Hourly chauffeur service in Quebec City: YQB, Old Quebec, the Château Frontenac, the National Assembly and the Charlevoix on the Toronto standard

Quebec City, on the Toronto account

Quebec City is the province's capital and the continent's only walled city north of Mexico, and the desk's Toronto accounts book it for two kinds of day: the government-relations day at the National Assembly on the Grande Allée and the provincial departments around it, and the visitor's day - or week - in Old Quebec's stone streets, at the Château Frontenac, on the Plains of Abraham, and out along the river to Montmorency Falls, Île d'Orléans and the Charlevoix. A client who keeps a chauffeur by the hour in Toronto lands at YQB and finds the same thing waiting through the LimousineWorldwide.Directory network's vetted, bilingual Quebec City operator: the same three-hour minimum, the same flat rate, the same meet, one invoice. The Montreal page is three hours south-west on the 20 or the 40; the Canada hub explains the network; the pillar page the hourly product.

YQB, and the meet

Québec City Jean Lesage International in Sainte-Foy is sixteen kilometres and twenty minutes from Old Quebec by the 540 and the 40 or Boulevard Laurier, thirty in the peak, and the local chauffeur meets a Toronto arrival - the direct Air Canada and Porter flights from Pearson and Billy Bishop, ninety minutes - at the arrivals hall with the plate and the name, thirty minutes' waiting on a domestic flight and forty-five on an international one included, as the Pearson page describes; YQB's pre-arranged ground-transport curb is the car's place. The Via train from Montreal into the Gare du Palais in the Lower Town is met the same way, and the Billy Bishop page covers the Toronto end of the Porter flight.

The National Assembly, and the government-relations day

The National Assembly's Parliament Building on the Grande Allée just outside the walls - its visitor entrance, the ministers' offices in the surrounding buildings on the Grande Allée and René-Lévesque, the Premier's office, the press gallery - and the provincial departments in the Complexe G and the Sainte-Foy office towers, the regulators and the associations on Saint-Jean and Saint-Louis, the crown corporations' head offices, Hydro-Québec's and the Caisse's Quebec City offices, and the technology companies of the Saint-Roch district and the Parc technologique: a Toronto client's government-relations day is the as-directed block of six to nine hours with the chauffeur waiting on the Grande Allée or Saint-Louis between meetings - inside the walls the streets are for pedestrians and the chauffeur drops at the Porte Saint-Louis - and the roadshow page plans a day that adds Sainte-Foy, Université Laval and the Parc technologique with the Pont Pierre-Laporte's timing built in. The Assembly's sitting calendar is the desk's planning tool and the bilingual chauffeur the point.

The Château Frontenac, Old Quebec and the hotels

The Fairmont Le Château Frontenac on the Dufferin Terrace above the river, with its car entrance on Rue des Carrières; the Auberge Saint-Antoine in the Lower Town's Place-Royale, the Hôtel Le Germain and the Monsieur Jean and the Hôtel 71 in the Old Port, the Clarendon and the Manoir Victoria inside the walls, the Hôtel Le Concorde on the Grande Allée; the restaurants of Rue Saint-Jean, the Grande Allée's terraces, Saint-Roch's Rue Saint-Joseph and the Petit-Champlain's: the Toronto account's executive stays in one of them, the visitor stays at the Château, and the local chauffeur knows each drive as the Toronto chauffeur knows the Ritz-Carlton's, along with Old Quebec's one-way stone lanes and where a car may and may not go.

A visitor's Quebec, by the hour

The Dufferin Terrace and the Château, the Petit-Champlain's and Place-Royale's stone streets in the Lower Town, the funicular, the Citadelle's changing of the guard in summer, the Plains of Abraham and the Musée national des beaux-arts on them, the Musée de la civilisation in the Old Port, the Rue Saint-Jean's shops and the Porte Saint-Jean, the Île d'Orléans' farms and its bridge twenty minutes east, Montmorency Falls' eighty-three metres beside it, the Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré basilica, the Aquarium and the Pont de Québec, the Observatoire de la Capitale's view, and the Old Port's market: an eight-hour tourist day in the SUV with the local chauffeur's order - the Plains and the Citadelle at 9, the Château and the Terrace at 10:30, the Lower Town at 11:30, lunch in the Petit-Champlain, Montmorency and the Île d'Orléans at 2, dinner on Saint-Jean - and the car waiting at each gate; Québec Cité has the seasons.

