After meeting at Uncommon Grounds to join the tour you will see one of the finest surviving examples of a Victorian garden in North America. From there you will also get a chance to see the historic Camp Hill Cemetery, The Halifax Common - Canada’s oldest urban park -, as well as the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre.
You will continue walking towards the Halifax Citadel National Historic Site on your way to the Clock Tower. Learn of the history of the tower and many other points of interest
Continue on your tour to see Halifax City Hall and St. Paul's Anglican church.
Walk along the waterfront and you will pass-by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. You will continue along the waterfront where you will see the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Discovery Centre along with restaurants and stores
Walking along the waterfront you will come to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Here you will be able to explore the museum
As you are walking on the waterfront you will pass by The Discovery Centre and dozens of restaurants. When you reach The Canadian Immigration Museum at Pier 21, your tour will come to a close. Feel free to explore the museum on your own, or continue to wander along the boardwalk.
Wonderful guide and great 😃 day to walk around. Kira was knowledgeable and very kind. Great attention to detail, saw the blank cannonball and historical information. Loved the Maritime museum so very much, highly recommend.
Guide was just ok. We booked a private walking tour for 10 of us - others joined in. We were also supposed to end at the immigration museum but she dropped us off at the maritime museum and said that was the end of the tour. The places we did visit were great and we enjoyed that.
Small group was indeed personal. There were only 2 of us in this particular day, so we had a private tour and got to know Simon, our guide, a bit. He was a brilliant guide and offered good insights into the history of Halifax. Definitely recommeded.
This tour was a waste of money. What was advertised was not what we got. It was shortened by 1 1/2 hours, did not end where we were told and the guide had little knowledge of what we were to see. I would have thought that tour of the public gardens would have included some information about the trees and plants there. The time in the Maritime Museum was better done on our own.The tour of the citadel was not very informative. Also, I called the tour company twice about my concerns and no one followed up as had been promised.
My guide was June very friendly and easy to get along with Very knowledgeable re history and what was going on in the present day.
I rated 3 stars because TripAdvisor didn't give the young man a proper vest and name tag. Simone is a 19-year-old man, and I am a petite South Asian woman in her 40s at the public garden in downtown Halifax. A Caucasian guard was following us during the tour, which was quite uncomfortable. I wish TripAdvisor took better care of its staff so they are protected while dealing with strangers. I would give Simone 5 stars, not Tripadvisor, as a young man doing this as a summer job. However, if I do that here, TripAdvisor might think I am giving them the star. Simone was excellent, patient, and knowledgeable for his age.
Our tour guide Jim was a lovely enthusiastic young man with a passion for history. We thoroughly enjoyed this tour.
Layton was an excellent guide for our walking tour. He provided great information, gave us time to enjoy the area and truly made our day inHalifax great. The Citadel is a must!
Great value delivered with a fun, local bias! Leighton gave us a detailed overview of the local history combined with his personal knowledge of the city and life within the community. Definitely would recommend this one!9
A very interesting tour, and we learned a lot from the museums. Our guide was very sweet, although her delivery was a little disorganized. She seems to know a lot, but we often had to ask questions to get the information. The little museums and the guards and musicians wandering around were a great feature.
They skipped Pier 21 The Canadian museum of Immigration. They finished at the Martime museum. A little disappointed..
It was very informative and the guide did a great job explanation things and gave us time to take pictures
This was ok but much shorter than advertised- less than 2 hours, advertised as 3 hours. We were told straight away by our guide it would be no more than around 2.5 hours. We had limited time at the Citadel ( and not given the ticket to go back in). We were taken to Maritime museum and shown one exhibit - we were then left to see the museum at our leisure. Not told about or walked to the Art Museum ( which when we went a day later was excellent), nor the immigration museum ( which we independently discovered was also excellent).We contacted the Halifax office to express some concern about value for money and told our feedback was very important to them and the manager would contact us on Monday. Which almost a week in hasn’t happened. So sadly we say this tour is misrepresented and not value for money
Because of our age we almost cancelled this walking tour. You offered to take us by car and we accepted. It was an amazing experience. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Guide was excellent. A bit misleading, however. Assumed a walking tour would cover more sites along the way. In fact this was a 2-site only walking tour. Having a guide in the Maritime Museum was not really value added.
They cancelled our time and we could not make the earlier one based on our ship sea shuttle . Not great.
Emi was very friendly and informative. We appreciated her welcoming spirit and knowledge about the history of Canada and Halifax.
Had a great time touring downtown Halifax with a fellow out-of-towner. Our guide Andrew was super-duper kind, and he helped us get a feel of Halifax's landmarks and history. That the weather was nice didn't hurt either. Highly recommend this tour if you want to get a first taste of Haligonian goodness.
Nice tour with Mac. Very interesting. Mac was very dedicated and polite. Very good overview of the city.
Very disappointed- guide (Sarah)knew very little about history, current buildings or sights in Halifax eg was a certain building the legislature or the city hall (!) . She had to consult her phone to see the itinerary before departing with us. Would like a refund, please!
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