Hi,
I’m travelling to Montreal from Boston on May 24th (Thruday) and returning on May 28th (Monday).
I want to see the city, meet lot of people and party…
Any ideas and recommendations where i should go and stay. Also i’m planing to stay in the youth hostel. BTW,i’m 28yr old straightguy.
Unfortunately the youth hostel is located on the near west side, mostly English speaking and usually inundated weekends by American kids that come up to party and get drunk and get laid and make noise.However, the McGill university area, and a couple of the best Museums on Sherbrooke Street are also a short walk away.
Otherwise, you are probably going to be told to visit Old Montreal (where the movie "The Score" was filmed) and the adjoining port and it is nice but also touristy, not too much different from your Fanueil Hall and Chris Columbus waterfront park but quite a bit larger.Actually there are just a handful of truly old buildings in Old Montreal; most of it was actually the financial district in the first 2/3 of the 20th century but taken at that the 1900-1925 bank buildings’architecture (the buildings now converted to restaurants and shops and condos and artists lofts) are quite interesting.And nothing has been torn down and turned into parking lots. Although touristy as I just wrote the district is worth an afternoon and early evening’s wandering and dining.
The REAL Montreal, with the people that define its true character, much as the REAL Boston is an amalgam of Back Bay and South End and Southie and Allston and Cambridge and Somerville, etc. etc. is found in the more French speaking (though all are bi-lingual; still remember to be courteous if you do not know French and first say"Pardonnez-moi.Je suis ameri?ain/e et ma fran?ais est mauvais.") eastern side, areas called The Plateau and The Main and the Quartier Latin with the principal streets being St-Laurent and St-Denis and upper Park Avenue and to a lesser extent Ontario and East St Catherines.Plenty of places to party, to meet and see people, with a large music scene and hundreds of restaurants and shops.To a much lesser extent but still very interesting is the Atwater Market and St-Henri district on the near southwest side.Beyond those areas (and seeing more museums – Montr