Montreal

Pros: Beautiful plants & flowers, educational exhibits, inexpensive, always something going on, family activity
Cons: Less fun in inclement weather, tiring on the feet

With the worst of winter mostly over, spring just around the corner & the promise of lazy summer days to come, why not consider a visit to Montreal? Although there is lots to do in Montreal, one of my favorite activities is visiting the Montreal...

Pros: Great food, pretty parks, friendly people.
Cons: Cold for much of the year.

Montreal in October is cold, as I had ample opportunity to discover on a recent weeklong trip. Despite the wind-whipped rain and snow the fall colors were in full bloom in the third week of the month, which surprised me as I thought the colors so far ...

Pros: Prices of nearly everything, Accessibility of many things for all ages
Cons: Weather, Occasional anti-American sentiment

This review is perhaps a little more dirty in terms of anecdotes counted here, so please don't get too offended because I'm being frank about what I witnessed and took part in. This review is more a personal essay than it is a critique of Montreal. It's ...

Pros: Great Food, Friendly People
Cons: Language Barrier at times if you don't speak french

Last summer I visited the beautiful city of Montreal for the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival (or jest pour rire in french)
The festival ran this year from July 11, to July 21st
Just for Laughs is one of the largest comedy festivals in the...

Pros: Bilingual French-English Cultures; Fabulous Restaurants; Old World Charm & Modern City Conveniences
Cons: NONE

Bienvenue! Please, let me welcome you to my town - Montreal.

Before I take you on a tour of my city, I want to admit to you that I was born in Montreal, and have lived here most of my adult life. I spent the first nine years of...

Pros: Old world charm, great food and beer, friendly people
Cons: I imagine the winters are pretty cold

Whenever I travel, I always try to check out the local beers. It might seem like a silly obsession to some but I find it extremely rewarding to discover new beers. There is a sense of adventure and accomplishment in finding the lesser known...

Pros: A taste of Europe in North America, the vibrant city life
Cons: Some people refuse to speak English

Background
I have been to Montreal once with some friends. We went out to Boston and then drove up to Montreal for two days in August of 2000. We drove up through New Hampshire and Vermont, which are two of the most beautiful states in our nation....

Pros: Extremely nice people, good exchange rate, cosmopolitan, great metro system, safe
Cons: Uninspiring shopping

Did Montreal remind me of Paris? Not at all! Did it remind me of France? Oddly enough -- even with all of the French signs and French speakers everywhere – not really. Montreal is like France, extremely light – the plain vanilla version. At ...

Pros: Very unique, beautiful, thousands of birds and animals in their natural habitat
Cons: None

Montreal’s Olympic complex was built for the 1976 summer Olympic games. Since then, the main stadium has become the home of the Montreal Expos baseball team and the former Olympic velodrome has been converted into the Biodome—the home of four ecosystems...

Pros: Scenary. Landmarks. Nightlife. Beautiful women.
Cons: Insane drivers/Traffic. Signs in French can make navigation tricky.

I have been to Montreal quite a few times. Initial observations are it’s a very large city. Nightlife is incredible, drivers are insane, restaurants are nice, and paying for stuff there was incredibly cheap. If you are married with a family, there ...

Pros: The Metro, culture, price, distance, people, shopping, entertainment etc...
Cons: none

We just returned from our trip to Montreal, Canada yesterday. I should say that we live in the states, Massachusetts to be exact. It is about a 5 ½ hour trip to get there. We decided to choose Montreal as our destination for several reasons. The first ...

Pros: Like a visit to Europe, only much cheaper
Cons: highly touristy

It's not Europe, but it certainly feels like it as you stroll through parts of Montreal. Located in Quebec, Canada, this French-speaking city could be Paris.

Any way you go, you're going to have to cross a bridge (or fly over one) to get into...

Pros: European flare, friendly and helpful people, lots of beautiful churches and inexpensive fur shopping
Cons: too cold in winter, street are deserted at night so it's unsafe for girls

I went to Montreal, Canada in March 2004 for a conference. I've stayed there for five days, and it was enough time to see the town even as I attended the conference. I refer to we often and it's myself (28) and a female friend(28). Weather As ...

Pros: European charm and a steal of a price
Cons: You have to make the time to go

So you want something special to do for that weekend away? Want to go to place with the charm of Europe yet only a few hours drive from anywhere in New England? How about a place with the European charm, great hotels and nightlife and shopping and your...

Pros: Great shopping, restaurants and varied things to do
Cons: Poor roads makes driving around not much fun

A bit of geography will help you picture Montreal and get you orientated. Montreal is a lemon shaped island, if you can imagine the lemon with its pointy ends pointing east - west. on the south side it is bounded by the St Lawrence River, and to the ...