Montreal: Guided Helicopter Tour
★ 4.8 · 479 reviews
- 30m, Thirty minutes over the island
- Departs from Montreal
- Mobile voucher accepted
- Free cancellation
A helicopter ride Montreal gives you a fast aerial view of the city. We compared 14 flights, prices from $161, free cancellation, and the top tour rated 4.8 from 479 reviews. Your fare includes a 30-minute flight over the Olympic Stadium and Saint Lawrence River.
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Montreal flight$161
Today's lowest Montreal helicopter ride across all 14 tours
Average rating
All 14 tours44
21,626 verified reviews across 14 tours
Time in the air
Shortest to longest10–30min
Shortest: Mont Tremblant flight
Longest: Montreal island flight
Everything you can book here
Two flights are the whole of it: thirty minutes over the island from $161, or ten minutes over Mont Tremblant, about 130 km from the city. The other twelve trips cost less — a river cruise is $32, an Old Montreal walk $25, or take a day trip from Montreal to Quebec City or the Laurentians. All fourteen, compared below.
★ 4.8 · 479 reviews
★ 4.9 · 119 reviews
★ 4.7 · 1 353 reviews
★ 4.2 · 2 306 reviews
★ 4.2 · 2 259 reviews
★ 4.8 · 1 467 reviews
★ 4.9 · 786 reviews
★ 4.7 · 862 reviews
★ 4.4 · 3 462 reviews
★ 4.1 · 3 529 reviews
★ 4.4 · 3 068 reviews
★ 4.4 · 1 042 reviews
★ 4.3 · 854 reviews
★ 4.4 · 40 reviews
Two questions
Answer what matters most and the page narrows fourteen trips down to one.
See it before you pay for it
Three views of Montreal, filmed: from a helicopter over the island, from the water on the St Lawrence, and on foot through Old Montreal — so you can see which one is worth the money before you book.
Side by side
Most people compare two or three before booking. Price, length and what you actually get vary more than the ratings do — the table below has all fourteen so you are choosing with the full picture, not half of it.
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| Montreal: Le Bateau-Mouche St. Lawrence Sightseeing Cruise | TOP PICKMontreal: Guided Helicopter Tour | Montréal: The Original Old Montréal Walking Tour | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price per person | $32 | $161 | $25 |
| What it is | Guided river cruise | Helicopter flight over the island | Guided walk through Old Montréal |
| Time it takes | 1h 30m | 30 minutes | 2 hours |
| What you see | The Old Port and skyline from the water | The whole island, Mount Royal to the river | Cobbled streets and Old Montréal’s history |
| Guide | Live commentary on board | Licensed pilot | Certified local guide |
| Booking needed | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Can move for weather | No, rain or shine | Can move for wind or snow | No, rain or shine |
| Best for | A quick look at the river | Seeing the whole island at once | History, on foot |
| Check dates | Book this one→ | Check dates |
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Verdict
It is the only helicopter that lifts off from Montreal itself, thirty minutes over the island for $161, and it carries 479 reviews at 4.8 — the stronger record of the two flights sold here. The other leaves near Mont Tremblant, about 130 km away, a separate trip. Book that one only when the mountain, not the city, is where you are headed.
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Fourteen listings show up in a Montreal tour search, and twelve of them are not flights: river cruises, the Old Port wheel, walking tours, buses and day trips. Winter wind and low cloud can push a flight to another day, so book a date you can move. If $161 is more than you want to spend, the St Lawrence cruise below runs from $32.
Two-minute check
Budget, time in the city, and whether you want the view from above decide it more than anything else. Answer three quick questions and get a match before you pay, not at the meeting point.
How many days are you in Montreal?More days means more room for a flight that needs a clear morning
How do you feel about being up in a helicopter?The alternatives give you the same views from a boat or your feet
What matters most for this one thing you book?This is the answer that decides which trip you actually book
You’ll get the one that fits your answers, and the thing about it that catches people out.
Six ways to see it
Ratings are the operators’ own numbers on GetYourGuide, published as they publish them. We do not write reviews, and we do not blend everyone’s score into one of our own.
★★★★★
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All fourteen Montreal trips on this page, rated on GetYourGuide.
