Travel to Provinces

Top 10 Montreal and Quebec City (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

Format: Turtleback
Author: Gregory Gallagher
ReleaseDate: 16 February, 2004
Publisher: DK Travel
Rating:

Clear, uptodate and easy to use
It is really usefull to have it to choose and see everything important and to find your favorite interests,restaurants or hotels in this place efficiently by looking at the differents sections it proposes. I like the small size of this guide you can bring everywhere easily. The maps are well done. . . really, I have also this one for NY city and it worths its price. Enjoy. .

Excellent and helpful :-)
They are choc-full of good information and it's so handy and useful. These books are always fantastic. Inside, it talks about all the top 10 things in different sections. For example, the top 10 hotels, restaurants, shops etc. I also really love all the beautiful colour pages. Some guide books use black and whites etc, but these guys always make the city in question look stunning. Obviously this book is merely a small guide with only a certain amount of information - if you want a lot more depth, you have to get their full bigger books (which are also great). But for someone with a bit of knowledge already about a particular place, this is just a top up of info that comes in real handy. I highly recommend this book (especially since it is dealing with two cities instead of concentrating on only one). A good guide to two beautiful cities.

Overall good guide to accompany your trip to Montreal/Quebec
Overall it's an excellent guide book to accompany one's trip to Monteral/Quebec. 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.
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 Some information is also outdated or incorrect, such as museum opening hours.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.

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	Frommer's Montreal & Quebec City 2006 (Frommer's Complete)
	Fodor's Montreal and Quebec City 2006 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
	Fodor's Montreal and Quebec City 2005 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
	Top 10 Toronto (Eyewitness Travel Guides)