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The Royal Oak Inn boasts 25 stylish and modern rooms, nicely decorated in warm tones, laminate floors and equipped with modern amenities. Completely renovated in 2013, all the rooms at The Royal Oak Inn offer access to modern amenities such as flat screen LCD TV, free WIFI Internet access, and many more. The Royal Oak Inn offers guests a complimentary continental breakfast and coffee service, and the convenience of a 24 hour reception area. All 25 guest rooms feature free high speed wireless internet access, cable TV, alarm clock radio and air conditioning.
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Paid private parking on-site
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Free High Speed Internet (WiFi)
Wifi
Free breakfast
Non-smoking hotel
24-hour front desk
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Air conditioning
Flatscreen TV
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Non-smoking rooms
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Languages Spoken
English, Chinese, Filipino, Hindi and 1 more
Location
376 Dundas St E, Toronto, Ontario M5A 2A5 Canada
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Somewhat walkable
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Grade: 71 out of 100
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Toronto Island Airport
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It was unfortunate from the moment we walked in. First was the lack of accessible parking; front desk staff had to move a vehicle to allow us a space. For the record, for 20+ rooms, there were 3 or 4 spots. Next was the state of the room, which was neither clean nor remotely resembling the online images. We went straight downstairs to request an immediate refund, simply that the room was not acceptable, especially at that price point. No problem, and told that reversal of charges would be 24-48 hrs. Almost four days later, still no reversal. Considering a report to the Better Business Bureau to expedite the reversal of over $250. Give careful consideration when booking this venue.
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Date of stay: September 2023Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Response from sam mushtaq, General Manager at Royal Oak Inn
Responded Oct 3, 2023
Dear guest, On behalf of the entire hotel team, I wanted to sincerely thank you for your review. I do apologize that you were not able to enjoy the stay due to above mentioned reasons. We will try our best to resolve them, Thank you.
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The hotel is good for medium class business travellers for short visit very good breakfast the boss good and so the staff my stay was very comfortable.though it was very cold outside and it was my first trip to toronto. very good location with nearby restaurants and shopping centres.
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Date of stay: March 2019Trip type: Travelled on business
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Room Tip:Â south side rooms are good.
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Response from sam mushtaq, General Manager at Royal Oak Inn
Responded Nov 28, 2023
Dear guest, On behalf of the entire hotel team, I wanted to sincerely thank you for your positive review. It was our absolute pleasure to host you as our guest, and we do hope that when your travels bring you back to the area that you will consider returning to us.
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As a 21 years old girl traveling alone, I was not looking for something luxurious. I just wanted something clean. I stayed 3 nights and every day I found black hairs in the sheets (I’m blonde). The first morning, I had the unpleasant surprise to see mold all over the shower curtain. I said nothing, thinking « it’s no big deal » until I discovered there was actually a mouse (or several who knows???) in my bedroom. The receptionist didn’t seemed surprise and only proposed me an another room. So he gave me an upgraded room but still, there were hairs everywhere in both beds.
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Date of stay: February 2020Trip type: Travelled solo
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This hotel advertises breakfast included but there is not. Only coffee available at the front desk. Our room was dirty and there were people smoking in the next room. Eventually the smell came into our room. I wouldn’t recommend this hotel.
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Date of stay: June 2023Trip type: Travelled with friends
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Response from sam mushtaq, General Manager at Royal Oak Inn
Responded Nov 28, 2023
Dear guest, On behalf of the entire hotel team, I wanted to sincerely thank you for your review. I do apologize that you were not able to enjoy the stay due to some reasons. We will look forward to make things better. Thank you
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We booked a night at Royal Oak for a concert. Reception was fine . Called twice to the clarify the parking. The room was small but clean and comfortable. Are these the best hotel rooms? No but they certainly are worth the money.
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Date of stay: February 2020Trip type: Travelled with family
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Amazing staff thought after reading the reviews, but believe me, what I experienced completely the opposite! I just checked out left something in the room. Amazing staff ashamed and all the staff very good. I just got back from Canada to New York. I will be back love the staff very cool peoples all of them!
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Date of stay: April 2024Trip type: Travelled solo
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Other then the bed being comfortable, it was not the cleanest and it was very noisy the whole night through. Pretty sketchy area. Not comforting for a girl travelling solo. I’m an experienced traveller and not scared easily. This one night stay wasn’t pleasant at all.
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Date of stay: October 2023Trip type: Travelled solo
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Response from sam mushtaq, General Manager at Royal Oak Inn
Responded Nov 28, 2023
Dear guest, On behalf of the entire hotel team, I wanted to sincerely thank you for your review. I do apologize that you were not able to enjoy the stay due to some reasons. Coming to the location, our hotel is located just two blocks away from the dundas square. We will look forward to make things better. Thank you
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After reading many reviews of this place, and considering all the pros and cons and price I decided to book this place.
