# Doperéal II (Montreal Dopefest) - let's try this again **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 10, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365 "2003-05-10T19:25:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ladydisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@ladydisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladydisco)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/21 "2003-05-13T01:46:19Z")
Count me in. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/22 "2003-05-13T01:47:47Z")
I’m reviving this thread. I think everyone should come up and visit. Yay for Doperéal! ---
**Author:** ![Mnementh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mnementh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mnementh)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/23 "2003-05-13T01:48:26Z")
Hell, I’ll see if I can attend. It’s a ways off, so I can’t promise anything (like usual), but I’ll give it a go. I could lug up to three other people with me, too, so long as two of them don’t mind being sardines in a tin for four hours or so. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/24 "2003-05-13T02:15:26Z")
Well, if me ‘n’ B can ride up with Dave and Robin, we may be able to swing it. Is there some sort of hotel-like place both non-sleezy and affordable? ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/25 "2003-05-13T02:31:17Z")
I am absolutely sure there is. I have never personally stayed in a hotel in Montreal (for obvious reasons), however. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/26 "2003-05-13T13:41:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mnementh \* > \*\*Hell, I’ll see if I can attend. It’s a ways off, so I can’t promise anything (like usual), but I’ll give it a go. I could lug up to three other people with me, too, so long as two of them don’t mind being sardines in a tin for four hours or so. \*\* If Trinn and I go, we can do it together an split the cost. (If that’s good for ya.) ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/27 "2003-05-13T13:42:30Z")
Still room for two more at your palace, Laur? ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/28 "2003-05-13T14:13:33Z")
It was great seeing all you guys at SugarDope, but it looks like I’m going to be in England for a fair-sized chunk of August working on my dissertation revision. Have fun, all youse! (Oh, sure, like you needed me to tell you that!) ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/29 "2003-05-13T14:42:26Z")
Sure, I’ll be there. In the meantime, here’s a little something for you cemetery lovers, courtesy of [snopes](http://www.snopes.com/photos/grave.asp) . BTW, did you know that Montréal’s cemetery contains the second largest numbers of _Titanic_ victims (Halifax being number one). ---
**Author:** ![Lockz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Lockz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockz)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/30 "2003-05-13T15:03:08Z")
I’ll try and make it to this one; too bad I missed out on SugarDope. ---
**Author:** ![Harli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c0e974/32.png) [@Harli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harli)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/31 "2003-05-13T15:03:16Z")
If it works out to be possible for me to go, d’ya think I could be the third, **Mnementh**? ::batting eyelashes sweetly:: ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/32 "2003-05-13T23:32:58Z")
Hmm, this is looking promising! 🙂 I think a cemetary tour would be cool - it would also give us a chance to go to the lookout on Mount Royal (great photo ops there). I also wouldn’t mind draggin’ y’all to the Old Port at night and see an IMAX show… or something. A Sunday picnic is an idea - perhaps at Parc Jean-Drapeau on Île-Sainte-Hélène (part of the old Expo 67 site). We’d get to ride the metro under the rivier, and **matt** could discuss the details of the yellow line’s construction… And I’m an Expo 67 history buff myself. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/33 "2003-05-13T23:45:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scott evil \* > \*\*And I’m an Expo 67 history buff myself. 😉 \*\* I spent my summer there in 67 ! ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/34 "2003-05-14T01:06:58Z")
**detop** … what can I say? I am so envious… When I was 15, I made my parents drive me here (from Ottawa), just so I could ride the minirail, and check out the old U.S., France, and Quebec pavilions. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/35 "2003-05-14T01:34:01Z")
Which monorail did you ride ? the blue line or the yellow line ? ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/36 "2003-05-14T01:53:55Z")
The only minirail left - it goes (went? I dunno if it’s still operating) around La Ronde. This was in 1987. I was surprised at how slow it was, having ridden the monorail at Expo 86, but now I know it was more of a sightseeing thing than to get from point A to point B. I read that during Expo they either had to raise the price of it, or start charging for it period, because people wouldn’t get off… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/37 "2003-05-14T03:51:39Z")
La Ronde’s monorail was/is a yellow one. The yellow ones were doing smaller circuits, usually confined to an island. The blue ones were doing île Ste-Hélène and île Notre-Dame (the famous one that used to go through the US pavillion was a blue one). There was also another system, the Expo Express (more like the metro actually) that was doing all 4 major sites and that one was free. ---
**Author:** ![Potter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Potter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Potter)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/38 "2003-05-14T06:43:12Z")
I will be there 🙂 I’ll probably be sculking in a corner trying to remain incognito, but I doubt that’ll last for long if **matt** has anything to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/39 "2003-05-14T13:45:18Z")
So many people going … I may have to change my plans and show up… ---
**Author:** ![Stephi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stephi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephi)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365/40 "2003-05-14T13:54:12Z")
Ok, so is this actually finalized yet? If so I’m booking my hotel now rather than at the last minute. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopereal-ii-montreal-dopefest-lets-try-this-again/174365.md?page=3)