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Family Hotels in Montreal, Where Only Four of Twelve Say How Many You Are

Twelve 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.

Best for a family of four: HOTEL10 Montreal

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By Emma15 min readPublished Rooms checked August 2026
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Terrace awnings and stone facades on Place Jacques-Cartier in Old Montreal, where most of the city's family suites sit
Photo: Ken Lund · CC BY-SA 2.0

In Brief

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.

Key takeaways

  • Only four of twelve publish a maximum occupancy, including three all-suite hotels that publish none
  • Four publish connecting rooms and not one describes an actual door between them
  • Children 11 and under ride all Montreal transit free, supervised by anyone aged 14 or over
  • Chateau Versailles publishes that it has no lift, as a heritage feature rather than a warning

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.

Room configurations by family size for 12 hotels in Montreal
Hotel2+12+22+32 + babyConnectingCotRollaway
HOTEL10 MontrealYesYesNoNot publishedNoNot publishedNot published
Chateau VersaillesYesYesNoYesNoFree, published as a complimentary children's playpenNot published
Hotel Saint-SulpiceYesYesYesNot publishedNot publishedNot published anywhere on the siteNot published, and no extra bed is offered on any page
Le Square Phillips Hotel and SuitesNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedNoNot publishedNot published
Hotel Le CrystalYesYesNot publishedNot publishedNoNot publishedNot published
Hotel MonvilleYesNoNoYesYesFree, a crib in every room, and free for a child under 360 dollars plus taxes per day, and only in suite categories
Hotel Le Cantlie SuitesYesYesNot publishedNot publishedNoBaby cribs on request, with no indication whether they are freeThe site prints rollaway bed on request and a dollar sign, and then no number
Auberge du Vieux-PortYesNoNoNot publishedNoNot published, despite five room types being sold for three peopleNot published as a price or as a product
Le Nouvel Hotel and SpaYesYesNot publishedNot publishedNoNot publishedNot published
Hotel GaultYesYesNoYesYesFree, published as complimentary cribs80 dollars plus taxes per night per rollaway, the most expensive in the set
Le Petit HotelYesYesNoNot publishedNoNot publishedNot published as a price, though the extra bed is what makes four possible
Hotel Universel MontrealYesYesNoNoNoNot published as a price, and refused outright in one room categoryNot 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 areBookWhy
Four people wanting a real second bedHOTEL10 MontrealA 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 includedChateau VersaillesTwo real queens, a free playpen and free breakfast. There is no lift, so pack accordingly.
Five or six peopleHotel Saint-SulpiceThe Apartment Notre-Dame, with a bedroom, a Murphy bed and a kitchenette, one minute from the Basilica.
Wanting an indoor pool in a Montreal winterHotel Le CrystalIndoor salt water, and every suite is a separate bedroom plus a sofa bed.
Doing the Biodome and Olympic ParkHotel Universel MontrealDirect access to Viau metro and fifteen minutes from the Biodome on foot.
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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

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    Rated 4.2 out of 5 on Google Maps from 1,634 reviews, as of October 2026
    Best for four

    The 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
    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
    Anyone needing breakfast in the building or a pool.
    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.
    Check family rooms and dates at HOTEL10 MontrealOpens the live rate for your dates

  • Golden Square Mile

    Chateau Versailles

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    Rated 3.9 out of 5 on Google Maps from 845 reviews, as of October 2026
    Best value

    The 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
    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
    Anyone with a pushchair, a heavy case or a person who cannot climb, because there is no lift.
    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.
    Check family rooms and dates at Chateau VersaillesOpens the live rate for your dates

  • Old Montreal, beside Notre-Dame

    Hotel Saint-Sulpice

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    Rated 4.5 out of 5 on Google Maps from 1,142 reviews, as of October 2026

    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
    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
    Anyone who needs two queens in one bedroom, which this hotel says it does not have.
    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.
    Check family rooms and dates at Hotel Saint-SulpiceOpens the live rate for your dates

  • Downtown, on Square Phillips

    Le Square Phillips Hotel and Suites

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    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
    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
    Anyone who needs the occupancy confirmed before booking.
    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.
    Check family rooms and dates at Le Square Phillips Hotel and SuitesOpens the live rate for your dates

  • Downtown, near the Bell Centre

    Hotel Le Crystal

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    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
    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
    Anyone who needs a number rather than a shape.
    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.
    Check family rooms and dates at Hotel Le CrystalOpens the live rate for your dates

  • Quartier des spectacles

    Hotel Monville

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    Rated 4.4 out of 5 on Google Maps from 2,348 reviews, as of October 2026

    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
    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
    A family of four in one room, which this hotel cannot do at all.
    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.
    Check family rooms and dates at Hotel MonvilleOpens the live rate for your dates

