Was in Montreal last month to watch the Canadian GP and Wow - Grand Prix weekend in Montreal is a blast! It's certainly not a weekend for the faint-of-heart. This is the weekend when the F1 and its entourage come to Montreal for the Grand Prix du Canada. This entourage consists (allegedly) of hundreds of thousand of F1 crew and tourists along for the party. Many of these tourists are from Europe, where most of the F1 supporters are and they flooded Crescent Street bars .The main party area is the above mentioned Crescent (and Bishop) street. Every single bar or restaurant was packed, the street was closed and there was live music going on. Looked like most of the fun started at late afternoon as the race fans arrive back in town at the end of the day on Fri-Sat-Sun. I walked around downtown and old town in the evenings, there were lot of F1 festivities all over.
Coming back to race itself, the GP takes place at Circuit-Gilles Villeneuve. This circuit is at Parc Jean-Drapeau on Île Notre-Dame island right across downtown Montreal. The island is connected by a metro line and I ended up taking it on both Sat & Sun. It was abit overwhelming when I got off the train seeing crowd of 100,000 people in a single metro station. But taking the metro is defenitely the way to go. I had a general admission ticket, so wandered around the entire park to find various viewing spots. There were tons of F1 stores and kiosks all over the park which was fun to look at inbetween the events. Took a quick walk inside the Honda World, which was just okay. The park is very nice with lots of food, heaps of people walking around and the qualifying/race itself was fun.
If you have never been to an F1 race and always wanted to go to one, then Montreal is probably the easiest and most convenient.
Coming back to race itself, the GP takes place at Circuit-Gilles Villeneuve. This circuit is at Parc Jean-Drapeau on Île Notre-Dame island right across downtown Montreal. The island is connected by a metro line and I ended up taking it on both Sat & Sun. It was abit overwhelming when I got off the train seeing crowd of 100,000 people in a single metro station. But taking the metro is defenitely the way to go. I had a general admission ticket, so wandered around the entire park to find various viewing spots. There were tons of F1 stores and kiosks all over the park which was fun to look at inbetween the events. Took a quick walk inside the Honda World, which was just okay. The park is very nice with lots of food, heaps of people walking around and the qualifying/race itself was fun.
If you have never been to an F1 race and always wanted to go to one, then Montreal is probably the easiest and most convenient.
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