Once-closed rural Quebec hotel jumps aboard short-term rental trend
SAINT-FELIX-DE-KINGSEY, Que. — When Nathalie Gagnon and her partner bought a closed-down inn in Quebec last year, they had no intention of reopening it under the traditional model.
Instead, the couple decided to list the entire 17-bedroom, eight-bathroom hotel —complete with pool, sauna, kitchen, game room and hot tub — online on a short-term rental website.
Gagnon and her husband already owned a smaller property they rented out on a home and cottage rental website, and decided the concept might work for their “Au Domaine William Wentworth” inn.
“Traditional doesn’t work as well right now,” Gagnon said in a recent interview in the establishment, which borders a river in Saint-Felix-de-Kingsey, about halfway between Montreal and Quebec City.