What do helicopter tours in Banff show you? — featuring Murray Seward (Canadian Outback Adventures & Events)

0:00 and with Canadian Outback adventures and events talking today with Carla our Alberta Adventure expert Carla how you doing good how about yourself good today we are talking about the variety of helicopter tours that we offer in the BAM area Carly you've had a chance to experience a few of these tourers what

0:16 do they like I have I've been out on the 30 minute mount of cineo Glacier and to be honest it doesn't matter what tour you take it's just the experience of flying over the Rocky Mountains in a helicopter it's completely awe inspired Ing and there's just you can't compare the beauty from what you see on ground

0:34 to what you see above when you're actually flying over those Glacier lakes and mountain peaks and uh snowcapped glaciers it's it's really beautiful to see it from there so tell me a little bit about the types of Tours that we have available yeah so we offer a range of different tours and uh this helps

0:50 guests who are coming to visit us in terms of their budget and time frame how long they want to go out on tour uh we do offer three different Scenic sightseeing tours uh the first is 12 minutes and it's called the three sisters Peak tour it offers just a really unique amazing experience for

1:07 that first time flyer um but you're going to be flying over some of the famous Canmore Peaks and uh the spray Lakes area a lot of people have said it's the best 12 minutes of their life if they've never been flying before it's just it's incredible uh those who maybe have been in the helicopter before or

1:24 are looking just to go a little bit longer and really delve deeper into the Rocky Mountains we have the 25-minute Royal Canadian tour and this gives uh it's the same as the as the three sisters Peak tour but it actually goes for a little bit longer so you actually get to go further into the goat and

1:40 Sundance ranges of the Rocky Mountains to explore the Alpine Meadows waterfalls and Glacier Lakes of that area that sounds so cool I'd love to be able to see that from a helicopter so you said you did the Mount of cinin what's that one like yeah I definitely highly personally recommend the 30- minute

1:57 mount to ciny Glacier tour if you have the time it's only a little bit longer but it is well worth it in the end it is similar to the first two sightseeing tours you will be going over the same landscape but more than that the uh pilot will whisk you away down to mount ainin and to kind of picture that Peak

2:15 you have to think it's the kind of like the matorn or the Everest of the Canadian Rockies it's just this gorgeous Peak that shoots up from the landscape so that in itself is just incredible to get to see that Peak but it's also known for its glaciers and hence the name of the tour the GLA the Mount of Cino and

2:32 Glacier tour we're um on that tour we actually hover right over top of the different glaciers so you really get to see the natural art form that a glacier is yeah that would be that'd be neat and especially nowadays I mean with talk of uh you know the changing landscape it's definitely a good time to go and look at

2:48 that what else can you tell me about these tours do you get a chance to take photos cameras are always welcome when you're in the sightseeing tours you're welcome to take as many H pictures as you want the nice thing about the sightseeing tours is we do obviously cater to uh tourists and to those who

3:04 are wanting to see these amazing views so um more often than not we actually keep the middle back seat free and we don't we don't try to ever put any guests in that seat we like to keep everybody at a window seat so they get those perfect camera moments now in terms of who can go that's a nice thing

3:21 about helicopter tours it is fully accessible we can take all ages out on helicopter tours and what's nice too is if you are bringing kids and you want to do a family activity don't be scared that helicopters are going to be you know too expensive for everybody in the family to enjoy we actually do um great

3:38 perks for kids flying with parents so kids under six are actually free and Kids 6 to 12 are half price so it's a very affordable accessible activity for families to go out on together um there is no age limit so according to the Flying laws uh babies are allowed as well as long as they are within your lap

3:58 wow that sounds amazing so for and totally memorable where are these tours leaving from how do you get to the helicopter yeah so our Hort we use is actually the Canmore Municipal heliport so it's actually just along the Trans Canada Highway um off the uh B Valley exit so it's very accessible for anybody

4:17 who's coming from Calgary or bamp or staying in the area now of course we do have international guests uh or even domestic guests that have flown in that's not a problem if you are within bamp or Canmore we are happy to pick you up in our shuttle as well you can leave the driving and the flying up to us that

4:35 sounds so great so it's super awesome so how would somebody book a tour like this yeah so definitely give us a call uh we're happy to speak with you uh with any guests who are interested uh we can definitely answer any questions they have uh speak about the different tours more in depth and uh all people have to

4:54 do is give us a call or an email we're accessible at our phone number 1 800 565 8735 extension2 or by email at reservations canadianoutback.com