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Two days in La Malbaie, from the Manoir

A plan to bend rather than follow: one version for the long days of summer, one for the short bright days of winter.

Two nights is the shortest stay we would suggest at the Manoir. One night is spent arriving; the second is the one you remember. With check-in at 4 p.m. and check-out at 11 a.m., the hotel's day runs from afternoon to morning, so plan around that rhythm rather than against it.

Summer: day one

  1. Leave Québec City by Route 138, or take the Train de Charlevoix from Chute-Montmorency if it is running — the 2026 schedule arrived in La Malbaie at 12:30.
  2. In La Malbaie or Pointe-au-Pic before check-in; or, if it is golf season, up at Le Point Cardinal for the terrace view.
  3. The Musée de Charlevoix on chemin du Havre, for the history and the folk art.
  4. Check in. If you asked for a river-view room, sit at the window before anything else.
  5. The outdoor pool, or a walk around the grounds and along the cliff.
  6. Dinner at Le Saint-Laurent, then the Grand Hall and Bar La Brise, or the Cité Mémoire walk in town.

Summer: day two

  1. A round on the golf course from 8 a.m. — or, for the whales, an early breakfast and the drive east to Baie-Sainte-Catherine.
  2. Golfers: lunch at Le Point Cardinal. Whale-watchers: three hours or so on the water.
  3. A treatment at Moment Spa (it closes at 5 p.m.), or the Parc national des Hautes-Gorges, about three quarters of an hour inland, for the cliffs.
  4. A drive along the Route des Saveurs for cheese and cider to take home, then a quiet dinner.
  5. Breakfast, a last look at the river, check-out at 11.
Painted golf fairway cut into wooded hills high above a broad river
A summer morning above the river, in our painted album. Illustration only. Illustration, not a photograph of the hotel.

Winter: day one

  1. Drive from Québec City with time to spare; snow on Route 138 slows everyone down.
  2. Lunch in town, the museum, then check-in at 4.
  3. The outdoor pool in the cold, steam rising off the water, the river turning grey and then black.
  4. Le Saint-Laurent, then a seat by the fire in the Grand Hall.

Winter: day two

  1. Mont Grand-Fonds, twenty minutes away, for downhill or cross-country; or snowshoes on the property.
  2. On the mountain or back at the hotel.
  3. Moment Spa, or skating and ice fishing if the hotel is running them.
  4. In-room dining if the day has been long; it runs until 10 p.m.

With a third day

A third day is where Charlevoix really opens up. In summer we would give it to whichever of the whales or the Hautes-Gorges you did not do on day two. In winter, the Vallée des Glaces in the Hautes-Gorges park, or a guided snowmobile outing with one of the outfitters the tourism office lists. In any season, the Observatoire de l'Astroblème answers the question you will have been asking since you arrived: why are the hills shaped like that?

Rooms for a two-night stay

For two nights, a Fairmont View room gives you the river at the lowest price. For a longer stay, or in winter, we would move up to a Deluxe View room for the sitting area. Send us the dates and we will look at both.

The request sheet

Write your dates and the room you have in mind on the lines below. A person at our desk checks what the Manoir has open for those nights, with the hotel or a booking partner, and answers by email.

Thank you — your sheet has reached our desk. We check the dates with the hotel or a booking partner and write back with what is open and the price. Nothing is booked or charged until you agree.

We are paid a booking commission only when a request sent from this sheet becomes a confirmed stay — by the hotel or by the booking partner that completes it, never by you. How we earn. This is a request, not a reservation, and we never ask for a card number.

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