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7 reviews for Loews Hotel Vogue
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Loews Hotel Vogue
7/17/2010
This is perhaps one of the best hotels I have stayed at, anywhere. By big city standards, this is not a large hotel. The rooms are spacious, the marble bathrooms are cavernous with all the in-room amenities you expect, at a reasonable rate. The bathrooms have an enormous jacuzzi with a TV to enjoy while soaking in the tub.
Although in the heart of Montreal, it's a bit of an oasis. The decor is a bit ornate for my tastes, but the staff are fully bilingual and incredibly courteous.
Perhaps one of the most unexpected "cherry on the sundae" was after a quick stay at the Hotel Vogue, we were driving back to Toronto. When the valet retrieved our car, they provided us with little paper bags with bottled water and fruit for the drive home. Now, that's customer service!!!
Loews Hotel Vogue
7/17/2010
Bottom line: a faded version of its former glory. Like an elderly actress, the beauty of a past generation, this place has seen better times. It's kept up relatively well, but the old school marble and brass, the tiny lobby, the dreary fitness room, and the most unhip lobby bar this side of the border, make for a strange trip to times past (think 1985). The place, however, treats kids very well, complete with a check in gift of toys and coloring books. They easily arranged for an amazing babysitter without the least bit of hassle. The rooms were comfy, although the aging AC didn't get it as cold as I like. The bathroom was large, and the TV was a nice touch, but again it was somewhat aged. The location is centralized, but there is one too many "peep shows" and "contact dance parlours" to make this truly a kid friendly area. Next time, I'll try one the funkier, modern boutique hotels off the dirty, downtown area. While a decent hotel, this is not really meant for the 25-45 "hipster" crowd (of which I fall squarely into).
Loews Hotel Vogue
7/30/2009
The hotel is conveniently located in the Temptation District, which features a variety of "danse contact" establishments where you can pay to fondle a young lady's hooters before wandering off to your hotel room, ashamed.
The staff was lovely. Doormen quite friendly and able to point you in the right direction should you wish to get your wife a gift or demean a runaway teen. The hotel bar had sexy, adorable bartenders, to whom drunk businessmen made regrettable comments. One bartender bought me a shrimp tempura appetizer - presumably because I quietly enjoyed my gin instead of offering to finger her.
The room itself was excellent. Clean as a whistle. Well-stocked mini-bar, in case you accidentally bring a tranny home and need to entertain or build courage. There's a room safe. The bed was so comfortable, one could be tempted to relax all day in their magnificent splendor while being serviced by a sex-trafficking victim bought off Craigslist.
Speaking of, internet access is $14.95/day (Canadian).
The bathroom could easily hold all known Baldwins. It had a large shower and even larger tub. Plenty of towels should you find yourself phoning a violent Russian pimp to arrange a Vietnamese soap massage. I was tempted to steal the awesome bathrobe but knew it'd wind up on my Amex statement somehow.
It took me two days before I realized that the DVD remote was not the TV remote. As a result, I didn't see much of what Canadian TV probably doesn't have to offer.
Prime shopping is all around. There's an Apple Store a block away. The high-end Ogilvy department store is across the street. Should you wish to stare at the shaved genitalia of a woman whose dad failed her, Club Wanda's is right on the corner.
Coffee shops and restaurants galore in the area. Good luck getting service in any of them - the French influence runs deep. When waiters sense you're trying to make eye contact they scatter as if you'd lobbed a grenade.
Loews Hotel Vogue
9/8/2009
This hotel is quite lovely. The elevator was really fast, the bed was quite comfortable, the bathroom was amazing (featuring both a shower and separate bathing tub). There was also a tv in the bathroom for those longer trips in there.
I do have an issue that they don't offer free wifi in the rooms and their shower doors allow water onto the floor quite easily. But that's just being picky. Def one of the best hotels I have been to. The help there is very friendly, and definitely lives up to its name.
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Loews Hotel Vogue
1/26/2010
This is easily one of the best hotels I have ever stayed at. The rooms are spaceous and quiet, the bathrooms featuring marble and jacuzzi tubs. The room service breakfast is divine and perfect every time. Like most places in Montreal, the staff is bilingual and friendly and helpful. Vogue reminds me of an updated Sherry-Netherland for some reason. The elevators require a room key, so no one gets past the lobby to invade the corridors. It's centrally located to all the good restaurants around St. Catherine and Crescent. The staff anticipates the needs of serious travelers. The hotel has been organized around service rather than the glitz of a big bar scene, etc. If you're not in old-Monteal for its historic ambiance than Vogue is perhaps the best hotel downtown, cheap for all it gives you and poised to help in attitude and location.
Loews Hotel Vogue
12/31/2008
I love this hotel. The rooms are huge, the bathrooms are huge, the service is great. We've stayed all over town and it's our favorite. Rooms are much bigger than the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth and the Ritz.
The bathroom is huge-a-mongus. Deep whirlpool tub, separate shower, huge counterspace, flat screen tv...
Comfy, fluffy beds you just want to wallow in all day....
The only downsides... $15 per day Wi-Fi, expensive daily valet $32.
You can find good deals online and often they have hard to beat specials. We'll keep coming back!
Loews Hotel Vogue
12/30/2009
We stayed at the LHV for five days during December 2009 -- basically, over the Christmas holiday. I've rated the hotel four stars not because it is the MOST luxurious hotel in the world -- it's not the Ritz Carlton or the Le Crystal -- but because for the level of hotel that it is, it is a truly exceptional find. The rooms are all classy, modern, elegant, and have a definite luxury feel: comfortable beds, well-stocked mini-fridge, large bathtub (with a little TV in the bathroom!), large TV in the main room. Service was also phenomenal -- eager and helpful, without being obnoxious at all. The hotel staff happily handled all our odd requests, from helping us get a great dinner reservation on Christmas Eve, to parking and retrieving our car about 9,000 times for our various trips around the city, to helping track down some good local Chinese delivery and even providing some nice plates & silverware to eat it from! They did it all with a smile.
One slight drawback to the hotel was the location. I say it is a *slight* drawback because the actual neighborhood is great -- full of shopping, convenience stores, and local eateries. But it is not very near any of the main "tourist" things you'll probably want to see/do in Montreal. For us, getting anywhere was either a good 15 minute walk or a drive/metro trip. We were fine with that, but be warned that you probably won't be able to easily walk to everyplace in your "Best of Montreal" guidebook.
The only other slight drawback was price. While the hotel itself had a very reasonable rate that time of year, the individual services -- minibar, room service, Internet access -- were not free and were in fact fairly pricey. That's fair enough and it wasn't out of line with the general quality of the hotel, but it was a little annoying to pay $15 for every 24 hours of Internet access.
All these factors aside though, the LHV is a fabulous high-midrange hotel for anyone looking to spend some "luxury time" in a great city, but without *really* busting the bank on a swanky hotel. It has everything you'd want in a hotel: clean & modern rooms, happy & helpful service, a (pretty) good location, and (relatively) good prices.
