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Fireworks Dinner Cruise: Chicago Skyline Views
3.9
85 Ratings
Chicago
Celebrate July 4th on a Chicago Fireworks Dinner Cruise. Enjoy a buffet, skyline views, and front-row seats to fireworks on Lake Michigan.
Celebrate July 4th on a Chicago Fireworks Dinner Cruise. Enjoy a buffet, skyline views, and front-row seats to fireworks on Lake Michigan.
Duration:
3 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
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City Experiences By Hornblower - Spirit of Chicago Fireworks Dinner Cruise with Buffet
For dinner, take your pick from a wide variety of buffet items. See the sample menu below (subject to change):
Salads
- Organic Mixed Field Greens
- Organic Spinach & Kale Salad
- Green Bean Salad
- Kidney Bean, Black Bean & Chickpea Salad
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Red Beetroot Salad
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- City Experiences By Hornblower - Spirit of Chicago Fireworks Dinner Cruise with Buffet
For dinner, take your pick from a wide variety of buffet items. See the sample menu below (subject to change):
Salads
-
Organic Mixed Field Greens
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Organic Spinach & Kale Salad
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Green Bean Salad
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Kidney Bean, Black Bean & Chickpea Salad
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Red Beetroot Salad
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Bow Tie Pasta Salad
Vegetable, Potatoes & Pasta
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Roasted Broccoli Florets
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Creamed Corn & Cheddar Cheese Casserole
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Baked Ziti Pasta
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Mashed Potatoes
Entrées
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Oven Baked Atlantic Flounder Filet
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Honey & Sesame Chicken
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Italian Beef Meatball
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Braised Beef Short Ribs
Dessert Buffet
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Seasonal Fruit
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Raspberry Mousse
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Lemon Pound Cake & Fresh Strawberries
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Coconut Vanilla Cake
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Carrot Cake
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Red Velvet & Chocolate Chip Brownie
- Navy Pier - Get a glimpse of top Chicago attractions
- Soldier Field - Get a glimpse of top Chicago attractions
- Chicago Skyline - See famous Chicago architecture from the water
What's Included
- Unlimited coffee, hot tea, iced tea and water
- Climate-controlled interior decks
- Dinner
- Scenic Lake Michigan views
- Live DJ entertainment
- The best views of Navy Pier’s fireworks display (weather permitting)
- Guaranteed table for your party size
- Unlimited coffee, hot tea, iced tea and water
- Climate-controlled interior decks
- Dinner
- Scenic Lake Michigan views
- Live DJ entertainment
- The best views of Navy Pier’s fireworks display (weather permitting)
- Guaranteed table for your party size
What's Not Included
- Creative cocktails, wine, and beer are available for purchase from our fully stocked bar
- Creative cocktails, wine, and beer are available for purchase from our fully stocked bar
Additional Information
Enhance your evening with a delightful dinner and breathtaking panoramic views of the Navy Pier fireworks lighting up the Chicago city skyline! Join the Fireworks Signature Dinner Cruise on Lake Michigan, where a stunning display of light and color complements a chef-prepared buffet, specialty cocktails, live DJ entertainment, and dancing. From the…
Enhance your evening with a delightful dinner and breathtaking panoramic views of the Navy Pier fireworks lighting up the Chicago city skyline! Join the Fireworks Signature Dinner Cruise on Lake Michigan, where a stunning display of light and color complements a chef-prepared buffet, specialty cocktails, live DJ entertainment, and dancing. From the refreshing open-air decks and cozy indoor areas, enjoy magnificent views of Chicago’s iconic landmarks, including the Willis Tower and the Adler Planetarium. An extraordinary fireworks dinner cruise on the water is ready for you!
- Dress code is smart casual. No jeans, shorts, tank tops, halter-tops, gym shoes or flip flops are worn on the cruise.
- All interior areas of the ship are non-smoking. Guests who smoke may do so on the outdoor observation decks only.
- Seating is only guaranteed together for the number of tickets confirmed on this voucher. Reservations may not be combined.
- Boarding begins 30 minutes prior to departure. Guests must arrive early, as late arrivals will likely miss the boat.
Location
600 E Grand Ave
East Grand Avenue
Boarding: Navy Pier. Parking: City Cruises does not own or operate any parking lots in the area. Local parking is available at 600 E Grand Ave. Chicago, IL 60611 for our Navy Pier Departures. Alternative parking is available at 460 E. Illinois St. and 403 E. Grand Ave. (one block from Navy Pier).
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
3.9
(85 Ratings)
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Marinela_a
Aug 31, 2025
Great Views/Food/Entertainment - Short Staffed and Slightly Pricy - Overall the experience was fantastic. Some of the highlights, I would have to say are the FOOD, Entertainment, Quality of Time and Firework Show at the end of the night. Everything that was served was delicious from the Mexican Street Corn (off the cob) & the summer squash and zucchini (which were all seasoned perfectly); to the verity of meats (pork, salmon, and chicken) which were all flavored just right and nearly cooked to perfection; to the potatoes and the mushroom Alfredo pasta (which complimented the entrees just right). Once the Desserts hit, you were wondering if you could even eat anything else, but those even tasted just right to take care of a sweet tooth.
