Shore Excursions In & Around Saint John, New Brunswick

Welcome to Freedom Travel - Maritime Travel Company in Saint John, New Brunswick!

2012 Step-on & Cruise Ship Tours:

Rates for a private tour are based on a MAXIMUM of six people in a Mini-Van. We can accommodate larger groups, please e-mail us for details.

Our number one seller is Fundy Coast to Fundy Shore

St Martins is just the quaintest of fishing villages. A wonderful experience awaits you to visit the twinned covered bridges, lighthouses and even walk on the ocean floor – at low tide of course. It is a photographer’s delight. There will also be an opportunity to have a mug up of world famous seafood chowder(at your own individual cost)
Tour duration 5 hours
Cost per person $75.00 CDN
Van Cost for private tour for 6 or less people $375.00

St Andrews by the Sea

Historic St Andrews, at one time the summer resort for the rich and famous, is a delightful 6-hour tour. Museums, galleries, the country goal, time to shop and historic homes are just a few of the things we see & do on this tour. A visit to famous Algonquin Hotel, built in the 1800’s is sure to be a highlight. Enjoy some free time along Water Street to shop in the many unique antique gift shops and art galleries. Your guide will regale you with stories of the past and present.
Tour length: 6 hours
Cost per person: CA $90.00
Van Cost for private tour CA $410.00

Saint John Highlights Tour

•This tour is for pre-arranged groups of 20 or more people only. We do not take individual bookings
Experience Saint John up close and personal as our nationally certified guides bring the past to life through stories and visits to some of the interesting and well known landmarks in Saint John.
Visit Reversing Falls and learn the fascinating phenomena of how the tides reverse. See King Street, the shortest steepest main street in all of Canada. Your guide will offer a specialized tour that will be long remembered.
Tour length:2 hours
Cost per person $30.00 CDN

Back Roads By the Bay Tour

Back Roads By the Bay Tour
This six-hour tour will take you to some of the smaller rural communities surrounding Saint John. Discover country villages such as Kingston, with its historic church. We will see the heart of farm country and learn about one of the main stays of the New Brunswick economy. See spectacular scenery as we travel along the St John and Kennebecasis River. Stop at a country store for unique handcrafts and snacks. Keep a watch for covered bridges as there will be several enroute.
This tour is truly off the beaten path and unique to Freedom Tours.
Tour length: 6 hours
Cost per person: CA $90.00
Van Cost for private tour CA $410.00

Bay of Fundy Trail Tour

Join us on the ultimate Bay of Fundy experience in the Fundy Trail Parkway only a 1 hour drive from Saint John featuring scenic lookouts, footpaths, beaches and a suspension footbridge. We will visit the Big Salmon River Interpretive Centre to see a historical re-creation of the area's logging, fishing and shipbuilding days with interpretive displays and historic artifacts. The Bay of Fundy boasts the highest tides in the world and spectacular panoramic vistas of unspoiled natural beauty.
We will drive on the paved auto parkway hugging the coastal cliffs connecting paths and stairways down to pristine beaches with tumbling waterfalls. All this sea air and spectacular scenery is sure to give you a healthy appetite so we will stop in St Martin's for a bowl of famous Seafood Chowder (additional Cost at groups discretion).
Watch the Fundy Trail Video, St. Martins, NB, Canada
Tour Duration – 6 hours
Cost per person: $90.00 CDN
Van Cost for private tour for 6 or less people $410.00

Bay of Fundy Saw Mill project

This visit to the Fundy Trail will be the ultimate Bay of Fundy eco-experience. Visit a unique project along the Bay of Fundy which will display the type of logging and forest harvesting conducted by the original settlers and lumbering companies along the Bay of Fundy. Featuring the rugged coastal topography of the Fundy escarpment with its deep and steep river valleys, it is still possible to find trees that are 250 years old. The forest has reclaimed the many abandoned lumbering communities, which once dotted the coastline, leaving little trace of their existence.
Tour will include Scenic lookouts, footpaths to beaches and a suspension footbridge.
Tour Duration 6 hours
Cost $90.00
Private van for 6 or less people. $410.00

Please note, due to the approximate, one and ½ hour drive from Saint John to the Fundy Trail, we will not visit any parts of Saint John as part of this tour unlike our Fundy Coast to Fundy Shore Tour. TIDE SCHEDULE 2011 from Tourism Saint John.

Where Ghosts Goeth Forth and Treasure Lieth Hidden

Saint John has over 400 years of recorded history, some of the continents oldest cemeteries, several 200 year old homes and a street that is considered to have the finest intact collection of Victorian structures in Canada, is it surprising that this city has many tales of strange occurrences? Indeed, there are stories galore of things that go bump in the night, or slither though the banks of fog as it blots out the sun, and there have been sightings of swashbucklers, seaworn sailors, graveyard ghouls, and other manifestations of another dimension that have made their presence known to Saint Johners over the centuries.
Your guide, David Goss has collected these stories and will take you the places where they have occurred even unto the present day.
You will board the coach at the Marco Polo Terminal and begin your three hour tour.
Hear about the Ghost of fisherman Daniel Keymore, of traitor Benedict Arnold, of Major General Studholme, of the brave Lady La Tour. We will make an actual visit to the final resting place of 13,000 Loyalist Settlers….many of them unhappy as their sacred resting spot has lost all but 200 of its markers. Nonetheless, those that remain tell a poignant story of loss, hardship and sorrow.
Tour duration : Three hours
Please note the tour will include walking over uneven grounds and cobblestones. Suitable shoes are required
Cost per person: $45.00
Tour is best suited when your group is 10-20 people.
Tour is not suitable for younger children and those that find stories of death and tragedy disturbing.

