
Free Montreal Tours - Old Montreal Walking Tours

Information about Free Montreal Tours - Old Montreal Walking Tours
H2X 2V6, Montreal
Opening hours
- sunday: 12:30-21h
- monday: 11:30-18h
- tuesday: 11:30-21h
- wednesday: 11:30-21h
- thursday: 11:30-21h
- friday: 11:30-21h
- saturday: 12:30-21h
Discover the essential historic sites of Old Town. Learn how the city was founded, and how it evolved into the Metropolis that it is today. We work on tips only! Free Montreal Walking Tours
Our comment from TraTraTravel about Free Montreal Tours - Old Montreal Walking Tours:
Free Montreal Tours offers an unforgettable experience as you explore Old Montreal through the eyes of passionate and knowledgeable guides. Visitors consistently praise the tours for their engaging content, which effectively blends historical facts with entertaining anecdotes.
Top Highlights:
- Friendly and personable guides who make the experience enjoyable.
- Informative tours that delve into both history and contemporary culture.
- Excellent pacing, allowing for comfortable walking and breaks when needed.
- Helpful tips on local attractions and restaurants for further exploration.
- A great way to get oriented in the city on your first day.
While most reviews are overwhelmingly positive, a few guests mentioned that the group sizes can be large, making it occasionally challenging to keep up with the guide. However, the enthusiasm and expertise of the guides typically outweigh this concern, resulting in a highly recommended experience for anyone looking to connect with the city's rich heritage.
Free Montreal Tours - Old Montreal Walking Tours: Reviews
Fantastic experience: Our tour guide is Jamie, who's very friendly. The tour was a good mix of history and fun facts.
Fantastic experience: Anne Marie was a fantastic tour guide and we learned so much about Montreal (and Quebec) in our 2 hours together. She provided so much information in such a short amont of time, answered all of our questions, and was really fun to listen to! I highly recommend this tour! Thank you!
Fantastic experience: Incredibly informative and interesting but in an accessible way. We really enjoyed the entire experience and was sorry to see it come to an end.
Fantastic experience: Highly recommend!!!! A wonderful way to start to know and explore Montréal. Our tour guide David is very knowledgeable and fun. Didn’t get bored at all during the tour. Bring some tips to show your appreciation. Thank you for doing this for letting more people know Montréal better. :)
Fantastic experience: Brilliant tour led by very friendly and knowledgeable guide, Paul :) Despite the dreary weather, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and it was great a very well thought-out tour through Montreal's old town
Fantastic experience: It was snowing but our tour guide was strategic enough to bring us in a place where we could warm up and still learn at the same time. She was so kind and friendly. She knew each of our names.
Fantastic experience: This is a must do when visiting Montréal! The tour guides go to school to become guides and are so knowledgeable about the city!
Fantastic experience: Our tour guide, Dave was spectacular. He was very knowledgeable, engaging, personable and funny. He gave a great tour of the area, mixing in history and interesting anecdotes. We’ve done similar tours in other countries, and this (by far!) was the best one we’ve been on. If you are visiting Montreal, this is a “Do Not Miss”. I very highly recommend both Dave and the tour. (Ten stars out of five.)
Fantastic experience: Stephanie, our guide was so funny and knowledgeable! I wish she had been my history teacher because of the way she wove humor into the past and current information about the city that she clearly loves, Montreal. Easy walking with much appreciated bathroom break and list to scan of her personal favorite recommendations for visitors. She shows you a lot -- big and small interesting details. Highly, highly recommended and worth every penny of her tip!
Fantastic experience: Anne Marie was very knowledgeable and personable, with plenty of recommendations up her sleeve. She was also always ready for a question or conversation regarding different aspects of the tour. Would recommend!
Fantastic experience: great overview of the city with an awesome guide who also provided incredible recommendations for incredible things to do! Stephanie was so kind, informative, and funny! Thank a lot
Fantastic experience: Our guide Laura was exceptional! So knowledgeable and friendly. I learned so much about the history of Old Montreal, Montreal and Quebec. I highly recommend this walking tour!
