
Family Hotels in Montreal, Where Only Four of Twelve Say How Many You Are
Best for a family of four: HOTEL10 MontrealTwelve Montreal hotels checked against their own websites in August 2026. Only four publish a maximum number of people per room. The other eight, including three all-suite properties of 131, 164 and 255 units, describe beds and square footage and never say how many people may sleep in them. What Montreal does publish, better than most cities in this research, is the awkward negative: three operators here tell you plainly what their rooms cannot do.
Which Montreal hotels actually work for a family?
HOTEL10 publishes the best family room disclosed anywhere in this research, a two-room suite with a king in a private bedroom and a real second queen, and it tells you that four of the five have that queen while the fifth has a sofa bed. Chateau Versailles is the value answer with two real queen beds, a free playpen and free breakfast, provided nobody in the party cannot manage stairs, because it has no lift at all. Auberge du Vieux-Port is the best placed on foot and caps every room at three.
Which rooms actually fit your family
Find your party shape along the top, then read down. A tick means the hotel publishes a room that holds that group in one booking. A dash means the hotel does not publish the fact at all, which is not the same as a no, and is why the column exists.
| Hotel | 2+1 | 2+2 | 2+3 | 2 + baby | Connecting | Cot | Rollaway |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOTEL10 Montreal | Yes | Yes | No | Not published | No | Not published | Not published |
| Chateau Versailles | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Free, published as a complimentary children's playpen | Not published |
| Hotel Saint-Sulpice | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not published | Not published | Not published anywhere on the site | Not published, and no extra bed is offered on any page |
| Le Square Phillips Hotel and Suites | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | No | Not published | Not published |
| Hotel Le Crystal | Yes | Yes | Not published | Not published | No | Not published | Not published |
| Hotel Monville | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Free, a crib in every room, and free for a child under 3 | 60 dollars plus taxes per day, and only in suite categories |
| Hotel Le Cantlie Suites | Yes | Yes | Not published | Not published | No | Baby cribs on request, with no indication whether they are free | The site prints rollaway bed on request and a dollar sign, and then no number |
| Auberge du Vieux-Port | Yes | No | No | Not published | No | Not published, despite five room types being sold for three people | Not published as a price or as a product |
| Le Nouvel Hotel and Spa | Yes | Yes | Not published | Not published | No | Not published | Not published |
| Hotel Gault | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Free, published as complimentary cribs | 80 dollars plus taxes per night per rollaway, the most expensive in the set |
| Le Petit Hotel | Yes | Yes | No | Not published | No | Not published | Not published as a price, though the extra bed is what makes four possible |
| Hotel Universel Montreal | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Not published as a price, and refused outright in one room category | Not published as a price, only as a refusal |
Read the occupancy column first, because it is mostly empty. Only four of these twelve publish a maximum number of people per room, and the three all-suite hotels with 131, 164 and 255 units between them publish none at all. Four publish connecting rooms and not one describes an actual door, so nothing here can be called genuinely connecting rather than adjacent. Five publish a cot policy, four of them free. Two publish a rollaway price and both are per night. And not one of the twelve publishes an age at which a child stays free in an existing bed. Where Montreal is unusually good is the published negative: Saint-Sulpice states it has no suite with two queens side by side, Le Petit Hotel routes a family of four to two rooms, Hotel Universel says a cot cannot be added to one specific room type, and Chateau Versailles publishes that it has no lift. Those four sentences are worth more than most of the marketing on this page.
These are family facts, and family facts go stale. This table is set for re-verification in March 2027.
Which one fits how your family travels
Find the row that sounds like your trip. Every pick below names the family it is wrong for, so you can book on fit rather than on rank.