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From $161 · 479 reviews
★★★★★
Thirty minutes over the island with a licensed pilot: the Olympic Stadium, Downtown, Mount Royal, Parc Jean Drapeau, the Jacques Cartier Bridge and the St Lawrence, one after another. It is the one helicopter flight on this page that actually departs from the city, and the reviews reflect that: rated 4.8 across 479 flights.
Mont Tremblant: Helicopter Tour with Optional Stopover
From $209 · 119 reviews
★★★★★
Ten, twenty or thirty minutes over Mont Tremblant with a private pilot, plus an optional stopover on the mountain. Reviewers rate it higher than the Montreal flight, 4.9 across 119 flights, but it lifts off near Mont Tremblant, not in Montreal — budget the drive before you book it as a day trip.
Montreal: Le Bateau-Mouche St. Lawrence Sightseeing Cruise
From $32 · 2,306 reviews
★★★★☆
Ninety minutes aboard Le Bateau-Mouche through the Old Port and along the St Lawrence, with the same skyline the helicopter shows from above, just from the water. At $32 it is the cheapest way to see the river, and it has more reviews than any flight here: 2,306 of them.
Montréal: The Original Old Montréal Walking Tour
From $25 · 1,467 reviews
★★★★★
Two hours through Vieux-Montréal’s cobbled streets with a certified guide who knows the city’s history rather than a script. Rated 4.8 across 1,467 reviews, it is the highest-rated walk on this page, and it costs less than a tenth of the helicopter.
From Montreal: Quebec City and Montmorency Falls Day Trip
From $70 · 3,068 reviews
★★★★☆
Twelve hours by bus to Quebec City’s old town and Montmorency Falls, a waterfall taller than Niagara. It is the most-booked day trip on this page, 3,068 reviews at 4.4, for people who want a whole day out of Montreal rather than thirty minutes above it.
Montreal: La Grande Roue de Montréal Entry Ticket
From $24 · 1,353 reviews
★★★★★
An entry ticket to La Grande Roue de Montréal, the city’s observation wheel, 60 metres above the Old Port. At $24 it is the least expensive way to see Montreal from height, and 1,353 reviews back it at 4.7.
What it really costs
A helicopter Montreal flight costs $161; the Mont Tremblant flight costs more, at $209. Everything else on this page costs less, several under $30.
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| What you do | Price | What that buys | Cancellation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tickets and short experiences | $24 | The observation wheel, the digital art space, or a chef-led cooking class | Check each listing |
| Old Montreal walking tours | $25 | Self-guided or small-group, through the old town | Free on some listings |
| River cruises | $32 | Guided sightseeing on the St Lawrence | Check the listing |
| Bus tours | $48 | Guided city tour, or hop-on hop-off over two days | Free cancellation |
| Day trips | $70 | Full days to Quebec City or the Laurentians | Free cancellation |
| Helicopter flights | $161 | Thirty minutes over Montreal, or ten over Mont Tremblant | Can move for weather |
The honest answer
A river cruise shows the skyline for a fifth of the price, and the walking tours cost even less. What the flight adds is height: the whole island at once, from above Mount Royal and the Jacques Cartier Bridge, in thirty minutes.
Minute by minute
Montreal winters and spring wind move flight times more than they cancel them outright. If the sky is your priority, leave a spare morning open rather than betting everything on one slot.
Arrive early for a short safety briefing and to be weighed in with the other passengers — helicopters fly to a strict weight limit. Headsets go on before the doors close.
The aircraft climbs out along the St Lawrence first, giving a few seconds to get oriented before the skyline properly opens up.
The glass towers of Downtown Montreal, then the tilted tower of the Olympic Stadium, the world’s tallest inclined structure, off to one side.
The mountain the city is named for, its cross visible from above, then the river islands of Parc Jean Drapeau and the old Expo 67 grounds beneath the rotor blades.
The bridge crosses the full width of the St Lawrence below, with barges and pleasure boats — some of them the same cruises you could have booked instead.
The last stretch traces the Old Port and Vieux-Montréal’s rooftops before the aircraft lines up with the pad again.
Thirty minutes end to end, weighed and briefed included. Most flights land close to the time you booked, weather allowing.
Best time of day
Helicopter flights need daylight, so the earliest slot of the day is the one to book if that week’s forecast looks uncertain. Save La Grande Roue for after the sun goes down instead: Canada’s largest observation wheel lights up over the Old Port once it is dark.