Fantastic experience: We had the pleasure of going on a walking tour with Stephanie on Saturday 11/9. She was so engaging, gave incredible history and cultural insights that were so helpful. We didn’t want it to end! She was such a great guide and I completely recommend this tour and hope you get Stephanie also!
Fantastic experience: Best walking tour with a wonderful guide Stephanie! She was so knowledgeable and entertaining. And put our group on to many fabulous restaurants l’Plateau where we were staying.
Fantastic experience: A great tour!! Our guide had amazing energy and we loved hearing the history of a city that we knew little about. It was a highlight of the trip!
Fantastic experience: We had our tour with Stephanie she was excellent. She was so knowledgeable and loved the city what a great experience. We can’t recommend it enough! What great value we learned so much! Thank you Stephanie.
Fantastic experience: Stephanie was our guide through the old city of Montreal. Her obvious acting skills and knowledge of the city definitely added so much to our enjoyment of this tour.
Positive experience: I'd consider this more of a standing and history tour than an actual walkig tour. In the 2 hours we got to see fairly few sites but learned a lot more about the history than one can possibily keep in their mind. I would have loved to see more and have less of the detailed explanation
Fantastic experience: Outstanding tour and very informative. Our tour guide, Laura, brought wonderful introspection in addition to the historical facts surrounding Montreal and it's development to the city it is today. Great pace for walking, super informative and a perfect overview. Laura was very personable as well as professional. Highly recommend... also encourage people to remember that the service provided by tour guides like Laura is valuable and please tip them well!!
Fantastic experience: Loved it, learnt a lot about the history, very happy we took the tour to learn about landmarks, history and underground system that otherwise we would have missed! Our guide was very knowledgeable. The tour is perfect to get a feel of the old downtown so then you can go back to your favorite spots for more pics or souvenir's. Super recommended!
Fantastic experience: The tour was very good. We learned a lot about the history and architecture of Quebec City. Sam is very knowledgeable and has a great sense of humor.
Fantastic experience: We had a wonderful walking tour around Old Town Montreal! It was an appropriate length of time, filled with history, and it definitely helped us get the lay of Old Town. We thoroughly enjoyed the tour and recommend it to everyone.
Fantastic experience: We had David as our tour guide this morning! What a treat! Highly recommend!! We knows his stuff.
Fantastic experience: We thoroughly enjoyed our tour with Michael - the route took us to a number of interesting neighborhoods but always on quiet streets, and Michael was both informative and enjoyable to talk with. We have a much better sense of Montreal now and enjoyed having the bikes for a couple more hours to explore the river on our own. A great day!
Fantastic experience: David was exceptional....truly enjoyed the knowledge and humor he shared....excellent tour all around..
Fantastic experience: It was an awesome tour of Montreal's history with vibrant stories! I learned a lot about the culture and city! In addition, we enjoyed all of Darren's tips for places to visit, restaurants, things to do etc. Thanks Darren!
Fantastic experience: Thanks to Jaime for this great walking tour. It was a perfect length with a short toilet break, and gave a great overview of the city and it's history. Make sure to book as it sold out quickly!
Fantastic experience: Darren is an excellent tour guide who is well prepared and very funny. It’s fun to listen to him. He is also very kind and took a lot of time to answer questions and give insider tips. I accidentally bumped into him the day after the tour and he was just as nice as during the tour.
Fantastic experience: Interesting and useful time to introduce to Montreal history and city itself. Thanks to the guide for the hints !
Fantastic experience: Darren was a terrific tour guide who gave a great wholistic overview of Montreal- the good, the bad, and the ugly. My brother and sister in law had taken the tour a few days prior and recommended it. We appreciated that the tour still happened despite the Canadian Thanksgiving holiday and the chilly rain! Darren made sure to shelter us as much as possible and there was a 10 min restroom/snack break about halfway. He was super knowledgeable me and shared a great summarized history of Old Montreal. Plus, Darren’s tip sheets for everything from Where to Eat to Where to Shop was absolutely brilliant! Highly recommend! He accepts both cash and electronic tips.
