Christmas markets in Quebec City, and three very different ways to stay.
Four nights in Old Quebec. The closest thing to a European Christmas market you can reach without crossing an ocean.
Show me the optionsI've been to Quebec in December. It's cold, it's snowy, and the walking gets very slippery. It's also beautiful and worth every layer.
The German Christmas Market takes over the whole lower town. More than a hundred wooden kiosks across five lit-up sites, choirs and alphorns in the streets, and a real food city underneath the German overlay.
This guide is built differently from my others. It's four nights in one city, so instead of a day-by-day I'm showing you the part clients usually want to see, which is how I decide where to put you.
Four nights, which lands you three market days if you time the arrival right.
The market runs Thursday through Sunday, mid-November into late December. Confirm the current dates before you book flights.
On foot. Old Quebec is built on a cliff, so the upper and lower town connect by stairs and a funicular.
The one in every photograph of the city, on the cliff above the St Lawrence. Pick it if the hotel is part of the point.
A small design hotel eight minutes from the market. The value pick, and not a compromise.
Built on top of a seventeenth-century archaeological site, with artifacts from the ground it stands on in every room.
“If this is a milestone, the castle. If it's a first look at Quebec in winter, the quiet street. If you want the building itself to have a story, the third one. That's the conversation I'd have with you, and it takes about ten minutes.â€
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The full guide has the parts this page leaves out. The full notes on all three properties and how I'd actually choose between them. How to time your arrival so you don't land on a Monday when the whole market is dark. The second, smaller market forty-five minutes outside the city. The boots thing, which is the single most common mistake people make here. And where I'd send you to eat after a cold afternoon, because the market is not the best eating you'll do.
I'll also let you know when I add a new journey. You can leave anytime.
All three properties above are ones I can book with advisor benefits attached. And the part that isn't on a rate sheet: I'll tell you which one is right for you, which is a different service than showing you all three. The version I'd build starts with a conversation about who's going and what's actually going on in your life, and it probably looks different from this by the end of it. The properties I book carry advisor benefits: room upgrades where there's inventory, breakfast, early check-in and late check-out, and property credits at several of them. Contracted benefits, not promotions, and not available booking direct.
For a journey like this one there's no planning fee. Hotels and suppliers pay me. If a build gets complex enough that a fee applies, I'll tell you before we start.
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