Private Movie Walking Tour of Toronto

Neighbourhood: Various film locations · Address: Meeting point confirmed on booking · Hours: Flexible — check the operator website for availability · Price Range: $$ · Editorial status: Not yet verified

Why Visit

You’ll traipse across actual filming locations where movies like Suicide Squad and cult TV shows like Suits were shot, revealing how Toronto gets disguised as New York or Gotham. See regular city blocks transformed through a film-industry lens while hearing on-set stories.

What Makes It Unique

Unlike broad walking tours, this one focuses on movies and TV, showing exactly how Toronto has been camouflaged in hundreds of productions. Customizable routes let you geek out over your favourites, and it’s genuinely private—no strangers, no rigid schedules.

If you want to understand Toronto beyond the skyline and the usual downtown rush, this self-guided Old Toronto walking tour is one of the smartest ways to do it. It starts around the Old Town and St. Lawrence Market area and takes you through the city’s oldest streets at a pace that actually lets you notice things. For around CA$11 right now, down from CA$14, you get a 75- to 105-minute audio tour that fills in the stories most people walk right past: where early Toronto took shape, how the city grew block by block, and why this part of downtown still feels different from the glass towers a few minutes away. What I like about it is that it doesn’t try to rush you through a checklist. You’re walking independently, headphones in, looking up at red-brick Victorian buildings, narrow older streets, church spires, stone details, old commercial facades, and little reminders that this used to be the civic and commercial centre of the city. The audio gives those buildings some meaning. Instead of just seeing “an old building,” you start getting the layers: who built it, what used to happen there, how the neighbourhood changed, and why St. Lawrence still has so much character when other parts of downtown were rebuilt from scratch. This is a great pick if you’re the kind of person who likes cities to explain themselves a bit. History lovers will get the most out of it, but it’s also really satisfying for architecture fans because Old Toronto has an unusual concentration of Victorian-era buildings, warehouses, and public architecture packed into a relatively small area. Even if you’re not usually a “tour person,” the self-paced format makes it easy. Pause when something catches your eye, duck into a café, spend extra time near a building you want to photograph, then keep going when you’re ready. The best way to do it, honestly, is on a weekend morning. Start before the St. Lawrence Market crowds build, grab a coffee, do the walk while the streets still feel calm, then head into the market after. That’s the ideal version of the neighbourhood. You get the quieter, older side of the area first, then the market energy once you’ve got context for where you are. Saturday is especially good, but any morning works if you want better light for photos and less foot traffic. Wear comfortable shoes, because even though it’s not a long tour, these are streets worth lingering on. If the weather’s decent, give yourself more than the minimum time. The tour may be listed at 75 to 105 minutes, but if you like reading plaques, taking pictures, or stopping inside a church or small shop along the way, it can easily stretch longer. That’s part of the appeal. It doesn’t feel packaged. It feels like wandering one of the few downtown areas where Toronto’s earlier self is still visible, and finally having someone explain what you’re looking at.