Québec City Cruise Port Rental Car Guide (Terminals 84 and 30)

Terminal 84 (the Ross-Gaudreault terminal at Pointe-à-Carcy, wharves 21 and 22): 84 Dalhousie St., Québec City, QC G1R 4M8, per the Port. On the Port’s schedule PDF, Holland America and Cunard turn around there.

Terminal 30 (the Estuary, wharf 30): 300 De L’Estuaire St., G1K 8M8, per the Port. The Port runs a shuttle for passengers and crew at Wharf 30; vehicle access there is restricted during the cruise season, which matters the moment a rental is involved.

The Port also lists a wharf at Lévis (Wharf 81, 6075 Saint-Laurent St.), across the river. None of the remaining 2026 turnarounds on the Port’s PDF is listed there — treat it as a name to recognize, not a plan to make.

Which wharf your ship gets is less settled than you’d hope. On the Port’s 2026 schedule PDF, Holland America’s Zuiderdam and Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 turn around at wharf 22 (Terminal 84) and Explora III at wharf 30; Princess and Norwegian appear at both, and the Port’s web schedule and PDF disagree on several days — check your own sailing.

Princess says its Québec cruises leave from the Ross Gaudreault terminal, yet the Port’s schedule puts Sapphire Princess at wharf 30 on Oct 22–23. Two official sources, two answers — go by your line’s final documents, not the Port’s web page alone.

The Port’s customer-service page lists Hertz, Avis, Budget, Enterprise and National/Alamo by phone; none has a desk at either terminal.

Hertz on Côte du Palais is the only counter we found in Old Québec, and it’s also the one we could confirm least. Hertz’s own pages give the address and no hours; the 8-to-5 weekdays and 8-to-3 weekends come from Kayak.

Call before you build a morning around those hours — a third-party listing is a lead, not a timetable.

The two Parliament Hill desks split the week between them. Enterprise at the Delta works weekdays only, while Avis and Budget in the Hilton lobby add Saturday and Sunday mornings until noon.

Farther out, the rules on returns start to differ. Avis on Wilfrid-Hamel says its cars must come back during office hours, and Enterprise at Université Laval says it takes no after-hours returns at all — a key box, not a guarantee, decides how late you can drop.

National and Alamo have no in-town desk; National lists only YQB. Sixt’s Québec City page returned an error, so we couldn’t confirm a Sixt desk. Enterprise also has branches in Beauport, Ancienne-Lorette, Pierre-Bertrand and Lévis, farther out. Kayak lists a second Hertz address at 735 Rue des Rocailles, weekdays only.

Try a Saturday at 11:30. The Delta, Hamel, Sillery and Laval desks never opened, while Limoilou, Frank-Carrel and the Hilton lobby all shut at noon; Hertz on Côte du Palais runs to 3, if Kayak has it right.

Slide the clock to 3:30 on any weekend afternoon and only the airport is left on our list.

That’s the shape of the whole city: office hours, not cruise hours. If your plan hinges on a weekend pick-up, the after-cruise page works through the Sunday case desk by desk.

The Port’s Louise Basin lot (155 rue Abraham-Martin) sells cruise parking in the Flowbird app only: C$84 for 7 days, C$165 for 30; a 15-minute walk to Terminal 84 and 12 to Terminal 30. The Port doesn’t say whether tax is included.

Pay-station rates at the Port’s lots: Pointe-à-Carcy (84 rue Dalhousie) C$3 a half hour or C$18 for a weekday 24 hours; Louise Basin C$18 weekdays, C$12 evenings and weekends; RVs C$75 for 24 hours. No cash, per the Port’s parking page.

Keep a rental through a 7-night cruise instead and the car alone is about C$402 at an assumed C$50 a day with both taxes, our arithmetic — before the C$84 to park it.

Hand it back before you board — the cheaper plan on every number we have.

The Québec sailings we checked finish in Boston, New York, Philadelphia or Fort Lauderdale, so a car left here waits for a flight back, not a drive home — the drive-in page takes that problem apart.

Parking your own car for the week has its own page, our Québec City parking guide.

We found no toll on the routes we price; Québec’s toll roads, the A-25 and A-30, are around Montréal. We didn’t price US-side tolls on the drives from Boston or New York.

So there’s no transponder to rent here and no plate-billing line to watch for on the drives we price, from the airport to Charlevoix.

If a counter offers a toll package anyway, ask which road it would ever charge for.

A drive up from the US is a different story on its American side, and we haven’t priced those tolls — the drive-in page says what we did and didn’t check.

Revenu Québec says GST and QST apply to renting a road vehicle: 5% GST plus 9.975% QST, 14.975% together, our arithmetic. Both land on the rental and on the fees stacked on it, not on the base rate alone.

On an assumed C$50 day that’s C$2.50 of GST and about C$4.99 of QST, our arithmetic. Over a week the two come to roughly C$52 — real money on a car you might drive twice.

We couldn’t confirm a per-day Québec rental duty: Revenu Québec’s rental pages mention none, and the only specific duty we found is a C$3-a-tire charge on long-term leases of 12 months or more. If your quote shows a daily provincial charge, add it as a company fee.

The calculators here leave it out — type it in only if your own quote shows one.

The airport side has its own unknown — the YQB page explains why its fee starts at zero.

Price the hours first — a cheaper car at a desk that closed at noon only buys you a cab to the airport.

Then compare totals with both taxes in, never the headline rate.