At Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL) Air Canada offers three (3) Maple Leaf Lounges. One of the Maple Leaf Lounges is located in the international terminal, one is located in the domestic terminal and one is in the transborder terminal, for Canada to US flights.
We visited the Maple Leaf lounge in the domestic terminal.
In this article:
How to get in to the Maple Leaf Lounge
Free chargers offered by Air Canada
Fresh food, consistently stocked
How to get in to the Maple Leaf Lounge:
We gained access to the lounge using our United Club membership. Since Air Canada and United Airlines are both members of Star Alliance, we were able to utilize our United Club membership. Air Canada lists other qualifying methods to gain access to the Maple Leaf lounges on their website.
Free chargers offered by Air Canada
After entering the Maple Leaf Lounge, as you are walking to your seat you immediately pass a stand holding numerous portable chargers. Air Canada offers these chargers free of charge during your time in the Maple Leaf lounge. This is a great feature as it offers multiple different chargers attached to the bank, and throughout the lounge there are multiple stands with these chargers.
The perfect business spot
With one of the most secluded business centers in any lounge we have ever seen, the Air Canada Maple Leaf lounge in Montreal offers a business center with small cubicles for individual work, a collaborative table with power outlets to work with a team and a full service printer, offering print, fax and scan. During our time here we needed to scan a document to ourselves but the scanner did not seem to be connected to the internet to allow this to happen, and it looked like in the scan history, people had been trying to do the same for a few weeks with no success.
Fresh food, consistently stocked
While the food was not top quality food, you do not really expect that in an airport lounge. However, the food was consistently stocked and offered numerous options. We visited the lounge during breakfast hours and the quality of food was a bit more than a typical hotel buffet breakfast and also offered local options.
For breakfast the lounge offered:
-Individual yogurts
-Variety of cut fruits
-Fresh cut veggies, hummus & hard boiled eggs
-Breakfast sausage
-Colby Cheese Omelets
-Breakfast Potatoes
-French Toast
-Chocolate & Plain Croissants
-Assorted Danishes
-Traditional Bagels & Montreal-Style Bagels
The lounge also offered a pretty large beverage station which offered numerous juices, waters, sodas, coffee, espressos, and teas. As well as beer on draught and a few wine options.
Seating
With seating in the business center, tables by the buffet, lounging seats to plane watch by the windows, the Air Canada Maple Leaf lounge in Montreal nailed it with numerous seating options.
While the lounge is not brand-new and can feel outdated, the staff at the lounge were personable, attentive and made sure everything was stocked.
