The biggest challenge about staying at the Hyatt is figuring out how to get inside. It sits on the corner of Sainte-Catherine , the longest shopping street in the city, and is directly across from the Museum of Contemporary Art and the main festival plaza. During the jazz festival a couple of years ago, we sat out on the hotel balcony and had a birds-eye view of the main stage.
However, because of its location in the heart of the city and its situation on the side of a hill, you enter through the garage and take an elevator up to the lobby level. If you choose the wrong door, you'll end up either in a neighboring restaurant or the underground shopping mall that runs underneath most of Montreal. In fact, you can take an elevator from the Hyatt lobby level to the shopping mall and can sit on the terrace and look through the large plate glass window at the fountain that soars to the roof and the shoppers scurrying around on the levels below you. But once you get the hang of which elevator to take, this is the premier location for festival-goers. Since most of the performers and crew stay here, it's like having a backstage pass. www.montreal.hyatt.com
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