Location. Location. Location. This 2BR apartment is ideally situated in the heart of downtown Montreal. It was within easy walking distance of everywhere our family went and close to a Metro as well. The hosts, Antonie and Dominic (who handles most of the logistics) were accommodating and helped my husband with parking twice, to ensure free parking--tough in Montreal. And Dominic fielded my many questions.

The apartment and decore itself is very basic/spartan, yet clean. Having a teen boy and girl, I appreciated that they were able to take turns sleeping on the living room couch, which was more like a bed, rather than having to sleep together on a queen bed in the second bedroom. As one reviewer said, the living room and kitchen get rather stuffy; only the bedrooms have window AC. The windows are small, but there is nothing to see from them. You don't get this for the view, but for location. The apartment door fronts onto an ally, and there are usually workers from an adjoining restaurant smoking outside, so the opening looks a little off-putting. Having said that, though, the street and area did not seem at all unsafe and we loved the colorful murals on buildings on St. Dominique.

With such a great location, the hosts can do a few simple things to make it truly wonderful--easy things to do:
*Equip the kitchen better. There was no tea kettle, only one mug, no way to really cook anything.
*Get TV working or Netflix/Hulu through iTV. This was frustrating for my kids not to have a working TV, tho' there is WiFi
*Have a note explaining the water situation. Tap water is almost only hot and it's hard to control for showers. Dominic kindly brought us two jugs of drinking water, but when it ran out, we had to get more. It would be good if they equipped the apt. with enough water for guests' stay.
*Get some temporary drawers from Container Store type place for ea. bedroom or empty out dresser drawers for guests, two per room is ample.

Yet even if the hosts don't go that extra bit to provide these things, the place is incredible value for the money and the hosts were very reachable, friendly and accommodating. I would recommend it to anyone visiting Montreal (except elderly as there are many steps!).