Complexe les Ailes

Good mall, connected to the RÉSO and the Eaton Centre. Recently, the Les Ailes de la Mode anchor store closed, so actually, there’s no anchors in the mall. Alot of neat stores, like M0851, Fruits et Passion, EB Games, Sephora, Stokes, SAQ, XXI FOREVER and Jean Coutu.

Like other reviewers mentioned, this place does feel pretty abandoned despite the attractive space. Might even be more so now that their flagship store Les Ailes a la Mode is closing. Thankfully, it’s right next to Centre Eaton, so you’re never too far away from more shops. But this whole Underground City is really just a stretched out version of your typical shopping mall. It’s amazing how far it stretches, but don’t expect to be impressed by the shopping (try Rue St. Denis instead for interesting boutiques).
BEWARE Women’s Restroom:
I happened to use one of the public restrooms at Les Ailes when two male restroom attendants were standing outside. I hesitated entering, but neither said anything or put up a sign for cleaning so I figured it was okay. They just eyed me as I entered the women’s side. At the time I was the *only* person in the bathroom and chose one of the stalls at the end of the hall. Not long after, one of the male attendants came in with a broom and for some reason walked all the way to the end and swept only the stall next to me before deciding to hit my stall door with the broom and then leaving.
It was all very peculiar. I don’t know if it’s standard in Montréal for a male attendant to enter the women’s restroom while women are inside or without first announcing they are entering. Both attendants outside watched me walk in, so there’s no excuse that they thought no one was inside. Be wary of going into the restroom alone.

Without the free wifi, this place would’ve been a ghost town. There were far more people benched and plugged in than actual shoppers. There’s a Sephora and a Forever 21; however they’re located street level and in no way attracts traffic inside the building. The interior architecture was actually quite beautiful. Compared to Eaton, this would’ve been great to house higher end brands. Much like Hoang-Khai’s review, I feel like she’s just waiting for someone to sweep her off her feet.

such a beautiful building with its high ceiling and so much potential being in the downtown center yet wasted away with the crapshoot that is les ailes de la mode (the store tucked away inside)
the building houses some really good boutiques and the spacious entrance is made for some really awesome holidays display but the building is simply deserted most of the time. its a big shame really!
imagine if macy’s would buy the building and set shop, how awesome would be the holiday season? how magical would the building look? a guy can dream!
instead, its a deserted building that people are ashamed of going in by the front entrance. that pretty much sums up le complexe

This place is a mess! It is loud and crowded and disorganized.
Loud and crowded: alright, I understand that the underground city is a major tourist attraction and we were there on a Saturday afternoon, but holy crap! There were more people in the mall than anywhere else in the city. All that body heat warmed up the halls, which might be great in winter, but was super miserable on an August afternoon. Still, if it’s more even more popular in winter, I can’t imagine having a good time squeezing in there with so many other people.
Disorganized: the directory was confusing. Where’s that Benetton’s that’s supposed to be on the third floor? Oh it’s out of business. The Gap is on two floors but only listed on one, and the storefront says Gap Kids, even though men’s and women’s sections were included. Also, of 50+ shops, less than ten sell men’s attire, and half of those are accessory, underwear, or shoe stores. There’s no electronics or games stores at all, so ladies, give your man an iPad if you make him come here with you. The stores themselves were messy as well. Bigger shops had crumpled merchandise strewn about and many had little identifiable logic to their layouts, at least to me.
I wasn’t too crazy about the selection either. I think I’ve got an innate need to forage, because I love browsing the aisles, even at the grocery store. I could spend an hour reading vitamin bottles at CVS. So it actually amazed me that I didn’t find the least interest in going into any of the shops here. And come on, this is Montréal, the capitol of French Canada. How is there no French Connection?

Pourquoi je commente ce centre d’achat? 1 raison, pour vous dire qu’ils ont la meilleure SAQ (signature) du Québec. Sans aucun doute raisonnable, de façon indubitable, je peux dire que n’importe quel enthousiaste y rentre pour un coup d’oeil et y sort sans un rond avec une bouteille de 55 $ de vin italien BUDGET (pour la succursale)!!! Sinon les Ailes de la Mode, c’est un gros magasin de linge de marque qui né me fait pas de toute façon. Oh Il y was un Swarowsky un magasin qui vend du crystal. Vraiment rien d’intéressant, je né suis pas une vieille dame de Outremont de 70 ans et plus, pas pour moi.

Centre commercial inclus dans le «Montréal Souterrain» dans l’ancien édifice du grand magasin Eaton. L’ambiance est plus aéré et plus agréable que les autres centre commerciaux des environs. Peu de magasins sont intéressants ici hormis le «SAQ Signature», et le «Thé bar». Il y a aussi un EB Games, un Sephora et une Pharmacie Jean Coutu pour ceux qui cherchent ces commerces.
J’aime bien m’arrêter ici pour prendre un Chai au «Thé bar» et utiliser la salle de bain qui est bien maintenue pour un centre commercial.

Le nom de ce centre d’achats est ce qui reste du gouffre financier qu’a été le grand magasin Les ailes de la mode, qui a fait faillite au début des années 2000. Aussi, il offre une certaine complémentarité avec le centre Eaton, avec lequel il communiqué. Axé sur la mode, ce centre commercial abrite de nombreuses boutiques de vêtements griffés, de même qu’une succursale de la SAQ, un Jean-​Coutu et une boutique de produits naturels GNC. Pour résumer grossièrement, on pourrait affirmer qu’il s’agit d’une centre d’achats s’adressant aux femmes… bien que plusieurs boutiques font bien entendu dans le vêtement pour homme. Également, je crois qu’on y trouve la seule boutique New Balance de Montréal, où les sportifs, même s’ils chaussent de 22, pourront trouver chaussure à leur pied. Bref, c’est un centre d’achat ayant comme dénominateur commun la mode.

Nice little shopping centre. I did find it pretty quiet and nothing that special to look at. I can see how it would be great in the winter since you don’t really have to go outdoors for anything.
Maybe I am just a dumb tourist, but all of the shopping centres seemed to blend into one another, there was nothing to really distinguish them as separate buildings, in my opinion.

There are better places in Montréal to shop for clothes, low prices but also low quality and not exactly a wide variety of items, and customer service… humm, I had never seen so lazy people working at a store, last week I went to buy some items and ended up leaving them at the store because there was no way to pay, one register was closed, the other was manned by a woman who didnt know how to operate it, and the third was busy with a finicky customer…

Un complexe comme j’en ai jamais vu! même celui de belle épine en region paisienne n’est pas à la hauteur. Etonnament j’ai pu retrouver des boutiques identique à celle en france mais le but était de connaitre des boutique inéxistante chez nous, je dois dire que j’ai pas été déçu du tout De la mode, de la lingerie, des resto, des boutiques de produit de remise en forme, de la déco d’interieur, archambault ou vous trouverez cd et dvd, les bijoux et accéssoires de swarovski et j’en passé.
Le complexe reste très commercial mais c’est cool qu’en il pleut dehors de pouvoir faire du shooping au sec