The Montreal Airport Marriott is a convenient hotel in the terminal. I always prefer hotels on airport grounds that you can walk to – so much more convenient than waiting for an airport shuttle. You get more time in the hotel, saving transit in both directions, not only because of the total time of the transfer but also you don’t have to leave the hotel as early due to uncertainty or shuttle schedules.

But an actual in-terminal hotel is next-level. There’s one thing about this particular property that strikes me funny, though.

They provide complimentary bottled water that costs $12.

It appears that the water inside the bottle is complimentary – but the bottle is $12 if you take it with you.

They say they’re providing water this way (and hopefully properly sanitizing the glass bottles) to reduce use of plastics. It’s for the environment! So naturally they also have plastic water bottles in the room, too. This is the sort of thing hotels engage in when they want you to re-use towels and won’t change bed sheets (‘make a green choice’) in order to reduce housekeeping costs.

Perhaps they take inspiration from the time that Delta Air Lines introduced chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon in aluminum cans on domestic flights, saying it was to reduce single-use plastics – and highlighted drinking the wine from plastic cups:

Fittingly, Delta got caught up in a scandal over their carbon credits.

I do have to give the Montreal airport Marriott credit for this, though – no reason to schlepp your Canadian winter gear to a sun destination and back just to stay warm traveling to and from home if you stay here!

From the ingenious approach to cold weather gear to virtue signaling, the Montreal airport Marriott is so very Canadian.