Special Events Annual Events Rooms Specials Reserve a Room Book an Event Testimonials The Gladstone Hotel is a unique urban hotel providing both travelers and Torontonians with a truly authentic experience of the local creative culture. Our historic landmark hotel features Artist Designed Hotel Rooms and Suites, Affordable Short-Term Artist Studios, Exhibition Spaces, and Versatile Event and Conference Venues. The hotel also offers great food and drink in the Ballroom Cafe and Melody Bar. Visitors can experience Toronto from within the comforts of the hotel's thirty-seven artist designed guest rooms, eat, drink, attend art related, social, or corporate events held within the historic landmark architecture, and then step out into the heart of the city's vibrant art and design neighbourhood.
Not just a place to stay overnight! The Gladstone is more than a hotel. It is a place where local artists exhibit their work and perform and more importantly a place where artists and regular neighbourhood patrons come just to hang out. From cabaret performances to film screenings, art exhibitions to wedding parties the Gladstone hosts events for a vast range of artists, community groups, businesses and individuals.
"The Gladstone offers immediate immersion into Toronto's art scene." New York Times, July 23, 2006
"If you are looking for the anti-chain-hotel Toronto experience this should be your next stop." Globe and Mail, April 1, 2006
Not just a place to stay overnight! The Gladstone is more than a hotel. It is in essence an ongoing experiment in melding cultural entrepreneurship and urban development. More Info.
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The Gladstone Hotel is the oldest continuously operating hotel in Toronto. It was originally built in 1889 as a stylish hostelry in the heyday of railroad travel. More Info
Prior to being purchased by the Zeidler family in 2002, the building structure had been neglected for fifty plus years and needed a tremendous amount of repairs. The entire infrastructure including, heating, electrical, and plumbing had to be immediately upgraded in addition to architectural and cosmetic restoration work. More Info
The Gladstone Hotel is a favorite place for shooting movies, videos, T.V. and film. The building is a Toronto landmark and a fine example of Victorian Hotel architecture with outstanding original features and details both inside and out. More Info.