Fireworks Dinner Cruise: Chicago Skyline Views

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
  • 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
  • Red Beetroot Salad
    *…
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
What's Not Included
  • 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…

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.

Customer Ratings
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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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Suzanne_s
Aug 4, 2024
The staff worked... - The staff worked extremely hard throughout the cruise to make our experience memorable. Kudos to your team!
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Mark_s
Jul 14, 2024
Amazing! - Amazing tour with simply the best people working tirelessly to make this night one of my fondest memories.
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Roser377
Jul 5, 2024
Beautiful experience on Lake Michigan! - Very beautiful experience, spectacular views of the great city of Chicago; the waitresses service very good, are friendly. Good tasting buffet food, varied. I just would have liked a little more variety in his DJ music.
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Nicolas_b
Jul 24, 2024
Very good experience amazing views - Everything was great dinner service and the fireworks were awesome except I was expecting some kind of dessert but other than that it was a good experience we had a good time
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Consuela_b
Jul 17, 2024
Girl's trip Celebrating sister birthday. - The dinner was great. I enjoyed the fireworks. The staff was great we enjoyed the DJ. We had great seat near the dance floor.
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Alexandria_t
Aug 2, 2024
Views were beautiful gf - Very friendly and efficient staff! Drinks were good, food was okay. Id recommend ordering the appetizers before the buffet is served unfortunately thats not included with the buffet meal and cost!
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Cindy_r
Jul 10, 2024
Fireworks - The fireworks, DJ and the acoustic guitar gentlemen. The food was really bad. Salmon & chicken dry, salad wilted and the menu indicated steak, it was dry overcooked roast beef.
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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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