About Atlantic Tours & Travel
Full-service Dartmouth-based tour operator, established 1968, running escorted motorcoach tours, city-stay vacation packages, student educational travel, customized private cruise shore excursions and kilted step-on guides across Nova Scotia, year-round.
Features & Highlights
Detailed Information
Atlantic Tours & Travel is a full-service tour operator based in Dartmouth and established in 1968: more than half a century of running Nova Scotia for visitors who would rather leave the logistics to a crew that has done it ten thousand times. The company runs escorted motorcoach tours across the province, city-stay vacation packages, student educational travel, customized private cruise shore excursions, and kilted step-on guides for group and convention day trips. Every itinerary is handled end to end, covering accommodation, sightseeing, meals, and transportation, which is the difference between touring Nova Scotia and merely visiting it. They anchor our Halifax tours listings.
What They Run
The motorcoach program is the backbone: multi-day escorted itineraries that assemble the province's greatest hits, the Cabot Trail, Peggy's Cove, Lunenburg, the Annapolis Valley, into a single seats-secured, luggage-handled journey. City-stay packages park travellers in Halifax and build day trips out from the capital, suiting visitors who like one unpacked suitcase and a different horizon each morning. Both formats suit first-time visitors and the province's growing cruise-and-stay traffic.
Two specialties set the company apart. The first is student educational travel, school groups travelling with an operator that has been moving buses of teenagers since 1968, a logistical trade few companies want and fewer still do well. The second is cruise work: customized private shore excursions for passengers docking in Halifax and Sydney, where a half-day window has to count. Cruise travellers planning their own days ashore will find port-specific help in our Sydney cruise port guide.
The kilted step-on guides deserve their own mention: for group and convention day trips, guides in full Highland dress board your coach and narrate the province, a theatrical touch that convention planners have been booking for decades. For meeting and incentive groups flying into Halifax, it is the most reliably Nova Scotian welcome on the menu.
End-to-End, Year-Round
The pitch in one line: they handle accommodation, sightseeing, meals, and transportation, so the traveller's job is the window seat. The team operates year-round, which matters in a province where most operators hibernate from October to May; a winter group program is a genuinely rare capability. Travellers who prefer to steer themselves can still borrow the itinerary logic, and our road trip planner covers the self-drive version of the same routes the coaches run.
Practical Information
Office — 22 Waddell Avenue, Suite 101, Dartmouth, NS B3B 1K3.
Contact — Call 902-423-7172, toll-free 800-565-7173, or email reservations@atlantictours.com. Current itineraries and departure dates are at atlantictours.com.
Rating — 4.8 on Google, earned across decades of group travel.
Planning — Motorcoach departures and city-stays sell out for July and August first; cruise shore excursions should be arranged before your ship sails rather than from the pier. For the wider practicalities of a Nova Scotia trip, ferries, borders, driving distances, see plan your trip.