  • Golden Square Mile

    Hotel Le Cantlie Suites

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    Rated 4.1 out of 5 on Google Maps from 1,662 reviews, as of October 2026

    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
    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
    Anyone who needs to know what the extras cost.
    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.
    Check family rooms and dates at Hotel Le Cantlie SuitesOpens the live rate for your dates

  • Old Montreal, on the waterfront

    Auberge du Vieux-Port

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    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
    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
    A family of four, at any price, in any room.
    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.
    Check family rooms and dates at Auberge du Vieux-PortOpens the live rate for your dates

  • Downtown, west

    Le Nouvel Hotel and Spa

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    Rated 4.0 out of 5 on Google Maps from 2,334 reviews, as of October 2026

    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
    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
    Anyone who needs the occupancy in writing, or a pool in winter.
    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.
    Check family rooms and dates at Le Nouvel Hotel and SpaOpens the live rate for your dates

  • Old Montreal

    Hotel Gault

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    Rated 4.6 out of 5 on Google Maps from 575 reviews, as of October 2026

    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
    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
    Anyone hoping for a second bed inside one room.
    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.
    Check family rooms and dates at Hotel GaultOpens the live rate for your dates

  • 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
    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
    Anyone who wants four people in four permanent beds.
    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.
    Check family rooms and dates at Le Petit HotelOpens the live rate for your dates

  • Hochelaga-Maisonneuve

    Hotel Universel Montreal

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    Rated 3.9 out of 5 on Google Maps from 2,895 reviews, as of October 2026

    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
    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
    Anyone basing themselves for Old Montreal, which is nearly an hour and three quarters away on foot.
    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.
    Check family rooms and dates at Hotel Universel MontrealOpens the live rate for your dates

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.

Family hotels in Montreal: FAQ

The questions parents ask most when booking a room here.

Four of twelve publish that they exist and not one describes an actual door. Hotel Monville gives the most precise figure anywhere in this research, sixty connecting rooms plus twenty-seven reduced-mobility rooms, and Hotel Gault publishes six connecting rooms and one reduced-mobility room. Hotel Saint-Sulpice says many of its suites can connect to one another and invites you to request it. But none of the four uses language that distinguishes a connecting door from an adjacent room, so a family that specifically needs to walk between rooms without going into the corridor should confirm that in writing rather than rely on the word connecting.

Yes, to eleven, and it is more generous than most cities in this research. Children aged eleven and under travel free at all times across Greater Montreal, supervised by a person aged fourteen or older. Above that, young people aged twelve to fifteen get thirty to forty per cent off most fares. Zone A covers the whole island including every hotel on this page, and since 1 July 2026 a single all-modes trip is 3.75 dollars regular and 2.75 reduced. One caveat worth knowing: the fare authority's own PDF and its website disagree about how many children a single adult may accompany free, so if you are travelling with four or more children, check at the ticket office rather than assume.

At about half of these twelve, and it is worth checking which half before you book on looks. HOTEL10's Deluxe Two-Room Suite is the strongest, with a king in a private bedroom and a real queen in four of the five units. Chateau Versailles publishes a Deluxe Two Queen Room with two real queens. Le Nouvel publishes two categories with two queens, one with a kitchen. Hotel Universel and Le Petit Hotel both reach four. But Auberge du Vieux-Port caps every room at three and Hotel Monville caps its standard rooms at two, and both are hotels families shortlist on appearance.

Five of twelve publish anything at all and four of those are free. Hotel Gault gives complimentary cribs, Hotel Monville provides a crib in every room free and states that a child under three stays free in it, and Chateau Versailles publishes a complimentary children's playpen. Le Cantlie Suites lists baby cribs on request without saying whether they cost anything. The useful outlier is Hotel Universel, which publishes a refusal rather than a price: a cot cannot be added to its Superior Room with Two Double Beds at all. The remaining seven publish nothing, including hotels selling rooms for three people.

Four of the twelve, and only two of those work in winter. Hotel Le Crystal publishes an indoor salt water pool and Le Square Phillips a heated indoor pool, both year round, which in a Montreal January is the whole point. Le Nouvel Hotel has a seasonal outdoor pool with no age rule and no hours published, and Le Cantlie Suites has a heated rooftop pool on the twenty-eighth floor described as open seasonally. The other eight publish no pool at all, including every hotel in Old Montreal on this page.

Yes, and it publishes the fact itself, which is the only reason anyone would know. Chateau Versailles states in its own accommodation description that it stays true to its historic stairways, which is a heritage framing of the plain fact that there is no lift in the building. That matters here more than it might elsewhere, because Chateau Versailles is otherwise the best value on this page for a family of four: two real queen beds, a free playpen and free breakfast. If somebody in the party cannot manage stairs with luggage, that combination is the trade you are making.

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