When I arrived, I was really surprised. Unlike the Google Maps street view the building is freshly painted and remodeled. It looks clean and modern from the outside. It has a nice charm on the inside, and is very clean.
I am staying for 10 days 8/13-8/23 and today is 8/21. So far everything has been amazing, and there have been no problems. The breakfast is satisfactory and pleasant considering the price - coffee, orange juice, cereal, toast, and tea. There's a vending machine in the breakfast area too, which is just next to the check in counter.
The staff here are always asking how is your trip and if there is anything they can do. I've never stayed anywhere that seemed to be so concerned. Considering this hotel has only 25 rooms, it feels intimate and cozy.
The WiFi is really good, however if you're in room 101 the WiFi will be spotty unless you have a powerful WiFi antennae. I got by generally but when I needed it I just sat in the kitchen eating area and used it, where it's crazy fast. I caught up with my VICE news etc. doing that.
The single rooms are pretty small but really big if you're not planning on spending your trip inside a room. The beds are comfy, the sheets and bed spreads are about as white as white gets ( that's comforting, I remember staying at Circus Circus in Vegas and not really wanting to even touch the sheets ). The bathroom is small and there is a half sink with a hair dryer. That's fine with me! It's pretty cute actually. The shower is stand up and is just big enough to bend over comfortably when soaping your feet and stuff. The only complaint about that would be to have something to put some soap or your items on there with. I just used the floor which has been fine ( of the shower ).
The windows have dual blackout blinds that are pretty nice. The first one blocks view and the second blacks out the room for the most part. This has worked fine when sleeping in as the room stays dark.
The room I had and it seems most probably do have this is the heater on the bottom of the room and a nice new AC unit thingy at the top. It's kinda fun to play with the air direction.. it has a little lip thing that moves around based on what you do with the remote to guide the air. Haha! Better than a wall unit AC that sticks out the back of the window. It looks like mostly / only the first floor has these new ACs ( I can see the other type on the outside of the other floors ).
Each floor also seems to have their own WiFi router and access point. That being said I wouldn't mind staying in the upper floors, elevator or not ( there is none, but really what are you bringing you cannot lug up a flight of stairs? There's rarely elevators in Paris ).
Things around the area.
LAUNDRY
There's a laundromat about a 2 minute walk from the door of the hotel, it has Jumbo washing machines for $6.25 CAD a load and normal ones for $3 CAD. Drying is $0.25 CAD for 4 minutes, so save them quarters haha. The machines take $0.25, $1.00 and $2.00 CAD coins, nothing else. The machine will give change but it will take $0.25 CAD per use, which means $1 turns to $0.75 and $2 turns to $1.75 so again save your coins.
To get detergent I suggest when walking out of the hotel to walk to the left, EAST on DUNDAS the first block you get to is a FRESHCO, but a $5 tide detergent from there that has the balls or whatever. I found that easy. You slide open these trays in the laundromat and drop one of those suckers in and you're set.
The washing machines take about 30 minutes and I dried two loads of laundry in one machine for 34 minutes and that was enough to dry all the jeans out and what not. Awesome. I used a FRESHCO bag to haul my laundry back and forth.
COFFEE and STUFF lol
After breakfast ends at 10 am there's still coffee generally available, at least until the pot is out ( not sure if they refill it when it's out after breakfast but either way you can't complain =) ), you can hit up the Tim Hortons that is adjacent to the FRESHCO. This particular one has a ton of sandwiches you can buy most are about $5 and pretty good.
At the FRESHCO I would get my Red Bulls at $2 each not bad. Also got some snacks and stuff for my room.
FOOD
The Ontario Restaurant across the street from the hotel is wicked. The people there are really friendly, especially this older guy who is the cook. He likes to give you a hard time in a friendly way =). My girlfriend ordered some Steak and Eggs from there and I had a BLT. Hers came out to $12 and mine $5. You really cannot beat that. The food was really good. The only sad thing is that they closed on 8/16 for two weeks for a vacation / holiday ( the older gentleman told me about this ). If it weren't for that I would have eaten there every day.