 

Geocashing in Saint John

This walking tour will take you through a part of Trinity Royal, Saint John's Heritage Preservation Area, and beyond. The Trinity Royal Preservation Area is a 20-block area in uptown Saint John. Trinity Royal celebrates the history, architecture, culture, and business life of our city. It gets it's name from the soaring steeple of Trinity Royal Church, topped by its distinctive weathervane in the shape of a fish, which can be seen silhouetted against the sky. The streets, whether broad and tree-lined or narrow and sloping down to the harbour, still retain the Royal Family names lavished upon them over 200 years ago by the Loyalist settlers.
The city of Saint John designated Trinity Royal a Heritage Preservation Area in 1982 and continues to nurture the growth and preservation of the unique character of our wonderfully historic city.
Our guide will help you with the directions to the 13 caches and enjoy learning a bit about the city's history and exploring the uptown Saint John area. Enjoy this two hour excursion
Cost per person: $25.00

Blueberry  Signature Taste Tour

This tour is a guided “walking tour” that begins in a small wild blueberry “patch” where you can experience the early history, uses and harvesting methods, dating back to the time when the early pioneers came to North America and discovered this native plant. You then move on to a video and "photo storyboards" that tell the story of the progress of managing and growing Wild Blueberries, along with modern harvesting and cleaning methods, including a look at the on-site equipment.

Visitors who are lucky enough to drop in during the Wild Blueberry harvest will get a real-time view of the action. They will see how the berries look coming in fresh from the field, how they get filtered to eliminate grass and leaves and how the plant workers on the sorting line give the berries their final "hands-on" quality cleaning before flowing into the boxes for the consumer market. Out of harvest season there is a viewing area where you see the process of the sorting line and process of “from Blossom to Box”.

This tour also includes a viewing area where our gourmet sweet and savory food products (jams, vinaigrettes, etc) are processed by hand. And this tour wouldn't be complete without our “Signature Taste Tour”, a mouth-watering sampling of our many gourmet Wild Blueberry products, including the savory, "wild blueberries with a kick" products. All products are conveniently for sale in the adjacent “Wild Gift Shop”.
Tour length 4 hours
Cost per person $65.00

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Please note:

WE REQUIRE A CREDIT CARD AS A GUARANTEE FOR YOUR RESERVATION AT THE TIME OF BOOKING.
FULL PAYMENT WILL BE TAKEN THE DAY BEFORE YOUR EXCURSION OR YOU CAN PAY IN CASH DIRECTLY TO YOUR GUIDE PRIOR TO THE DEPARTURE OF YOUR TOUR.

WE WILL NOT TAKE MULTIPLE PAYMENTS FOR THE SAME GROUP. ONE PERSON MUST PAY FOR THE PARTY.

THE GUIDE WILL NOT ACCEPT MONEY FOR PAYMENTS OF TOUR, IF YOU WISH TO PAY CASH . PLEASE INFORM OFFICE STAFF AT TIME OF BOOK ING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO PAY CASH , OTHERWISE YOUR CREDIT CARD WILL BE CHARGED.

All prices quoted are in Canadian Dollars, we will also make change in Canadian dollars.
All timings we provide are on local time, ie, Atlantic Standard Time. Most cruise lines change their clocks to local timings. Carnival is the exception to this who stay on EST +1.
Your Freedom Travel guide will meet your party near the white with red trim lighthouse inside the Marco Polo terminal. If you dock at a port other then Marco Polo , look for us near the gangway. Marco Polo is the main dock and the only one where you will dock next to a brick building
They will be holding a Freedom Travel Sign Only. We can’t hold a sign with you individual group .
Call us 506-640-1682 ,if you believe you will be delayed or have any questions.
If your ship does not make port in time and there is not sufficient time to operate your excursion we will offer a full refund. If your ship does not arrive in Saint John at all we will offer a full refund.
If any member of your group has special needs or requests you must advise us at the time of booking as we can not make arrangements after this time.
All tours are operated at a gentle pace but some walking will be required on each tour as well as the ability to climb in and out of buses and some stairs
If any children are traveling at age 5 or under you must make us aware at the time of booking as a Car seat may need to be booked at an additional cost. This is applicable if you need a mini van, car seats are not required if you are in a bus.
The rate for a private tour is for 6 passengers MAXIMUM. It will operate in a mini van.
If you group is larger than 6 people and you still wish to go private, it will be an additional cost.

Otherwise the tour is offered in a 14 seater mini bus.