I've been to Place Bell a handful of times now and I find it's a solid stadium that is essentially a smaller Centre Bell. I've been here for Disney on Ice, Cirque de Soleil as well as the Rockets of Laval and never had any issue. The arena looks nice and is conveniently located if you get here by metro with a barely 3 minute walk. They started opening restos within the Place Bell so you can dine and attend your show without an issue. The concessions are limited in choices and grossly overpriced but that's what they're all about, so eat before you come! My issue lies with limited parking in this area. You have to show up super early to find free street parking. You can pay for parking but it's basically downtown prices. I hope when Place Montmorency opens up we can get more affordable parking. This has been an ongoing issue since this place opened. Place Bell does have its own parking but from what I heard it can be a challenge to leave without being stuck in traffic.... something I actively avoid. Another thing I wish this place would have would be more shows. They should be able to accommodate more musicians/entertainers considering the size of the arena. They simply can't seem to book a good comedian and seat 5000 people, it should be a non-issue. read more

The venue itself is fine, decent sound for an arena. Visited on Friday for Disturbed. The problem here is the parking. We arrived about half an hour before the show started but signs for parking said Full, and there wasn't much indication that we could pay to park in the mall parking lot across the street, so we drove around for awhile looking for something, finally parked about 2 blocks from the arena. The show was great. But took an hour to leave the parking lot. Unreal. read more

Large new venue. Home of the Mtl Rocket. They also have concerts and shows. It looks ok. No big woop. One more arena. This one is in Laval. read more

Place Bell - College Basketball - Stadiums & Arenas Near Me - Laval, Quebec

Brand new, big stadium! And not a bad one at that. I went to see Above and Beyond, so my review is only for the music venue. We arrived right as the music was starting and kind of concerned about long security lines. We shouldn't have been. It was still early enough that lines weren't long. There were several entrances, too, so thugs seemed to run pretty smoothly all night. One slip-up was how the entrance flow was managed. It was very confusing to find the way to the GA floor, which we realized was downstairs. You needed a wrist band to get in and there were several places to get that, including lines right at the floor that ended up in a bottle-neck. Wrist bands definitely could have been more streamlined for easier access to the floor. The GA area itself was a big, open area that gets a little slippery after a while since people were tossing their empty beers right on the ground. Kind of an oversight, in my opinion, that there weren't trash cans on the side of GA. There was plenty of security in the venue and I didn't see anything get out of hand. Just lots of people having a good time! In terms of the best tickets, I think it's go big or go home: if you don't get the floor tickets for an electronic music show, why are you even there? For other shows, the decision is trickier. The acoustics were okay and the space was fantastic for a group that has great production, but the GA floor is so big, I don't know that seats on the opposite side would be very fun. To get there - there's a drop-off area out front for taxis, as well as underground parking AT the venue and other parking options nearby. It's also two minutes to the nearest train station. Score! However, if it's a big venue sometimes you have to wait for the train for a bit. I considered giving Place Bell 3 stars because of the bad organization inside, but that's just temporary. AND - they serve hard liquor and some pretty decent snacks! They go for stadium prices, but that's worth a whole extra star in my book. read more

Came here for an Alt-J concert. Was muttering and complaining about having to schlep all the way out to Laval but it's actually not bad by metro, at the end of the orange line. The venue is only a 3 minute walk from the metro. Note: your regular metro pass will not get you home, buy a return ticket when you get there to avoid a line after the show. The place is basically a mini Bell Centre. It's brand new so everything is super clean. I found the acoustics better than the Bell Centre, they were pretty clean. Bonus: beer is cheaper here than the Bell Centre... This place definitely fills a niche that was lacking in Montreal for acts that aren't quite big enough for the Bell Centre but too big for Metropolis (sorry I can't bring myself to call it MTelus yet). I have a feeling there will be quite a few shows out here that will have me boarding the orange line... read more