Fantastic experience: One of the better walking tours I have been on. Very informative and entertaining. Laura did a great job
Fantastic experience: Love the tour!! Stephanie was amazing, very entertaining. We followed her recommendations for the full day and she was right!! I recommend taking this tour on your first day in the city, so helpful for the rest of your vacation!!
Fantastic experience: Thoroughly enjoyed our tour with Stephanie. The history combined with info on current neighborhoods was perfect balance, delivered in a charming manner.
Fantastic experience: Great tour with our guide Stephanie. She was very knowledgeable, made the tour quite fun and shared a lot of recommendations in the end of places of different kind. Would Def recommend it on your first day in Montreal to know where to go during your visit.
Fantastic experience: I especially liked that our tour guide Laura talked about her background and experience, providing context for her perspective of the history and cultures of Montreal and Quebec.
Fantastic experience: I really enjoyed the Old Town tour on October 5th with guide Stephanie! She was very engaging and charismatic! It was both interesting and captivating. The tour was dynamic, and the route covered all the major attractions. If you’re in the city for just a few days and don’t have much time, I definitely recommend this tour and guide Stephanie!
Fantastic experience: Whenever possible we take a walking tour in a new city as soon as possible to get the lay of the land and an overview of the location. Our guide Laura, a lifelong Montreal resident, was exceptional. She seamlessly weaved personal stories into her informative presentation that made the two hours feel more like a conversation with a friend. Highly recommended.
Fantastic experience: Darren was a wonderful guide. Extremely knowledgeable in the history of Vieux Montreal as well as modern day events. He had interesting facts to share at every stop we made. We thoroughly enjoyed our tour and would highly recommend the tour!
Positive experience: Excellent guide. Prompt. Super knowledgeable. Personable. Good stories mixed in with historical dates. Loved learning how modern Quebecois culture evolved. Very helpful. She could leave out “First Nations” propaganda and then it would be 5 star. Thank you so much.
Fantastic experience: Our guide, Anna Marie, was excellent, knowledgeable and fun. She gave us a good overview of the city, its history and some funny and interesting snippets. I love going on walking tours whenever I visit a new city, but even my aunt and uncle who are usually quite sceptical, enjoyed it very much and was more than happy to tip in the end
Fantastic experience: We had a wonderful time on our tour through the Plateau, Mile-End, and Jean-Talon Market! It was an easy route through beautiful neighborhoods and hidden alleyways with stops along the way for history and local gems. Our guide, Darren, was excellent and very knowledgeable! We saw so much we would have never gotten to see if we had tried to explore the area ourselves! Highly recommend!
Fantastic experience: Stephanie was an amazing guide, bringing energy and flair to the tour. The 2 hours flew by, and I found myself wanting to learn and see even more.
Fantastic experience: All four of us enjoyed the tour which took us from the port to old Montreal to St. Catherine's - it gave us a varied overview of the city. Our guide was engaging. We would all recommend this tour.
Fantastic experience: Stephanie was great! Professional, courteous, informative and funny!
Fantastic experience: Darren was awesome! He was so knowledgeable and really helped us understand Montreal's origin story. We saw tons of sites and got some great recommendations! The pace was comfortable for all ages in our group and everyone had a great time! Highly recommend.
Fantastic experience: Had a fantastic tour with Darren. Was knowledgeable, engaging and clearly was passionate about the city. His food recommendations were great.
Fantastic experience: Great introduction to the city of Montreal! Yes, you pay a fee to reserve your spot which goes to the business and then tip the tour guide too. She deserved it! Thank you Anne Marie!
