One entrance to the hotel, which guests can get to from Montreal's underground network of shops, features animated floor projections of nature imagery.
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CoLab 3, the hotel's new third-floor business hub, has 13 meeting spaces and seven gaming-theme rooms, which include eclectic seating arrangements and swing sets.
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One of the hotel's new meeting spaces is the Agora, a lobby-level area that can host a variety of events and includes permanent, built-in food stations.
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The hotel's famous John Lennon and Yoko Ono suite is now open for public tours when it's not booked. The suite includes props and writing inspired by the couple's Bed-In for Peace at the hotel, and also features a video clip of the 1969 event.
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Espace C2 is on the hotel's 21st floor, and has permanent stations for teambuilding activities inspired by the C2 Montreal confererence. At the seventh edition of the AccorHotels Global Meeting Exchange, guests participated in brainstorming exercises in elevated ball pits and went into a "cloud" for a multi-sensory experience.
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Another group activity led by C2 team members in Espace C2 involved building with Legos.
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Global Meeting Exchange attendees also participated in an escape rooms-style puzzle session in another Espace C2 room. The answers were related to the conference's theme of how planners can make their meetings more innovative.
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Before the sessions in the Espace C2, Sid Lee chairman and co-founder Jean-Francois Bouchard spoke about how hotels can facilitate experiential activities for guests, along with nine factors that could change the future of meetings.
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Global Meeting Exchange guests were given electronic wristbands that lit up in different colors to let them know which C2-inspired activity they should head to next.
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Offsite events at the Global Meeting Exchange included the Sugar Shack Shindig, a Canada-theme dinner and dancing event at the Mount Royal Chalet overlooking the city. Montreal-based event production company Happening and Fairmont the Queen Elizabeth's catering team partnered to produce the event, which featured decor such as hanging flannels. PSAV handled the event's lighting and sound.
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At the Sugar Shack Shindig, guests were invited to wear flannels and participate in Canadian line dancing.
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The final night of the Global Meeting Exchange offered a circus-theme gala dinner, which was produced by the hotel's catering team along with Happening. The gala, which took place in the hotel's Place du Canada ballroom, was designed to look like a circus tent, with chairs and umbrellas featuring a black-and-white stripe color scheme. Transparent table centerpieces showcased light bulbs covered in smaller string lights.
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The gala had on-theme entertainment coordinated by Happening. Performers included a stilt walker "riding" a metallic, illuminated bird.
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