The Carnaval, the Festival d'été and the winter

The Carnaval de Québec's ten days in February - Bonhomme's ice palace, the night parades, the canoe race across the river's ice, the snow sculptures on the Plains - and the Hôtel de Glace's ice hotel at Valcartier the same season; the Festival d'été's eleven days in July on the Plains with its headliners, the Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France in August, the Grands Feux Loto-Québec's fireworks over the river, the Red Bull Crashed Ice's past editions on the Côte de la Montagne, the German Christmas market in December: a Toronto client's Carnaval or Festival week is a multi-day booking with the same local chauffeur, who knows which streets are closed on which night and where the Plains' drop moves to; the winter's snow - three hundred centimetres in a normal year - is the local chauffeur's daily life, every vehicle meets Quebec's winter-tyre law from November, and Québec 511 is the dispatcher's screen.

Université Laval, the CHU and the Videotron Centre

Université Laval's campus in Sainte-Foy - the residences, the PEPS sports complex, the convocations - and the CHU de Québec's five hospitals, the Institut universitaire de cardiologie, and the Hôtel-Dieu inside the walls: a Toronto family's move-in or convocation is the campus routine with the local operator's SUV and Sprinter, and a patient's referral or a family's visits are the medical chauffeur page's product with the local chauffeur waiting at the hospital's entrance. The Videotron Centre on ExpoCité - the Remparts, the concerts that play the arena circuit, the NHL games the city hopes for - and the Grand Théâtre's opera and symphony are the evening booking of four to five hours with the car positioned on Boulevard Wilfrid-Hamel before the encore.

The Charlevoix, Mont-Sainte-Anne and the Massif

East along the river on the 138: Mont-Sainte-Anne's ski hill and its summer gondola forty minutes from the city, the Massif de Charlevoix's slopes falling to the river at Petite-Rivière-Saint-François an hour and a quarter, Baie-Saint-Paul's galleries and the Charlevoix's Flavour Trail, the Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu and its casino at La Malbaie two hours, the whale-watching at Tadoussac three hours and the ferry across the Saguenay; south-west, the Beauce; across the river, the Île d'Orléans and Lévis: a Toronto family's Charlevoix week is a one-way flat fare each way from YQB in the SUV, or a multi-day booking with the chauffeur staying, the Muskoka page's cottage-run rules apply to the 138's winter, and the Manoir Richelieu's Christmas week books in September.

Where the car waits, in a table

A Quebec City day, timed (book 9)

8:30 YQB, the sedan, a Toronto association's president off the 7:00 Porter from Billy Bishop; the meet at arrivals. 8:55 Boulevard Laurier; the Château Frontenac by 9:10 for the bags. 9:30 a minister's office on the Grande Allée; the car on the Grande Allée. 11:00 a department in the Complexe G. 12:30 lunch at the Château's Champlain restaurant. 2:00 a crown corporation in Sainte-Foy up Laurier. 3:30 a technology company on Rue Saint-Joseph in Saint-Roch. 5:00 the Château. 7:00 dinner in the Petit-Champlain; the chauffeur drops at the Porte Saint-Louis and collects at the funicular's foot. 9:30 the hotel. Nine hours on the Toronto account's invoice, in two languages, and the walls respected.

The car

The network operator's fleet in the same classes: the Executive Sedan for the government-relations day and the YQB run; the Mercedes S-Class for the executive and the Château's guest; the Luxury SUV for the family, the Charlevoix road, Mont-Sainte-Anne with the gear and the three-hundred-centimetre winter; the Executive Sprinter for the delegation, the Carnaval family and the Festival group. Every vehicle meets Quebec's winter-tyre law from November. The fleet page has the Toronto classes and the desk confirms the Quebec City vehicle on the booking.

What it costs

The Quebec City operator's class hourly rate times the hours, from three (five for a Sprinter), quoted by the Toronto desk at booking and billed with the Toronto bookings on the account's monthly invoice, plus Quebec's GST and QST and the gratuity you set; no surge, no meter, no tolls. The rates page explains the Toronto number and the corporate accounts page the one-invoice arrangement; a Montreal, Charlevoix or Mont-Sainte-Anne one-way is a flat fare the desk quotes.

Booking Quebec City

A call or an email to the Toronto desk with the flight, the hotel and the days - the travel desk handles the Toronto-Montreal-Quebec trip - or the booker with Quebec City as the pick-up city; the desk confirms the local operator, the vehicle and the chauffeur's name the day before, and the plate text arrives at the meet in the language you booked in. A government-relations day two days ahead; the Carnaval and the Festival d'été weeks ahead; the Manoir Richelieu's Christmas in September.

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