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Very nice setting. Its my first time in this location. It was hard to park but not as hard as the one in downtown. We watched Disney on ice with the kids. Ok overrated prices for merchandises and food. The stadium is clean and new. Nit as big as Centre belle in downtown but not least impressive. As for the play : from the kids and quote its magical dad , we want to do ice skating. . Overall nice ce place nice play nothing to complain about but the overpriced popcorn ans snacks. 4 stars for the stadium 2 stars for what i define as children marketing exploitation. 3 stars overall rating. read more

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Brand new place. The bathrooms though do not have enough stalls unfortunately so there's always a crazy line. The seats are amazing with tons of leg room and also padding. It makes it comfy to sit through long venues at the Place Bell. The food concession is reasonably priced a beer is only $5.75 which blows my mind. I never have seen a pint so low before. There's tons of food to choose at the concession from a smoked meat sandwich, poutine to fries. The only thing that sucks is there isn't enough parking at the Place Bell for events people are either forced onto the roads which is illegal. Poor planning when it was built. Also is frustrating when attending venues. Take the metro and enjoy your night. After you buy an expensive venue ticket you may have money still left for the concession too ! read more

Pour le spectacle de Paul Piché la musique avant le show était abrutissante et à mis l'atmosphère à plat. Les organisateurs auraient pu rechauffer la salle avec de belles balades du style à Piche. En plus, ils ont commencé en retard. SVP mettez de la belle musique avant les show. Quelle horreur! read more

Me and a friend saw Panic! At the Disco in 01/2019. We took the metro to get there after hearing horror stories about parking and the station is very close. We sat in section 102 row G and we had a great view of the stage. The sound was good. My only complaint was there were not enough people in concessions. It took me forever (45 minutes) to get drinks. I got as many as I could carry in that one shot. Staff are multilingual and very nice. Of course when we left it took a while to leave since everybody was leaving at the same time. I would definitely go back here for another concert. read more

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Garbage of a venue. Went there for the Killers, had to wait 35 minutes outside in the -30 something weather just to get in. While the show was great, the mic cut out 4 times during the show. Never going back here again. read more

Went to see Tash Sultana. Clean place, wish there was more vegetarian option in their menu. Other than that, the sound system is amazing, well-organized parking space and friendly staff! read more

This is a horrible concert venue. Got to the concert early, was almost to the front of the (outdoors) line when we were taken out of line to be escorted "inside" (the back of another outdoor lineup) for having upper bowl seats. As soon as I got inside from that line, they kicked out everyone in the same room as me because that room was for buying tickets only - back outside I went and lost my place in line again. This led us to waiting in another line outside for 40 more minutes, in the middle of an extreme cold warning. Then the sound cut out THREE tones during the concert. There were people falling down the stairs when walking out and security did nothing to help guide anybody. Place Bell - don't host large concerts!!! read more

Went here September 11 to see tyler the creator. We were first in line (waiting since 9am) around 5 a guy comes out telling everyone to stand up and crowd together. Making it really stressful since it was no longer a single file line in order. Now it was everyone in a bunch getting routy. There were 2 doors and a security girl cane and opened one. And people started fleeing thru it so I opened my door and ran since people were passing me I kept getting stopped saying no running when everyone else was. Very disorganized to say the least. It's stressful considering we got there at 9am to be at the barricade because his consents get crazy(lots of mosh pits and pushing) so we did this for our safety. And the guy coming and telling everyone to push together ruined everything. Of course I'm gonna run to be first if everyone else is. Someone needs to decide who's in charge and organize it better because it was really unsafe. To say the least. But over all the concert was fan fucking Tastic. read more

If I could give a 0 I would. All I have to say is that everyone that worked on the construction of Place Bell as for the thought process of the building should be fired for being too stupid. Lavalois, you should cry that your hard earned tax money goes into building the biggest piece of garbage venue in the world. This venue is not built for shows. Going into the building is a logistics nightmare. Waited 1 hour to get in, fireman had to help us leave. Venue can not support its capacity. Sound cut 3 times during the Killers concert. The sound is also just simply horrible. You understand nothing. Thanks Evenko for not giving a shit about where you place people for concerts. For that I would give 5 stars. read more