Walking Tour of Old Montreal

Montreal, Canada

Discover the fascinating city of Montreal on a walking tour through a city bursting with amazing art, intriguing history and spectacular architecture. Your walk will take you past Notre-Dame Basilica, Place Jacques-Cartier, City Hall and much more.

Your guide on the walking tour will tell you about the history and architecture of Montreal through anecdotes revealing the city's secrets! Highlights on the tour include:

• Place d'Armes to Place Jacques-Cartier
• Royal Bank
• Notre-Dame Basilica
• Cours Le Royer
• St. Jacques
• Notre-Dame and St. Paul Streets
• City Hall
• Champ de Mars
• Bonsecours Market

This tour is seasonal and operates from May through to October.

USD $19.16

Review by: Colleen H	October 2011
The guide was good and knew her stuff. Our enjoyment was marred by one participant who tried to turn the walk into a personal conversation with the guide, limiting the opportunity for questions from the group.

Review by: Jennifer R	October 2011
Great Tour!

Review by: Lonnie S	October 2011
The walking tour was very informative and was presented in a clear manner. The guide was excellent. I would recommend it.

Review by: JOHN M	October 2011
Here it is: The tour was good however, the customer service individual the tour was booked with made a big mistake which we were not happy about at all._br/_ We booked the tour at 9;45 the same day and were told to come to the starting place of the tour by 10;15, a full 45 minutes BEFORE the starting time. It was a windy and cold day and we did not appreciate it because we had to take the car and pay for parking unnecessarily..

Review by: Arthur K	October 2011
The walking tour was great and it was well worth the 2 hours, gave you some great incite into old Montreal. Entrance is included into the basilica. Gave some great locations to visit after the tour was over.

Review by: MARVIN S	October 2011
This tour is an absolute must do. The guide, Angie, was great! You will learn more about the history and architecture of Montreal by taking this tour than any other means. Take the tour early in your stay and use it as a reference for the rest of your stay in Old Montreal.

Review by: Lynn W	September 2011
Very nice tour. Our tour guide was so knowledgeable and informative. We thoroughly enjoyed this tour and learned so much along the way.

Review by: Dennis G	September 2011
Nicole was wonderful! Knowledgable and very personable. We really enjoyed our time with her.

Review by: Craig F	September 2011
Great tour. The host was very friendly and informative.

Review by: Jeffrey B	September 2011
The guide was knowledgable and entertaining. I loved learning about the history of Montreal and the significant historical figures. We got more than our money's worth as the tour lasted close to 2 hrs. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Review by: Andrew S	August 2011
Montreal was very nice. Clean, nice people and no fear of dangers anywhere we went. Our guide was helpful and informative. It rained some on day of tour but it was still great! Highly recommend the walking tours.

Review by: Christine G	August 2011
In general, we liked it. There was a heat wave, so going with my three kids (ages 15/12/12) became a bit long, but we all were glad we went. One comment, although our tour host was good about walking pace, etc., he almost LOST US! We were coming out of the Notre Dame Basilica and I guess we were the last; I was looking around and thinking we had lost the group, when a man from the group waved. The tour guide, however, was already half-way down the street. Maybe a better way would be to stop outside the church where we first met for the tour and do a head count? By the way, his joke about why the man is actually collapsed in a woman's arms outside a hospital has been repeated and laughed at a dozen more times since we arrived home.

Review by: Richard W	August 2011
Our tour guide was not only knowledgable, but he had a good sense of humor. He also spoke perfect English.

Review by: Jordan W	August 2011
Frankly, I was somewhat disappointed in the walking tour. Our guide did not seem to have that much detailed knowledge of the sites we were seeing. Just because she was born and raised in QC, did not give her such great background. She talked mostly about the general wars and history -- but in terms of describing the buildings, and monuments -- not so great. My tour book had more interesting details of what we saw. She also surprisingly did not understand that civil and criminal law in Quebec is different than in the other provinces. I thought the young tour guide of the residence at the Citadelle did a much better job in her tour. Rather disappointing I am sad to say.

Review by: David P	August 2011
Easy to understand and well paced.

Review by: Jeff S	August 2011
An excellent tour. Guide was well versed in history and interesting facts about old Montreal. Would highly recomment this tour.

Review by: Babajide O	August 2011
Very excellent, engaging and educating. The tour Guide was pleasant, an excellent advocate for Montreal, who alomost convince my family to move to montreal. Thanks

Review by: Kenfai L	August 2011
Our guide was excellent and his knowledge made our trip that much better. I would recommend this to anyone visiting Montreal as a great way to learn about Notre Dame and Old Montreal's history and architecture.

Review by: Helene O	July 2011
Excellent guide and very interesting tour.

Review by: Jeffrey A	July 2011
Great tour guide, very informative and funny too. Showed us all the great sites of Old Montreal. We knew where to go to eat afterward and where to walk around and what we wanted to see again.

Review by: Mark B	July 2011
Perfect beginning to our vacation in Old Montreal.Guide left exactly on time, was personable and knowledgeable. We saw sites we would have never explored on our own. I noticed people paying that morning (with no reservations) paying slightly less than we did. Hmm. Still worth the $20 pp.

Review by: Tara R	July 2011
Love this town!

Review by: Jackie M	July 2011
Terrific

Review by: Michael A	July 2011
This tour was a worthwhile first orientation to Vieux Montreal. Our guide was entertaining and knowledgeable though the tour was geared to a not sophisticated tourist. Could have done with more detailed historical and architectural focus; fewer humorous anecdotes.

