As every review before us, Jason's description of the building and room was exact, it was very clean, and the neighborhood perfectly quiet. Our room was the one with the ensuite bathroom on the backside 2nd floor: birds sang in the morning and the leavy tree made it lovely. The subway stop Côte Sainte-Catherine was indeed a 4-5 minutes walk. However, the commerical neighborhood that we recommend that you walk to for shops and restaurants is not the one surrounding the subway stop Côte Sainte-Catherine but rather a seven or eight minute walk slightly uphill to the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood with its own subway stop by the same name (although on the blue line and not the orange). A wealth of shops, cafés, restaurants, and more. We stayed a week and would return again.