Funiculaire du Vieux-Québec

Cool experience if you’re visiting and if your legs are tired from all the walking. It’s only $ 2.25 a person one way but the view is pretty good and it’s worth the experience. Yeah, it’s not a long walk from upper to lower town or vice versa but you can save your legs at least. However, if you are going to be taking the funiculaire, I would suggest taking it up as you wouldn’t want to be walking against gravity. At least when you’re walking down, you’re walking with gravity. When wanting to use the funiculaire, it can be hard to find the entrance when you’re going up because it’s inside the store and I was not able to find any signs leading to the funiculaire. We just had to look where the funiculaire lead to.

Great fun. Bring your camera for views of the lower city and the St Lawrence River. We walked down the steps but for 2.25 per person for the ride up it is well worth it.

All I have to say is that it’s all so much fun. I went here in the beginning of February and I had so much fun I completely forgot it was cold !

Quebec City in Canada offers a Funicular ride that can take you from Lower town to Upper town and vice versa in less than 5 minutes.
The cost is the following:
$ 2.25 Canadian per person per one way
$ 2.50 American per person per one way.
Personally, I prefer using the stairs to make my way between places. We just had to try the ride once, so we did. We started the ride from Lower town on Petit Champlain. At Upper town, the funiculaire ended close to the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac.
View is fine from the funiculaire. As others have mentioned, this is a nice option to have available for folks.

$ 2.25 per person, per ride.
You get a great view of the st Lawrence river and the Levis area from the funiculaire, however you can get the same view from the boardwalk at the château Frontenac or from a spot closer to the water in lower town.
It’s a good option if you don’t feel like walking up or down the hill from upper to lower town.

Let’s just call it either the $ 2.25 tax to get a good shot of the St. Lawrence River, or the $ 2.25 lazy tax to go up the Funiculaire and not use the hill to the north to walk up to the Upper Town.
Not that I have anything against it though. If it’s your first time in Quebec City, by all means do ride it at least once, because it’s just the tourist thing to do, and you get great uninterrupted photos of the river and lower town. I suggest though you ride it up, but walk back down because paying $ 2.25 twice simply isn’t worth it. Again, the walk is not long, you’ll probably be back to lower town around the same time as the Funiculaire, give or take a minute.
Overall, good connection between lower and upper town, but not something you have to ride unless you’re lazy, want the views, or it’s winter and you just want somewhere to relax for 2 minutes.

Agree with the review from Dallas. It’s not that far of a walk! Seriously, I think I can race by foot and still get there almost at the same time. Perhaps, in the winter, it’s a different story. Still a good view.

Le funiculaire peut en effet être très utile lorsque l’on est un peu épuisé de marcher à travers toutes les petites rues de la ville et que l’idée de grimper des dizaines de marches d’escalier nous donne mal au coeur. Ce service relativement peu dispendieux offre inévitablement une très belle vue sur le Petit Champlain ainsi que sur le fleuve. C’est à faire une fois dans sa vie si on habite la ville, ou bien comme touriste.
De mon côté, je préfère toujours tester la force de mes mollets et prendre l’escalier!

Le Funiculaire du Vieux Québec est certainement un genre de mode de transport qu’on n’utilise pas souvent. C’est plutôt une attraction pour les touristes ou une manière efficace de transporter les vieux et les lâches de la Basse-​Ville jusqu’à la Haute-​Ville. Effectivement, à plusieurs reprises dans ma vie, je me suis trouvée dans le groupe de «lâches «qui né veulent pas escalader les interminables marches. Le Funiculaire du Vieux Québec est alors une bonne option, et vous laissera même avec des beaux souvenirs d’une vue formidable sur le Fleuve Saint-​Laurent. À vous de le découvrir a moins que vous êtes maniaque de l’exercice!

