Around the Basilica, in Old Montréal, there are plenty of places with classic European architecture

Unless you're airline ticket purchase driving, bus is your number one option. On a student or web discount, you need only spend $45.20 to get a round trip on a Greyhound bus. If you travel around midnight, you'll get there after a 6-hour bus ride, three hours less than if you take the rush hour buses. If you're lucky, you can get the new Greyhound bus with nice seats and WiFi.
There are hotels downtown that you can get at a reasonable price, like Holiday Inn or Les Suites Labelle. Book in advance through Booking.com. The prices shown are for two nights so it's cheaper than it seems. If you're travelling in a big group, try checking Airbnb.com, a website where you can rent a local's house or apartment airline ticket purchase depending on the size of your group and the owners' availability.
Montréal has a convenient subway system called Société de transport de Montreal (STM). If you're going during the weekend, perfect. For $12, you can get a weekend airline ticket purchase pass that works from Friday evening to Monday morning. Just like the weekend pass, the regular 3-day pass also allows unlimited airline ticket purchase usage. This one costs $18 but you can choose which three consecutive days you want to use it. They are very cheap considering one admission costs $3.
Frankly I don't believe in restraining airline ticket purchase yourself from food when you're travelling because you do want to get the best of everything. Thankfully, Montreal's food isn't priced like a 5-star hotel. Number one; there is no reason to skip Schwartz's. After 80 years in business, people airline ticket purchase are still lining up in -20 degree weather for an hour, just to taste their world-famous smoked meat sandwich, which costs $6.40.
Number two; POUTINE! You can get poutine airline ticket purchase in various places airline ticket purchase but La Banquise offers airline ticket purchase a wide range of poutines starting form $6.50, be it a plate of fries, gravy and cheese crowned with a scoop of guacamole and sour cream, or drowned in meat and more meat.
Around the Basilica, in Old Montréal, there are plenty of places with classic European architecture as well, you can spend hours just exploring the little stores. Another tourist attraction is St. Joseph oratory, Canada's biggest church. They don't charge you anything to walk around and be fascinated with the colossal church.
Downtown Montreal is located in Saint-Catharine. It looks similar to our Queen Street West, just as pricey too. Instead, while still in the downtown area, you can go for Simons, where you can get T-shirts starting airline ticket purchase from $15. Saint Laurent and Saint Denis could be good places not just to shop, but also to hang around during the day or night.