| If you are | Book | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Four people wanting a real second bed | HOTEL10 Montreal | A two-room suite with a king and a real queen in four of the five. Ask for one of those four. |
| Four people on a budget with breakfast included | Chateau Versailles | Two real queens, a free playpen and free breakfast. There is no lift, so pack accordingly. |
| Five or six people | Hotel Saint-Sulpice | The Apartment Notre-Dame, with a bedroom, a Murphy bed and a kitchenette, one minute from the Basilica. |
| Wanting an indoor pool in a Montreal winter | Hotel Le Crystal | Indoor salt water, and every suite is a separate bedroom plus a sofa bed. |
| Doing the Biodome and Olympic Park | Hotel Universel Montreal | Direct access to Viau metro and fifteen minutes from the Biodome on foot. |
- Free cancellation on most rooms
- No booking fee
- Prices on Trip.com
What the bands mean
Two hotels publish an extra-bed price and both are per night: Hotel Gault at 80 dollars plus taxes per rollaway and Hotel Monville at 60 dollars plus taxes per day, with a third guest at Monville permitted only in suite categories and carrying that same mandatory charge. Five publish a cot policy, four of them free. One hotel in twelve publishes both an adult and a child breakfast price, Saint-Sulpice at from 28 dollars and 17 dollars. And not one of the twelve publishes an age at which a child stays free in an existing bed, which is the single most useful number a family hotel can print and the one Montreal withholds completely. Parking is the other real cost: valet runs 38 dollars a day at Chateau Versailles and 55 at Auberge du Vieux-Port, which has no self-parking at all.
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- Independents and all-suite hotels
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- Old Montreal boutique and downtown suites
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- The design and heritage properties
The 12 hotels, and the room to ask for at each
Walking times are to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown. Every walking figure here is measured on OpenStreetMap foot routing from the hotel's own published address, because not one of the twelve publishes a walking time to anything. That is the reverse of the usual problem: the hotels give you a street and leave you to work out the rest. Three addresses could not be verified on the operator's own site, at Le Cantlie Suites, Hotel Universel and Le Petit Hotel, and those three figures are marked indicative rather than measured.
At the corner of Sherbrooke and Saint-Laurent
HOTEL10 Montreal
€€€Best for fourThe best family room disclosed anywhere in this research. The Deluxe Two-Room Suite has a private bedroom with a king and an ensuite, plus a second room, and the operator publishes the exact split within the category: four of the five have a real queen bed and the fifth has a sofa bed.
- Room to book
- Book this room: Deluxe Two-Room Suite, asking specifically for one of the four with a real queen
- Breakfast for children
- Not published, and no breakfast is served on site
- Walk to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Measured 15 minutes to Place d'Armes and 20 to Notre-Dame to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Right for
- A family of four who want a real second bed rather than a sofa, and will ask for the right unit.
- Wrong for
- Wrong for: Anyone needing breakfast in the building or a pool.
- The catch
- The catch: It publishes the best family room in the city and then nothing else a family needs: no cot, no rollaway, no child age, no breakfast and no pool. Its own pages also carry embedded guest-review quotes with a parking figure in them, which is not an operator fact.
Golden Square Mile
Chateau Versailles
€€Best valueThe value answer on paper: a Deluxe Two Queen Room with two real queen beds, a free children's playpen and free breakfast, in a heritage building in the Golden Square Mile.
- Room to book
- Book this room: Deluxe Two Queen Room, two real queens
- Breakfast for children
- Breakfast is free for everyone, a deluxe continental buffet
- Walk to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Measured 14 minutes to Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Right for
- A family of four who want two real beds and breakfast included, and can manage stairs.
- Wrong for
- Wrong for: Anyone with a pushchair, a heavy case or a person who cannot climb, because there is no lift.
- The catch
- The catch: There is no lift at all, which the hotel publishes itself in a sentence about staying true to its historic stairways. Its published capacity of four rests on a building you carry everything up by hand.
Old Montreal, beside Notre-Dame
Hotel Saint-Sulpice
€€€€The best-published capacity in Montreal and the most useful negative: its own FAQ states that it has no suite anywhere with two queen beds side by side in the same bedroom. It is also one metre from Notre-Dame Basilica.
- Room to book
- Book this room: Loft Le Royer for four, or the Apartment Notre-Dame for more
- Breakfast for children
- Published, which is rare here: from 28 dollars adult and 17 dollars child
- Walk to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Measured 1 minute to Notre-Dame Basilica, 5 to Place d'Armes to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Right for
- A family of five or six who want a kitchenette and the Basilica on the doorstep, and can live with a Murphy bed.
- Wrong for
- Wrong for: Anyone who needs two queens in one bedroom, which this hotel says it does not have.