On the ground
The streets a guided walk actually covers, on foot, for a tenth of the flight’s price.
One of the stops on the small-group walking tour through the old town.
Sixty metres up, the cheapest view of the Old Port on this page.
What the twelve-hour day trip from Montreal reaches, waterfall included.
What it's like
Search for a helicopter ride Montreal and the results suggest a choice. Book one and you find there almost isn’t one: the whole market is two flights, one over the island and one an hour and a half away. Everything else that comes up next to them is not a flight at all.
The island flight lifts off in Montreal itself — twenty or thirty minutes over the Olympic Stadium, Downtown, Mont Royal, Parc Jean Drapeau, the Jacques Cartier Bridge and the St Lawrence River, priced from $161. It carries 479 reviews at 4.8, the longest record of any trip on this page, and it is the only helicopter that actually leaves from the city whose name is on the ticket.
The second flight goes to Mont Tremblant instead: ten minutes in the air, private, with a licensed pilot, from $209, plus a 30-minute stopover on the mountain if you want to add it. Tremblant is about 130 km from Montreal, so this is not an add-on to a city trip — it is its own day, drive included.
That is the entire helicopter market here: two operators, two routes, no third option waiting to be discovered. A search for “helicopter tour Montreal” keeps surfacing the same pair however it is phrased, because there is nothing else behind them.
Twelve other trips book out of the same city and cost a fraction of either flight. A river cruise runs $32 or $35, a walk through Old Montreal $25 or $42, a bus tour $48 or $51, a day trip to Quebec City or the Laurentians $70 or $88. La Grande Roue observation wheel is $24, the OASIS digital art space $26, a chef-led cooking class $126.
None of them puts you in the air, and none pretends to. What they give instead is height without a helicopter — the wheel’s sixty metres over the Old Port — or the city at street level, which the flight cannot show you at all.
Montreal winters and spring wind move helicopter departures more than any schedule promises; the cruises, walks and buses keep running on a steadier timetable. Book the flight with a spare day in hand if the season is uncertain, and treat the cheaper trips as the option that actually works whatever the forecast does.
While you’re here
If $161 is more than you want to spend on thirty minutes, three trips cover most of what people are actually after: the view without the aircraft, the river instead of the sky, and the old town on foot. All three sit in or beside the Old Port.
Entry ticket · ★ 4.7 (1 353)
$24See dates
90 minutes · ★ 4.2 (2 306)
$32See dates
2 hours · ★ 4.8 (1 467)
$25See datesPractical
Five things decide how the day goes: which flight or trip you book, how far ahead you book it, how you get to the meeting point, whether the weather that week is on your side, and whether Mont Tremblant is worth the trip out.
Lifts off in the city itself, over the Olympic Stadium, Downtown, Mont Royal and the St Lawrence, from $161. 479 reviews at 4.8.
A private flight with a licensed pilot, from $209, with an optional 30-minute mountain stopover. 119 reviews at 4.9.
The Montreal flight is sold as a 20- or 30-minute departure on the same booking page; $161 buys the longer one.
The Montreal flight flies as a small group; the Tremblant flight is private, just your own party in the aircraft.
Both flights cost more than everything else on this page — $161 is the cheaper of the two.
These are the only two helicopter tours running out of Montreal. A search for more turns up the same pair again.
Canada’s largest observation wheel, in the Old Port, from $24. 1,353 reviews at 4.7.
Ninety minutes on the St Lawrence from $32, or a guided 3.5-hour version from $35.
A 2-hour walking tour from $25, or a small-group award-winning version from $42.
Quebec City and Montmorency Falls from $70, or the Laurentian Mountains from $88.
A traditional ghost walk through Old Montreal, 90 minutes, from $25.
A double-decker bus you can use across two days, from $48.
Six of the fourteen trips here carry GetYourGuide’s free cancellation tag; the two flights do not.
Both helicopter tours run all year, but slots and weather windows fill before the week you fly.
The Quebec City and Laurentian day trips ask for at least two hours’ notice before pickup.
The Michelin-trained chef’s class needs at least eight hours’ notice before your seat is confirmed.
A windy week can push a helicopter departure to another slot; the cruises, walks and buses keep running.
