HI Montreal Hostel

Stayed here for 3 nights, I would say it was okay our room was pretty basic, I found the staff at the front desk quite rude though and not helpful at all and there’s no lifts so we had to carry our huge suitcases up 3 flights of stairs. The breakfast is good though.

Séjourné en octobre 2014, pour une nuit uniquement, l’accueil était sans plus.
Pour le petit-​déjeuner, buffet à disposition, les bagels sont au rendez-​vous! Pour la confiture, on a plus affaire à une marmelade ce qui peut vite être écoeurant.
La chambre partagée était correcte. La salle d’eau également, ce qui a le mérite d’être agréable après un vol long courrier.
L’établissement est bien situé, à quelques blocs du centre Bell.
A recommander pour une étape.

I stayed here on a recent trip to Montréal and had a great time!
Booking process was easy as pie through the Hostel World website. I stayed in a 2 bunk bedroom which was comfortable, and the room was clean. All of the staff were incredibly nice and helpful throughout the whole stay. There are events that the hostel puts on each day that you are free to sign up for — from pub crawls, bingo nights, hiking, etc. etc. I went on a pub crawl the first night I was there, and everyone I met was super chill and super nice.
In the check-​in area/​lobby there are some seats, tables, as well as public desktop computers that anyone can use. Daily activities are written on a chalkboard on the wall there. Also they have their own ATM which was convenient. One of my favorite aspects of the hostel was that there’s actually a bar and kitchen downstairs where people can congregate and hangout each night. Kind of nice to grab a beer and share the day’s adventures with your fellow hostel mates each night. Breakfast is also included each morning which includes basics like bagels, fruit, cereal, and juice. The grounds has free wifi — extremely helpful for planning out my days since i didn’t have a Canadian SIM when I was traveling (didn’t realize how much I depended on Unilocal on the go until I didn’t have it!). Also, the hostel is right next to the Lucien-L’Allier stop on the red line with easy access to anywhere you want to get to in the city.
Would definitely recommend this place for anyone who wants a place to stay in Montréal on a budget.

I had a terrific time staying at this hostel. Hostels are still new to me, but my experience here created such a high bar for future hostel experiences.
The location is great — right next to a subway too. The place was clean, safe and friendly. I really they do a terrific job.

Coming to Montréal was a birthday gift I was giving myself. I stayed here for 8 nights at the beginning of November. It was great staying here. The people that worked there were great! They were extremely helpful. Gabrielle did some great tours, and when my gloves needed to be fixed, Robert sowed them together.
My room was on the third floor. It made it a little difficult to get up there without an elevator with my luggage, but it wasn’t a problem at any other time. The room that I stayed in had 10 beds, but it didn’t feel like I was constantly stepping over people. The bed was comfortable, the bathroom was efficient, and the room was very clean. The only things I didn’t like about it were that the windows were locked and made the room a bit stuffy and that the WIFI barely worked.
The bar in the kitchen was a great add to the place. It’s great to have a watering hole inside the place you’re staying at, bringing all the cool people staying in the building to a central point. The bar also has some good food.
However, on the weekends (Friday-​Sunday) kids from the colleges in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Northern New York come up here to drink and go to bars and clubs. Since it’s so cheap to stay here (1 $ CAD = $ 0.88 USD), they come here AND ARE LOUD! I can’t say that it was unexpected though; I was told that they like to come here on the weekends because the drinking age is 18 in Quebec, well before I made the trip up here. So, I just ignored their foolishness.
All in all, I enjoyed my stay here. I’d definitely stay here again.

I enjoyed this hostel even though I feel it needs a bit more. I enjoyed that I was greeted in both French and English, knowing that I am able to receive service in either language and that it’s safe.
The only downside the I personally wanted to see was an elevator, more spacious rooms to hang around with your laptop or tablet for the wifi to use.
The wifi is pretty amazing, fast enough to navigate.
My room had a bathroom in the room so it was good to not go outside like other hostels i’ve been to.
Also they are okay with asking if you can have a bottom or top bed.
This hostel does provide good service in general and the breakfast is ok too.
Would I come back? Yes.

Clean, friendly, convenient. That’s all a hostel should be. This hostel was all that, plus comfortable beds, hot showers and a decent restaurant. The activities were fun, I took the walking tour. Gab was a charming host.
Con: we stayed in a private room and it was hot and stuffy due to lack of ventilation and locked windows.

I stayed here for about a week whilst settling into Montréal so I have experienced a lot of what it is like here. It is a big Hostel with rooms over at least 3 or 4 levels. Dorm rooms range in size with some 10 bed dorms being split into 2 rooms (a room inside a room) so some people get a little more privacy. Some rooms do have issues with lighting being that there is only 1 light in the room so you can’t really see well or at all in some parts of the room. Bathrooms are in the room so you can’t really avoid hearing all the showering and toilet goings on throughout the night. The Hostel does have some decent facilities with a Kitchen, Bar/​Café and enough activities to keep you occupied everyday of the week. It is in a decent location on a quiet street but close to most things in Montréal.
Overall it is worth staying here for the good location and the activities but I never really got a good nights sleep and the rooms were never fully cleaned so my experience could have been better.

I do like this place. This is the 3^rd or 4^th time that I have stayed here. The pub crawls are great. The people are nice and it’s a good location.
Laundry facilities are clean, kitchen is large and the pool table is in good condition. What more could you want? There is parking close-​by in the $ 12-​$ 15 range. I did see a parking garage advertising a flat rate of $ 10. That garage was almost across the street from the Canadian Immigration office. That office is about 3 blocks away from the Hostel.
It is February as I write this. They turned up the heat inside so it is quite comfortable here. Little cold outside, though.

Good things:
1. Bar downstairs (but see #1 below)
2. Concrete walls = mostly quiet (but see #2 below)
3. Air conditioning (but see #3 below)
4. Lots of people, you can easily make friends, everyone was in a good mood.
5. Bixi on Rue Mackay! Very convienent to use to go cycling along the canal to Atwater Market.
6. I didn’t actually do any of the tours, but it’s nice that they offer them (passive planning? nice.)
Bad things:
1. Beer at the bar in the basement is $ 4.95 for a tiiiiiny glass. And they don’t let you bring your own, so you have to be sneaky. Or rich. But if you’re rich, why are you staying at a hostel?
2. Kiiiind of feels like you’re in jail. I mean, the window in my room was nailed shut, and I was freezing in the air conditioning and just wanted a nice breeze. It was like 17C at night.
3. FREEZING. I cranked up the heat and still needed an extra blanket.
4. Ugh. I picked the wrong neighborhood, I guess. It’s close to Rue St. Catherine, which is too much like NYC — I don’t want Starbucks or Aldo or American Apparel, I want smoked meat and maple syrup. Rue St. Catherine also reminds me a little of South Street in Philadelphia — where all the tourists go, but the locals avoid.
What was with the bus loads of kids? They looked like high schoolers. There was a bus of them from Paris on night, then the next night another tour bus rolled up with some Italians…
Caveat: I think the staff takes a while to warm up to people — they may come off cold at first, but then a minute later they will be telling you the history of the canal or wars with the USA…
I had a good time, but I would probably stay somewhere else if I come back.