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What To Expect

Reviews

• Great time

  Angelina S,

  Jul 22, 2025

  - Viator

  5.00

  Very convenient. Driver comes to your residence to pick you up. Get a little history of Ottawa. Boat tour is great

• Wrong information in description

  Jarrett H,

  Jul 20, 2025

  - Viator

  3.00

  The tour itself was just ok. Guide was fairly knowledgeable and tried to be helpful when the tour wasn't what it said it was. Honestly it you are doing it to save time and don't want to rent a car it's good but if you have a car you Can do anything on this yourself. The thing that really upset me was that the description on viator specifically stated and I read it to the guide that the boat was described to be a tour on the ottawa River and they said not for the morning tour. The morning tour was a Rideau canal tour which was also just ok but something you can go hope on anytime yourself on Elgin st Because the tour said specifically it was a river cruise not the canal I had booked a canal tour later in the day. Luckily I was able to call and switch my canal tour for a river cruise for the same day just be aware the tour may not be as described and you can do everything yourself very easily minus the knowledge of the area.

• Tour did not make all stops

  Stephanie P,

  Jul 20, 2025

  - Viator

  2.00

  This tour could have been fantastic, but I think the tour guide (I cannot remember his name) was not the right person for the job. Very nice man and he wanted to accommodate us, but his English was not fluent enough and he did not give a lot of information on the tour. Also, we did not make all the stops that we were supposed to. I travelled with my 18 year old daughter. There was another English speaking couple in the group. It was a minivan. Pick up was at the hotel. All good. He drove to the highlights and pointed out things. Traffic was great. We made a couple of stops, but missed others. Per the itinerary, we did not stop at the Supreme Court, and we did not get the 1 hour Parliament Hill audio walking tour. Instead we stopped for a restroom break at the National Arts Centre for a long time, to wait for our boat tour. There was nothing to do at the Centre, so we walked to the war memorial to watch an event in progress just to pass time. Then he took us to the boat. The boat tour was very good. It was with a different tour guide. But here too was an issue. Our tour guide from above should have told us there was going to be a line up for the boat instead of us "passing our time" and not really doing anything, and he should have coordinated with the 4 of us and the boat operator. We didnt know there was going to be a line and therefore we were at the back of the line. Boat Tour was of the Rideau Canal. Enjoyable. Good guide. But was it supposed to be the River tour or Canal tour? It's hard to say whether I would recommend this tour. Per the description, it sounds great, and per other reviews, people have been pleased. Based on not having a complete tour, I would say no.

• You see the main parts of...

  Philip A,

  Jul 10, 2025

  - Viator

  5.00

  You see the main parts of Ottawa, Gatineau, government residences. Very informative and educational.

• Not as advertised… better off booking these yourself.

  Andree L,

  Jun 27, 2025

  - Viator

  2.00

  This tour did not deliver as per the itinerary. Denis was well informed, though struggled at time to find the appropriate English terms, so I had to help him out on a couple of instances since I was more bilingual than he was. This was an English tour. We didn’t stop at the Supreme Court building, he seemed surprised our90 min Roseau canal cruise came back in less than 2 hrs. His minivan would be a tight squeeze for 6, though a little tired, well maintained. What bugs me the most is the itinerary said we would have a walk around the parliament grounds with a self guided audio tour. No such tour exists. So we finished without the parliament grounds tour and got no refund for that hour we were supposed to have. I’d steer clear of this one.youre better off booking the cruise yourself, book the free parliament ahead of time. We were supposed to stop at the Supreme Court building and we didn’t. I requested a partial refund, Seesight hasn’t even acknowledged my message.