Did one of their tours recently and had a blast! The guide was great, the trail was amazing, and I…read morethoroughly enjoyed myself! Some things to note to make it a 5-star experience: I would recommend walking through some basic safety rules at the start. Things to cover include how and where you should park yourself if you have to briefly stop on the trail, how to deal with someone who is stopped in front of you on the trail, or how to pass pedestrians safely, where should you do when you stop as a group if you have multiple people, etc. Given that Ottawa can be busy, a little overview of these rules/guidelines would go a very long way. I also felt that we ended up stopping a little more frequently than I would have liked on the latter half of the tour - mostly buildings I don't really even remember! Nevertheless, had a blast and would recommend it anyway!

Rented the Marin bikes. Well built solid bikes, happy with the quality. This is a busy bike shop…read morewith bike mechanics fixing bikes and sales people running around renting bikes. Not overly friendly to us as tourists, but..whatever. We got a bike route map and the guy explained where to go and off we went. Ottawa is a bike riders heaven with flat routes that go along the canal. We rode for 4 hours easy, but stopped for an hours' lunch by the canal. I'm not too in shape and it was an easy ride. 5 stars for quality bikes and cheap price.

Read the fine print -- Utracks regularly resells tours to third party operators. In our case, the…read moreTour du Mont Blanc classic trek was turned over to a company called Cairn. It is in the fine print that they can do this. BUT: the actual pre-trip instructions obfuscate this. Many travelers arrive at the trailhead looking for Utracks only to find out they've been re-assigned to Cairn. And Cairn should be called "don't Care-n". Our Cairn guide barely acknowledged our arrival and when she did it was with a scowl and a scold. Our fellow travelers were given different arrival instructions. None of us knew we were with Cairn. Utracks and Cairn had failed to share other logistical info with the guide and it was the basis for much sourness on her part taken out on customers. The bonus is that a Cairn tour costs $100's less than Utracks. So if you want a cairn tour, book direct with them and save your hard earned money. This is a true shame. Utracks will insist that communication about this switch is clear. It is not. I read my pre-departure and trip arrival packets like a little kid studying a christmas catalog. They make the Cairn travel partner switcheroo info subtly imbedded in a "travel voucher" that may have been in a document portal, but never in the materials sent as the very detailed arrival and preparation instructions. And even those instructions were different for other members of our group. When a traveler has saved for years, gotten precious time off work, trained for a beautiful trek, it is just wrong to treat that traveler's time and money so cavalierly. After several rounds of thoughtfully given feedback with utracks, their position is that this is a perfectly legal and common practice in the industry and my expectations are the issue. They are likely to defensively and elegantly feign dismay at this review and insist that their guides are seasoned pros. On our trip the guide was clearly an established mountain pro but her lack of process, her absolute unpleasantness and disinterest went far beyond being "direct". Being in her group was like spending 7 days as a dog worrying about when I'd be verbally assaulted next. Our little band of travelers bonded over the needless persecution. And to think we could've endured that for $100's less by booking with Cairn!

Terrible experience on self-guided cycling trip Prague to Vienna. Bike not tuned up upon delivery…read moreand zero support from UTRacks to locate a bike shop in foreign country to have it tuned up. Accommodation very dirty and poorly located. Worst was they changed our itinerary with no explanation - shunting us off to a small out of the way town, booked into a Soviet-era hotel that is run down and filthy. We booked this trip 4 months in advance and there were plenty of suitable 3 star hotels with bike storage available but UTracks prefers to shunt the paying customers to the cheapest options. I am an experienced cyclists - self guided trips in 6 different countries. Avoid UTracks!

Relaxing boat cruise & tour, beautiful view of the Rideau canal, locks & some history of Ottawa…read morefrom a wonderful guide! Overall great experience!

Staff were great, however not really worth the $60 price tag. Only minimal views from the canal and…read morelimited visibility. Tour information was nice, but would be better to save the money and take a bike ride or kayak instead

I've done a number of tours with Brew Donkey over the years (at LEAST 5) and they never cease to be…read moreentertaining. Getting to discover new breweries, distilleries, and mixing it all in with a lot of fun never gets old. The staff are great and really help to make the tour an overall enjoyable experience. If you haven't been on a Brew Donkey tour yet, do yourself a favour and grab a friend (or 15) and hop on that bus! Definitely looking forward for the next tour and every tour is different :)

Highly recommend Brad of Brew Donkey Tours and all of the tours. We highly enjoyed our tour which…read moreincluded a distillery and 2 breweries. The whole experience was well organized and well thought out. Shout out to our great driver Rita, who rocks! Can't wait for the next tour!

The original sign was introduced to York Street Plaza in 2017, and it was a major attraction. In…read more2019 upgraded version was installed made out of more durable materials with "Programmable LED lighting that will allow the sign to shine in an ever-changing palette of colours and patterns throughout the year." It is a great addition to Byward Market area.

This is a fun way to see Ottawa. You get a nice overview of sites on land then you head into the…read moreriver which gives you a great view of the city. We had an informative host. It was a fun way to start our visit in Ottawa. Thanks!

Not recommended to french speakers. It was not a good experience for us. We are a mixed language…read moregroup and specifically wanted a double language tour (it is advertised as such). The guide wants to speak english only and will ask to do so 2 minutes into the tour. The tour is short and very uninformative, mostly jokes about how bad the streets in Quebec are or how lazy the canadian politicians are. The bus is very loud which makes understanding the few informations given a challenge. I can guarantee you any ferry or bus tour i had in my life was better than this.

Tried this once when I had some friends in town, fun way to get from point A to point B and back…read moreagain. Good for seeing the canal without having to drive.

My experience had me shaking my fists at the sky and screaming "BIXIIIIIII!!!!"…read more On our second day in Ottawa, the Hubster and I realized that it's much easier to get around by bike than walking as things are a bit spaced apart, and there are a bajillion bike lanes in the city. We went to a bixi station and I put in my credit card to rent two bikes for the day. I hit "print code" and nothing happened. A bit annoyed, I made sure to set the next bike as "view code". I figured I could get the code to show up again for the first bike. WRONG. I called tech support and they told me to try again. When I put my credit card in again to see my order, I was unable to get to whatever the hell screen you need to see a code. Then the machine just died on me and set an "out of order" message. I called tech support AGAIN and the only solution was to go to the next closest station, about a 10 minute walk away. So apparently they can bill me wirelessly through their station, but head office can't use some system to unlock a bike for me. Once we got to the next station and finally unlocked another bike, we were off. I'm a frequent bike commuter and I realize that I've been spoiled by my crappy little bike. The bixi bikes are ridiculously heavy and clunky. This was a big problem as we hit some trails that ended in stairs with little ramps that we had to push the bikes up. They also don't offer locks, so if you want to stop somewhere that doesn't have a bixi station close by, you're kind of hooped. Or you sit on a patio and watch those bikes like a hawk, so you don't have to pay $1,000 for the lost/stolen bike. Luckily, most of the museums had bixi stations right outside. Next time we're in a city where we want to bike, we'll just rent one from a regular bike renting spot so we can rent normal, lighter bikes with locks.