Montreal Maple Syrup Sugaring Season Sugar Shack Experience & Sightseeing Tour

Join us for our very interesting 2 day trip for one of the truly original Canadian experiences -- the Quebec Sugar Shack experience during maple sugaring season. 

Visiting a sugar shack during maple syrup sugaring season is a classic Quebecois experience. Our tour includes an authentic rural Quebecois lunch at a sugar shack with live Quebec folk music. Also included is a guided city tour of Montreal, a visit and guided tour at the impressive Notre-Dame Basilica and a visit to the new Grevin wax museum. And if you enjoy casinos, the beautiful Casino de Montreal is just 10 minutes away from our hotel during your free evening. 
2-Day Trip
Feb 24-25, 2018

Trip Highlights

  • Round trip transportation on deluxe bus. 
  • One night's accommodation at Hotel Ville-Marie right in downtown Montreal
  • Sugar Shack Experience on Mt. Rigaud
  • All you can eat Authentic Sugar Shack Lunch Feast with live music
  • Guided city tour of Montreal
  • Admission to Notre-Dame Basilica and guided tour
  • Admisison to Grevin Montreal Wax Museum
  • Hot buffet breakfast 
  • Complimentary bottled water and snacks on bus
  • Escorted tour with services of a ShortTrips.ca tour director 
  • All tips. 

Pickup Locations

Approximate Return Times Sunday
  • Whitby 8:15 PM
  • Scarborough 8:45 PM
  • York Mills 9:15 PM
  • Vaughan 9:45 PM
  • Mississauga 10:15 PM

Tour Date

2-Day Trip
Feb 24-25, 2018

Price

All prices are per person, in Canadian dollars. HST is extra.
  • Double $349
  • Single $429
  • Triple $329
  • Quad $309
To book over the phone
please call (905) 891-0111

Single Supplement

  • We do not charge single supplements or surcharges if you are willing to share your room with one other person. Are you travelling by yourself? We guarantee to find you a roommate of the same gender or we pay the surcharge!
  • If you prefer to have a private room by yourself, that is not a problem, please select the Single Occupancy option and pay the single supplement. 

Travelling with Children

  • Children 10+ are welcome on this, same price as adults.  

​Cancellations & Refunds

  • Due to the short time before the tour date, no cancellations or refunds after booking has been done. 
  • Your seat is fully transferable to anyone else up to the time of departure without penalty. 

Trip Highlights

Sucrerie de la Montagne Sugar Shack

Sucrerie de la Montagne is an authentic “sugar shack” in Quebec, one hour west of Montreal. Designated an official Québec Heritage site, it's located in the midst of a 120-acre forest of century-old maples atop Mont Rigaud and transports its visitors back in time, providing them with a momentary glimpse of life as it truly was for Québec and Canadian pioneers.

Long ago it was here, a single clapboard building nestled in the heart of a maple grove on Chemin St-Georges. Today it is still here, in all its splendour, but now part of what has become almost a village, featuring a group of buildings that seem to leap off a page from a Canadian history book. A door squeaks open. You have travelled back in time. Welcome into a world of Québec tradition lived through the timeless experience of “sugaring off.”
Today, you will experience a "sugaring off" festival. You'll start with a tour of the sugar shack, exploring how maple syrup is tapped and made, and then of course, you will sit down to a classic rural Quebecois lunch.

You will also have an opportunity to explore the sugar shack grounds and even shop in the general store for products that you are unlikely to find anywhere outside of Quebec. Bring your cameras, this sugar shack abounds with photo opportunities. 
Here's the "eat-as-much-as-you-like" menu, served at tables: 
  • Soupe au pois du Montagnard (mountain dweller's pea soup)
  • Pain croûté de la paysanne (farm-style crusty bread)
  • Jambon fumé à l'érable (maple-smoked ham)
  • Fèves au lard de chantier (wood-fired baked beans)
  • Omelette soufflée de la fermière (farm-style omelette soufflé)
  • Saucisses de campagne (country-style sausages)
  • Ragoût de boulettes (traditional meatball stew)
  • Oreilles de crisse (crispy-fried pork rinds)
  • Pommes de terre pilées à l'ancienne (old-style mashed potatoes)
  • Tourtière de la beauceronne (meat pie from Québec’s Beauce region)
  • Homemade fruit ketchup & pickles
  • Sugar pie
  • Pancakes with maple syrup
  • Tea or coffee

Guided City Tour of Montreal 

The tour will be a combination of a bus tour and a walking tour. Some of the sights that we will see will include Notre Dame Basilica, Place Royale, Place d'Armes, the Sulpicians' Seminary, the Bank of Montréal, City Hall, Château Ramezay, the Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel and Bonsecours Market. 

Grevin Montreal

The Grevin museum is the first Grevin property outside France and features wax models of people relevant to Canadian and Québécois history and culture. 

The museum contains some 120 characters arranged in scenes from the history of Canada from Jacques Cartier to Justin Trudeau and international figures such as Elizabeth II, Albert Einstein, Lady Gaga, Mahatma Gandhi, Donald Sutherland, Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Campbell and more. 

The Museum also has a wonderful gift shop which will be kept open for our group after closing time. 

Notre Dame Basilica

Montréal's famous landmark, the Notre-Dame Basilica, is a visually stunning masterpiece with carved wood, paintings, gilded sculptures and stained-glass windows. Built in 1829 on the site of an older and smaller church, it also sports a famous Casavant organ and the Gros Bourdon, said to be the biggest bell in North America.

We will be visiting the Basilica. Admission to the basilica and a guided tour are included.