Niagara Falls, Toronto, Ottawa and Montréal

Arrive in Toronto

Toronto Pearson to your downtown hotel

• Stay in Toronto

Evening

Walk down to the waterfront, find somewhere for dinner in one of the city's many neighbourhoods, or simply rest after the flight. Kensington Market and the Distillery District are two neighbourhoods worth a look if you have energy left. Nothing is scheduled tonight. Breakfast is included at the hotel each morning from tomorrow, and the guided touring starts the next day.

Included

• Pick-up at Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)

Toronto

Small-group day tour of the city

• Breakfast
• Stay in Toronto

Morning

After breakfast at the hotel, a small-group day tour of Toronto. Ride the glass-fronted elevators up the CN Tower, the tallest freestanding structure in the Western Hemisphere, and look out over the city and Lake Ontario. A harbour cruise shows the skyline from the water, with the Toronto Islands just offshore. Casa Loma is a Gothic Revival castle built in the 1910s for the financier Sir Henry Pellatt, with towers, estate gardens and an underground tunnel to its stables. At St. Lawrence Market, named the world's best food market by National Geographic in 2012, there is time to try something local, such as a peameal bacon sandwich. A narrated drive links the stops and fills in the history of Canada's largest city.

Included

• CN Tower
• Toronto harbour cruise
• Casa Loma
• St. Lawrence Market
• Narrated driving tour of Toronto

Niagara Falls

Toronto to Niagara Falls with your guide

• Breakfast
• Stay in Niagara Falls

Morning

After breakfast your guide drives you from Toronto to Niagara Falls, Ontario, for a small-group day tour. On a Niagara City Cruises boat you sail from the Canadian shore into the mist at the base of the Horseshoe Falls, the largest of the three falls on the Niagara River, which here is the border with New York State. At Journey Behind the Falls an elevator takes you down about 125 feet (40 m) through the rock to tunnels and an observation deck beside the falling water. The Skylon Tower gives a bird's-eye view of both the American and the Canadian falls, and a narrated drive shows you the rest of the city, from the parks along the river to the busy streets above the gorge.

Evening

Tonight you stay in Niagara Falls, so the evening is yours: the falls are lit up in colour every night.

Included

• Transport from Toronto to Niagara Falls with your guide
• Niagara City Cruises boat ride
• Journey Behind the Falls
• Skylon Tower
• Narrated driving tour of Niagara Falls

VIA Rail to Ottawa

Niagara Falls to Toronto, then the train to Ottawa

• Breakfast
• Stay in Ottawa
• By train

Morning

After breakfast your guide drives you back from Niagara Falls to Toronto and drops you at Union Station, the Beaux-Arts railway hall that opened in 1927 and is still the city's main station. The VIA Rail train runs east along the shore of Lake Ontario, past towns such as Cobourg and Kingston, before it turns north toward the capital. There is nothing to drive: we meet you at Ottawa station and take you to your 4-star hotel.

Evening

Ottawa sits where the Rideau and Gatineau rivers meet the Ottawa River, the border between Ontario and Quebec, and the rest of the evening is free for a first walk around the city.

Included

• Transport from Niagara Falls to Toronto Union Station with your guide
• VIA Rail train from Toronto to Ottawa
• Transfer from Ottawa station to your hotel

Ottawa, then on to Montréal

Small-group day tour, then VIA Rail to Montréal

• Breakfast
• Stay in Montréal
• By train

Morning

Breakfast, then a small-group day tour of Canada's capital. At the Royal Canadian Mint you get a behind-the-scenes look at how Canada's collector coins, medals and gold bullion are made. An Ottawa River cruise with Capital Cruises shows Parliament Hill from the water and the Gatineau shore in Quebec on the other side. Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica, with its twin silver spires and starry blue vaulted ceiling, is the oldest and largest church in the city. The Rockcliffe Lookout looks out over the river, and a narrated drive ties the capital together. Afterwards we take you to the station for the VIA Rail train to Montréal, meet you at Central Station and drive you to your hotel.

Included

• Royal Canadian Mint
• Ottawa River cruise with Capital Cruises
• Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica
• Rockcliffe Lookout
• Narrated driving tour of Ottawa
• VIA Rail train from Ottawa to Montréal
• Transfers to and from the stations

Montréal

Small-group day tour, then the airport

• Breakfast

Morning

After breakfast at the hotel, a small-group day tour of Montréal. Notre-Dame Basilica in Old Montréal is a Gothic Revival church known for its deep blue vaulted ceiling scattered with gold stars and for stained glass that tells the religious history of the city. A St. Lawrence River cruise with AML shows Montréal from the water and passes the nearby Boucherville Islands. From the 360-degree Observatoire at Place Ville Marie you look across downtown to the river and the mountain. Mount Royal, the hill that gave the city its name, is a park laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of New York's Central Park, and a narrated drive takes you over it. After the tour we take you to Montréal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL) for your flight home.

Included

• Notre-Dame Basilica
• St. Lawrence River cruise with AML
• Observatoire Place Ville Marie
• Mount Royal
• Narrated driving tour of Mount Royal
• Drop-off at Montréal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL)