Montreal South KOA

Hesitant to stay in an expensive hotel room in downtown Montréal and desirous of the possibility to escape from the city noise at the end of the day, my friend and I decided to spend three nights in a Kabin at this campground. I would recommend ensuring the weather will be warm before booking a cabin as when we arrived in early October it was in the forties and a bit chilly to be sleeping in such a space, though the space heater helped. It was otherwise everything I expected it to be: nice and quiet in early fall (though it is probably more crowded in summer) with clean amenities and easy access to the city: only a half hour drive. The Longueuil Metro station is a 15 – 20 minute drive away, and I’d recommend parking your car there and going into Montréal that way, as city driving was pretty stressful.
I only wish the showers were warmer and the wifi faster. It was hard to connect to the network in the cabin and I dreaded the chilly temp in the shower each morning! Overall, though, a pleasant stay.

We are on an adventure of the year. After a nice nite in Montréal and not wanting to fork over the $ 300 for a motel room we opted for the good old KOA. Being that we are from Billings Montana where KOA originated, thought it would be a great place to lay out heads. The price for a tent spot was as expected the going rate, $ 40. (same as a provincial park.)
We arrived late and were unable to take it in until the next morning. Just like home! Kinda nice to be 3k miles from home and feel like your only 10 miles away. A little comfort a long ways away. The park is very well kept with a nice play ground for the kids, a nice size pool and a wading pool as well. The showers were clean and the staff friendly. Also for the adventures people there is also a put put golf course. All in all a very nice experience.
The only «gripe» if you will was the location of our site was rather close to the main road. There was a bit of traffic in the early AM. Definitely a nice park, just ask to stay away from the road.

This is a classic KOA campground. If you’ve stayed at KOAs before then you know what I mean… they’re fairly predictable, and this one is quite typical. We stayed on a weekend for easy day trips to Montréal and it worked great for that. Not even half full on an August weekend, it was a nice surprise to have plenty of space to ourselves. The pool is decent, the campsites are lined up rather tightly packed like most KOAs, but it’s quiet and comfortable. Bathrooms and showers were pretty clean and it was a good experience overall.

KOA is in the business of serving travellers. Well, when the hours of Montréal construction that I ran into a few weeks ago while driving OVER 12 HOURS from Halifax delayed me to after 9 pm, I did not think anything of rolling up to the KOA, I’ve done it before all over North America. It was dark and locked up, but when I went to find a tent site it seemed to be a muddy, mosquito infested swamp. Back to the front I called the number. You know darn well they live above the office, but they would not open up and rent me a cabin.
I had to drive another hour to find a decent hotel.
KOA is a giant money grab, and this just proves it. They obviously do not need to bend over back anywhere for their customers. This particular one was just the same almost 25 years ago when we stayed there — nothing’s changed. Give it a pass.
In fact, give camping in Quebec as pass entirely. Do not, ever, leave the highway following a ‘Camping’ sign because you will find they are all permanent resident parks — the signs should not be put there for tourists, very misleading.

I stayed in cabin #1. You might want to avoid that one. I plugged the coffee maker into the wall socket and shorted out the whole building. Had to get the owners over there to turn the lights back on. Later I tried to plug the I pod into the same outlet and again the lights went out. I ended up making coffee outside the next morning from a different outlet. The building looked like the wire had just been redone. there was a short in the wall socket.
We also had a wasp problem, couldn’t sit on the porch due to constant buzzing around our head.
On a happier note, it was a nice campground, The toilets and showers were close. the pool was nice too. Staff was friendly

Being a tent camper at a KOA can be an interesting experience, but these folks do it right — the tents sites are located downslope and away from the motorhomes, and alongside the creek.
As with most KOA’s, the restrooms and showers were clean and well lit, and the hot water was plentiful. The laundry was also clean and open 24 hours.
This campground is about 5 minutes away (by car) from restaurants, gasoline (or should I say ‘essence?’), and a few stores; it is about a 15 minute drive from the Longueuil metro station, from which you can access the entire city when you change trains at the Berri-​UQAM station.
The only negatives I found at this campsite were plentiful mosquitoes, but also a number of tent campers had a very loud party well into the night (after 1 am) with no intervention by the staff to maintain quiet, although they had a sign that said quiet after 10 pm.
All in all, I would choose this campground again the next time I am in the area.