Ace Hotel Toronto

Ace Hotel Toronto

Grange Park sits two minutes from the front door, and the marquees of the Princess of Wales and Royal Alexandra theatres are close enough to walk to without checking a map first. Ace Hotel Toronto holds 123 rooms inside a building that treats the neighborhood as an extension of itself rather than a backdrop. Check-in runs from three in the afternoon, and by the time bags reach the room, the bar and restaurant downstairs are already doing quiet business; breakfast starts the next morning without fuss. Rooms range from a 248-square-foot Standard King with a full double bed to a 355-square-foot Standard Quadruple with its own television, and an accessible Large Queen at 344 square feet, useful groundwork for anyone traveling as a group or needing space that actually works for a wheelchair. A conference hall covers the meeting that has to happen anyway, and a fitness center and gym handle the routine that shouldn't have to pause for travel. Dogs come along for a flat 25 Canadian dollars a stay. What sets this address apart from the boutique crowd nearby is the network behind it: Ace Hotels runs sister properties in Seattle, Palm Springs, New York, Brooklyn, Kyoto, Sydney and Athens, each carrying the same design-first, artist-adjacent sensibility rather than a franchise template stamped across cities. A 100 Canadian dollar daily deposit covers incidentals, wheelchair access is built into the property rather than bolted on, and free Wi-Fi runs throughout. This works for someone who wants a theatre district address and a bar worth sitting at after the curtain falls; the poolside chairs and swim club are strictly an Athens thing, not a Toronto one. Two minutes from Grange Park and within walking distance of Toronto's theatre row, Ace Hotel Toronto pairs 123 rooms with a lobby bar and a conference hall. It belongs to the Ace Hotels network spanning Seattle to Kyoto, though the swim club stays in Athens.