What age do you have to be to be admitted into Montreal bars and night clubs?

Question

My friends and I just graduated highschool in the US and will be heading to college soon, but before we leave we plan to take trip to Montreal for a weekend together. There are 4 of us, and all 18 years old except one girl who is 17. We'd like to go to bars and night clubs where we know the drinking age is 18, but I'm wondering if my younger friend will be able to get into them if she is not of drinking age (even if she will not drink). I don't want her to hold the rest of us back from having a good time. Will she be admitted into most nightlife or are there any alternative plans?

Answer 1

First of all, the drinking age is not madly enforced in Quebec as it is in the USA.  However, it is true that where young Americans tend to go (the near west side of downtown, near the English-speaking universities) they tend to overdrink and often become rowdy, so it may be more enforced there.  Suggestion: stay in the more French-speaking areas on the east side and go to the shows and clubs and music venues there.  First of all there is more to do and the shows and music is better (the Plateau District is famous for newer bands on their ways to making it), as well as most of the drinking (all of the brew-pubs of Montréal save one are located there)..  Second, almost everyone is bilingual.  Third, you will experience more of the culture.

Be aware that Montréal is more of a wine drinking culture, even in clubs.

Answer 2

The legal drinking age is 18 and most clubs will let people of that age inside.

Some clubs have a 21 or over policy so watch out for that.  It's rare.

Your 17 year old friend might not get in.  It's 50/50.

Answer 3

You have to be 18, but she will probably get in anyway unless they check ID.

Answer 4

in case you wanted to know, under 18 people can get into club 7 and 1234 (provided they have some sort of id on them)

all other ones you have to be 18, and rarely 21.