Montreal Hotel map and travel info

Getting there

Planes, trains, automobiles, or maybe even helicopter – we tell you the best way to go.

Planes

British Airways and Air Canada have daily direct flights from Heathrow to Montreal’s Pierre Elliot Trudeau Airport, about 13 miles south of the city. You can take the Metro (underground rail) to downtown, and there’s a regular scheduled shuttlebus. Direct flights from NYC go from all three major airports (JFK, Newark and La Guardia) to Montreal in a speedy hour and a half or less.

Trains

VIA Rail Canada (https://reservia.viarail.ca) offers swift and simple connections to Quebec City, Ottawa, and Toronto. There is a direct train service to New York, which, on the upside, offers some leafy, lake-y views of the Adirondacks, but even the most passionate landscape painter might have reservations about staring out of windows for eight and a half hours…

Automobiles

There’s a Hertz branch at the airport (www.hertz.com), but cars are not necessary for navigating Montreal’s compact centre and the old-town’s streets are easily traffic-clogged.