Fantastic experience: Besides the rain, Our your guide David was very informative. We saw more everything. More than what we expected. Thank you for a great tour. Marina and Paolo
Fantastic experience: We had a stellar Old Montreal tour with Laura on a beautiful sunny day on Sunday. She was educating, charming and pleasant with a wealth of interesting history of Montreal.
Fantastic experience: Stefanie was a great guide and we really enjoyed our tour of Old Montreal.
Fantastic experience: Great visit that I would recommend! Our guide Laura was very interesting, serious and funny at the same, and time full of insights about Montréal.
Fantastic experience: We had a very nice tour with a lot of interesting information and tipps about where to go and what to do next. Our tourguide was kind and new the answers to all our questions. Would totally recommand doing
Fantastic experience: David was a great guide with lots of interesting information. Given I have some hearing limitations, he was very easy to hear. Suggest you book early as this fills up, we were unable to get on our first day and it would have been a very good orientation to Montreal. Paced well, great to have a break and good use of humour - many thanks!
Fantastic experience: Great tour! It was a good pace and we loved the extra suggestions our guide shared with us.
Fantastic experience: Stephanie was a great tour guide; very knowledgeable, and entertaining. The only downside of the "free" tours is that the group tends to be large and sometimes it's hard to keep up with the guide.
Fantastic experience: Sandi led our tour, she has been a guide for 8 years and a local her whole life. Informative, interesting, well-paced. She was very willing to discuss topics of our interest beyond her great talk; I really appreciated this to better understand local & regional culture & politics. She handed a group of 21 very well! And she gave us good suggestions to shop and dine.
Fantastic experience: Laura was an amazing guide. Spoke clearly and at a good volume for all the group to hear. Great explanation of history and current issues. Ive taken many walking tours and thus tanks at the top.
Fantastic experience: Phenomenal tour, especially for free. Laura was an excellent guide. She is knowledgeable, fun, funny, kept a great pace, was open to any question and thoughtful in her responses. This tour was better than some paid tours around the world, easily 10/10 for a free tour. Definitely worth your time and $5 reservation fee, no question about it.
Fantastic experience: Our tour guide, Sabrina, was knowledgeable, friendly, organized, and fun. Everything you’d want in a person on a 2+ hour walking. We wish we had done it earlier during our stay.
Fantastic experience: Amazing tour.. learned so much..would take it again..
Fantastic experience: Laura was excellent, my wife and I learned much about Montréal's culture and history. It was the highlight of our vacation in this beautiful city.
Fantastic experience: Laura was a wonderful tour guide. Passionate about her birthplace, Montreal. Knowledgeable about history and current facts. Recommended a fabulous places to eat or visit after the tour.
Fantastic experience: Local tour guide David is fun, informative and makes the tour an awesome experience. The tour is around 2.5hrs long and shows us both historical and newer sites around Old Montreal, with a coffee/washroom break during the tour itself. The website is clear in its instructions on where to meet and what to bring. Thank you again!
Fantastic experience: Wonderful tour by Louis. Tried all of the famous foods of Montreal and met some fabulous small business owners along the way. Highly recommend!
Fantastic experience: Great guide. A little disappointed that we went into so few place, but with only 2 hours. Learned a lot of the history and architecture of old city and of Montreal.
Fantastic experience: WOW! We’ve taken walking history tours in major cities around the world, and I will say that the Free Old Montreal Tour was hands down one of the best we’ve ever done. Our guide Darren was incredibly knowledgeable, leading us through the social, political, and economic history of Montreal with detail, humor and personal authenticity. I was extremely impressed with him, and I’m not easily impressed. We’re so glad we did this tour on the first day of our week long visit to provide context for the rest of what we plan to see! Bottom line, if you’re new to Montreal, you owe it to yourself to take this tour!
Fantastic experience: Excellent Tour! Our guide Sandrine was so knowledgeable and gave great recommendations!
Fantastic experience: I did this tour on Sunday and really enjoyed the tour. I got to know so much information and facts with the help of our tour guide Sandrine. She was awesome very patient answering questions and very clear explaining things. This tour covers good amount of old Montreal where you can stroll and enjoy beautiful architecture and culture. I highly recommend this tour worth the time spent.