Great stay, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. From California. -Matthew
PS: The neighborhood is awesome. Yes, there are a few dingy people but there's way more downtown you cannot every get away from them. Thankfully they just keep to themselves. Had no problems. Even went to Fillmores and came back and went out again and came back by the time we were in the room again it was 3 30 AM and we have NO problems at all. Yes we saw a guy wearing only shorts when it's freezing cold out mumbling to himself, but he was harmless. Besides one good punch and he'd explode it looked like, all the shady people are just high off heroin and tending to themselves. It seems theres a help center close by they drop into. If you let that deter you from staying here, you're just simply wasting money as most of the other hotels are really close by anyways.
When I arrived, I was really surprised. Unlike the Google Maps street view the building is freshly painted and remodeled. It looks clean and modern from the outside. It has a nice charm on the inside, and is very clean.
I am staying for 10 days 8/13-8/23 and today is 8/21. So far everything has been amazing, and there have been no problems. The breakfast is satisfactory and pleasant considering the price - coffee, orange juice, cereal, toast, and tea. There's a vending machine in the breakfast area too, which is just next to the check in counter.
The staff here are always asking how is your trip and if there is anything they can do. I've never stayed anywhere that seemed to be so concerned. Considering this hotel has only 25 rooms, it feels intimate and cozy.
The WiFi is really good, however if you're in room 101 the WiFi will be spotty unless you have a powerful WiFi antennae. I got by generally but when I needed it I just sat in the kitchen eating area and used it, where it's crazy fast. I caught up with my VICE news etc. doing that.
The single rooms are pretty small but really big if you're not planning on spending your trip inside a room. The beds are comfy, the sheets and bed spreads are about as white as white gets ( that's comforting, I remember staying at Circus Circus in Vegas and not really wanting to even touch the sheets ). The bathroom is small and there is a half sink with a hair dryer. That's fine with me! It's pretty cute actually. The shower is stand up and is just big enough to bend over comfortably when soaping your feet and stuff. The only complaint about that would be to have something to put some soap or your items on there with. I just used the floor which has been fine ( of the shower ).
The windows have dual blackout blinds that are pretty nice. The first one blocks view and the second blacks out the room for the most part. This has worked fine when sleeping in as the room stays dark.
The room I had and it seems most probably do have this is the heater on the bottom of the room and a nice new AC unit thingy at the top. It's kinda fun to play with the air direction.. it has a little lip thing that moves around based on what you do with the remote to guide the air. Haha! Better than a wall unit AC that sticks out the back of the window. It looks like mostly / only the first floor has these new ACs ( I can see the other type on the outside of the other floors ).
Each floor also seems to have their own WiFi router and access point. That being said I wouldn't mind staying in the upper floors, elevator or not ( there is none, but really what are you bringing you cannot lug up a flight of stairs? There's rarely elevators in Paris ).
Things around the area.
LAUNDRY
There's a laundromat about a 2 minute walk from the door of the hotel, it has Jumbo washing machines for $6.25 CAD a load and normal ones for $3 CAD. Drying is $0.25 CAD for 4 minutes, so save them quarters haha. The machines take $0.25, $1.00 and $2.00 CAD coins, nothing else. The machine will give change but it will take $0.25 CAD per use, which means $1 turns to $0.75 and $2 turns to $1.75 so again save your coins.
To get detergent I suggest when walking out of the hotel to walk to the left, EAST on DUNDAS the first block you get to is a FRESHCO, but a $5 tide detergent from there that has the balls or whatever. I found that easy. You slide open these trays in the laundromat and drop one of those suckers in and you're set.
The washing machines take about 30 minutes and I dried two loads of laundry in one machine for 34 minutes and that was enough to dry all the jeans out and what not. Awesome. I used a FRESHCO bag to haul my laundry back and forth.
COFFEE and STUFF lol
After breakfast ends at 10 am there's still coffee generally available, at least until the pot is out ( not sure if they refill it when it's out after breakfast but either way you can't complain =) ), you can hit up the Tim Hortons that is adjacent to the FRESHCO. This particular one has a ton of sandwiches you can buy most are about $5 and pretty good.
At the FRESHCO I would get my Red Bulls at $2 each not bad. Also got some snacks and stuff for my room.
FOOD
The Ontario Restaurant across the street from the hotel is wicked. The people there are really friendly, especially this older guy who is the cook. He likes to give you a hard time in a friendly way =). My girlfriend ordered some Steak and Eggs from there and I had a BLT. Hers came out to $12 and mine $5. You really cannot beat that. The food was really good. The only sad thing is that they closed on 8/16 for two weeks for a vacation / holiday ( the older gentleman told me about this ). If it weren't for that I would have eaten there every day.
