North Star Adventures - Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Lynn Thomas

Did 2 tours this time, and already started planning our next trip on the plane back. Joe and his team will get you the best aurora experience in the best place in the world to see it. Truly a gem and keeps the energy and morale up, even on a rainy, cloudy night. Will always remember to drive into the storm to get past it. 🙂

Mary Beth Harrell

Joe is a great guide and host! My husband and I loved the nature trail tour and hike to the waterfall. We also took the aurora hunting bus trip to view the northern lights. Breathtaking! With our guide, Brenton. A bucket list trip with spectacular photos. Memories to last a lifetime. Thanks, Joe!

Yosuke

ガイドの方はとても気さくでいろんな話を聞くことはできましたが、オーロラツアーとしてはサービスを期待してはいけません。イエローナイフでは３つのオーロラツアーに参加しましたが、ここが一番サービスの質が悪かったです。理由は以下の通り。
まず、スナックなど軽食が一切出ません。次に、ホットドリンクですが、一口しか飲ませてくれません。最後に、ここが重要なのですが、他のツアーでは実施している写真撮影がほとんどされません。さらに撮影した写真を入手することはできません。「撮影した写真は後日送る」と連絡が来たものの、１ヶ月以上放置、さらにメッセージも完全無視でした。オーロラ自体は素晴らしかったのでとても残念でした。

Alison Wong

Booked three nights Aurora hunting tour and saw Aurora every night! Also booked the city tour with them as well.

Joe is a wonderful guide - very friendly and very knowledgeable. He's a local so he has recommendations for food, souvenirs, sights, and things to do!
Even for camera settings on how to best capture the northern lights, he's there to assist! He also takes professional photos for you with the Aurora so you don't have to worry about having a fancy camera (which we did not have).

Highly recommend!

Julie Spies

We had the best time in Yellowknife with North Star! They handled everything from booking our hotel to daytime tours, dropping off our rented gear at the hotel, dinners. It was perfect! Highly recommend Joe and his team! I can’t say enough positives about our experience!

Christine Locklear

Joe was the best guide for our night of Aurora hunting. He was pleasant and full of information of the local area. The bus was comfortable and warm. I would definitely recommend any tour with North Star Adventures.

Willa

Joe and Jess are informative and gregarious tour guides! As a solo traveler, I immediately felt at ease with them. I booked two nights of aurora hunting, a few nights apart, and both nights, they worked extremely hard to find the aurora for us. They spoke honestly about how the weather may affect our chances. The first night, we all spent the whole night in laughter and great conversation about travel all over the world. The second night, we were treated to an amazing aurora display -- a brilliant and vivid show that significantly peaked for only a few minutes. I felt very lucky that Joe knew when we needed to leave the warmth of the bus to catch it! I was grateful and honored to learn about the aurora from the First Nations/Indigenous perspective. Thank you, Joe and Jess, for an awesome time!

Anvita Shukla

We traveled as a couple to YK for northern lights for 2 nights on the good Friday long weekend and went with Joe for the Aurora Hunting tour. Our 1st night, we left the hotel around 10.30 and started seeing Aurora just 3-4kms outside of YK. Joe estimated the directions where the lights would be best and took us to 3-4 more spots through the 4hrs to spot Aurora. The display was mesmerizing throughout the night and we got memorable pictures. Joe is a great conversationalist so we talked a lot about life in YK, northern lights and our cultures. His camera and sense of photography is amazing , so he took great pictures of us and the Aurora.
The 2nd night when we left YK around 10pm, Joe drove us around 40kms outside the city towards east for Aurora hunting . But due to the cloud cover being very dense, we couldn't spot any. So we came back to YK and went west and around 12.45am reached a spot where the sky was clear and Aurora started to show up, not so intensely though as we had seen the previous night but Joe didn't leave any stone unturned to make sure the group sees it. Overall, North Star is an amazing way to see the Aurora and its totally worth it!