Fantastic experience: Sandrine was knowledgeable and fun, she made sure everyone understood, followed along and knew the logistics of a free tip-based tour and offering cash and PayPal payment options. She sprinkled in local recommendations for food, markets and other activities and kept it interesting. Highly recommended!
Fantastic experience: Great tour and wonderful stories. Sandrine was a very interactive host and guide. Perfect pace.
Fantastic experience: Darren was our guide who was extremely knowledgeable and entertaining. What a wonderful introduction to Montreal! I appreciate the list of tips and suggestions he shared at the end for everyone to take pictures of at the end. I wish he could be my personal guide for the entire weekend!
Fantastic experience: Very informative and fun tour. I suggest doing it at the beginning of your stay in Montreal that way you can come back to the sites and spend more time at the sites that interest you. Anne-Marie was very kind and had some great suggestions.
Fantastic experience: Great walking tour of Old Montreal! Stephanie, our guide, did a fantastic job! She was funny, energetic, and full of enthusiasm as she showed us around Old Montreal. She shared interesting facts about both Montreal and Quebec, giving us a deeper understanding of the city's present and past. Her tips and advice were incredibly helpful for getting to know Montreal better, along with suggestions for exploring the city further. The tour was a lot of fun, filled with cool sights and very entertaining!
Fantastic experience: Wonderful tour of Old Montreal! Our guide Anne Marie had so much knowledge and interesting facts. It is a great way to see this part of Montreal and learn the history and see what you might want to visit later.
Positive experience: The walking tour was good with one big exception. A waiter, or a barista, or a tour guide ( especially on a "free walking tour" guide ) should never ever talk bring up the topic of tips, especially not at the beginning of a tour. We get it. Life in Montréal is expensive, and a guidés expertise makes the tour better or worse, but c’mon … not cool. I would have given a generous donation without the full court press, but how unpleasant to be told about this ahead of time. I gave a $20 tip despite the mention of tips; certainly not because of it.
Fantastic experience: Excellent value for the money, though of course it’s not actually free. It is because of the fact that they don’t charge a fee that they have to be the best tour guides. They depend on tips therefore they have to be captivating, high energy, and open. They have to make the tour come alive to elevate the tour above your cynicism about free anything. It a two hours tour in old Montreal, walking the cobblestone streets and reliving its history. One of the quickest and best way to see a snippet of Montreal for a very good price so set aside your cynicism and tip well!!!!!!
Fantastic experience: Our guide, was wonderful. He is a high school history teacher, in addition to a registered tour guide. He made us laugh, he told us stuff we will remember because his way of delivering the information was inimitable, and he gave us an interesting and informative way to spend the afternoon. We started out at City Hall, and made our way down to the old port, stopping at a number of monuments along the way. I can’t imagine why you would pay for an expensive tour when you can sign up for a free tour like this one. Any way you look at it, the price is right. It’s free, but you give your guide a $20 tip. Win win for everyone.
Fantastic experience: This walking tour of Old Montreal was our first experience with a free walking tour and it sure did not disappoint. Guide was enthusiastic and knowledgeable. History of Montreal was interesting and the architecture and vibe of Old Montreal was amazing. Was a treat and highly recommend
Fantastic experience: This walking tour was great! Our guide Jamie was a lot of fun and gave every person a chance to visit with him! He kept us engaged and I had a great time. This gave me a chance to learn a little about Montreal and visit the area with someone who has lived here is whole life! I would highly recommend!
Fantastic experience: We enjoyed the tour, Laura was very informative, personable, shared a lot of details about the city and gave us some insights about life in Montreal. Laura was very welcoming guide, she was very patient, answered all our questions and all her explanations were sprinkled with good humor and light hearted jokes. We would highly recommend this tour and Laura as a guide who's extremely knowledgeable and clearly loves her city!
