Ottawa Sightseeing Tour: Hop-On Hop-Off Experience

This city tour offers a comprehensive overview of Ottawa’s highlights and is ideal for newcomers, leaving plenty of time for you to discover the city at your leisure afterwards.

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Sparks Street Mall - Main Kiosk at 44 Sparks St. Corner of Elgin and Sparks, Parliament of Canada
  • Canadian Museum of Nature - Nature Museum
  • Lansdowne Park - Home of the Ottawa BlackJacks / The Glebe / TD Place / Redblacks
  • Dow’s Lake - Different stopping location during Canadian Tulip Festival
  • **Canada Agriculture and Food…
What's Included
  • Local taxes included
  • Transport by double decker bus or trolley
  • Professional driver and guide
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Food and drinks
  • Admissions to attractions and sites
  • Hotel pickup are before 9:30-9:45am ($5 payable to driver). Reservation must be done 24 hours prior
Additional Information
  • If you require hotel pickup (before 9:30-9:45am), please contact the supplier 24 hours prior to your reservation. Please note: this service is $5, payable to the driver at time of pick-up
Location
44 Sparks St.
Sparks Street
We are at the corner of Elgin and Sparks. Look for a red kiosk.
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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331bernicec
Oct 4, 2024
Ottawa Highlights - The instructions to find the pick up point were clear and easy to follow. The staff at the bus kiosk were friendly, helpful and very accommodating. The on board guide was very well spoken and thoughtful. We were on a tight time table and didn't take advantage of any of the "hop off" spots. However, the tour gave us a nice overview of the city. Also the location was within view of the parliament buildings and market areas that were easily walkable following the tour. Thanks!
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Robin_k
Oct 4, 2024
Excellent HOHO! - Excellent, kind, funny live tour guides and excellent, kind drivers. They take you to all the main sites very efficiently to get to know beautiful Ottawa extremely well.
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Veritydepp
Oct 3, 2024
Perfect way to see the city in 90 minutes - Being a hort on time in the city we opted for this tour. We had been advised to spend less time here, in favour of Toronto and Montréal. The tour opened up our eyes to a wonderful place we would not have had the time to see otherwise. Christina, our guide was very knowledgeable and incorporated humour and personal anecdotes into her delivery. A good, safe drive with Brett. Thanks guys!
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Pamin2210
Sep 29, 2024
Great Tour!! A must do in Ottawa! - We did this tour by Ekeau. We saw the booth right outside Fairmont Hotel. We did the canal tour and bus tour which were both great!! The tour guides were very informative and we learned so much about Ottawa! This was a great tour and a great way to see the city!!
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Marilou_c
Sep 26, 2024
Ottawa sightseeing tour was excellent. - Excellent experience with Hof on hof off sightseeing bus city tour although it was raining but still the bus continue on its designated schedule, the tour guide was excellent too.
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Pbpg
Sep 21, 2024
Great way to see the city and beyond - Great ride. It takes about 40 minutes to go round the circuit and the ticket lasts 24 hours. Good commentary, not too much in the way of humour so that’s a good thing. You see everything and it gives you a flavour of what to go back for. $40 each excellent value
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Golcondagent
Sep 21, 2024
Super Experience - Excellent enthusiastic narration. Very friendly personnel. Very helpful orienting us to the city attractions. Fortunately we had excellent weather for the trip.
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Fernando_o
Sep 15, 2024
Driving around Ottawa on a sunny fall day - It was good driving around Ottawa and seeing the town. Nice to see the areas of the town. The story about the cookie that Obama bought was interestingly quirky.
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9introy
Sep 19, 2024
Be careful not to get stranded on last pickup of the day. - I got the 2 day pass and it was absolutely great value. The tour guides were friendly and the tour was informative. I loved it! I had issue though that soured my rating for this tour. I visited the War Museum and made sure I was at bus stop 15 min ahead of Last Pick UP of the day. The bus never showed up. I probably waited an hour hoping the bus would arrive. I tried phoning the company and couldn't get a response from someone locally in Ottawa. I had to make my way back to downtown hotel with low battery on my phone, it was dark and pouring rain and I had no clue where I was. I called the company the next day and the lady wasn't very sympathetic to my situation so that was disappointing. I still highly recommend the tour, but my suggestion is to communicate clearly with the driver to ensure that you will get picked up on last pickup of the day otherwise you could get stranded like me.
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Scott_r
Sep 20, 2024
good way to see sites but not well run - the bus was late twice and we waited over 40 minutes at the end of the day to get the ride back-an Uber would have been much faster and saved us time and money but the commentary was good
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