Expert reviews
“The 12-room Hotel Ocho, a former textile factory dating from 1902 in the heart of Chinatown, was built with the local cutting-edge design team Design38. The downstairs bar, lounge, restaurant and coffee shop draws locals.”
Featured in New York Times’ 36 Hours in Toronto, Canada.
What guests liked
- Friendly staff
- Excellent Wifi
- Great location
- Boutique style
All you need to know
Hotel Ocho is a modern boutique-style hotel, located in downtown Toronto. Hotel Ocho is situated within five minutes’ walking distance from Chinatown. The hotel is a perfect blend of modern renovations and historical architectures with visual art. It is a smoke-free hotel that features a restaurant, a coffee café, and a bar or lounge.
Room Types
The different types of rooms available in the Hotel Ocho are:
Standard Room: The standard rooms are beautifully designed to ensure a pleasant stay.
Superior Room: The superior rooms are spacious and offer great comfort to the guests.
Deluxe Suite Room: The deluxe rooms are renovated to offer a luxury and cozy stay to the guests.
Amenities of Hotel Ocho
Some of the top amenities offered by the Hotel Ocho are:
Internet Connectivity
Hotel Ocho offers high-speed free Wi-Fi connections to its guests. Wi-Fi connection is readily available in all the rooms, as well as in some public areas of the hotel.
Food and Drinks
The hotel provides a buffet breakfast to its guests. It also has a restaurant, a coffee café, and a bar to meet all the needs of the guests.
Guest Services
Hotel Ocho has a 24-hour front desk to assist the guests in all possible ways. It also offers concierge services as well as luggage storage services to the guests. It even provides multilingual staff to help the guests overcome the communication barrier easily.
Room Amenities
All the bedrooms of the Hotel Ocho are air-conditioned. All the rooms are well-equipped with a desk, plasma TV, hairdryer, and more to offer a comfortable stay to the guest.
A stay at the Hotel Ocho, Toronto, can give an amazing experience for a lifetime.
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Location
Recent guest reviews
22 August 2024
Very good
Great location. Fair price. Very. Clean
It had an odd smell...
19 August 2024
Good
Room. I got the corner room. Nice view, but too close to the ground. Bathroom was the best though.
A bit outdated. I got physical keys!
16 August 2024
Location was great, staff were very helpful. We got in late at night and no staff were available to ask for a different
The property is beautiful and well designed.
The mattress was not too bad but I do really dislike duvets because they are too hot and there was not a lighter blanket to use as an option. Also it is way too small for the bed, it should at least go down to cover the sides of the mattress to give you something to wrap around you a bit. Honestly we thought it was a queen duvet on a king bed.
14 August 2024
Nice room in a central location, but pricey and neglected
We got a larger room compared to what we had booked and the staff was friendly.
Pricey: we paid 299CAN$ for one night, to get a fancy room, but no facilicities, not a kettle, no cupboard, no sidebeds, a little soap, a noisy refrigerator for wine without anything. The location is convenient, but not amazing (two days after we paid less for a big hotel on a central peer). The room was clean, but in general the structure looks old/neglected. No common areas, no possibility to have breakfast on site.
14 August 2024
Hotel Ocho is decent
The vibe, minimalistic decor
Pricy for the area it’s in
9 August 2024
Pleasant
Good location, close to Kensington market.
Rooms are tiny, no bedside tables, no space to put your things. Odd layout for rooms.
7 August 2024
Very good
Friendly staff,great location.restaurant and bar on site.elevator.
Parking was a bit of a challenge but there’s a parking lot a block away,very reasonable.
5 August 2024
See above
Good value for money hotel with nice staff located near China town - would definitely go back.
Nothing
2 August 2024
In the heart of Toronto
It's a little gem in the heart of the Toronto. Central to everything. The room was clean, quiet & bed was cozy. The restaurant was yummy and the staff were awesome. Air conditioner worked like a charm in the very humid days. I would definitely stay again.
Nothing to report.
1 August 2024
Very good
Well located and good service. We got upgraded during check in.
Bathroom did not have a door in our room which was a bit surprising, but not a deal breaker
27 July 2024
Pleasant
Great location! We could walk to everything and that's what was most important to us.
The room is spare. Don't expect space for your suitcase, clothes or toiletries.
23 July 2024
Good
Good location, basic room the beds were comfortable, location on a busy road but was quiet
The room had a few things that needed attentions cosmetically but were fine and for the value in the heart of the city was o really good
17 July 2024
Fabulous
We loved our room. Large, bright and quite considering on a busy road. Comfortable bed and very clean. Loved the bar, especially the moosehead larger!
No kettle in the room, travelling from the uk we are used to a kettle. Also with time difference would have been great when waking really early to be able to get a hot drink
16 July 2024
Very good
No breakfast when I left at 7 AM. Very expensive.