Review by: Kathleen S	July 2011
A fun walking tour to see the historical churches, banks and cobblestone streets of Old Montreal. Well organized, even on a busy holiday weekend. A nice tour guide who was very well informed.

Review by: Bruce T	July 2011
Guide was well informed and interesting

Review by: John S	July 2011
Ours was the English speaking tour. We had a large group of 26 which was not optimum. But our guide was excellent. Very knowledgeable and entertaining. I would highly recommend taking this tour if you a a first-time visitor to Montreal.

Review by: Evie D	June 2011
PROFESSIONAL AND WELL DONE. STARTED AND ENDED ON TIME. A+

Review by: Yuliya B	June 2011
Beautiful day, great tour through Old Montreal...thank you!

Review by: Terrance C	June 2011
Very enthusiastic and knowledgeable tour with a lot of personal anecdotes as well as historical pride in Montreal's history

Review by: Sharon K	October 2010
Great tour....guide walked to fast and did not have a guide speaking voice...she was too quiet for the crowd....loved Old Montreal area

Review by: Carl M	October 2010
Really friendly tour guide and good tour. Loved inside Notre Dam. Would tour with this company again.

Review by: Jennifer G	October 2010
Great guide, easy pace, very informative and interesting

Review by: HELOISA S F	October 2010
This tour was so good, the guide was a woman from Russia with a soft English and lots of information about Old Montreal. The weather was not good but the tour was perfect considering the visited places and the received information

Review by: Caroline B	October 2010
This tour was wonderful. Our guide was friendly, interesting, and knowledgeable. He really had a passion for the city and this was an excellent overview to all things Montreal.

Review by: Jennifer U	September 2010
The tour and tour guide were excellent. However, booking online meant we were charged double the price compared to those who bought their tickets on the street. We won't be booking similar tickets through an agent in the future.

Review by: Richard M	September 2010
Great way to tour old Montreal. Our tour guide was very pleasant, knowledgeable, effusive, and happy to answer any questions. Tour is two hours, which is probably not enough to go into great depth but definitely enough to whet your appetite and provide you with good ideas for further exploration. Really recommend that you do this as early as possible in your stay so that you can use what you learn to plan the rest of your vacation. Good value for the money and much better than the bus tours which fly by most sites (that said, this tour is focused on Old Montreal, so you may want to supplement with some other activities to get a feel for the rest of the city).

Review by: Wendy Y	September 2010
Lovely tour that covers a nice bit of ground in Old Montreal. Great way to spend the morning. Really liked our tour guide.

Review by: Anonymous	September 2010
It was good. The tour guide was nice.

Review by: Mary O	August 2010
Our guide was exceptional. She was very knowledgeable about the city sights and had recommendations for restaurants and exhibits. We really enjoyed the tour.

Review by: Mary D	August 2010
Our guide for this tour was energetic and entertaining, but we never made it to Bonsecours Market, which was one of the places we were most looking forward the guide ended the tour 2 blocks away and said "we could walk over on our own." Also, there was more emphasis on architectural details and less emphasis on history we would have preferred the reverse.

Review by: Leanne O	August 2010
Knowledgeable guide and very good tour. Only wish it had been longer!

Review by: Dan T	August 2010
Our tour guide, Anne, mixed a wealth of history and information with a few well placed jokes and anecdotes for a wonderful tour. Her enthusiasm for Montreal and for answering questions made the tour highly enjoyable and made it easy to approach her with questions. Our children enjoyed the tour as well, as she engaged them and tailored some of her commmentary to include items of interest to them.

Review by: Anonymous	August 2010
This was an excellent way to learn about Old Town Montreal and its history. I also took a grayline tour and this walking tour was head and shoulders better than that company's tour. I would not recommend Grayline but strongly recommend this Viator Walking Tour.

Review by: Laura G	August 2010
We got to see several different parts of Old Montreal and because it was Sunday, did not have to compete with traffic or construction noise. The guide was pleasant and knowledgeable. She was happy to give advice about restaurants, etc. in the area also. I took this same walking tour the following day with a different guide, and got a different point of view and different information, and there was some differences in locations we visited due to it being a work day. We also got to visit inside the Basilica briefly since there were no masses or weddings on a Monday.

Review by: Frank M, United States of America	June 2010
This was an excellent walking tour- very knowledgeable and engaging tour guide- who made the trip interesting. He spoke perfect english w a nice french accent beautiful buildings and it was a nice comfortable day. The walking tour was well worth the money

Review by: James H, United States of America	June 2010
On our first day in Montreal, we took the walking tour in a driving rain. By the end of the tour, our feet were soaking wet, and my fingers were so cold that I couldn't feel them. But we'd do it again in a minute. George, our tour guide, was excellent. And the walking tour gave us just enough information to go out and explore Old Montreal on our own for the next few days. I highly recommend this tour. Incidentally, the coupons on our tour tickets saved us 15.00 at the Pointe-a-Callieres museum. George pointed it out to us.

Review by: Anonymous, United States of America	May 2010
Our tour guide was excellent, the length of the tour was perfect and I enjoyed it a lot.

Review by: Kathryn L, United States of America	October 2009
We went on walking tour of Old Montreal our first morning in Montreal. It gave us a great overview of this historic area plus some information about Montreal in general. Our guide was highly personable, informative, and engaging. The tour was great!

Review by: Marilyn F, Canada	October 2009
This tour is a great way to stretch your legs & get a history lesson at the same time. I would have liked to have had a bit more information on the Iroquois.