Après une journée complète à gambader dans le Vieux, on peut être tanné des marches. On se promèné dans le Petit Champlain, on aperçoit cette infrastructure et on se demande bien vite de quoi il s’agit. Il est en fait question d’une alternative bien sympathique aux cinquante marches et à la côte de la montagne pour remonter sur la terrasse Dufresne.
Pour 2,50, vous emprunter cet «ascenseur» qui vous permet d’avoir une vue ascendante sur le fleuve et le quartier du petit Champlain.
Je dirai que c’est à faire si vous né l’avez jamais fait et que vous visiter Québec, mais nul doute que les habitants du coin n’y verront qu’un moyen d’éviter les marches plutôt qu’une attraction intéressante; bon nombre d’entre eux préféreront sans doute s’armer de courage et prendre l’escalier.

I learned a new word today!
A Funicilaire is sort of the hybrid love child of an elevator and a railroad. It’s about the size of an elevator car, it sits on a set of rails, and climbs up the super steep hill between lower Quebec City and the plaza behind the Château Frontenac. It’s a great way to avoid walking up the hill, especially after a long day of tourism (be prepared to walk a lot of hills when you visit QC).
The station has a gift shop at both stops. It costs $ 2.25 each way. The guy who manned the station on the lower Quebec side was a little grumpy.

Au moins une fois dans sa vie il faut essayer le Funiculaire reliant le quartier Petit Champlain et la terrasse Dufferin. J’adore la vue imprenable qu’il nous offre sur le fleuve et toute la partie de la ville située entre le fleuve et le cap Diamant. Ouvert à l’année il en coûte 2,25 $/​personne pour l’utiliser. J’ai encore dans la tête le souvenir de mon enfance où pour la première fois j’ai, avec mes parents, utilisé le Funiculaire.

Le funiculaire est une cabine sur rail inclinée à 45 degrés qui permet de passer directement de la Haute-​Ville à la Basse-​Ville et vice-​versa. Certains trouveront effectivement les balades dans le Vieux-​Québec éprouvantes physiquement, et pour raison. Ce service est donc le bienvenu, d’autant plus que la traversée vers le bas offre un splendide panorama.
La boutique souvenir est quant à elle, comme bien d’autres, sans intérêt.
Pour ma part, jeune et en santé, je préfère la marche, c’est bon pour le cardio.

A bit pricey for such a short ride, but after trudging around Vieux Québec in slushy snow all day, it was completely worth it. The views on the way up are fantastic.

Kind of cool that it is there, but it is fairly unnecessary because it is a pretty short distance and not that difficult a walk. It is steep but short. If you are going to use it, I recommend riding it up because the walk down, while steep is not difficult. it is a couple dollars and goes from the old lower town up to basically the entrance to the Hotel Frontenac. It is a nice option for children or older folks.

Old Quebec City is rife with hills and stairs. It adds to the charm but the fatigue also adds up if you’re spending a few days walking.
I walked up Cote de la Montagne one day and it was brutal. The Funiculaire is a unique way to avoid the wear and tear associated with such trips. Even going down the hills ends up hurting eventually.
At $ 2 it’s a bargain.

According to certain guidebooks, you can either walk straight uphill towards the Château Frontenac (or the rest of Vieux Quebec) from the Gare du Palais or you can take a cab –this last option came highly recommended.
We opted for something different. We walked down Rue Saint Paul, to Rue Sault au Matelot, down Rue Notre Dame, Rue Sous le Fort, until we reached Rue Du Petit-​Champlain. We walked by cute shops, tempting restaurants, and more than a handful of landmarks along the way. This practically level and incredibly scenic route led us to the beloved Funiculaire.
Though we did have to climb either two or three stairs to enter the giftshop, it was a short, but warm and beautiful ride up towards the Frontenac. I pitied the folks who arrived to this gorgeous destination via cab. Best 2 $ ever spent.

It looked a bit cheesy but hey — it was very windy and a bit cold so we gave this a try. It was fun — a cable-​like car going down a very steep angle with a very nice view of the St. Lawrence River. It was only CDN$ 2 one way down to Petite Champlain from the Château Frontenac.