Great stay, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. From California. -Matthew
PS: The neighborhood is awesome. Yes, there are a few dingy people but there's way more downtown you cannot every get away from them. Thankfully they just keep to themselves. Had no problems. Even went to Fillmores and came back and went out again and came back by the time we were in the room again it was 3 30 AM and we have NO problems at all. Yes we saw a guy wearing only shorts when it's freezing cold out mumbling to himself, but he was harmless. Besides one good punch and he'd explode it looked like, all the shady people are just high off heroin and tending to themselves. It seems theres a help center close by they drop into. If you let that deter you from staying here, you're just simply wasting money as most of the other hotels are really close by anyways.
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Date of stay: August 2014Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Room Tip:Â First floor is where I stayed, if you plan on throwing a fit about hauling luggage up the stairs...
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Response from sam m, Manager at Royal Oak Inn
Responded Aug 26, 2014
Thank you for taking the time to review our hotel. I am glad to hear that you liked our friendly staff and that you found our hotel clean. Good to know that you found our location convenient. We look forward to have you stay with us on your next visit to Toronto.
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We stayed one night here. The room was nice and comfortable and the staff was helpful. Breakfast is included in the price but don't expect too much. They only have sweet stuff, like toast and jam, woffels, donuts, cereals, juice, coffe, tea. It has a good location and low rates.
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Date of stay: January 2015Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Response from sam m, Manager at Royal Oak Inn
Responded Mar 27, 2015
Dear Orsi, Thank you for taking the time to offer your feedback of the Royal Oak Inn here on Tripadvisor. We truly appreciate your comments as a valuable guest of the hotel. We look forward to hosting you in the near future! Kind regards, Sam Mushtaq
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Let me start off by unequivocally stating that when it comes to rooms with great rates, proximity to City Center, cleanliness, and friendliness; M-Star Royal Oak Inn is simultaneously a historic community staple and a hidden gem in Toronto East. "Brother Sam" (as I call him) is the most complaisant, efficacious, and most gracious host , while not only maintaining, but upgrading and completely revamping a hotel which has been essentially operating since 1935. FREE Wi-Fi, Art Deco-styled rooms, modernized "touch/tap" Key Card Systems ( a plus for those of you who may be enjoying your stay a bit too much and can't find the slots of those ancient room-key setups after-hours, if you know what I mean :), "Green"/Ecologically Correct, with the family-oriented environment of a Hostel, the early morning environment of a B&B, and the modern amenities without the typical snobbish front desk drones who can't wait for you to sneeze to loud so they can keep that security deposit from your credit card. The place is immaculately clean, quiet, and completely safe. I read some of the other reviews going on and on about the "ghostly dismisses and bad area", and yes it is near an area where many of the Community Services which aid those of us who are less fortunate are located, but I simply take that as yet another opportunity to count my blessings, not pass judgement on others. Having said that, Royal Oak Inn is indeed "Best Kept Secret Downtown....Hands Down."
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Date of stay: March 2015Trip type: Travelled on business
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Response from sam m, Manager at Royal Oak Inn
Responded Mar 11, 2015
Thank you for sharing your comments regarding your stay with us at the Royal Oak inn. it is greatly appreciated. We renovated fully in 2013 and we are very pleased to hear that you were able to enjoy the result. All of us here at the Royal Oak inn care greatly about each and every guest that stays with us and we would love to see you return the next time you visit downtown Toronto. Thank you for choosing the Royal Oak inn.
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yes we do free luggage storage
yes we have its cost $10 per day
PRICE RANGE
C$143 - C$255 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
FORMERLY KNOWN AS
M-Star Royal Oak Inn
LOCATION
CanadaOntarioTorontoDowntown / Cabbagetown / Cabbagetown South / Moss Park / Old Toronto
NUMBER OF ROOMS
25
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Frequently Asked Questions about Royal Oak Inn
Which popular attractions are close to Royal Oak Inn?
Nearby attractions include Studio Escapes (0.1 km).
What are some of the property amenities at Royal Oak Inn?
Some of the more popular amenities offered include free wifi, free breakfast, and a 24 hour front desk.
What food & drink options are available at Royal Oak Inn?
Guests can enjoy free breakfast during their stay.
Is parking available at Royal Oak Inn?
Yes, paid private parking on-site and paid public parking nearby are available to guests.
What are some restaurants close to Royal Oak Inn?
Conveniently located restaurants include Figs Breakfast Lunch, Smoke's Poutinerie, and Geroge's Pizza and Panzerotto.
Which languages are spoken by the staff at Royal Oak Inn?
The staff speaks multiple languages, including English, Chinese, Hindi, Hungarian, and Filipino.
Are there any historical sites close to Royal Oak Inn?
Many travellers enjoy visiting The Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre Centre (1.1 km), Spadina Museum (3.9 km), and Casa Loma (3.9 km).