The fare on the operator’s own page and on GetYourGuide is the same fare.
No transfer to plan — it lifts off from Montreal itself, the only flight here that does.
About 130 km from Montreal, so budget the drive on top of the ten minutes in the air.
The walking tours and the ghost walk all start in the old town, close to the Old Port.
The day trip to Quebec City and Montmorency Falls includes pickup, so you are not driving yourself.
Marked “Likely to sell out” on its own listing — book before the week you want it.
Both sit in the Old Port, an easy walk from each other.
Best time
Fall colour draws people to book the flight most, but Montreal winters and spring wind move dates more than any calendar promises. Cruises and walks run to a steadier schedule.
Jun – Aug
Long days and Montreal’s most settled stretch of the year for a flight to actually go up. The Old Port and the river cruises are also running their fullest summer schedule.
Sep – Oct
The best month for colour from the air, but the least predictable: flights move with the wind more than the calendar. Cruises and walking tours keep running either way.
Dec – Feb
The coldest months, and the ones most likely to ground a flight for a day or two. The walks and the wheel keep going; the outdoor cruises mostly do not run.
Mar – May
Ice breaks up on the river and the wind picks up before it settles. Good month for the digital art space and the walking tours; the least reliable for the helicopter.
Worth knowing
Only two of the fourteen trips here are actual flights. The rest are cruises, walks, buses, tickets and a cooking class — useful to know before “helicopter ride Montreal” is assumed to mean more than two operators.
Mont Tremblant is not a Montreal add-on. It is about 130 km out, and the ten-minute flight there is a separate day, not a side trip tacked onto the city flight.
Neither helicopter flight carries GetYourGuide’s free cancellation tag. Six of the other twelve trips do — check the listing itself before assuming a refund is standard.
The Montreal flight is sold in two lengths. Twenty and thirty minutes are both on the same listing; $161 is the price for the longer one.
Flights move for weather more than the calendar admits. Montreal winters and spring wind ground helicopters for days at a time; the cruises and walks keep to a steadier schedule.
La Grande Roue is worth doing after dark. Canada’s largest observation wheel is lit at night over the Old Port, and it costs a fraction of the flight.
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Straight answers
The flight over the island starts at $161 for thirty minutes (or a shorter twenty-minute option on the same listing), rated 4.8 across 479 reviews. The Mont Tremblant flight costs more, from $209 for ten minutes, because it is private and includes a licensed pilot.
That is the whole of the market here: one flight over the island, one over Mont Tremblant. The other twelve trips on this page — cruises, walking tours, buses and day trips — are real alternatives, not more flights hiding under different names.
It covers the Olympic Stadium, Downtown Montreal, Mont Royal, Parc Jean Drapeau, the Jacques Cartier Bridge and the St Lawrence River in one loop. A shorter twenty-minute version is on the same listing if half an hour is more than you need.
About 130 km. The helicopter flight there is ten minutes and private, from $209, but getting to the helipad is its own drive — treat it as a separate day, not an extension of a Montreal city trip.
Twelve trips on this page cost less than either flight: a river cruise from $32, a walk through Old Montreal from $25, a bus tour from $48, day trips to Quebec City or the Laurentians from $70, and La Grande Roue observation wheel from $24.
September and October give the best colour from the air, but it is also the least predictable stretch for wind. Summer, June through August, is the steadiest season for a flight to actually go up.
Both operators fly through winter, but Montreal’s cold and wind ground flights more often than in summer. The wheel, the walks and the indoor digital art space keep running regardless of the forecast.
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Prices, ratings and reviews are read off the live GetYourGuide listings for all fourteen trips, and updated with the page.
Every trip bookable out of Montreal in this niche is here, both helicopter flights included. Nobody pays to be featured.
Twelve of the fourteen trips on this page are cruises, walks, buses and tickets, not flights. We call them what they are.
That flight lifts off about 130 km from Montreal. We say so here rather than let the drive surprise you at the pad.
The answer
Thirty minutes over Montreal from $161 is the only flight that lifts off in the city itself; Mont Tremblant is a separate day, 130 km out. If that is more than you want to spend, a river cruise, a walk through Old Montreal or the view from La Grande Roue cover most of the same ground for a tenth of the price.
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