Price too high.
30 June 2024
GREAT Location to China Town and Roger's Center
Within 20 minutes, walk to Roger's Center. Lot's of restaurants and bars near.
Was pricey
26 June 2024
We loved our stay at Ocho. Would defintely consider coming back when we return to Toronto.
The motif was a really cool vibe. We were surprised how nice the bathroom was--especially the soaking tub. The staff was very kind and accomodating. The location was also awesome. We were able to walk everywhere we wanted to go. And we were able to get a reasonably priced parking spot next door in the public parking spot. (No onsite parking.)
25 June 2024
Nice short stay
Great location! Right in Chinatown, not far from Queen Street and Kensington Market. Love the industrial decor, very simple hotel with limited amenties and reasonable size room.
-The bathroom door is a sliding door, doesn't locked and sometimes it moved back by itself (only 1 time is happened.) -AC is very loud, but i don't mind, At least, it makes the room cooler when it was very hot day. -I don't mind having no coffee maker in the room and no breakfast in the hotel. I prefer going outside to a local cafe shop and restaurant.
3 June 2024
Cool room for looking in an excellent location, not great for sleeping.
Location was great. Check In was easy. Room had an interesting layout.
There were no blackout curtains in the room so the room stayed too bright for my liking. The bed was somewhat uncomfortable - There was no top sheet which I am not used to.
22 May 2024
It was one night because of work. It was the best night rest away from home.
The space. Felt like a bedroom in my home
There’s nothing to not like
21 May 2024
Will be back again!
Location is fabulous. The loft feel was fun! Staff were super attentive. Comfortable beds!!
19 May 2024
Very good
Great location, fun looking place!
The rooms were quite hot. Even on the thermostat, the cool option just blew the air around.. temp wasn't going down
16 May 2024
A great quiet boutique hotel with 12 rooms in the heart of Chinatown and a short walk to Kensington!
Got an upgrade to a deluxe king when we arrived; also were permitted early check-in at 145PM (we had asked about this the day before)
Nothing, it was exactly what we were looking for!
7 May 2024
Funky hotel in the heart of DT Toronto
Hotel Ocho is a funky little hotel that I can’t recommend highly enough. It’s not fancy but it is clean, well located, and has a funky vibe in the heart of DT Toronto. I don’t think you’ll find a better hotel for the price and location. Would definitely stay here again.
The hairdryer sucked!
7 May 2024
Great choice.
Great location. Friendly staff.
6 May 2024
Very good
The hotel was very quiet, very clean and the staff were very friendly and welcoming. There are lots of great places to eat close by.
The layout of the room took some getting used to as did the big "window" between the bedroom and the bathroom, even travelling alone. There is no coffee pot in the room, you need to go downstairs after 7:00 to get coffee and then it's a tiny cup so be sure to bring a large reusable cup with you if caffeine is what gets you moving in the morning.
6 May 2024
Everything is expensive in Toronto. If you simply need a bed and a shower, this hotel should provide the bare essentials
Located just far enough from downtown to get around on foot.
Mold in the shower and the paint job on the walls of the room needed a significant do over.
30 April 2024
Good for short trips
Comfy bed, great location, staff is helpful
There is a sour smell in the common area that i dont know where it came from
16 April 2024
Overall really good stay, I would stay there again
Cool room set up and amazing location
Room was very hot when we arrived and bathroom was too dark to do makeup
11 April 2024
I understand that the restaurant/bar operations are limited but in the mornings, there should be availability for co
Location. Staff.
The shower vestibule needs a good scrubbing. A bit lacking in lighting.
8 April 2024
I recommend it. I will repeat if I come back to Toronto
Perfect location, large room, comfortable bed and very clean
A little bit expensive, no breakfast
31 March 2024
Clean and good location
Room was clean and bed was comfortable. The location is very close to downtown.
The lobby smells really bad. The open concept of the room doesn't have a door to the bathroom which is kind of awkward if you're staying with anyone and like privacy in the bathroom.
13 February 2024
Pleasant
bed is comfy.
There is no kettle in the room and the showerhead lacks support, so you have to hold it while showering.
11 February 2024
Great location, comfortable room, and great price for downtown Toronto
The location was perfect for our meeting. The room was comfortable and clean.
Nothing. I travelled alone so it wasn't an issue - but I did think it was odd that the toilet was not more private.
4 February 2024
Loved it!
Very nice staff!! Very beautiful place
Could hear someone at 6am talking loudly our second night. But lovely otherwise
29 January 2024
Will definitely say again
Great atmosphere / great location
A little earlier check in would be been great
23 January 2024
Unique, clean, modern, and central!
