actually the bed at Aloft Rancho Cucamonga. But they are pretty much all alike.
It's "cleverly designed." The lobby is "a hoot." Rooms are "subdued." We'll give you one guess where The New York Times stayed recently...Aloft!
Specifically, Aloft Montreal Airport. The review is more about the brand than the property itself, and it's spot on about the elements of Aloft that do and do not work. For instance, the hotel earns points for having guest rooms with a "refreshing lack of clutter," but loses out with "corporate chirpiness" like when desk clerks say "Aloha" instead of hello.
(We don't quite get all that aloha business either. We're not in Hawaii, a place of sun and fun. We're in Montreal, or Lexington, or Chicago, or Philadelphia, likely on business. So thanks, Aloft, for reminding us that we're not in Hawaii on vacation.)
In all, the Times sums up Aloft so well, we're a little miffed we didn't think of this analogy ourselves: "If the design-savvy retailer Target opened a hotel, this is what it would look like."
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Montreal Hotel Strike Heats Up as Fairmont's QE Workers Strike
The hotel strike in Montreal shows no sign of slowing down. We got a tip yesterday from a reader who said that attendees for the upcoming UFCW convention on August 17th--that's the United Food and Commercial Workers union--have ditched their planned accommodations at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel and are instead shacking up at the Loews.
The reason why? As you can guess, Fairmont's workers have just walked off the job. From the Montreal Gazette:
Workers at the largest hotel in Quebec, Montreal's Queen Elizabeth Hotel, have joined forces with other locked out or striking hotel employees in a labour conflict that now affects four major Montreal-area hotels.
The Queen Elizabeth workers walked off the job Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in a temporary strike that can last a maximum of 72 hours.
Yikes. Considering that the QE is Quebec's largest hotel, this cannot bode well. Although the 72 hours are almost up, guests headed there this weekend should probably expect a little drama. The Hyatt Regency is also affected as is the Hôtel des Gouverneurs Place Dupuis and the Holiday Inn in Longueuil.
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Room With an Anti-View:: The Wrong Side of the Delta Centre Ville Hotel in Montreal
You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.
We expect more from a pretty city like Montreal. So getting this anti-view of train lines, highways and car parks out of the Delta Centre Ville Hotel is not quite good enough.
Not every room in this hotel has an anti-view though--last year we got a tip that the hotel's Tour de Ville revolving restaurant is a great spot. The other side of the hotel obviously has the better views over the river and beyond so perhaps that's what makes the hotel's restaurant work.
[Photo: nonanet]
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Montreal Hotel Workers Begin Strike at Hyatt Regency Hotel; Some Guest Services Affected
Guests planning a stay at the Hyatt Regency in Montreal should probably lower their expectations on hotel service.
Approximately 280 hotel workers walked off the job over the weekend as contract negotiations failed. Most of the striking workers were housekeepers and kitchen staff who are seeking better wages, better retirement packages and less work loads. The housekeeper have once again cited oversized beds and pillows as to blame for making their workload harder.
The demand to reduce the number of rooms a housekeeper must clean is not "so we can spend time relaxing," [union president Myriam] Pacheco said. "Most of the rooms used to have only one bed. But after renovations, they almost all have two double beds, more pillows, heavier blankets and more products in the washrooms to replace," she said.
Guests at the hotel have been alerted to the strike by a letter from the general manager which is placed in every room. In it, he tells guests that room service and the swimming pool are closed and housekeeping services are limited.
For now, there is no note or update on the hotel's website, so if you have a reservation for this hotel and want to know more of what's going on when you are scheduled to stay there, call the hotel in person.
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Montreal Hotel Workers Go On Strike, You'll Be Making Your Own Bed Soon
Yet another reason to tip your housekeeper: 1,500 hotel workers from four big Montreal hotels (the Hyatt Regency, Sheraton Le Centre, Delta and Fairmont Queen Elizabeth) have gone on strike.
The workers are demanding higher wages, better pension plans and -- most of all -- fewer rooms for the housekeepers to clean per shift.
More hotel workers are expected to go on strike this week, too -- so prepare yourself for the possibility of (heaven forbid) making your own bed in your Montreal hotel room.
Just kidding. We hope...
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Who Wants to Buy Ritz-Carlton Montreal's Old Crap?
The Ritz-Carlton Montreal is undergoing a bigtime makeover (to the tune of $100 million) and the historic hotel is auctioning off contents of the old rooms.
Now before anyone gets too excited with visions of beautiful antique pieces dancing in their heads, allow us to clarify: that stuff isn't going anywhere.
While a good portion of the old decor will be put on the auction block, the Canadian Press reports "the real antiques and art objects will be integrated into the new decor."
Translation? Old crap with sentimental value.
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The Waldorf-Astoria Collection Hits Montreal
O Canada! The Waldorf-Astoria Collection, by Hilton Hotels, announced today their first hotel in Canada--The Waldorf=Astoria Hotel & Residences Montreal.
With 32 floors, 250 hotel rooms, 76 residences (that are sure to cost a fortune), ballroom space, "signature" restaurants, bars, a spa, and a fitness center, the Waldorf will make sure its presence is felt in "Our Home and Native Land!"
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Montreal Hotels Think It's Aboot Time For You to Learn French
Hey, stupid Americans: the French-Canadian folks are so sick of you traipsing around Montreal with your silly English language (and worthless U.S. dollars and ugly Abercrombie outfits) that they are offering to teach you how to speak French.
No, seriously:
A pair of Montreal hotels have partnered with Berlitz Canada to offer French lessons to guests. Hotel Nelligan and Le Place d'Armes Hotel & Suites - part of the Antonopoulos Group of boutique hotels and restaurants - are offering a package that includes five nights' accommodation and 18 hours of private French lessons designed for tourists.
Yeah, what's up now, Aloft Montreal? Let's see you give us a nice bed to sleep in AND teach us French. Yeah, we thought so.
The package starts at $3,494 CAD for two people; reservations can be made here.
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