45-Minute Chicago River Architecture Tour from Magnificent Mile

Matthew did an awesome job. Matthew was very engaging, knowledgeable and had a lot of charisma. The Chicago architecture is breathtaking. So very glad we took this tour.

I enjoyed the cruise a lot! Laura (I hope I remembered the correct name) was fantastic! She was extremely enthusiastic and knowledgeable. I highly recommend this tour.

Nice trip, friendly staff, would recommend. Took the 45mins drive, enjoyed the views and being in the river!

It was a great experience for me and my date. She’s from Kentucky and she got to travel our waterway and see a lot of our architectural skyline. I to also learned some new things as a resident of our great city for 54 years. I definitely recommend it and I would definitely recommend the long tour. Thanks for a phenomenal experience. Safe travels up and down the waterway.

The tour guides were very knowledgeable and personable at the same time. Great tour and well worth the time/money. I would definitely recommend them.

The experience itself was great. The kids enjoyed it, we were able to go out onto Lake Michigan and the Chicago River and we learned a lot of history as well as info about the architecture. I gave it 3 stars simply because of my experience with Viator, who we bought the tickets through. I couldn’t get the tickets on their site so I called. Initially she told me they didn’t have any tickets for this tour at 10. I said ok, that’s fine, we’ll just skip it then because we had to leave town before the afternoon. She took a minute, clicked around, told me she found tickets for 10. Emailed me the link, which said the tickets were for 2:45. I said that wasn’t the time we needed. She sent me a new link that now said tickets were for 10. Well, when we got to the ticket window, the bar code they’d sent us was invalid. They told us we were on the 2:45 tour. The company was polite and worked with us, but we had to pay additional $$ to upgrade to the 90 minute tour. And the tour was fun, but a bit long for a 2 and 4 year old, so that’s why we’d wanted the shorter one. Tour was great. Viator not so much.

We did not actually make it to the tour due to inclement weather. Do not book early!! The weather was horrible rain/snow and Viator would not allow us to change our reservation. I can understand the draconian policy if the weather is nice, but travel to and from the site was dangerous. Horrible policy.

Alyssa the tour guide was awesome!! She was very knowledgeable and entertaining. Even though it was cold out, it was a really neat tour.

Great educational content and hot drinks to help with the cold and the wind. The staff was helpful and the offered easy on boarding.

Could note make the trip tried to cancel due to plans changes so not being able to cancel ride is a 1 star for me