Incredibly spacious room with beautiful layout and unique design. Friendly and helpful staff. Central location - can't be beat!
I wish that checkout was slightly earlier. A checkout time of 4pm can make planning an early morning arrival difficult. However, this may just be a personal preference!
15 January 2024
A nice simple hotel offering great value for money
Stayed here during a work trip to the city and felt like it was really great value for money. It has no bells and whistles but it offers the most important things: A comfortable bed, a clean room, great location, friendly staff. The converted warehouse has a very cool vibe to it and the room I was in was a great size. It's also a smaller hotel so I greatly enjoyed the peace and quiet - not thousands of guests rushing between facilities. It's becoming my new regular hotel for my mid-week work visits to Toronto.
The building is an old warehouse conversion, so it's going to be expected to have some unpolished edges compared to a new build hotel, but nothing unexpected or major. As other travellers have mentioned, would love some breakfast options, maybe even a deal with one of the nearby cafes.
14 January 2024
Very good
Location
No parking
4 January 2024
Excellent
All of the staff were so friendly and accommodating. We had dinner and the food was delicious. Room was clean. The only negative thing for us was that there was no coffee maker in the room and we had to leave early before the coffee was ready in the morning.
coffee maker
28 December 2023
Great location, relatively low price, I'd stay there again.
I like this hotel, I would stay there again. It is typical of a city location, no on-site parking, but the parking garage is 2 blocks away. The room was clean and comfortable, but somewhat minimal in its amenities, which was fine for me because I didn't spend much time in the room (and you get what you pay for, it was relatively inexpensive). It is adjacent to Toronto's Chinatown, and adjacent to Toronto's wonderful system of streetcars, buses and subways, making getting from here to there incredibly simple, and I left my car in the parking garage. Strong Wifi. Bar in the lobby. This is an old brick building, refurbished to hotel space, the rooms show exposed brick and wood beams (which I find charming), and the bathroom seems brand new and modern.
No refrigerator in the room; only one chair in the room, no couch or sofa in the room.
7 December 2023
Cool vibe hotel in downtown Toronto.
Very well placed downtown. Cool look, loft type, clean and comfortable.
Does not have own parking. (However public underground parking available 250m from the hotel.)
16 November 2023
Very good
The staff were incredibly helpful and friendly, and the location was amazing. The room was very clean. I would definitely stay here again when needing to stay in Toronto
The HVAC unit was loud, and the unit would click when the fan turned on and off. While everything was clean and well kept, things like the tile in the shower, and the bed could use a little updating. Nothing too bad but just a little worn.
7 November 2023
Perfect!
Great location, within easy walking distance of downtown. Friendly staff & great sized room.
The sound travelling between rooms was bad. I could hear the people in the room next door to me talking late at night.
25 October 2023
Very good
I was charged more than your advertised rate.
21 October 2023
Very good
Location was good and it was quaint. Bed was comfortable
Not a lot of overnight parking available. A bit expensive for a hipster style hotel
17 October 2023
Fabulous
Great location with nearby parking. The room was very clean and the staff were friendly.
Check-in seems a bit late.
25 September 2023
Very good
Lovely little hotel with a really convenient location. Good for solo travellers as it's easy to find and on a main street. Staff were super friendly. Room was big, TV was good quality, bed comfy, and a huge bathroom.
Only negative is the price. Yes, it's Toronto but it's still a lot of money for a 3 star (?) hotel.
22 September 2023
Very decent place in surrounding area
Great location, very accessible to foods and transportations. Clean bed and bathroom. Also very nice staff, was able to facilitate a couple of personal requests.
The blanket is pretty thick and not ventilated (not necessarily a bad thing for everyone, but just not my preference)
6 September 2023
A pleasantly surprising hidden gem
Stylish rooms / modern & simplistic with exposed brick walls & natural lighting Clean & spacious bathroom Lots of towels Soft fluffy bed with feathery duvet City view
I was a little confused when I walked in because the rooms are actually above the restaurant. You can find the check in desk under the stairs & the elevator to the right of the stairs. Even though I was a little thrown off at first, it was no big deal because after my stay I can appreciate the simplicity & unpretentious style of the place. I did have to wait 10 -15 mins during check in however they offered me late check out as compensation!
Hotel facilities
Food & Drink
- - Restaurant
- - Bar
Services
- - Meeting/banquet facilities
- - 24-hour front desk
- - Fax/photocopying
- - Luggage storage
- - Concierge service
General
- - Non-smoking rooms
- - Lift
- - Heating
- - Non-smoking throughout
- - Air conditioning
Activities
- - Bicycle rental (additional charge)
31 August 2024
Would definitly recommend this hotel
Very nice room and super nice staff! I felt very welcome there
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