Exploring Ottawa at Your Own Pace: Hop On/Hop Off Tours

If you are a visitor to Ottawa, Ontario, you might want to take a tour so that you can learn more about the city and see all of the important and significant sites in the city. A tour is a fun way to see the sites of a city while you learn about the places that you see.

If you take a tour of a city, you do not miss anything because you are trying to find the right street to turn on, trying to read a map or trying to ignore the distractions of all of the new sights and sounds of the city. You will not miss anything important while you are busy looking at less interesting unimportant sites if you have a knowledgeable guide pointing out all of the great sites in Ottawa.

Of course, if you prefer to learn some things by exploring them for yourself, you can take a Hop On/Hop Off Tour in Ottawa. On a Hop On/Hop Off Tour, you can stay on the authentic English Double Decker, open air bus for as many stops as you like and if you see something that you want to explore further, you can simply get off of the bus and go exploring. You need not worry how to get back to your hotel; you can simply catch the next bus that comes along and continue your tour.

In this manner, you can enjoy the best of both ways of touring Ottawa.  Ottawa offers three Hop On/Hop Off tours; the Hop On/Hop Off City Tour, the Hop On/Hop Off City Tour & Canal Cruise and the Hop On/Hop Off City Tour & Ottawa River Cruise. The Hop On/Hop Off City Tour stops at all of the important city sites in Canada's capitol City.

This tour highlights historical monuments, scenic waterways and beautiful parks that are all a part of the rich history of Ottawa. You will be delighted with the education you will receive from touring the city of Ottawa with stops at Parliament Hill, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Rideau Falls, Royal Canadian Mint and the National Gallery of Canada.

If you like, you can add either the Canal Cruise or the Ottawa River Cruise to your Hop On/Hop Off City Tour. In addition to all of the fascinating stops in this historic yet elegantly modern city, you can add a Cruise on the Canal to your tour.   The Rideau Canal offers lovely scenery as you take a leisurely cruise on the water after your tour of the land. 

If you prefer the Ottawa River to the Rideau Canal, you can enjoy a cruise on it after your Hop On/Hop Off tour of Ottawa, Ontario. This ninety-minute relaxing cruise down the Ottawa River will afford you a view of the exclusive 24 Sussex Drive, which is not visible from anywhere but the river. While enjoying your ninety minutes of cruising, you will also enjoy full narration of all of the majestic sights that you will see.