# Montreal and general Quebec Travel Advice **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 7, 2022, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-and-general-quebec-travel-advice/967567 "2022-07-07T16:07:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-and-general-quebec-travel-advice/967567/11 "2022-07-08T21:31:07Z")
A thread I started on the topic, a few years ago. Not just Montreal (as we were visiting both there, and Quebec City), but definitely some good suggestions. > [@What should we do in Quebec in late June?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-do-in-quebec-in-late-june/785790): > > We’re going to be in northern New Hampshire for a family reunion. Horrible, horrible location for everyone who has to travel… but the person who picked the spot lives in NH and nobody argued so we’re stuck. Anyway: we’re driving the whole way, and thought we’d visit Quebec afterward. We’ll have just under a week all told. Tentative plans are to go directly from the reunion to Montreal (with a brief detour to Ben and Jerry’s), spend a few days there, and ultimately wind up in a small town about… We happened to arrive in Montreal on a Monday that was some kind of holiday, and it was a bit tough to find a place to have dinner. Might have been easier had we been in the city itself; we were in a suburb of sorts, Longueuil - convenient for us, as it was walking distance to a commuter hub including the subway. The botanical garden was great, though we managed to find the longest possible route to get from point A to point B at any given time, and the paths were not well signed. I was proud of myself for being able to ask a staff member directions, in French. In the touristy areas, you’ll find that most people speak a fair bit of English (though someone I asked, when we were using an ATM, did not). More rural areas, possibly not as much; we stopped in Trois Rivieres for dinner en route to Quebec City, and didn’t hear any English; ditto a couple years later when we took a VERY rural route back from QC and stopped in a tiny town for a snack. We did a whale-watching tour, but we were in QC at the time, not Montreal; it was a 3 hour ride to get there, so it wouldn’t be terribly practical from Montreal, I imagine. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-and-general-quebec-travel-advice/967567)._