Visit Canada


	Three-Day Niagara Falls and Toronto General Educational Trip Download printable version


Day One	Wednesday, Thursday or Friday
	Depart for Ontario on a climate-controlled and restroom-equipped motorcoach.
3:30 pm	Arrive in Niagara Falls where you will meet your VISIT CANADA guide, and begin your visit with a genuinely unforgettable ride on the Maid of the Mist (time and schedule permitting).
5:00 pm	After your Maid of the Mist ride, your guide will lead you on a brief walking orientation tour, then youíll be free for an hour for exploring and souvenir shopping. Ask one of your friends to take your picture in front at the edge of the falls.
6:30 pm	Youíll have dinner this evening at Planet Hollywood, then meet the bus and depart on a 90-minute ride into Toronto.
9:30 pm	Arrive at the deluxe Delta Chelsea Hotel in downtown Toronto, check-in and call it a day.
Day Two:	Thursday, Friday or Saturday
8:30 am	Full Canadian breakfast in the hotel.
9:30 am	Reassemble in the lobby, then depart on city sightseeing tour that will include stops at major cultural areas in the city. A walking tour of Chinatown, and a visit to the Kensington Market, a sprawling, international open-air Marketplace, with people from more than 30 cultural backgrounds will be the cultural highlights.
11:30 am	After lunch, you'll be free for an hour to browse among the more than 330 retail stores in the largest and busiest indoor shopping galleria in North America. The tour will end at Toronto's famous Eaton Centre, where you will have lunch on your own at the Food Court (where there are so many fast food restaurants in one room you won't know where to begin).
1:00 pm	After lunch, transfer to the internationally renowned Royal Ontario Museum, for an early afternoon visit to its 45 galleries featuring art, archaeology and science in a quarter million square feet of exhibit space.
3:00 pm	Meet the bus and depart for a short visit to Queen Street West, a trendy shopping district where young people of Toronto go to shop and eat.
4:30 pm	Meet the bus and transfer back to your hotel to and freshen up and dress for dinner.
6:45 pm	Reassemble in the lobby then depart for dinner and an evening of sorcery, pageantry and horsemanship in the Spanish castle of Count Don Raimundo II.
7:30 pm	There, upon arrival, you will take a journey back to 11th Century Spain, in the time of El Cid, where chivalry and knights in shining armor still exist.
8:00 pm	The evening will begin in the Grand Arena where you will be served a four-course dinner, as eight rare Andalusian stallions perform military drills with rigorous precision.
10:00 pm	The games will culminate with an authentic jousting tournament, in which all the spectacularly costumed knights compete (at full gallop) to unhorse each other for the right to choose the Queen of Love and Beauty (possibly you or one of your classmates!).
10:15 pm	Meet the bus and return to the hotel.
Day Three:	Friday, Saturday or Sunday
7:30 am	Full breakfast in the hotel.
8:45 am	Bring your bags to the lobby and load them on the bus between 8:45 am and 9:00 am.
9:00 am	Depart on a short ride to Front Street on Torontoís immaculate subway. There, upon arrival at cavernous Union Station, you will walk via the skywalk to a 10:00am behind-the-scenes tour of Torontoís remarkable SkyDome. The tour will include visits to a skybox, the visitorsí dressing room and, time and events permitting, an exciting walk onto the playing field. After your SkyDome tour, walk next door to the CN Tower where you will ascend more than 1100 feet (the equivalent of 110 stories) in an exterior, windowed elevator, to the observation deck of the world's highest free-standing structure. There (at almost twice the height of the Eiffel Tower) your Toronto visit draws to a close with one of the world's most spectacular panoramic views. You'll return to earth at 15 miles per hour, the same speed as if you were dropping with an open parachute, then meet the bus on Front Street and depart lunch.
12:30 pm	Transfer to the Queenís Quay Terminal for an inexpensive lunch on your own at one of its many fast-food restaurants, including crÍperies, pizzerias, salad bars, seafood shops and bakeries. After lunch you'll have a few minutes for exploring or gift shopping among its dozens of trendy retail stores.
2:00 pm	Meet the bus and depart for the United States.