The Montreal Tower — Attraction in Montreal

This was overall a neat attraction. You can buy tickets online or inside the stadium, at its northern tip near the Biodome. We bought observatory tickets only, instead of combo tickets for other park attractions.

After the usual security check, you take a two-minute funicular ride to the top and once you're up there, you can stay for as long as you want. The 360-degree view was amazing as expected. You'll see downtown Montreal and its skyline, the sprawling suburbs, the St. Lawrence, and the Botanical Garden. There is a small gift shop but no restaurant. We were here for an hour.

One unfortunate thing about the view of the downtown skyline - if you like photography, forget about clear, postcard-worthy pictures. On a sunny day, the view will be glary because the side of the observatory directly facing the downtown area is at the sun's path for most of the daytime hours. On the opposite side, you'll get clear pictures, but the view of the suburbs is not as...

The 7-day Tour East Bus trip that I'm traveling on stopped here; we have 50 tourists in our group.

The $222.50 attractions package includes access to the Whale Watching Boat Tour, Thousand Island Boat Tour, Hopewell Rocks, Maritime Museum, etc., of which this attraction is one of the experiences.

Known by many names such as the Olympic Tower or the Montreal Tower, this inclined tower structure features an observatory at a height of over 170 meters or 558 feet. The stadium was built for the 1976 Summer Olympic Games.

A quick trip up the tower and then back down again can be accurately summed up by the pun word (or nationality) Russ...ian!

In its time, the tower was an engineering marvel. It's still a must see monument if...

Seems like an amazing spot in Montreal. Unfortunately, the funicular was out of order when we visited, but we only found out about this after we had parked in the paid parking lot of Olympic park (wasted $8 per car!). I would suggest that the management use signs to indicate to those who are about to enter the parking lot that the funicular of the tower is closed, in order to avoid unnecessary confusion and wasted money (unless they purposefully didn’t put up signs in order to steal people’s money, which would be dishonest and rude to...