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Lonely Planet Montreal & Quebec City (City Travel Guide)

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I am a huge fan of LP books and always try to get one before traveling abroad (3-4 trips per year). My wife and I were in Montreal for about 36 hours this June and this was fantastic. We saw pretty much the entire city in that time, thanks to Bixi Bikes. Simply the best way to see any city. Amazing. This LP, like all others, is in no way comprehensive, but we followed many of the recommendations and they were spot on. Note on us: We are 30 years old each, newly married, and love to travel and adventure.

They really ignore the Eastern Townships. They completely omitted Sutton and Sherbrooke which are charming towns.

The coverage of Montreal is nicely updated and fair. No book is going to give you everything. This book is for those who know nothing.

Nice fold out color map.

I have been to Quebec City once and I have visited Montreal four separate times. To put it briefly, these are two enchanting cities, well worth visiting.

The "Lonely Planet" travel guide, "Montreal & Quebec City City Guide" represents a very useful resource for those who consider visiting these two cities.

Montreal: Among the hotels that I stayed at are The Queen Elizabeth and Hotel Gouverneur (my naughty son packed one of the coffee cups into our luggage without my knowing it; it is now one of my favorite mugs!). The Queen Elizabeth was absolutely delightful. There is also a brief description of the Underground City. It is not as special as some might say, but it is an enjoyable place to visit and shop. There are nice summaries of places to see, places to eat (I enjoyed the ambience of The Beaver Club in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel), places to stay. . . Visiting the Olympic Park was most enjoyable.

Quebec City? The Old City is delightful. Our family took one of the water tours and one of the bus tours of the city. Well worth experiencing! The Plains of Abraham were chilling (I can't believe that such an important battle took place in such a restricted place!).

All in all, the two places reviewed here are delightful venues for a vacation. And this book does a nice job of providing the would-be visitor with relevant information. . . .

I bought this prior to our 1st trip to Montreal and Quebec.Although the overall information is accurate it was quite anoying to discover that some adresses were wrong or not complete. We went there with 2 children aged 10 and 13 and I hated ending in an unappropriate area, with the wrong crowd.
The descriptions of monuments are great and the historical background is well done. Also the walking suggestions are nice and interresting. The guide considers that for 2 people in a middle range restaurant you would have to spend around 200ca$, we ate in a very classy restaurant for 260 for the 4 of us. we had good meals in decent places that can be considered average and this for 100 for 4 and even less. So it seems to me that they over price the budget you need to have for food.
We are french and therefore the quality of food is really important to us. So you can trust us if we say you can eat good food for a good price.