- The catch
- The catch: It publishes capacity better than anyone in the set and publishes nothing at all about cots or rollaways, so a family with a baby cannot plan. Babysitting is 50 dollars an hour with a three-hour minimum.
Downtown, on Square Phillips
Le Square Phillips Hotel and Suites
€€On paper the best-equipped family hotel here: a kitchen in every unit, a heated indoor pool, free breakfast and a rooftop terrace, downtown on Square Phillips.
- Room to book
- Book this room: A one or two-bedroom suite, though no occupancy is published for any of them
- Breakfast for children
- Breakfast is free, though the English page publishes the detail only in French
- Walk to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Measured 12 minutes to Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Right for
- A family staying a week who want to cook and swim indoors year round.
- Wrong for
- Wrong for: Anyone who needs the occupancy confirmed before booking.
- The catch
- The catch: It names a Family suite product and then publishes no occupancy number for any of its 164 units, and both the free breakfast and the pool are published only in French on the English-language page.
Downtown, near the Bell Centre
Hotel Le Crystal
€€€The best structural answer for a family in the set: every one of its 131 suites is a separate bedroom plus a living room with a sofa bed, and it has an indoor salt water pool open year round.
- Room to book
- Book this room: Any suite, since the structure is the same throughout, or a two-bedroom penthouse
- Breakfast for children
- Not published, and no breakfast service is published at all
- Walk to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Measured 6 minutes to the Bell Centre to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Right for
- A family who want a door between the adults and the children, and an indoor pool in a Montreal January.
- Wrong for
- Wrong for: Anyone who needs a number rather than a shape.
- The catch
- The catch: It has the best structural answer for a family here, a separate bedroom and a sofa bed in every single suite, and publishes no occupancy figure for any of the 131 of them.
Quartier des spectacles
Hotel Monville
€€€The most transparent operator in Montreal, publishing an exact connecting-room count of 60, a free crib in every room, and a rollaway price. It is also the least useful for a family of four.
- Room to book
- Book this room: A suite, because only suites take a third guest
- Breakfast for children
- Not published
- Walk to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Measured 5 minutes to Place d'Armes to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Right for
- Two adults and one child, or two families taking a pair of its 60 connecting rooms.
- Wrong for
- Wrong for: A family of four in one room, which this hotel cannot do at all.
- The catch
- The catch: Every one of its 269 rooms has a king bed and nothing else, and the standard categories cap at two people. It publishes more than anyone else here and what it publishes is a ceiling.
Golden Square Mile
Hotel Le Cantlie Suites
€€A kitchen in every unit, a designer sofa bed in every category, a 24-hour laundry room and a heated rooftop pool on the 28th floor, which is the obvious shape for a family staying a week.
- Room to book
- Book this room: Any suite, since every category is a main bed plus a sofa bed with a kitchen
- Breakfast for children
- Not published
- Walk to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Indicative 3 minutes to Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel, from an address we could not verify to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Right for
- A family staying a week who want to cook and do laundry.
- Wrong for
- Wrong for: Anyone who needs to know what the extras cost.
- The catch
- The catch: It publishes no occupancy for any of its 255 units, and names a rollaway charge with a dollar sign and then declines to give the figure. Its contact page served no address at all, so the walking times here are indicative.
Old Montreal, on the waterfront
Auberge du Vieux-Port
€€€The best-placed hotel here on foot, six minutes to Notre-Dame and ten to the Science Centre, directly on the Old Port waterfront, with a hard ceiling of three people in every room.
- Room to book
- Book this room: A Signature or Premier room, all of which cap at three
- Breakfast for children
- Not published
- Walk to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Measured 6 minutes to Notre-Dame Basilica to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Right for
- Two adults and one child who want to walk everywhere in Old Montreal.
- Wrong for
- Wrong for: A family of four, at any price, in any room.
- The catch
- The catch: Its own booking filter offers only two occupancy options, two people and three, across all eight room types. Parking is valet only at 55 dollars per 24 hours with no self-parking, and the fitness centre is off-site and adults only.
Downtown, west
Le Nouvel Hotel and Spa
€€Two published room types with two real queen beds, one of them with a full kitchen, which is exactly the shape a family of four wants, plus a seasonal outdoor pool.
