This was our first time in Montreal so I was not sure which neighborhood to go. Based on the reviews we booked the place which apparently is very close to everything in the downtown area. Next time we would go for a place closer to Old Montreal region, which seemed like a better place to stay.
Couple of things;
1- Unless you are a deep sleeper this place might be a real challenge if you want to relax at night. There is no sound insulation whatsoever so you would constantly hear people (especially the drunk or high ones) yelling between 1 and 4:30 am. Once there is no people on the street, around 5 am there will be garbage truck or bus or something to make even worse noise.
2- The curtains are not covering the windows entirely hence there is (again if you go to Montreal in the summer the sun goes down after 9:30pm and the sun rise around 5am) lots of light in the room. If you don’t have an eye cover for sleeping it might be a bit challenging to fall or stay in the sleep.
3- On our second day they texted us and let us know that there was an A/C issue in the unit. My guess is that the issue was there even before we arrived cause we got a text saying there was a leakage due to our A/C but the day we arrived was so cold so we didn’t turn it on. Anyways first we got a text to be present for the maintenance guy while we were far from the place we stay, then (with our permission) they entered into our room to fix the A/C yet the solution to the leakage was a small plastic shovel stuck under the A/C unit along with a bucket underneath so the water goes into the bucket. That funny looking engineering project also made a lot of noise. Think of hearing constant water drip.
4- Again this was our first time in Montreal and I don’t know the standards here but the building was very old. It smelled funny and the layout was weird also.
Other than unit being close to the metro station (which we didn’t use even once) and downtown area I can not say anything better about the unit.