1 Brookstreet Hotel 2 opus hotel 3 Hôtel Le Germain Montrêal 4 Hôtel Quintessence

Many Amenities
Hôtel St-Paul (Montreal) and Le Saint-Sulpice Hôtel-Montréal include tasteful cologne for their patrons in their toiletries kit. Bonaparte Auberge et Restaurant (Montreal) provides guests with a razor, slippers and a toothbrush with the toothpaste built right in. Metropolitan Hotel Vancouver offers a loofah for smoothing dry skin. And the old-school pants press at Arc The.Hotel (Ottawa) keeps guests looking crisp.

In the Details
For impeccable grooming, Hôtel Le St-James (Montreal) and Arc The.Hotel (Ottawa) offer complimentary shoeshine services, and suites at Pantages Suites Hotel & Spa (Toronto) come with their own washer and dryer. So you’ll never be lonely, Hôtel Godin (Montreal) stocks each room with a goldfish. The fireplace concierge at Hôtel Quintessence (Mont-Tremblant, Que.) will have your wood-burning fire roaring in time for your return from the slopes.

Rubber Ducky, You’re the One
Bathrooms in the new wing of Auberge Saint-Antoine (Quebec City) feature heated floors, deep tubs and powerful showers, where you can scrub down with the fabulous We Live Like This toiletries. Italian marble is in abundance at Hôtel Le St-James (Montreal), along with Penhaligons bath products, lots of big soft towels and particularly cozy robes and slippers. The powerful therapeutic spa tubs at Hôtel Quintessence (Mont-Tremblant, Que.) have a multitude of settings, including visually soothing light therapy. Glass-walled peek-a-boo bathrooms – a design signature of the Germain Group, including at its Hôtel Le Germain properties in Montreal and Toronto – are now found at Opus Hotel (Vancouver) too.

Spa-licious
Pantages Suites Hotel & Spa (Toronto) blends old and new with ancient Ayurvedic treatments offered alongside high-tech spa jets and Botox treatments. With 5,300 square feet of space, Riverstone at Inn at the Forks is Winnipeg’s most luxurious spa. Brookstreet Hotel’s (Ottawa) Au Naturel Wellness & Medical Spa has the latest in spa gadgets and a plastic surgeon on site part-time. The Taman Sari Royal Heritage Spa at Summit Lodge & Spa (Whistler, B.C.) offers exotic Javanese treatments with an alpine backdrop. There’s a definite Lotus Land vibe at Brentwood Bay Lodge & Spa (Victoria), where Essence of Life treatments use granite, grapes and honey, and the raw materials for vinotherapy treatments come from a local vineyard.

Sleep Tight
Our favourite beds include the superplush models at Hôtel Quintessence (Mont-Tremblant, Que.), which, like those at Paintbox Lodge (Canmore, Alta.), are so cushy you practically need a running start to hop in. You’ll want to take home the long, oversize pillows at Hôtel Le Germain Montréal – and you can, since all bedding is available for purchase. The Flou beds at Hôtel Gault (Montreal) are massive California king sizes, and the dreams are sweeter on the 400-count Egyptian cotton bedding at Pantages Suites Hotel & Spa (Toronto). []

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