About Tourist Scavenger Hunt

Simple And Fun

Each Tourist Scavenger Hunt is around 40 steps and lasts 2-3 hours on a 3-4km circuit that brings you back to the start.

Digital marketer (30 years’ experience), consultant, and world traveler. My family introduced me to travel at an early age. We visited England & France, California, Washington State, Hawaii, and Australia, as well as British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec in Canada.

With my own family, children, and friends, I’ve continued traveling for the pleasure of it. We visited Austria, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, more Canadian provinces, and several American States.

How we do it

• We plan our trips extensively and prepare the scavenger hunt in advance. We explore specific neighborhoods, looking for major and minor attractions, historical landmarks and buildings, and monuments. Really, anything that helps tell the city’s story usually makes its way into our itineraries.
• Then we test it on-site. At this point, we take a ton of pictures to help finalize challenges before making the tours available online. We’ll usually fix some of the directions that sometimes differ when you’re there, rather than on an online map back at home. Further, we often create many more on-site challenges than we can prepare for in advance. These make our tours so much more fun!
• Finally, upon returning to the office, we finalize instructions and directions. We edit the pictures and make the new tour available online, in English and in French. Friends often test them to ensure their ease, smoothness, and comprehension.

An accountant by trade, world-traveller by passion. I love planning our trips in detail with my friend Julie. Samuel handles the inner-city planning with our scavenger hunts while we plan the broader picture.

Why do we do it?

We’ve done a few urban adventures in American cities, such as Dallas and Philadelphia, with other providers. We really enjoyed them. However, many of their attributes did not sit well with us. This gave rise to many ideas on how we could improve and/or simplify them.

When we tried yet another in Montreal, Geneviève suggested, “We could build one of these ourselves.” That was all Samuel needed to start work on developing a new brand: Tourist Scavenger Hunt.

As a matter of fact, it is now an integral part of every trip we plan and take.

Why it’s going to be fun for you

As you walk each scavenger hunt, we try to mix up the types of challenges and their difficulty levels. Indeed, some are simple, others are tougher. However, none are too complicated. We also include any movie, musical, or historical information we can at every stop to make this a learning experience.

We mix up the types of information you’ll discover along the way. For example, we’ll discuss history, architecture, pop culture, and what celebrities / important people did in a given location at a point in time.