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right on the waterfront, large, modern rooms, extensive buffet breakfast, and friendly staff make it a good choice all the same.
hilton.com Saint John is home to the
reversing falls, a phenomenon caused by the Bay of Fundy’s high tide rushing into the bay and being concentrated in a narrow gorge, creating rapids and whirlpools. Clients can observe from a lookout point in Fallsview Park, or get soaked on a jetboat ride at high or low tide.
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The New Brunswick Museum is
worth a visit too, particularly the hall of whales, packed with life-size models, skeletons and fascinating facts about these ocean giants – a great way for clients to whet their appetite before going on a whale-watching tour, often one of the highlights of any trip to the Canadian Maritimes.
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l A WHALE OF A TIME An hour and a half’s drive south from Saint John is Saint Andrews, a pretty seaside town that is New Brunswick’s hotspot for whale-watching tours. Boats venture out daily during the season – May to October – searching for finbacks, rights, humpbacks and minke whales, and passengers may spot
Zip it: Cape Enrage
Whale of a time: New Brunswick Museum
Mobile magic: Kingsbrae Garden
Surface tension: whale-watching
porpoises, seals and dolphins too. And it’s
not merely your common-or-garden
boats that visitors can
venture out on – they can choose from catamarans, tall ships and, with Fundy Tide Runners, small but solid Zodiacs, giving incredible proximity to the whales. A downpour of biblical
proportions rained off my whale-spotting Zodiac trip – a disappointment that underlines the need to give your clients time for more than one attempt. Fundy Tide Runners operates four trips a day, and if one is
cancelled another attempt is free of charge. I’d suggest having at the minimum one afternoon and the next morning in town so clients aren’t disappointed.
fundytiderunners.com There’s plenty to keep clients occupied in Saint Andrews in the meantime. At the Fundy Discovery Aquarium, visitors can see harbour seals and many smaller sea creatures, while Kingsbrae Garden is a lovely estate stocked with more than 2,500 varieties of trees and plants, plus a sculpture garden, its own herd of llamas, and a lovely cafe.
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When it comes to food, some of the very best in the province is on offer at Rossmount Inn, on the outskirts of the town. It ticks all the organic/local/foraged boxes and, more importantly, it tastes and looks amazing. The inn has 18 rooms, so your clients can have a few glasses of wine and roll up to bed without needing to drive. rossmount
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