First Time to Montreal at Hotel Monville

I’m on a plane to Montreal! First time flying since our trip to Japan in 2019. Can you tell I’m happy?

So why did I choose Montreal as my first flight since the start of the pandemic?

a) I’ve always wanted to check out Montreal. Besides Vancouver, I think Montreal may be the only other place in Canada that I can live in.

b) I always hear great things about the cultural attractions and events.

c) Being in part of Montreal will make you feel like you’re in Europe. And I loved everything about Paris when I went in 2008. (sidebar: it’s been too long. I have to go back for another visit)

d) Being that everyone is experiencing a severe case of revenge travel, I just didn’t want to deal with the disaster of passport delays, airport nightmares and hundreds of international flights being canceled on a daily basis.

Besides, a Canadian’s got to Canadian for their first flight, non?

My trip may very well have not only been well timed (right before school term ended), but also traveling within the country, I didn’t experience any of the snafus or frustrations. So that’s a fab start to the trip.

The sucky, although not uncommon thing about traveling eastbound sometimes, are the red eye flights. Every time I go to Europe, it’s on a red eye and I feel so loopy and wobbly by the time I get to my accommodations. Even a red eye flight to New York got me feeling like I was rocking back and forth on the inside.

So thank the ceiling for day use hotels. I don’t have the fortitude or stamina to land somewhere at 7am and then walk around the city trying to stay away and get on local time, while I wait for a 3pm check in time somewhere.

If there’s a pod or capsule hotel available like at London’s Gatwick Airport, I’ll be crashing for a few hours vs shuffling around London like a zombie.

Pro-tip: if that’s not you too, then may I recommend Dayuse.com, a website that lists out hotels offering daytime bookings? You can use it for ‘daycations’ (ahem, afternoon delights), if you want to change up your WFH environment, or like me, a place to shower and crash, while waiting to check in to my actuals digs.

Depending on the hotel, time blocks offered can range from 8am-4pm, 830am-6pm, 9am-1pm, 9am-5pm, 11am-6pm, 3pm-9pm, etc. And for a fraction of the cost if you were to book the one night stay.

I chose Le Meridien Versailles Montreal because of the location, the vibe, and the $99 price. It was worth it.

After a shower, a nap, and a chirashi bowl from a nearby Japanese restaurant, I was ready to rock n’ roll to Hotel Monville, my accommodations for the next 7 days in Montreal. As I hadn’t travelled since 2019, I may have splurged a little with the deluxe suite. Hello rainforest shower AND 2 x 55″ LED HD TVs! Wha?!?

But even though this was definitely a splurge, I am not made of moolah. I booked the deluxe suite at Hotel Monville because I found a 43% off great deal on Agoda. I typically use Booking, but the deal was much better on Agoda this time around.

So feast your peepers on this deluxe suite.

Hotel Monville! My home for the next week. Not too shabby, non?