Sugar Shack Full-Day Tour with Maple Taffy from Montreal
ID: GYG948552-1477354
Category:
Country: Canada
Duration:
06:00 hours
Description
Experience the heart of Quebec's culinary heritage with a visit to a traditional cabane à sucre. Learn about the history and techniques of syrup-making, and enjoy a delicious Quebecois meal.
Experience the heart of Quebec's culinary heritage with a visit to a traditional cabane à sucre. Be picked up from your hotel and taken to a charming sugar shack, where you can witness the process of maple syrup production.
Learn about the history and techniques of syrup-making, and enjoy a delicious Quebecois meal featuring tire d'érable (maple taffy), baked beans, ham, and pancakes with fresh maple syrup.
Whether you’re visiting in the heart of syrup season or enjoying the maple treats year-round, this tour offers an unforgettable taste of Quebec’s vibrant culture and history.
Depart from Montreal at 10:00am and begin our Sweet Journey for the day!
Historically, sugar shacks were developed through a combination of Native American and European innovations. Till now, it is still a primarily family-related cottage industry in Quebec.
We will visit one of the most popular Sugar Shacks Cabin-Chez Dany.
Chez Dany shows a country scenery full of charm and offers a sweet traditional French-Canadian style meal, almost every dish is bathed in maple syrup: ham, baked beans, sausages, eggs, and pancakes.
Enjoy their hospitality and conviviality with the delicious food and the beautiful Quebec's traditional music!
After the meal, take a Maple taffy as your dessert. Maple taffy is a sugar candy made by boiling maple sap past the point where it would form maple syrup, but not so long that it becomes maple butter or maple sugar. It is part of traditional culture in Quebec, Eastern Ontario, New Brunswick and northern New England.
Leave around 2:30pm, and arrive Montreal around 4:00pm.
Highlights
- Satisfy your sweet tooth with a visit to a traditional sugar shack in Quebec
- Learn about the history and techniques of syrup-making from a local guide
- Enjoy a delicious Quebecois meal featuring tire d'érable and fresh maple syrup
- Witness the process of maple syrup production and taste the sweet nectar
- Savor a meal of tire d'érable, baked beans, ham, and pancakes with maple syrup
Guiding languages
INCLUDED
- Complimentary pickup and dropoff from Montreal downtown hotel
- Professional Multi-lingual tour guide
- Buffet sugar shack lunch
- Maple syrup tasting
- Taxes
- Gratuities
NOT INCLUDED
- Personal expenses
- Alcoholic Beverages
When should I book?
To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.
Cancellations
This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 24 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 24 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.