Le Saint Paul

Le Saint Paul

Le Saint-Paul faces the Marché du Vieux-Port on Rue Saint-Paul, inside Quebec's old city walls, in a renovated nineteenth-century building that puts Chateau Frontenac, the Parliament, the Citadel and the Museum of Civilization within a few minutes' walk. Twenty-six rooms are spread over three floors, split across four categories: doubles and queens, king-size rooms, junior suites and suites, some freshly renovated with a contemporary edge, others kept romantic and warm in feel. Every room has an en suite bathroom, hairdryer, direct-dial phone, cable TV and internet access, and the quieter ones add a small fridge, tea and coffee kit, and a safe. Downstairs there is a café, a bar, and an à la carte restaurant with highchairs for the youngest guests, plus a conference room for anyone mixing work with the trip. A concierge handles excursions, dry cleaning and ironing, and the front desk works in English, French and Spanish. There is no private parking, which suits the traveller happy to leave the car at a nearby lot and walk everywhere, less so anyone wanting to pull up at the door. What sets it apart from the boutique hotels within these old walls is its dog policy: two dogs per room, a welcome for the pet as much as the guest, and a housekeeping team trained to stay out of the room while the dog is in it. Deposit and breakfast are charged at check-in, worth checking before arrival. For a guest travelling with a dog through Old Quebec, walking distance to the port and the Citadel counts for more than square footage, and this address delivers both. Le Saint-Paul sits inside Quebec's old city walls, facing the historic port market, with the Citadel and Chateau Frontenac a short walk away. Twenty-six rooms occupy a renovated nineteenth-century building, and it is one of the few here that welcomes two dogs per room as readily as it welcomes people.