My wife and I came down from Montreal to see ELO show at Scotia Bank Arena. We didn't want to pay huge inflated hotel prices to be near the arena. We chose the Filmores, because it had very reasonable rates.
The first impression of the outside is that it is an older building, but properly maintained. It does not have guest parking, so you have to use the pay parking lot beside the property. The lot offers a really good rate of $22 for the night with a 10am checkout and is manned 24hrs. So we felt safe leaving our car there. The surrounding neighborhood, is the typical Toronto east side, with few vagrants wondering around, really posed no problem. (I lived in the Vancouver East Side for a while, and is far worse.
The Hotel has a strip club that is located below, and to be honest it did not really bother us at all, because the Hotel has it's own entrance leading upstairs to the lobby.
The inside of the Filmores is dated but very well kept. I can see that the owners want to show that they take pride of their hotel. The front desk girl was very polite, and professional. Made a very easy check-in for us.
The room we had was a single room with a double bed. Washroom with toilet and shower. The room was very clean. And the washroom was spotless. The only thing I didn't like was the mattress was a little bit hard but not uncomfortable. I wish I could go on about this hotel, but I only have 1500 characters to write this review.
This hotel is now our "go to" hotel when in Toronto