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wonderful guide great experience highly recommend for large families. covers a lot of ground in a short period of time gorgeous!

We had a wonderful experience on our tour with David, a knowledgeable and personable guide who grew up in the Sydney and Cabot Trail area. Our group of six was joined by a friendly couple, making a comfortable group of eight in an air-conditioned van.Everyone in our group agreed it was the best tour of our trip! David met us right outside the cruise terminal (we were sailing with Holland America) and was ready to go as soon as we disembarked. Throughout the tour, he shared fascinating insights about each location and even knew the best spots for clean restroom breaks—just let him know in advance.The company was also very mindful of cruise schedules, ensuring we returned with plenty of time before the ship’s departure. Highly recommended for anyone visiting the area!

Tom, our tour guide, was an excellent host. He knew all the perfect places to stop and showed us how incredibly beautiful and awe inspiring Sydney really is. This tour was the absolute highlight of our trip!

Bob did a great job as a tour guide. He filled in every square inch of time with history and fun facts!

The drive was beautiful, Tom was an excellent tour guide and driver. Best tour we have taken. He took us to see all the local places that you can’t see if doing a bus tour

It was a great place for a family to go. Kids enjoyed seeing craftsmen/women doing their trades from the old days. Unfortunately, my mother could not go because she is limited in walking and the trails are all gravel and would not support her wheelchair. She got to see some of the village from the hill where the bus driver dropped us and she got to go inside the very small museum. I think there are plans in the works to make the trail more handicapped friendly in the coming years. Overall, a great day!

The guide and driver were wonderful, with personal stories intermixed with history and pride in Cape Brenton! Got lucky with the fall colors and the did a great job adjusting the schedule and going farther while watching the time so that we were back with plenty of time to get back to the cruise ship

We took this tour as a shore excursion from our cruise stop in Sydney, NS. Both sites, the Highland Village as well as the Alexander Graham Bell Museum, provided a nice snapshot of two historical elements of the region. Our guide was very informative and flexible in accommodating any requests. The one thing that anyone on this tour needs to be aware of is the fact that it takes on average 50 min between each stop incl. cruise port. So, there is a significant amount of driving which in our case allowed us to see much of the beautiful scenery in the fall.

Punctual. Accommodated requests. Provided extra information about the area and people. Knowledgeable. Well worth it, highly recommended.

We enjoyed our day and Bob was an excellent guide. The Fortress of Louisbourg was interesting. One of our favorite parts was getting out to the lighthouse. There were only a few other people there so it was a great sight to take pictures and enjoy the views of the Harbor.

Bob was very personable and knowledgeable. He also was very accommodating since there was only 6 people on our tour. Excellent

It’s obvious that Michael is so proud to be from Cape Breton. He enthusiastically shows you the best views from the Cabot Trail and candidly describes what life is like on the island. He stops at artisan shops that have quality products without the hard sell. From the General Store to the hand blown glass shop to the Cape Breton chocolates, each place displays the talents of the locals. My mom really appreciated Michael’s knowledge about the Mi-kmaq Native Americans. There’s not enough time to see everything that the island has to offer but we felt like we really “knew” Cape Breton by the time we said goodbye to Michael.

While in Nova Scotia, my wife, son and I had the pleasure of an excellent tour provided by Blackwood Tours of Sydney. The cruise boat excursion filled fast and I was pleased to find this tour company available to allow us to visit the wonderful reconstructed French Fort Louisville. They met us at the cruise dock with a comfortable small bus. Our tour guide was Michael, a life-long Sydney resident with a real knack for story telling about the history of the fort. The fort is about a 40-minute drive or so from the cruise port, and Michael used the time well in giving us a flavor for Cape Breton Island.We did a stop by the Louisburg lighthouse, which was undergoing renovation, so we could not visit inside or close by, but we were able to visit a nearby beach with a commanding view of both the entire harbor as well as the seawall fortification of the reconstructed fort. We did a stop at the entrance visitor center which had excellent exhibits about the fort. The trip price included the entrance fee to the fort, but did not provide a guided tour. In my opinion the guided tour was a little superfluous, as there were numerous reenactors on the grounds, many of which had interested in detailed stories about the tale of the two sieges of the fort. The fort also had its unique display of a Lego reconstruction of the entire fort, of which only 20-25% has been rebuilt. Though that sounds small, I was born in Baltimore, MD, which has it owns well-known star fort, Fort McHenry, which was the origin of the US National Anthem. The reconstructed works of Fort Louisburg are over 3 times larger, and the original fort was over 6 times as large, so it was a monumental construction for such a frontier location.The ride back was also of interest, as Michael shared a lot of his thoughts, memories, and perspectives on the origin, growth, and changes in the Sydney area, with particular interest on the "take care of our own" approach of the people of Cape Breton Island. There was also a great success story in the rebound of the native Mi'kmaq First Nations people, who were removed from the original lands by the harbor and relocated to less attractive lands. They have since rebounded to take a leading role in the commercial development on Cape Breton. It was a very enjoyable tour. I highly recommend it to others. Take note that food and drink is not provided on the tour, so be sure to take along what you need.

This was a fun, whimsical, light hearted way to direct our wandering around an otherwise small and unremarkable port.(Sydney NS was lovely, but there wasn’t a lot to see).It’s cheap, so don’t expect the ritz, but for what it is, it’s great!

We went there in the fall, the colors on the trees were amazing! The fall smells were in the air. We did the tour of the distillery and then had appetizers and a tasting in the lounge. The atmosphere is pleasant with a river (which affects the taste of the product heavily) running through the middle of the property. The tour guide was knowledgeable and very pleasant, and the sampling we did was very good! If you are a whiskey fan I highly recommend a visit.