Québec
Whale Tales: Adventures in Québec With Your Grandchild
Program No. 5455RJ
See feeding whales, visit giant sand dunes, embark on a marine safari and hear the story of local First Nations people as you explore the St. Lawrence River region with your grandchild.
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Participant Reviews
Based on 7 Reviews
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Hi, our experience with the grandparents/ grandchildren whale watching trip to Quebec was wonderful as you can see in our answers to the survey.
However we forgot to mention two points:
We wish some of the lectures could be divided as to be adjusted for children.
But even more important:
Rules for phone use for children could be implemented by RoadScholar
e.g. no phone during meals or lectures.
If the rules would come from you it would avoid discrepancies between differences of phone rules by different grandparents, ( as was mentioned by some other grandparents as well)
Again we enjoyed our trip and have wonderful memories.
Best,
Traudi Nichols, Carissa Wegner
— Review left July 25, 2024
Pleasantly amazed at the richness of the whale activity in a relatively unique location, Tadoussac.
— Review left July 22, 2024
A great opportunity for youngsters and grandparents to make new friends while enjoying natural beauty and learning A LOT about whales. Our leader Chantal was great at managing the group and enlivening us all with her love of her home province. I especially will remember the small museum in Tadoussac that displays skeletons of the different whale varieties. This visit helped me understand just how huge and magnificent these creatures are. The whole trip was educational and exciting, paced well for both generations.
— Review left August 14, 2022
Greater than wonderful!
My grandkids loved it! Highlights were the Tadoussac Hotel because it had a game room, lawn, pool & the kids could run free. Also, the whale-watching boat and the announcer who helped us spot the whales. Thirdly, our guide Conny Fricke---knowledgeable, patient, great with the kids.
Feedback: for the hotel meal service---kids do not enjoy a 3 hour meal. Serve the kids first, then they can be excused. I would MUCH rather pay a few extra dollars up-front than wait 2+ hours for the bill to arrive for my grandchild's $3.00 soft drink. That was some kind of torture!
The restaurant on the last day of our tour in Quebec City was ill-prepared for our group, slow service and very loud inside.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST.One guide is not enough for 27 people, half of whom are children. Even the crappy public schools in Utah don't ask that much of one person.
Thanks
Elaine Anderson
— Review left July 13, 2022
I have called to your rep to talk about our trip.He told me that someone will call me to discuss the problems that we incurred.Unfortunately no one called.My tel:12156806425.
Boris Kazansky
— Review left September 7, 2019
Whale Tales was a very enjoyable program for me and my grandson.
Hotel choices in Quebec City and in Tadoussac were excellent.
Meals for the adults were excellent, but the children did not always find them as interesting. For example, the main course at our farewell dinner, with excellent presentation, was duck topped with scallop potatoes then topped with sunflower seeds and surrounded with blackened vegetables. My grandson did not want anything to do with it. While I insisted that he at least try it, he would not touch it. If I have a complaint, it is simply that there should be a few more “kid-centric” offerings for at least some of the meals provided during the program, such as, hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza, macaroni and cheese, or chicken fingers.
Sally Kelner, Group Leader, did an excellent job keeping the children focused and the program itinerary on schedule. She has been in touch with me after the program ended sharing some of the photos she took throughout the week.
While we did have lunch during our bus trip from Quebec City to Tadoussac, the trip was long; if possible, having a second brief activity along the way should be a consideration, perhaps a movie relating to our planned activities later in the week, as was the case of a re-cap movie during the return trip. Having this second activity stop will help make the long bus trip more enjoyable.
The amount of free time provided was perfectly balance with scheduled activities. The children quickly made new friends and made good use this free time playing together as a group, both inside and outside.
While I have participated in several Road Scholar programs previously, this was the first program for my grandson, he had fun, and we are considering another program for next summer.
— Review left August 22, 2019
This program (Whale watching in Taddoussac) was an excellent program. Both my grandson and myself learned a lot, had a lot of fun and look forward to attending another RoadsScholar trip next summer.
— Review left July 14, 2019
