Guided Tour activities in Québec
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Abraham’s Bus Tour
To get your bearings at Battlefields Park consider the 40-minute Abraham’s Bus Tour around the park. An actor in period costume points out historical sites of interest and throws in some colorful asides. It departs from the Discovery Pavilion, the main gateway to Battlefields Park, which houses a museum as well as the excellent Québec City tourist office, Centre Infotouriste.
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Dupont Tours
This tour operator has a smorgasbord of tours from a basic two-hour city tour (adult/child around C$30/around C$18) to 6½-hour tours out of town that take in Montmorency Falls and Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré (adult/child 43/23) or Île d'Orléans (adult/child around C$80/around C$60). Check the website for the full gamut. Not all tours are offered year-round and reservations are a must. There's a free pick-up service and shuttle bus. Family packages are also available.
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Les Fantômes du Vieux-Montréal
Gives 90-minute evening tours tracing historic crimes and legends, led by guides in period costume. You’ll hear talk of hangings, sorcery, torture and other light bedtime tales on this good-time evening outing. Call or stop by the office for the current schedule.
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Sherpa Plein Air
These guys operate Navette Shuttle, an excellent, fairly-priced service taking people out of the city to sites such as Parc national de la Jacques-Cartier and Cap Tourmente for hiking, bird watching and kayaking. Sherpa even rents and takes bikes, perfect if you want to get out of town and get active.
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Vélo-Tour -00
Among many other services, this all-in-one bicycle shop was offering five guided tours ranging from three-hour routes exploring the Plateau and ave Mont-Royal to six-hour jaunts taking in the Lachine Canal and Parc Jean-Drapeau. They've been suspended but you can buy a booklet of five self-guided tours for around C$5.
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Gray Line
montreal's biggest tour operator offers a passel of circuits on comfortable pseudo-trolleys. The montreal tram tour lasts three hours and takes in dozens of sights including Notre-Dame Basilica, Oratoire St-Joseph and residential districts. Longer trips include Parc des Îles and the Laurentian Mountains north of montreal.
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Guidatour
On this walking tour, the experienced bilingual guides of Guidatour paint a picture of Old Montréal’s eventful history with anecdotes and legends. Tours depart from Basilique Notre-Dame; tickets go on sale at the basilica gift shop 15 minutes before departure. Guidatour also leads three-hour (15km) bicycle tours all over town ($49).
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Héritage Montréal
This independent, nonprofit organization is charged with the preservation of Montréal’s heritage – urban, architectural and social. Its qualified guides conduct a series of architecture-based tours, focusing on a different neighborhood every week. The departure point varies and reservations are essential. The library will also open on a weekday afternoon by appointment.
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l'Éclusier
Take a cruise of the Canal de Lachine aboard this sightseeing boat with a slidable glass top. A Parks Canada interpreter brings to life the canal's industrial and commercial history and you visit an archeological site. The two-hour round trip begins at the canal dock near the pedestrian footbridge just south of Atwater Market and goes all the way to the Old Port locks. Other tours include brunch or dinner cruises.
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Impérial Autocar
Climb on board a climate-controlled coach for stops throughout Old montreal with a half-hour tour of Basilique Notre-Dame, time on Île Notre-Dame (with its casino and La Ronde amusement park) and visits to Olympic Park, Oratoire St Joseph and Parc du Mont-Royal. Another hop-on, hop-off tour aboard a double-decker bus can be spread over two days. Buses leave hourly from 11:00 to 16:00 and cost around C$31/around C$16 per adult/child. Tours run less frequently in the off-season.
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Old Québec Tours
This tour operator has a variety of tours from three-hour walking tours (adult/child $22/11) to 4½-hour tours out of town that take in the Montmorency waterfall and Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré (adult/child $49/23) or Île d’Orléans (adult/child $65/38). There are also adventure excursions, including whale-watching from June to October and dogsledding and visits to the ice hotel in the winter. You’ll be given the rendezvous point when you make your reservations.
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Ghost Tours of Québec
Local theater actors or storytellers lead you through the streets of the Old Town by lantern recounting the hangings and hauntings of Old Québec. The 90-minute tours are great fun and usually finish with a visit to the city’s most haunted building. Tours leave from the sitting area (98 Rue du Petit-Champlain near Blvd Champlain) in the Old Lower Town. Buy your tickets from the Ghost Tours of Québec office or from the guide 15 minutes before the tour.
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