War museum scores high, but Ottawa nowhere on Tripadvisor's 2015 traveller's lists

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Travellers who post reviews on Tripadvisor have spoken. And their judgment of Ottawa is decidedly mixed.

T0 be sure, there’s good news to be found in the website’s 2015 travellers’ choice awards.

The Canadian War Museum is rated as Canada’s third-best museum for the second straight year. More than 95 per cent of the museum’s reviewers rated it excellent or very good.

The Canadian Children’s Museum — part of the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau — sneaks onto the list at No. 10.

Parliament Hill and its buildings are No. 4 on Tripadvisor’s list of Canada’s top-10 landmarks. And the Calypso Water Park, 40 minutes east of Ottawa, tops the list of the country’s best amusement and water parks.

It’s all downhill from there, though.

Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, didn’t even make the people’s choice list of Canada’s 10 best destinations, based on the quantity and quality of visitors’ Tripadvisor reviews over a 12-month period.

Vancouver is rated the best destination. Fair enough. But it’s hard to believe that Ottawa was ranked lower than Niagara-on-the-Lake, Niagara Falls and Halifax. Really?

Embarrassingly, the national capital region didn’t show up at all on Tripadvisor’s list of Canada’s 25 best hotels. (Vancouver had five, Toronto four and Quebec City three, including two of the top five.)

Here’s a sampling of the people’s choices in Canada:

Top 10 destinations

1. Vancouver
2. Quebec City
3. Montreal
4. Victoria
5. Toronto
6. Niagara-on-the-Lake
7. Whistler, B.C.
8. Tofino, B.C.
9. Niagara Falls
10. Halifax

Top 10 museums

1. Royal BC Museum, Victoria
2. Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, Alta.
3. Canadian War Museum
4. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
5. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
6. Prime Berth Fishing Museum, Twillingate, Nfld.
7. Stones ‘n Bones Museum, Sarnia
8. Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver
9. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
10. Canadian Children’s Museum, Gatineau

Top 10 landmarks

1. Notre Dame Basilica, Montreal
2. CN Tower
3. Capilano Suspension Bridge, North Vancouver
4. Parliament Hill and buildings
5. Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto
6. St. John’s Anglican Church, Lunenburg, N.S,
7. St. Joseph’s Oratory, Montreal
8. Swallowtail Lighthouse, Grand Manan Island, N.B.
9. Signal Hill, St. John’s, Nfld.
10. Peggy’s Cove Lighthouse, N.S.

Top 5 hotels

1. L’Hermitage Hotel, Vancouver
2. Trump International Hotel and Tower, Toronto
3. Auberge Saint-Antoine, Quebec City
4. Rosewood Hotel Georgia, Vancouver
5. Hotel Le Germain Quebec, Quebec City

Top 5 amusement and water parks

1. Calypso Water Park, Limoges, Ont.
2. Fallsview Indoor Water Park, Niagara Falls
3. Cultus Lake Waterpark, Chilliwack, B.C.
4. Rattlesnake Canyon, Osoyoos, B.C.
5. Canada’s Wonderland, Vaughan, Ont.

dbutler@ottawacitizen.com

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