• Montreal streets flourish with stylish design and trend setting architecture.Graffiti in Montreal image by Jason Taylor from Fotolia.com
  
  Montreal is a creative and stylish city. The streets are lined with fashion boutiques and towering buildings that showcase architectural modern design. Many of Montreal's trendiest hotels are designed from the city's inspirational avant-garde character. Stay at a trend setting hotel that testifies to being on the forefront of cool.
  
  

Hotel St Paul

• The ten-story St. Paul Hotel, is situated in the heart of the historic district of Vieux Montréal. This modern and minimalist hotel incorporates elements of fire, ice, earth and sky as basic design concepts. Cool contemporary furnishings decorate the lobby that surround a translucent fireplace of translucent alabaster. This historic building lends itself to high ceilings and large open windows. The 120 guestrooms and suites feature designer furnishing, marble bathrooms with mosaic tiles and panoramic views of the old quarter. Room amenities offer guests all the latest gadgetry including high-speed internet, plasma TVs and fax machines. Complimentary breakfast is served at the Cube restaurant, another impressive space with custom-designed tables and settings. The Raw Bar may be the hotel's trendiest spot, a place where local socialites blend with hotel guests in cool laid back environment.
  
  Hotel St Paul
  355 Rue McGill
  Montreal, QC H2Y 2E8, Canada
  514-380-2222
  hotelstpaul.com
  
  

Le Petit Hotel

• Le Petit Hôtel is a chic and contemporary hotel that evokes a cool bohemian style. Located in a historic building, it's nineteenth-century European style is blended in its design interior. With only 24 rooms and a old world style cafe, it is considered a trendy hideaway surrounded by hip streets full of art galleries, hidden clubs and bars and fashionable boutiques. The twenty-four rooms have a unique décor with exposed brick and contemporary stonework walls combined with and hardwood floors. Each room features all the modern must-haves like high speed internet access, iPod docking stations and widescreen flat screen TVs. At night, the lobby café (which also serves as the front desk) turns into a social lounge that draws in local hipsters.
  
  Le Petit Hotel
  168 rue St-Paul Ouest
  Montreal, QC H2Y 1Z7, Canada
  514-940-0360
  petithotelmontreal.com
  
  

W Montreal

• The W Montreal is housed in a classic old bank building. In true W style, the conversion now features a cutting edge and colorful high-design. The W's lobby, The Living Room, is widely known as a hip hangout, no matter the location. It features an open space with contemporary seating, fireplace, and intimate lighting. The space is also surrounded by three 12-foot-high waterfalls with glass sculpture. The W Montreal features an addition to this trendy hotel lobby, with its Le Plateau Bar. This stylish and sophisticated lounge bar is located up a grand staircase from the lobby lending views at the Living Room below. The color scheme delivers deep reds and browns and then leads into hues of blues in each guestroom. Each of the the 152 guestrooms and suites deliver futuristic design with floating beds, illuminated side tables and rain showers. The W also features an Italian fusion restaurant and Wunderbar, a top spot for night time mingling with its signature wavy ceiling, VIP area and stone built DJ booth.
  
  W Montreal
  901 Square Victoria
  Montreal, QC H2Z 1R1, Canada
  514-395-3100
  starwoodhotels.com