BanffLake Louise, Moraine, Emerald Lake & Johnston Canyonfrom $50 Six time zones, three oceans. Pick the days that earn the flight.
Whether the Moraine Lake run is worth leaving Banff before dawn. What the boat into the Horseshoe basin actually costs. Which whale trip out of Victoria still sails in October. Reviews of every tour you can book in Canada.
Niagara FallsNiagara Falls Day Tour from Torontofrom $70 Moraine Lake, the Horseshoe Falls, an orca and an aurora.
Four bookings, four corners of the country. What each one costs and how long it takes out of your week.
01The lake dayLake Louise, Moraine Lake, Banff Tour from Calgary/Canmore/BanffMoraine and Louise in one run out of Banff or Calgary. Private cars have been shut out of the Moraine road for years, so a seat on something is the only way up.
02The wet onePremium Tour, Boat & Journey Behind the FallsDown the tunnels behind the sheet of water, then out into the basin on the boat. You will be soaked and it is still the best four hours at Niagara.
03The Pacific dayVancouver Half-Day Whale Watching Adventure with Free PhotosOut of Vancouver into the Salish Sea for orcas, humpbacks and sea lions. Half a day, and the boat turns back for anything worth stopping for.
04The one after darkAurora Hunting ToursYellowknife sits under the auroral oval, which is why the forecast beats the season here. Four hours out of town, away from the streetlights.
Lake day, glacier day, canyon day. The Rockies split three ways.
Banff and Jasper are a long morning apart with the Icefields Parkway strung between them. Three kinds of day out, what a seat on each one costs, and which town it leaves from.
Vancouver to Quebec City, with the falls in the middle.
A rainforest bridge and a fish market on the Pacific, turquoise lakes an hour from Calgary, the loudest water on the continent, then two cities that argue in French. Six starting points, and the best day out in each.
The whale boats leave from Victoria, Tadoussac and the Vancouver docks.
Orcas and humpbacks on the Pacific side, belugas and fin whales where the Saguenay meets the St Lawrence. Add the harbour cruises and the falls boats and this is the biggest thing on the site after the mountains.
Everything at Niagara that is not just looking at it.
Standing at the railing is free and takes ten minutes. The rest of it is not: the boat into the basin, the tunnels cut behind the falling water, the fireworks sailing after dark, and the coaches that make the run down from Toronto.
The tours that fill up first between Banff and Niagara.
Every Canadian tour review →More travellers take these than anything else on the site, and each one earns the slot for a different reason.
1
Vancouver Half-Day Whale Watching Adventure with Free Photos
See whales, orcas, seals, sea lions, and eagles on a comfortable Vancouver catamaran cruise with naturalist guides and free wildlife photos.
From · $193
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2
Quebec City Walking Tour
from $30
3
Premium Tour, Boat & Journey Behind the Falls
from $152
4
Best of Niagara Falls Canada Premium Tour: Behind Falls and Boat
from $147
5
Guided Bus Tour
from $26
6
Guided Tour of Fairmont Le Château Frontenac
from $19
7
Guided Sightseeing River Cruise
from $47
8
Niagara Falls Day Tour from Toronto
from $70
The gap between a Skylon ticket and a day on the Icefields Parkway.
The cheap end is not the dull end here. A good share of the country reads best from a footpath or a ferry rail.
Tower tickets, old-town walks, harbour ferries and the entries you buy at the gate anyway.
- 1Quebec City Walking Tourfrom $30
- 2Guided Bus Tourfrom $26
- 3Guided Tour of Fairmont Le Château Frontenacfrom $19
The standard full day: the lakes out of Banff, Niagara from Toronto, a whale boat, a food walk.
Floatplanes, helicopters over the falls, private guiding and the twelve-hour Icefields runs.
Yellowknife in February, Johnston Canyon in ice cleats.
Half the year this country runs on a different timetable. The canyon catwalks become an icewalk, the aurora forecast turns into the itinerary, and the Rockies swap coaches for snowmobiles. What is still running when the lakes go hard.
By place, Whitehorse to Charlottetown
By kind of day: water, mountain, table or ice
West coast, Rockies, Great Lakes, then French Canada.
WhistlerJust reviewed, Vancouver Island to the Bay of Fundy.
Everything added since →
Ottawa Valley Haunted Tour – Night Trip From Ottawa
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Full-Day Montreal City Tour from Ottawa and optional city cruise
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Ottawa Premium Night Driving Tour with River Cruise
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Best of Ottawa Neighbourhoods & Nature Bike Tour
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Ottawa Small Group Walking Tour with Cruise and Art Gallery
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Private Singhampton Caves Hiking Tour, Collingwood/Blue Mountain
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Murder Mystery Detective Experience in Orillia ON
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