Small-group tour · From Charlottetown
A four-hour small-group loop from Charlottetown to the Green Gables house, a seaside village, cliff outlooks and north shore lighthouses. Pick it if you want the Anne house plus a broad first look at the island in one morning or afternoon, without driving.
This is the tour most people book. The listing promises a small group, pickup, and four stops of a sort: the home of Anne of Green Gables, a seaside village, cliff outlooks and lighthouses along the way. That's a lot of ground for four hours. Cavendish sits about 40 km from Charlottetown, so a fair share of the morning is the drive itself, through red-soil farmland.
The house is the Macneill farmhouse in Cavendish, run by Parks Canada as Green Gables Heritage Place. It inspired the Cuthberts' home in the novel, but L.M. Montgomery never lived there: she grew up about 1 km away with her grandparents and later called Green Gables "practically imaginary". Inside, the rooms are furnished to the book, Anne's east gable room included, and the visitor centre has 14 exhibits on Montgomery and her readers. The cliffs and lighthouses belong to the north shore, much of it inside PEI National Park, with its red cliffs, dunes and sandy beaches.
Two caveats. The listing doesn't name the village, the outlooks or the lighthouses, and the listing summary doesn't show whether Green Gables admission is in the price, so check the inclusions on the listing before you book. At the gate it is C$10.00 for adults in July and August and C$8.25 in May, June, September and October, with youth free (Parks Canada). The second caveat is time: with four stops in four hours, nobody gets long anywhere. If the house is the whole point, the express tour spends less effort on the extras.
The listing says pickup is available. Check the exact pickup options when you book, especially if you're coming off a cruise ship.
About 40 km of rolling red-soil fields, white farmhouses and church steeples between Charlottetown and Cavendish on the north shore.
The house is furnished to the novel and the Victorian period, with Matthew's room downstairs and Anne's east gable upstairs. The reconstructed barn has dress-up clothes, and Lovers Lane and the Haunted Wood trails start from the grounds.
The listing names a seaside village, cliff outlooks and lighthouses without saying which ones. The north shore has all three in short drives of each other.
Four hours in total, which leaves the rest of the day for Charlottetown.
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The listing summary doesn't say, so check the inclusions on GetYourGuide before you book. If it isn't included, Parks Canada charges C$10.00 per adult from 1 July to Labour Day and C$8.25 in May, June, September and October. Youth are free.
The listing marks pickup as available. Where exactly it picks up isn't on the listing summary, so confirm your hotel or meeting point at checkout.
The listing describes "a seaside village", cliff outlooks and "beautiful lighthouses" without naming them. Ask the operator after booking if a particular stop matters to you.
No. Anne is fictional. The house belonged to David Jr. and Margaret Macneill, cousins of Montgomery's grandfather, and inspired the Cuthberts' farm. Montgomery lived about 1 km away and wrote the novel there.
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Green Gables, a seaside village, cliff outlooks and lighthouses in a four-hour small-group tour from Charlottetown. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
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