Some things to keep in mind though. The price for the night may not be the best for those who may be more budget conscious. However they do offer quite a bit. The pricing for the dinner and firework show, may alter too depending on the weekend or time of year you may choose to go. Some holidays may be slightly higher priced than other evenings throughout the season.
Also, as great as the experience may be over all, the staff may have been slightly understaffed. As the servers, who definitely try to do their best to accommodate everyone's requests and fulfill everyone's drink orders, may not have had the best support with the bar staff (since they seemed to be falling too far behind causing huge delays on the drink orders). I believe they could have used some additional staff to speed up the drink orders distributions. Don't get me wrong, the entire crew was super friendly, polite, and definitely had a strong work ethic (from what I could see) to get things done as quickly as possible.
I would still recommend this venture for anyone who's looking to celebrate something special or even have a nice romantic evening out. The DJ was also a joy to listen to since he did have a good sense of humor and knew how to keep the crowd engaged. Hope this helps.
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Scott_w
Aug 28, 2025
Enjoyed the cruise with my family - Great time on the boat. Food was excellent and our server, Harold, was awesome. Fireworks was very well done.
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Gaysha_o
Aug 19, 2025
Our waitresses were great... - Our waitresses were great
Destiny and Khalia
Definitely will be back soon
Great experience that people should try
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William_j
Aug 10, 2025
Created a little Magic! - Great value, wonderful food, a fantastic server -she was great, cool DJ, and the drinks were tasty! The fireworks show was excellent and the 3rd deck kept things on a romantic footing with wonderful live music!
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Dawn_s
Jul 20, 2025
Views, Food and More - This was breathtaking! The food was so good and the customer service was top notch. Shout out to Tish for taking care of us. The icing on the cake was the fireworks and the live singer on the top deck. Please experience this cruise. It’s worth the money.
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X4953otscotth
Jun 19, 2025
Do recommend! - Very friendly staff. Good food and plenty of it. They offer appetizers and drinks for an additional cost. Great views of the city.
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Josephine_l
Aug 11, 2024
Super great ride. - Everything was fantastic. The food delicious, the fireworks out of this world, the varied music accommodating everyone, the dancing was fun, the ride itself was soothing, the Chicago sites are beautiful, the employees were gracious and made sure we were taken care of. I will definitely do this again. Thank you so very very much.
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Rowena_w
Jul 24, 2025
Mixed Experience. - The location directions on line are misleading. The ship is at the end of Navy Pier as measured from the Taxi Drop off section—not the address. It’s also a really long walk down the pier —keep that in mind if you have mobility issues. You can not just use the ticket on the phone—gotta get a printed ticket from the window—which is a process in itself. Once on the ship the seating process was slow at best. We were told we were on deck 2 but when we showed up they didn’t have us linked together (despite our doing that whole process). We wound up in the very back and had to have them specially set up a table for us. Food was plentiful and good —but slow to refill when things ran out. Sailing and fireworks were great. In all an okay trip but not worth the $200 price tag.
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Finasb2025
Jul 7, 2025
Confused wait staff - Asking repeatedly for a waiter to serve drinks. I even asked the manager who was behind the bar.
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Daemon_d
Aug 14, 2024
Dinner cruise from He!! - Let start off by saying I’m a find the silver lining in any situation type of person I really don’t like to complain. This date started out bad and got worse thru out the night to point it started to drag on and my date wanted to just get off boat. We bored got seated waiter told us give her a min we waited awhile trying to order appetizers to be informed it’s to late as the boat was pulling away so ok we put in an order for drinks which took longer then the app. Wait while ppl seated next to use got their first and second round of drinks. Finally drinks came shortly after we was told we could head to buffet while in line a big spider lands on my date who is deathly afraid of bugs I keep her calm much as I could. To make it up to the buffet to over heated salmon street corn dry chicken thighs only was able to eat salads. After that we was told we could go top side for games only to find a foosball table with no lighting after walking thru a cloud of bugs which ended up in both our drinks go to sit down because at this point my date is having a panic attack only to sit down on a chair with no less then 5 huge spiders on it in different places at this point she was over the whole date very upset as this was a birthday gift I had to go find a back corner of the boat clean away and inspect for spiders which I discovered was literally everywhere so we sat in this one spot the remainder of trip which seemed like forever this was about when fireworks started one they concluded I asked if she would like to go in to try desert we went in to get desert but our table had been cleared of all flat wear so she sat looking a a piece of cake for bout 30 mins waiting on a fork till she just dint want it put on table next to us and just sat till ride was over I couldn’t do nothing but apologize and we drove from Minnesota for this date night
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