For the budget traveler, Montreal youth hostels offer dorms or private rooms as well as budget bed and breakfasts (sometimes with very skimpy breakfasts). The densest collection of budget hotels are in the Latin Quarter, in the streets East of Beri-UQAM metro and the long distance bus station. The Old Town has a couple of quality hostels, but you’ll pay more to be there.

Mid-range options include Downtown chain hotels to “gites”, guest houses that range from a single room in an apartment to elegant historic homes with three to five rooms. Gites are usually found in the more residential neighborhoods like the Plateau.

On the upper-end, four and five-star luxury and boutique hotels are mostly concentrated in the Old City and Downtown.

Montreal is home to four major universities and numerous smaller schools. Students routinely sublet apartments in the summer months. There are far more apartments to sublet than there is a demand for and students will get more and more desperate as the days go on to take what they can get before they go home for the summer.