Seadog Tour: Chicago's Architectural Marvels

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Experience Chicago’s skyline on a thrilling 75-minute architecture cruise and speedboat ride. Perfect for families and pets. Book now!

Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

City Cruises Chicago Navy Pier - Seadog Cruises offers the most fun and exciting ways to see the city
Tribune Tower - Views of world famous architecture
Grant Park - This park covers 319 acres along Lake Michigan
Buckingham Fountain - Views of famous Chicago landmarks
Chicago River - See world famous architecture from the water

What's Included

Passage through the historic Chicago River locks and up the Chicago River to Willis Tower
All fees and/or taxes
Unobstructed views of the beautiful Chicago architecture
75 minute Architectural tour and speedboat ride on Lake Michigan

What's Not Included

Seadog is BYOB - bring your own drinks to enjoy on the water (no glass containers)

Additional Information

Experience breathtaking, unobstructed views of Chicago’s renowned architecture from the water with an exhilarating journey on the Seadog River and Lake Architectural Tour! Begin your adventure at Navy Pier and navigate through the Chicago Harbor Locks to witness the River’s iconic skyscrapers. Delight in entertaining and informative commentary as you…

Location

600 E Grand Ave

East Grand Avenue

Seadog cruise departs from the south side of the Navy Pier

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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Cheryl_q

Sep 6, 2025

September Treasure - Very invigorating as the weather is cooler. Excellent view of the Chicago skyline from Lake Michigan with the sun setting. Then the Chicago River architecture tour was incredible. Our tour guide, Jake was fantastic, entertaining & knowledgeable. Highly recommend. .

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Fiordalizad687

Sep 1, 2025

Excellent - Great experience. Wonderful crew Views were fantastic . The tour guide was very knowledgeable about all the buildings

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John_e

Aug 17, 2025

fun and informational on the river - great tour guide and super informational while fun. the combination of knowledge of architecture with the ability to speed through the water was a blast!

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Jenee23

Aug 7, 2025

Amazing family ride! - It was amazing! Took my 3 year old granddaughter on the architecture tour and she loved it, Ryan was great! They did a speed boat portion at the beginning and end.

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Darrick_w

Jul 23, 2025

Chicago Bark with no Bite - Best architecture tour experience in Chicago. Speed boat touch was great. Sit in the front or middle ofpossible, less likely for getting wet. Tour guide was entertaining. Book the 11:15 tour. Gives you time for breakfast, and finished just in time for lunch.

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William_c

Jul 13, 2025

Sea dog - Very fun experience, informative and the guide was very entertaining. Was worried about getting to wet but did not get wet other then a misting that felt great on a hot day.

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Mary_d

Jul 11, 2025

You will learn a lot... - You will learn a lot about Chicago history and the architecture. The story about how and why the lock system came into being was fascinating. The end, a speedboat ride on the lake, was exciting and offers great views of the Chicago skyline

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John_s

Jul 6, 2025

Great experience! ... - Great experience! Calm, relaxing and thrilling! Most definitely an attraction I'll repeat while visiting Chicago. I love it! The adrenaline felt amazing!

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Glbltrotter

Aug 7, 2025

Not much Thrill - nor good commentary. - Not much thrill - not great commentary Disappointing. We took our kids on The 6pm 75 minute architectural tour. The content wasn’t great, about 50% bad jokes and 50% superficial discussion of a few buildings. I used to live in Chicago and have done 4-5 tours with other companies that were much better, more factual and entertaining. We chose this because he thought the kids would enjoy the high speed boat ride at the end. The five minute joy ride after 70 minutes of bad jokes and underwhelming commentary wasn’t worth it. I wish we had done the old Chicago fire boats or the traditional architectural or history cruise with our kids 7-14 years old.

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Davidei853lg

Aug 26, 2025

Seadog doesn't honor tickets for sailings THEY cancel at the dock - repeatedly in our case. - We made two special trips to Navy Pier and both times Seadog cancelled 5 Min before as we were waiting in line because of too few customers. The first time we got a ticket for a sailing the next day, and they cancelled again just before boarding. We said our Go City pass expired that day and they said no problem. Just come back and show your ticket. We did, after confirming by phone, and this time the sailing was on and they had space. But they refused to honor the unused ticket despite the their own promises after two earlier cancellations of valid boarding passes. I wonder if Go City paid them for our unused tickets. Skip them; Shoreline tours is better.

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From $44

up to 15 guests

1 - Adult