Top 10 Montreal & Quebec City (EYEWITNESS TOP 10 TRAVEL GUIDE) | 
|  | | | Title: | Top 10 Montreal & Quebec City (EYEWITNESS TOP 10 TRAVEL GUIDE) | | Author: | DK Publishing | | Publisher: | DK Travel | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 17 March, 2008 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0756632595 / 9780756632595 | | List Price: | $12.00 | | You Save: | $2.40 | | Amazon Price: | $9.60 | |
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Product Description
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.
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Customer Reviews:
• Take This With You 17 August, 2004
This is a great little travel book if you are planning your first trip to Quebec. Not having any idea about what we wanted to do, this book basically planned our trip. It's also small enough to carry with you. It also has maps.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3NL6488FAXF0Y
• Overall Good Guide To Accompany Your Trip To Montreal/quebec 04 August, 2005
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 Some information is also outdated or incorrect, such as museum opening hours.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
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2MIKOZII0X50K
• Excellent And Helpful :-) 12 February, 2006
These books are always fantastic. They are choc-full of good information and it's so handy and useful. 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.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A24ZFFRQ4MG3XL
• Clear, Uptodate And Easy To Use 03 November, 2006
I like the small size of this guide you can bring everywhere easily. 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. The maps are well done...really, I have also this one for NY city and it worths its price. Enjoy.
- Reviewed by customer ID: ACNK2J7IIQN03
• Generally Good, But With Some Missing Info... 28 July, 2008
I really like these "Top 10" pocket guidebooks. They provide a lot of information and, best of all, fit nicely into my back pocket. [A trait that few other "pocket" guidebooks ever seem to achieve.]
However, this particular Top 10 guidebook -- Montreal and Quebec City -- only gets four stars because of various odd omissions.
There's no map of the Montreal Metro. Why not?
Although the book covers both Montreal and Quebec City, it neglects to provide information on how to get from one to the other. Is there a train? If so, how often does it run? How much does it cost? How long does it take? Are there busses? How long to drive from one city to the other by car? All this should have been described in detail.
Also, the book is needlessly vague at times. The author says that a taxi from the Montreal airport to downtown should be avoided because they're "too expensive." But what exactly is "too expensive"? $50? $100? More?
Currently, there is a fixed price of $35 Canadian dollars for a taxi from Trudeau airport to downtown Montreal. That's not exactly cheap. But, if you've ever taken a black cab from Gatwick to downtown London, you know it isn't truly expensive either.
The author should just list current prices and let the reader decide what is "too expensive."
Otherwise, though, the book is quite helpful.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1I6S26WXN5O0J
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