Best of Eastern Canada

Everything about the tour was great. The coach was a tad bit uncomfortable. A little more time at each city to see the sites as opposed to driving by them would have been nice. Given the time constraints, I felt is was a good trip.

Dave our tour manager was excellent and he really made the trip for us. I highly recommend any trip where he is the manager.

The tour, hotels, and guide were OUTSTANDING. The Collette-provided air travel arrangements were HORRIBLE. Routing and layovers were HORRIBLE. Had I the slightest idea in advance I would have booked my own air travel.

Overall the tour was good. Especially liked Quebec City. Would have liked more time in Toronto.

Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls were great. We also greatly enjoyed the Sugar shack. The only negative was the final dinner at the French Restaurant. The service was not good. If I had been by myself I would have sent my incredibly tough steak back to the kitchen. Our fellow diners at our table had to ask multiple times for simple things such as additional drinks, which they were completely fine with paying for themselves. Definitely not up to Collette standards.

Niagara Falls boat experience

The entire tour was very comfortable, educational, beautiful and amazing. Although our age slowed us down towards the end of the tour the excursions were made extremely interesting and informative by our extremely knowledgeable guide. Julie was great beyond words. Eugene was a very knowledgeable driver. He handled the new bus with precision and great care. It was a pleasure to have a bus with seat belts as well as the other amenities available to us as we merrily rolled through the countryside and the extremely interesting old cities. George and I truly enjoyed ourselves and would do the trip again as well as recommend the trip to others. One negative issue I experienced was the lack of safety rails and clothes hooks in all of the bathrooms. Whoever designed the remodeling apparently didn’t have any experience with handicapped persons or senior citizens. Thank you to everyone at Collette but especially Eugene and Julie for providing us with a wonderful experience. Anne and George Tunnell

The town we visited after seeing Niagara Falls.

Loved all of it.

Loved Toronto and Quebec. Enjoyed Ottawa and learning about Canadian government. Montreal is a big city and as such has the big city atmosphere.

We loved Quebec City the most and wish we had more time to explore. In each of the cities we hit the highlights and it was very informative

I loved old Quebec City and the Thousand Islands boat tour.

Niagara Falls was great! The tour should NOT be recommended for someone who has trouble walking. There are many on and off the bus. Many stairs and much walking of more than one block. My travel companion used a cane and I WAS TOLD I was responsible for helping her on and off the bus by the bus driver who was told by the tour guide to say this. Next I knew we were always seated in the back of the bus. I wasn’t feeling well the Wednesday before the last day so I did not go on the Wednesday afternoon tour. Thursday I did not go on tour either. Felt better Thursday evening so I thought I’d go to the last dinner. I wore a masked as not to contaminate anyone. Tour directed advised me not to go so I stayed back. She said I would receive a 3-5% credit. Still waiting to get the credit!

Tour guide and bus driver were excellent. Most tours were informative and enjoyable. Didn’t care for the trip to the indigenous farm - lots of talking in a room with poor acoustics. Enjoyed Niagara Falls but walk was more vigorous than we expected. Really liked the maple syrup farm and our group dinners.

Niagara Falls

Some of the tours were kind of ho hum. Others were very good. The native homestead tour was below par. There is potential there but needs development. The speaker was very good. Hotels were excellent to average. Breakfasts were all good except at the Lord Elgin Hotel. Very average and fruit way below average there. City tours, Niagara Falls, and the Maple Syrup Sugar Shack excursions were very good. Roger the tour guide was excellent. I liked the assigned rotating seats arrangement he used as did others on the tour.

I, like many other would liked to have spent more time at Niagara Falls. That was the highlight of the tour for me. We spent only a few hours there. I would have liked to have seen the falls at night. Too much time on the bus. Too much free time. I knew the Blue Jays were playing a baseball game and we had to pass the stadium 2 times (on the bus) It would have been fun to have had that option to go to a game. I did enjoy all the greenery especially since I live in the desert. The churches were beautiful. Would have liked to see more older parts of the country. Compared to other trips for the cost, and all free time, and traveling this trip rates on the lower side.

The Falls and the RMCP horse training grounds were special to me .

Kelly was fantastic. The tour of the RCMP horses was great. Niagara Falls was breathtaking. Just a lovely trip

We had bad weather the whole tour (cold, cloudy, and misty). Our tour manager had to fill in for someone else and knew very little about Canada. Fortunately, our bus driver who was a native of Canada and knowledgeable about this particular tour, helped her immensely. It was not her fault, and under the circumstances, she did great!