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Insight Guides Montreal & Quebec City (Insight City Guide Montreal)

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Okay, I bought this book with another one from DK (for Canada) to go to Quebec, Montreal, Toronto and Niagara Falls. I was attracted to the detailed description of the history, different districts in Montreal etc.

As it turns out, don't expect this book will help during the trip. It is only good for the background materials, the real hardcore touring part...it's a disaster for us.

We first arrived in Montreal, and found we had a hard time locating the actual tour site descriptions in the book. This book do it in a very "romantic" way, we had to read an entire paragraph to see the site we want pop up somewhere, and that's about all we can find. There's very little information about the actual site's hours, location etc. And it does not offer a detailed map for the main tourist site: Old Montreal. In the end, we had to use DK for the entire trip.

It's a pity that this is not a practical book. If somebody wants to know more about these cities, this will be a great book. However, for actual visit, I'd suggest just leave it at home.

There's not much in this book about Quebec City (11 pages to be exact). I bought it for an upcoming trip to Quebec City. I was very disappointed and found it practically useless. I don't think "Quebec City" should be part of the title. If you want a book that's mostly about Montreal, this might suffice; but I wasn't overly impressed with that part either. There are a lot of photos of people that could have been taken almost anywhere. I have bought several Insight Guides that are much better than this one.