This is the sleaziest hotel I've ever stayed in. Bedbugs...broken window latch...I can vouch that these are all true.

For your own safety and peace of mind, please spend the extra dollars and book your stay at a commercial hotel. Spare yourself the added stress! We certainly learned our lesson.

Hotel de L'Elysee should be closed down!

i would not recomment this place to anyone. on the positve side, the hotel clerk did call me a taxi for me, which of course i took to a clean and safe hotel.

I have stayed at many hotels in montreal...ranging from Taj Mahal to Hotel Gault, and this has to be the most disgusting experience I've ever had.

We booked for the august long weekend, and ended up leaving after the first night. Please don't get fooled by the ideal location, it is a pig sty and infested with bed bugs. we didn't notice them until the next morning when I and my friend were literally covered with oozing welts on our faces and necks. We called for the manager, who never came. We demanded that someone come up to see the headboard and bed, and nobody came. We finally had to go down to the front desk and get the owner on the phone. The staff was unfriendly and spoke little english/french.

I thought it fishy that they tried to charge me three nights, in advance. Do not sign anything until you inspect your room. If you don't want your vacation ruined and you don't want nasty oozing bites on your face, STAY ELSEWHERE!!!!!

pros
1)strategically located
2)reasonably priced
cons
1)paper thin walls - if anyone is up.....you are up. Its not a hotel, it is a row home with hotel rooms in it.
2)slightly seedy neighborhood
3)unhelpful staff
4)breakfast is ....no joke ...wonder bread, a toaster and horrible coffee
5)hard to commuicate with front desk (english or french)....when some one is even there.

I was very dissappointed with this Hotel. Where do I start. Well, let me start by saying this is my first review despite using tripadvisor many times. I felt I needed to save the next guy the headache I got with this hotel. I suspect that the ratings of this hotel may have been pumped up by friends or relatives of the owner because I usually find the reviews here to be on the money.
I would also like to add that I have stayed at many value hotels before but there are certain expectations that even a value hotel should meet. First of all, it is indeed strategically well located. However, its immediate neighborhood is a little seedy. I felt like I needed to explain myself to wife as to why out hotel was in between rundown houses/hotels which homeless people are living in (boarded up windows and all) and drug deals and hookers about at nightime.
Then there is the room. The toilet ran constantly and room had about two feet of space outside the parimeter of the mattress. Worst of all, the walls were paper thin. You could hear conversations going on in other rooms. We were awaken several time throughout the night by people coming in all ours of the night, coming up the steps carrying on drunk talk. Any normal hotel walls would blocked those sounds out.
I tryed to converse with the front desk on several occasions and it was hit or miss depending on who was there and it was mostly miss. English or french. I got a parking ticket despite asking several times if my parking space was ok. Plus apon leaving I discovered my car had been struck while parked:(

To be fare
This hotel was less then a block from the metro which is handy. It was a block from st denis which has many restaurants and shops. It was $100 +tax canadian when many other hotels wanted about $150+tax during the weekend of the 4th of July.

All and all, I wouldn't stay here for free because I couldn't even get one restful night the whole time I was there.