Architecture River Cruise, Chicago

A lot of information about scads of buildings but it comes in a non-stop gush of verbage making it hard to distinguish which building the narrator is talking about and where one leaves off, and the next begins. The tour boat is packed wall-to-wall, elbow-to-elbow with no break in the tour to stretch your legs or buy a drink. If the tour wasn't so greedy they'd add 1/2 hour to the tour giving the customers time to relax & absorb about halfway through...but they are greedy. 200+ customers each boat @ $20 average fee = $4,000 every 90 minutes = 6 tours X $4,000 X 3 boats = they're raking in $72,000 every day...at least during the summertime. Why should they change anything?

We went on the 90 min. architecture tour on the Chicago river on the "Fair Lady". They had a full bar on the deck below but never stopped or offered drinks to anyone. The tour guide was well informed but it was 90 minutes of non-stop verbage of the buildings/architects. It was not at all relaxing. They could have easily stopped for a 20 minuted break to allow us to enjoy the skyline and get a drink or appetizers... Certainly not a family outing. We had 14 members from 12 yrs to 65 in our party from all educational backgrounds and we all found it rather boring and a waste of 2 hours.

Ok why is this rated only 82nd this was one of the best things we did while here. You must go out to the lake to see the skyline. Cant wait to come back and do it at night!

You will see buildings that you never knew existed. I consider myself well informed, but seeing River City up close was amazing. It's worth going even once. Go with the Chicago Architectural Foundation, not anyone else!