Fantastic experience: Easy to find meeting location. Our tour guide is on time, very knowledgeable about the history of old town Montreal, the people, foods, and languages. Highly recommended when you visit Montreal. The underground city is amazing and worth exploring as well.
Fantastic experience: Excellent! Our guide, Louis, was clued up and an extremely knowledgable young man. He was respectful, friendly, kind and patient. A very enjoyable experience, totally worth the time and effort, even in the sweltering, humid heat! Make sure you tip these guys generously, they deserve it 100 times over. Thank you!!
Fantastic experience: Very charismatic and knowledgeable tour guide. I did this tour as a local of Montreal and I could not recommend it enough!
Fantastic experience: Engaging and interesting guide taking us round the main areas of old town and downtown, offering some useful tips about places to visit. Well timed break at the halfway point and not too much walking on a hot day. Does not cover mile end area.
Fantastic experience: This was a fabulous tour with Laura. She was informative, set a perfect pace and answered questions. We learned about customs, laws, education and history is Montreal.
Fantastic experience: My daughter and I loved our tour of Old Montreal! Our tour guide David gave us lots of info about the history of the area, great suggestions for restaurants and things to do, and was very considerate about stopping places that were in the shade on a very hot day
Fantastic experience: Fantastic tour with David on Friday August 9th. It was raining thanks to Tropical Storm Debby but David still did a great job showing us the sights and giving the history of Old Montreal. It went a little long at 2h40 but otherwise I would recommend the tour!
Fantastic experience: Thoroughly enjoyed this tour of Old Montreal which covered a lot of the history of Montreal. Our guide was very good. Highly recommend.
Fantastic experience: Our guide, Raphael Chartier, was both extremely knowledgeable and funny. He served up what could have been dry history with a very humorous and light delivery. The two hours flew and we felt we had a very good base of understanding of early and current Montreal history. The tour itself might have been free, but it was no less interesting and wonderful. In this case, we got way more than we paid for!! And I hope he made a lot in tips. He was certainly worth it!!
Fantastic experience: David was a top notch tour guide! Funny, informative and happy to suggest activities that took me through the rest of the day.
Fantastic experience: David was incredibly knowledgeable about Montreal and Canadian history in general! The walking tour was the perfect length…not too long and not too short. Don’t miss it! He shared many interesting facts and was also funny. I highly recommend this tour (and to tip your guide well while you are at it since it’s free, and well deserved).
Fantastic experience: David was a great tour guide- professional and showed passion and knowledge about Montreal- the history, mindset of the residents and offered great spots to visit. We could not ask for a better tour guide. Allez David
Fantastic experience: This tour was very informative and interesting, and Gabriel was very knowledgeable about Montreal’s history. He was very charismatic, and I will be recommending this tour to my friends and family!
Fantastic experience: Very informative and enjoyable tour of old Montreal. Whole family had a great time. Rufus was friendly and knowledgeable. Recommend it!
Fantastic experience: It's the first time we (my wife & me) took a free tours. The tour guide was very fluent, with a good sense of humor & seems to be passionate with her job. We enjoyed the 2+ hours tour where we learnt so much about the history of Montreal and Anne Marie also shared her recommended list to us.
Fantastic experience: Our guide, Sandy, was wonderful; she was full of passion for Montréal and energy! We learned a lot about Montréal and enjoyed walking the streets of old town.
Fantastic experience: Did this tour on July 27th with the guide Laura - absolutely fantastic overview of the history of the area and the culture. Highly recommend it on a visit to Montreal.
Fantastic experience: Wonderful tour! Laura was very knowledgeable and so helpful with extra tips about other things to see in Montreal. I would definitely recommend it!
Fantastic experience: Great tour!! Very thorough and engaging throughout, and our tour guide gave us a great list of her top recs around the city. Definitely the best way to start your visit in Montreal!
Fantastic experience: David was a very knowledgeable and entertaining guide!
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