Auberge Alternative du Vieux-Montréal - Hostel

The bunk beds have curtains that give you some privacy, at least if you are on a lower bed. This is great, especially in mixed dorms. Staff was mostly nice and helpful. They sell some food. The location is great.

The dorms lack of personal lamps. I would have liked to read books on my bed before sleeping, and it was not possible. It would be much better if there were an elevator... it's probably impossible to add one in this kind of building, but still, if you have a lot of luggage you might want to consider going elsewhere. The staff was nice and helpful, except for an older member--he was right in asking me to tidy up my stuff, but still, he could/should have asked more nicely, and anyway it was a matter of tidiness, not of "cleanliness" as he said (besides, I would have been tidier if I had a personal lamp allowing me to put things tidily when I went to bed the night before... since it was dark, all I could do was putting my stuff untidily on my luggage).