Des Seigneurs is a huge conference hotel just off the highway. Easy to find but FYI road signs, gas pumps, etc. in Quebec are NOT bi-lingual, they are entirely in French. So if you don't read French, be prepared.

The rooms were large, beige-ly decorated, and clean. The hotel has multiple corridors and outside doors that opened to parking lots and late one night walking back to my room I wondered about safety. But everything was fine and dandy on our trip.

The hotel should give serious thought to their pub faciilties. Our waitress was surly and orders took forever. When the food finally came (after we had finished one round of drinks) it was of airline food quality. The salad was particulalrly nasty, and of course overpriced. No bartender was in residence. Because of the pub experience we stayed away from trying their (more expensive) restaurant the next night.

Keep in mind when at this hotel, you are in a highway mini-mall type area. That said, you can walk through adjoining parking lots to a supermarket, and as we did to an excellent (chain) breakfast/lunch restaurant called Chez Cora (1310 rue Johnson Ouest) where we feasted on Montreal bagels (that reminded me of how good NY bagels used to be before they blimped out and got Wonder-bready) served alongside wonderfully ripe fresh fruit.

The downtown area of St-Hyacinthe is just down the road about eight minutes by car.

I stayed here two nights while on a business trip. It is just off the highway and easy to get to (although not the easiest to find due to the town's street signs being in tiny font and the hotel not labelled by name). Look for the only tower (14 storeys, I believe) in the area just off the highway.

It is an average hotel with the lobby area probably last updated during the late 80s. However, the bathroom in the room looked like it had a new bathtub/shower insert and the carpet was clean. The room had a fairly small desk, a sofa and an armchair.

The restaurant was a bit pricy for supper although I believe the pub served cheaper food. The breakfast buffet at the main restaurant was $9.99 plus tax.

There are two pools - one indoor and one outdoor. The indoor decor was very tropical especially around the pool area with a bird cage and a fish pond pool.

The conference facilities seemed quite extensive and because of this, the parking lot was filled almost to capacity.

I booked a 4 weeknight stay at the Hotel des Seigneurs in mid-January. Little did I know that they had a massive Salon de l'agriculture conference scheduled for that date! Hotel staff told me I could not park in the parking lot when I attempted to enter during the middle of the day. The parking lot was packed when I returned at night.

Most of the town population is francophone but know enough english to get by. The hotel is very convenient to the highway. Room service ends at 9:30pm, restaurants close at 10pm and not much else in town is open past that. There is a good shopping mall across the street. The hotel itself has two pools, one indoor and one outdoor, a racquetball court, jacuzzis, small gym and is very spread out. There is a restaurant, a pub with pub-food and a weekend night club in the hotel.

I was told by the locals that this is the best hotel in town and I believe it. If it had been summer (it was cold outside which made parking far away painful), if the hotel was not hosting a conference, if room service operated until midnight, and if the parking lot was larger, I would have given then an "above average" rating.