Montreal Helicopter Tour: Both Flights, Compared

Fourteen listings show up when you search for things to do here, and the honest count is what actually leaves the ground: two. The first is the flight this page is named for — a thirty-minute Montreal helicopter tour over the island itself, from $161, flown in a small group. The second lifts off roughly 130 km away, over Mont Tremblant, for ten minutes at $209, booked as a private flight rather than a shared cabin.

Everything else in the fourteen — the river cruises, the observation wheel, the walking tours, the buses, the day trips, the cooking class and the immersive art space — moves at ground level or on the water. None of them fly, and none of them should be confused with either flight just because the search results put them on the same page.

In French this same booking turns up as a tour hélicoptère Montreal, and in Spanish it is often typed as tour Montreal en español — same thirty-minute flight, same price, converted at whatever currency the checkout shows.

That leaves a real choice with only two branches: fly over the island you are actually visiting, or fly over a mountain range about 130 km north, saved for a different day of the trip.

Not every search that lands on this page is about flying. tour cycliste Montreal, tour cycliste Montreal 2025 and tour cycliste Montreal 2026 are the city's annual cycling event, not a booking here — tour de velo Montreal is the same event in different words. tour de l'horloge Montreal is the Clock Tower on the Old Port waterfront, a landmark you walk past rather than fly to. nouvelle tour Montreal usually means a new office or condo building going up downtown, and tour de ile Montreal 2026 is the cycling event again, dated. If you typed Montreal night tour, that's an evening on foot too — Old Montreal's ghost walk runs after dark, not a helicopter.

None of those six are on this page for a reason: this page is only the two flights.

The island is still visible without paying for altitude. A Montreal cruise tour on the St Lawrence runs $32 for ninety minutes, or $35 for the longer, guided version at three and a half hours — both stay on the water below the flight path rather than above it. La Grande Roue in the Old Port puts you sixty metres up for $24, no flight required.

On foot, the original walking tour through Old Montreal runs $25 for two hours, and the small-group version, capped at ten people, is $42. After dark, a ghost tour Montreal walk through the same streets is $25, ninety minutes among the haunted-city stories rather than the skyline.

For a full day rather than an hour or two, a guided bus tour of the city runs $51 for three and a half hours, and the day trip to Quebec City and Montmorency Falls is $70 for a full twelve hours away from Montreal entirely. Both cost less than the island flight and neither leaves the ground.

None of these replace what flying over the island actually shows — the scale of the island from above is a different thing entirely — but they are the honest alternative for a trip that doesn't have $161 to spare on this one afternoon.

Both flights are labelled differently on their listings, and the two labels mean different things at the price. The island flight is small group: your seat is booked alongside other travellers on the same departure, which is how $161 stays the cheaper of the two fares. The Mont Tremblant flight is private: the cabin is booked as your own group rather than shared with strangers, which is part of why $209 costs more for a third of the flight time.

Neither style is better on its own — it depends on whether you want the lower fare of a shared cabin or the private cabin that comes with the Mont Tremblant flight. Neither flight lists free cancellation the way six of the site's ground listings do, so the booking style is the real trade-off between the two fares, not flexibility.