Private Vintage Fire Truck Sightseeing Tour of Portland Maine (Min-2 pax) in Portland booking from $360.00

Private Vintage Fire Truck Sightseeing Tour of Portland Maine (Min-2 pax)

Overview

This 50 minute sightseeing tour of Portland Maine is different from anything else in the area. Join our knowledgeable guide aboard a Vintage Fire Engine as you and your group travel back in time and relive Portland’s past from a local’s perspective. Enjoy lighthouses, Civil War forts, fantastic views, interesting stories, and a multimedia experience with images from Maine’s history on the Fire Engine’s large flat screen TV. We are very unique sightseeing tour only offered in Portland Maine.

*Minimum of 2 travelers*

City: Portland

Sun 22 Jun

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What's Included

See the sights of Portland, Maine on this 50-minute small group private sightseeing tour

Private Narrated Tour aboard Vintage Fire Engine

Professional Driver/Guide

Additional Info

Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
PLEASE LEAVE PLENTY OF TIME FOR INCREASED TRAFFIC AND PARKING IN PORTLAND! Do Not trust your phones GPS for estimated time arrival.
***We leave promptly at the designated time! Refunds are not provided for missed tours due to late/non arrival**
We just need the name that you booked with and the staff will check you in on the truck
Our address is 180 Commercial St. Portland ME 04101
Please provide a cell phone number that you will have with you when you are in Portland. We may need to contact you regarding your tour
Minimum of 2 Passengers
WE ALSO OFFER PUBLIC TOURS! Bookable on Viator or Tripadvisor!
Face masks provided for travellers
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Gear/equipment sanitised between use
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
Guides required to regularly wash hands

What To Expect

Portland Fire Engine

US Custom House Casco Bay Lines Ocean Gateway Terminal Shipyard Brewing Company Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Fort Allen Park Spring Point Ledge Light Fort Gorges Portland Breakwater Light (Bug Light) Portland Head Light Eastern Promenade Loring Memorial Park Portland Observatory Eastern Cemetery Maine Jewish Museum St. Paul’s Church The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Fireman Statue at Central Fire Station City Hall First Parish Portland Unitarian Universalist Monument Square Longfellow House and Maine Historical Society Museum Children’s Museum and Theatre Portland Museum of Art Longfellow Square Neal Dow House Maine Medical Center Adam P. Leighton House Western Cemetery Victoria Mansion

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (8)

lach77

Apr 2019

We stopped in Portland Sunday to grab breakfast on the way home from a wedding in York. We saw the fire truck on the street and spoke with the Paul, the driver about it! We decided to book the tour after breakfast. It was just my son, husband and I for the trip and so the tour guide Glenn as very attentive and flexible with his presentation. The view was great from up in the truck, we were given fire coats to wear as it was a bit a chilly. We got see parts of Portland we had never bothered to go through and learn a lot about the various buildings and fires. Highly recommended! It was such a fun way to start our day, we ended up staying the night in town!

Carrie N

Sep 2018

This was a really hard review to write. My husband and I are both Maine natives. We have been living in Portland (Eastern Prom) for 12+ years and always got excited to see the Fire Truck tour truck driving around our neighborhood. When I’d see it I’d always look at my husband and say, “I want to do that!”. So maybe I had a very high standard already set in my mind when we reserved our private tour with both our friends and family. We were a mixed group of adults and children. The ages of the children were 18 months, 2yo, 4yo, 8yo, 16yo plus the nine adults. It was comfortable inside we had enough room my son sat on my lap, more on that topic later. Positives: We really enjoyed the tour of Portland by antique fire truck. At the start they helped us climb the ladder into the truck it’s a bit steep. Gave the kiddos plastic fire truck hats and told us the history of the fire truck. Both pink and red are available. One of the boys had to have a pink hat because they ran out of red. This didn’t really go over well. But I wasn’t expecting the hats so not a big enough thing to put as a negative. They had all you can drink bottled available for our group which is really nice on a hot summer day with the sun shining on us. This truck has personality and you feel like your royalty in the open top back sitting area. The seats are plush and the tour operator sits outback with you. The viewpoint is very high which gives you excellent views throughout the tour with many potential opportunities for photos while the tour is on the move. The full tour route is on their website but encompasses old port area, eastern promenade and western promenade. We departed the start of the tour late but because it was a private tour we were able to wait a little for the late guests which we ended leaving without and meeting halfway down Commercial Street. I thought this was nice that they didn’t want to waste time waiting and not driving. We elected to not have a tour driver, more on this topic later. With no tour leader the driver of the fire truck assured us he would do his best to act as tour guide when he wasn’t driving. When we pulled over at various scenic outlooks he talked a little about each landmark and gave us a concentrated tour. Negatives: We rented the whole fire truck for a little less money it would take for our whole group to purchase each an individual ticket. BUT, the only option for a private tour left sharply at 9am. I wish they gave us an option for later in the day. Its hard to get a large group of people together from all over the state of Maine with young children thrown into the mix. The truck was large enough to have all our group with the exception of my 18 month old son. My 18 month old son they counted as an adult because he was over 1 year old. Because we were one person over the max capacity of the fire truck we had to take the tour guide away. I have mixed feelings on this topic as they said this was a function of safety. I don’t know all the technicalities of safety with commercial tour vehicles in Portland but on airlines they still allow my son to sit on my lap. (Which he ended up doing anyways because at his age and attention span there was no way he would stay comfortably on the seat with a single lap strap across his waist which is the only safety belts available for passenger in the open back) I think looking back they could have allowed us to have the tour guide without losing my son or another adult which they suggested. If they are going to push safety capacity they should not count toddlers (younger then two) as adults unless they have a safe way of restraining them or allow them to be considered lap held without compromising another seat in the tour. Because we left late the tour was a little rushed to make up for lost time. The driver was stressed trying to get to the end and rushed us out of the fire truck and we didn’t get offered a group photo which I was really sad to not have. I paid a good amount of money to enjoy the tour and in the end I felt slighted with the rushed end to a great tour and no photo to remember the memories.

Private Vintage Fire Truck Sightseeing Tour of Portland Maine (Min-2 pax)

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