Ottawa Highlights Tour: Rockcliffe Park to Parliament Hill

Embark on a small group tour of Ottawa and explore the city’s top attractions. Enjoy a river cruise, visit iconic landmarks, and learn about Canada’s history on a guided walking tour of Parliament Hill.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Ottawa - Your Ottawa sightseeing tour begins with pick up from your hotel before heading out on a narrated drive past some must-see sights! You’ll pass the Parliament Buildings and make stops outside the Supreme Court and Canadian Museum of History for photos with a view.
What's Included
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • Transport in one of our complimentary vehicles
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Food & Drink
Additional Information

Your Tripshepherd Guide will greet you at your downtown Ottawa accommodations and begin your tour in the comfort of one of our complimentary vehicles.

To begin your tour you will take a driving tour through Rockcliffe Park. Get the exclusive opportunity to check out some sights most tourists won’t get to see.

Your next stop will be to board a relaxing Rideau Canal Cruise for a relaxing view of the city from the Ottawa River passing over 50 points of interest including the magnificent Rideau Falls.

Next, you will enjoy a narrated drive passing iconic attractions such as the Parliament Buildings and make stops outside the Supreme Court and Canadian Museum of History.

To complete your tour your guide will take you to Parliament Hill - home of the Parliament of Canada. Here you will get the opportunity to learn about the rich nation’s history on a self-guided walking tour of the grounds.

At the end of your tour, your guide will take you back to your Downtown Ottawa hotel.

  • Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
  • Ottawa River cruise is a seasonal attraction, when the cruise is not operating it will be replaced with a Canadian War Museum of History tour
Location
Ottawa
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Romilda_c
Jul 31, 2024
Excellent tour of the area. - We had an incredible tour with our guide Gabriel. He provided us with rich detail of the history of the area and even gave us recommendations on where to try the know food for the area “ beaver tails” which were amazing. Highly recommend this tour. Our guide was top notch.
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Anita_h
Jul 31, 2024
Hub history lesson - Angela was very informative of all the area of Ottawa taking us to places no one would think of going. We were the only ones on the tour so that was nice also. We spent the morning at the Ottawa Museum of Nature where she picked us up and that was well planned. The canal ride was the relaxing part of the tour. Pasquel was excellent on that canal ride.
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Danielleandre5
Jul 29, 2024
Perfect tour with a perfect guide - Our tour guide Gabe was amazing!!! He was so informative and helpful. He zipped around Ottawa and showed us all of the hi lights of our beautiful countries capital. Gabe was on time and even squeezed in a little treat time as a request from the kids. Thank you!!
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Yosettel
Jul 26, 2024
Best of Ottawa - The tour gives you an idea of what planes you want to visit later while you are in Ottawa, our guide gives us a great explanation of the most important land marks and neighborhoods, transportation was great! Clean and comfortable The boat tour was so enjoyable after a full day of sightseeing, so much to learn about the constructions and surroundings
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Nishant_k
Jul 22, 2024
Ottawa taxi tour trip - Gabriel was great and considerate helpful friendly I will would rate him 10/10. He was on time and informative. Overall a great experience for us. Thank you so much!
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Sheriht106ee
Jul 19, 2024
Totally worth it! - Having a very tight timeline, this tour was fantastic! We saw most of the items on our list and had a great tour guide, Gabriel! He was extremely knowledgable and genuinely cared about our opinions, and requests. The river cruise was nice and relaxing.
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Kenneth_p
Jul 1, 2024
Great canal cruise 2024 - The tour after the boat trip. We had a great tour guide who was very personable and respectful of our ages.
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Ezinne_o
Jul 17, 2024
Expository - An expository experience to the history of Canada and Ottawa. Gabriel, the tour guide was quite knowledgeable and made the experience fun for me.
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Phillip_h
May 28, 2024
Canal boat ride portion of the tour was great. - The canal boat portion of the tour was perfect and the boat guide was very personable and bilingual French/English and did a great job narrating the travel on the canal. The walking tour was limited as the guide had not been fully trained and had only been a guide for 10 days and needed to get more experience and confidence in her skills. I believe with some training and more experience she will improve greatly.
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Beau_h
Jun 1, 2024
Rushed and incomplete - The tour we went on could have been much better. The pros were that it was essentially a private tour for us and the tour guide was polite and friendly though not very knowledgeable. The problem was that there was a canal cruise in the middle so we had less than an hour for driving portion of tour and had to miss a photo op and run for one and felt like we missed out and made the cruise by less than a minute after running, and after the cruise was just walking around parliament hill reading info off of signs which we could have done ourself(also walking around construction of parliament though not at all an issue on the tours side, just to be aware)This was listed as a 4-430 estimate tour time and took under 3:30 and feel if they only set it up better to start 30 minutes earlier to actually make it 4 hours and let you enjoy some things for a few minutes could have been more pleasant and not felt incomplete and lacking as much for the price.
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