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Fodor's Montreal and Quebec City 2008 (Fodor's Gold Guides)

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.

Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Montréal and Québec City!

·Updated annually, Fodor’s Montreal & Québec City 2008 provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guidebook.

·Fodor’s Montreal & Québec City 2008 features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime.

·If it’s not worth your time, it’s not in this book. Fodor’s discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor’s Choice designations, ensure that you’ll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in Montréal and Québec City.

·Experience Montréal and Québec City like a local! Fodor’s Montreal & Québec City 2008 includes choices for every traveler, from shopping in Quebecois boutiques and exploring hip neighborhoods to hiking in the Laurentian Mountains, and much more!

·Indispensable, customized trip planning tools include “Top Reasons to Go,” “Word of Mouth” advice from other travelers, and tips to help save money, bypass lines, and avoid common travel pitfalls.

·Pull-out map

Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.

Montreal & Quebec City (City Guide)

Eilís Quinn

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

The old-world grandeur and new-world hipness of Montreal and Quebec City will seduce you. Relive history in their cobblestone streets, discover their vibrant neighborhoods, party with their convivial locals, and embrace it all with joie de vivre...and an appetite. This savvy, indispensable guide's Montreal-based author reveals the magic and magnificence of francophone Canada's sparkling crown jewels.

DISCOVER THE GEMS - spend days ambling through neighborhoods like ever-romantic Old Montreal and the uberhip Plateau with our Montreal walking tours, including one just for art lovers.

BON APPETIT! - top tips on indulging in Canada's foodiest cities, where 5200-plus eateries dish up something for every appetite and budget.

LEND AN EAR - Jazz, Quebecois chanson, indie punk, the symphony...our music and entertainment chapters delve into Montreal's best venues and parties.

FIND YOUR FEST - Quebecers celebrate everything - music, comedy, film, food, snow - and our city calendars capture it all.

Top 10 Montreal & Quebec City (Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides)

DK Publishing

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Overall good guide to accompany your trip to Montreal/Quebec 4 out of 5 stars.
24 of 24 people found this review helpful.

This guide book is filled with colorful pictures and list top-10 tourist spots in Montreal and Quebec, it almost list top-10 tourist spots, dining, shopping, night life etc in different sections of the cities. Overall it's an excellent guide book to accompany one's trip to Monteral/Quebec.
The only problem is after visiting some of the top-10 spots I find myself disagreeing with the choice of the author. While some interesting spots were left out of given less attention. Some information is also outdated or incorrect, such as museum opening hours.
For example, while the cross on Mount Royal has historical significance, the steel structure itself is unimpressive and I doubt whether it's worth walking half-way through Mount-Royal Park just to see the cross.
Another example is the Museum of French America in Quebec city, which houses many interesting exhibits but it wasn't even mentioned in the guide.
Apart from tourists spots, I also find myself disagreeing with some top-10 restaurants picks. For example, the Alphenaus restaurant (in downtown Montreal) recommended by the guide is located in a kind-of-run-down neighbourhood and AAA only gives it 2 diamonds. There are some good picks though, like Le Latini in Montreal.

One last glitch about this travel guide is the inclusion of some seemingly irrelevant information. While it's good to know about Celine Dion or the separatist movement, I'm not sure how useful that information is to my trip.

Summary:
The good:
Clear, concise, numbered list of tourist attractions, restaurants, etc. Also some travel tips. Most attractions lists are show on mini-map and nearest metro station, which makes the job of finding that attraction/restaurant a lot easier.

The bad:
some out-dated information, some top-10 picks questionable

The bottomline:
This is an excellent guide to accompany anyone travelling to Montreal/Quebec city

Editorial Review:

From the top 10 festivals to the top 10 places to eat, shop and sleep ­ this guide will lead you straight to the very best Montréal and Québec City have to offer.

Streetwise Montreal Map - Laminated City Street Map of Montreal, Canada - with integrated metro map including lines and stations

Streetwise Maps

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Perfect for the tourist! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This laminated map is a favorite. I purchased one for London and loved it, so I bought this one for our upcoming trip to Montreal. Unlike paper maps it can take the folding and refolding and still hold up great. While its size is larger, (pamphlet, about the size of a paper map)it still will fit in a purse or backback without a problem. The other bonus is the metro stations that are clearly marked on the map.

perfect map 5 out of 5 stars.
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All of these streetwise maps are great. They focus on the downtowns of major cities- just where you probably are when you are walking around and need a quick reference. The size is perfect, and the plastic coating makes them extremely durable. I was in Montreal for over a month and had three local people ask me where I got the map - twice when I pulled it out on the Metro to review where I was going once I got off, once just on the street. As one person told me: "It doesn't look like a tourist map, I'd like one. Where did you get it?" The same thing happened twice in Paris last year with that map. Highly recommend!

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Streetwise Montreal Map - Laminated Center City Street Map of Montreal, Canada - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated metro map including lines & stations

This map covers the following areas:
Main Montreal Map 1:27,000
Old Montreal Map 1:11,000
Montreal Area Map 1:200,000
Montreal Metro Map

Frommer's Montreal & Quebec City 2008 (Frommer's Complete)

Leslie Brokaw

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Not a bad guide 4 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

If you're looking for a nitty gritty guide to Montreal, this will probably do. I'd recommend purchasing the Fodors Montreal and Quebec City 2008 in place of this guide. It is much more readable, has interesting tidbits on area history and includes a better layout.

Frommers is terrific! 5 out of 5 stars.
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We started using Frommer's guides over 20 years ago and continue to be extremely pleased with them! We like to research places we go before we leave home and these guides make that job so much easier! They have always proven very valuable and well worth their cost. This Frommer's guide on Montreal and Quebec is as terrific as I expected it to be.

Editorial Review:

Frommer's. The best trips start here.

Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer.

• The lowdown on the newest restaurants, hotels, shopping, and nightlife.
• Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not.
• Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip whatever your budget.
• Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions.

Trans-Canada Rail Guide, 4th: includes city guides to Halifax, Quebec City, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary and Vanvouver (Trans Canada Rail Guide)

Melissa Graham

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The world’s most scenic rail ride. A journey on Canada’s transcontinental railroad ranks as one of the greatest rail experiences in the world. Stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the lines span 3974 miles, taking in not only several of North America’s finest cities but also some of the most dramatic scenery on earth, including the spectacular Rocky Mountains.

Rail travel for all budgets – This comprehensive guidebook gives information for all budgets, from the cheapest rail tickets with shoestring accommodation in the cities along the route to the most luxurious guided tours.
· Fully revised 4th edition – updated and with new mapping
· Rail travel for all budgets – where to get the best deals
· Mile-by-mile route guide – what to see along the route; with 25 maps
· Railway history – the rail link that created modern Canada
· City guides and maps – the best sights, recommended hotels and restaurants in eight major stops along the lines: Halifax, Quebec City, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vancouver and Calgary

Wallpaper City Guide: Montreal (Phaidon Press) (Wallpaper City Guides (Phaidon Press))

Editors of Wallpaper Magazine

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WALLPAPER* CITY GUIDES not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he or she has a week or just 24 hours in the city. The guides feature up-and-coming areas, landmark buildings in an 'Architour', design centers, and a selection of the best shops to buy items unique to the particular city. WALLPAPER* CITY GUIDES present travelers with a fast-track ticket to the chosen location. The edited guides offer the best, the most exciting, and the most beautiful of the featured city. In addition to looking beautiful, the guides are expertly designed with function as a priority. They have tabbed sections so the tourist can easily find what he or she is looking for. Also included are color-coded city maps, rate and currency cards, and an easy navigational tool. They are the ultimate combination of form and function. Compiled by the well-traveled editorial team of Wallpaper* and by an extraordinary network of international correspondents, the guides are truly THE insider's guide to each featured city. The contributors to these guides have put their heads together to come up with fascinating, efficient guides that keeps the hip, urban traveler with his or her finger on the pulse. The City Guides are being published as Wallpaper* magazine celebrates its tenth anniversary. For the past decade, Wallpaper* has been the first to uncover and enticingly present the best in new design and urban travel spots across the globe. The City Guides are the perfect way to present a decade of experience in one precisely edited guide to each of the 50 cities represented.

eat.shop montreal: The Indispensable Guide to Inspired, Locally Owned Eating and Shopping Establishments (eat.shop guides)

Jan Faust

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

This is one of the two guides you'll want for montreal 4 out of 5 stars.
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This makes planning fun as the style is great and gets you excited about visiting the places included. With the frommer's 3-day guide for the more tradtional stuff (parks, museums,...etc) it's got everything you need. I should note that it has a bit of a foodie/hipster/quirky vibe to it, so if that doesn't appeal to you, you might want to look elsewhere. Here are my only issues. An included map would have been helpful (there is one oneline you can use but unless you have an iPhone that you want to use in Canada at out-of-country data rates, that's not much help), in the same vein, it would have been helpful for the reviews to be grouped by area.

Conclusion: this book led to some of the best experiences we had in Montreal. Get it.

Editorial Review:

Discover a unique vision through these witty, urban city guides that focus on locally-owned eating, shopping, and lodging establishments. The numerous distinct businesses are hand-picked by the authors, giving these convenient references a personal feel that can be enjoyed by locals and tourists alike. Explorers will delight in the luscious photographs, easy-to-read maps, and compact size, making them perfect for throwing into a bag and taking on a tour of the town.

Zagat Montreal 2008/09 (Zagat Survey: Montreal) (Zagat Survey: Best of Montreal)

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Based on the opinions of savvy locals this pocket sized guide contains Zagat Surveys trusted ratings and reviews for over 250 of the best places to eat drink stay and play in and around Montreal. The trademark reviews and corresponding ratings are organized alphabetically in a user-friendly format. Useful lists and indexes will come in handy whether youre a tourist newcomer or lifelong native.

Access Montreal & Quebec City 5e (Access Montreal and Quebec City)

Access Press

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With Access Montreal & Quebec City, your visit will be an easy, enjoyable experience—both the cosmopolitan sights of Montreal and the history and customs of Quebec City are at your fingertips.

Access Montreal & Quebec City has been divided and organized into neighborhoods, so you know where you are and where you're headed.

Unique color-coded and numbered entries allow you to discover the best:

• Hotels
• Restaurants
• Attractions
• Shopping sights
• Parks and Outdoor Spaces

Large, easy-to-read maps with entry numbers keyed to text ensure that you will instantly find what you must not miss.

Access is your indispensable walk-around guide to Montreal & Quebec City. Our writers, who live in and love the cities, will lead you by the hand down the remarkable streets, sharing the unforgettable sights and pointing out the undiscovered gems and all the majestic landmarks that only Montreal & Quebec City have to offer.