- Room to book
- Book this room: Standard 2 Queen Beds, or the equivalent with a kitchen
- Breakfast for children
- Not published
- Walk to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Measured 13 minutes to the Bell Centre to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Right for
- A family of four who want two real queens and a kitchen at a mid-range rate.
- Wrong for
- Wrong for: Anyone who needs the occupancy in writing, or a pool in winter.
- The catch
- The catch: No occupancy number is published for any of its 177 rooms and suites, and the pool is seasonal and outdoor with no age rule and no hours published.
Old Montreal
Hotel Gault
€€€€Publishes the most precise connecting-room count in the city, six connecting rooms and one reduced-mobility room, plus complimentary cribs, in a design hotel in Old Montreal.
- Room to book
- Book this room: A connecting pair, because every single room here has one king and nothing else
- Breakfast for children
- Not published
- Walk to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Measured 7 minutes to Notre-Dame Basilica to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Right for
- A family who want two rooms in a design hotel and a free cot.
- Wrong for
- Wrong for: Anyone hoping for a second bed inside one room.
- The catch
- The catch: Not one of its eleven room pages publishes an occupancy number, and every room type that names a bed names a single king: no sofa bed, no second bed, no twin anywhere. The hotel also contradicts its own address on its contact page.
Old Montreal, on Saint-Paul
Le Petit Hotel
€€Publishes capacity per room size more clearly than anyone here, and then publishes a refusal: its Large Room page routes a family of four to book two rooms rather than pretending one will do.
- Room to book
- Book this room: Extra Large Room for four, or two rooms as the hotel itself suggests
- Breakfast for children
- Breakfast is free, a continental buffet published on every room page
- Walk to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Indicative 4 minutes to Notre-Dame Basilica, from an address we could not verify to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Right for
- A family of four in Old Montreal who want breakfast included.
- Wrong for
- Wrong for: Anyone who wants four people in four permanent beds.
- The catch
- The catch: Its published capacity of four is soft: four people means a king plus an extra bed, and the price of that extra bed is not published. Its contact page returns a 404, so the address and therefore the walking figures are unverified.
Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
Hotel Universel Montreal
€€Out at Hochelaga-Maisonneuve with direct access to Viau metro and a fifteen-minute walk to the Biodome, and the single most useful published refusal in this research.
- Room to book
- Book this room: Classic Room with Two Double Beds, not the Superior version of it
- Breakfast for children
- Not published, and no breakfast service is published at all
- Walk to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Indicative 15 minutes to the Biodome, from an address the operator does not publish to Notre-Dame Basilica for Old Montreal, Rue Sainte-Catherine at Peel for downtown
- Right for
- A family doing the Biodome, Botanical Garden and Olympic Park, on the metro.
- Wrong for
- Wrong for: Anyone basing themselves for Old Montreal, which is nearly an hour and three quarters away on foot.
- The catch
- The catch: The hotel publishes that a cot or rollaway cannot be added to its Superior Room with Two Double Beds, which means the upgraded room holds fewer people than the cheaper one. It also charges extra for a microwave on request.
Where not to book in Montreal
Two traps here, and one of them is unusual enough to be worth stating twice. The first is the upgrade that shrinks: Hotel Universel publishes that a cot or rollaway cannot be added to its Superior Room with Two Double Beds, so the more expensive room holds fewer people than the cheaper one with the same bed count. Read the room-specific small print rather than assuming the ladder goes upward. The second is the hotel that looks perfect and caps at three: Auberge du Vieux-Port is the best-placed property here on foot, six minutes from Notre-Dame, and its own booking filter offers only two occupancy options, two people or three, across all eight room types. Hotel Monville is the same story in a different shape, with 269 rooms that all have one king bed and standard categories capped at two. And if stairs matter, note that Chateau Versailles has no lift at all, which it publishes as a heritage feature rather than as a warning.
When to book
The scarce categories here are the two-room suites and the handful of rooms with two real queen beds, and because so few operators publish occupancy you often cannot tell you have the wrong room until you arrive. Ask for the configuration in writing at booking, particularly at HOTEL10 where four of five Deluxe Two-Room Suites have a real queen and the fifth does not. Summer festival season and the Grand Prix weekend are when downtown rates move most, and Old Montreal fills first. If you need a cot, ask before you pay: only five of the twelve publish any cot policy at all and one of them publishes a refusal.
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