Chicago Private Tours in Chicago booking from $489.00

Chicago Private Tours

Overview

PRICE IS PER VEHICLE AND YOU MAY BRING UP TO 4 PASSENGERS TOTAL. Thank you for contacting Chicago Private Tours! We would love to help your group discover Chicago. Our services include pick up from your downtown Chicago hotel, a 3-4 hour private City Tour in a chauffeured vehicle, and the services of one of our knowledgeable guides. This means you will have two people working with you the entire time, allowing you to get out of the vehicle with your guide at several stops. These stops include, but are not limited to Millennium Park, Lincoln Park Conservatory, Museum Campus, and more. The tour will be interactive and entertaining, covering history, architecture and culture. We share stories to bring Chicago's rich history to life. Once the tour concludes, we will drop your group off at your preferred, downtown Chicago location.

City: Chicago

Tue 25 Feb

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What's Included

Private transportation

Local guide

Professional guide

Driver/guide

Pick up at your Downtown Hotel

Additional Info

Specialized infant seats are available
Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Gear/equipment sanitised between use
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Regular temperature checks for staff
Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
Contactless payments for gratuities and add-ons

What To Expect

Downtown / The Loop

Private guide.

Lincoln Park

Private guide through Lincoln Park and many more historic Northside neighborhoods!

University of Chicago

Beautiful campus visit on the south side of Chicago in Hyde Park!

Wrigley Field

Check out the historic stadium and surrounding area.

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Cancellation Policy

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

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Reviews (163)

Anonymous

Jul 2012

We booked both this tour and airport service the following day based on all the positive reviews on tripadvisor. We only had one full day in Chicago to take in the sites and wanted to maximize our time. We were treated with the company of TJ our tour driver, and George as our tour guide and they both wildly exceeded our expectations. We learned so much about the history of Chicago that included everything from the great fire, rebuilding of the city to politics, science and art. All of this was colorfully narrated throughout our 1/2 day tour by George. We visited numerous attractions and sites that included: Wrigley Field, Millenium Park, the lake front, Hyde Park, the museums and library. We stopped for photos along the way, received an education on jazz, architecture, the development and impact of the World's Fair in the late 1800's. We were so impressed by our guide and his knowledge and colorful delivery of information. Both George and TJ worked well as a team and provided us with frequent stops, photo ops, water. We felt we had made two new friends by the end of our time together. We toured the city in an amazingly comfortable spacious van with captain's chairs and a panoramic roof that provided us with outstanding views of the architecture and surrounding areas. They also provided additional recommendations for our stay. Four hours was not enough, we could have spent the day with these two. Our tour was extremely professional and well planned and we received ongoing communication prior to arrival confirming both the tour and airport transportation. The ride to airport was equally well done and our driver Lorenzo was on time, congenial and also provided us with more information about the City. We will be back again to visit Chicago and definitely spend more time seeing the sites and use Chicago Private tours again. Worth every penny!

Anonymous

Jun 2012

We took advantage of an airport pickup in a very roomy GMC van that was outfitted with Captain's Chairs and a very large glass roof for viewing the architecture of the Chicago skyline. Our driver, (TJ), a native Chicagoan, was very knowledgable, well spoken and nicely dressed in a shirt and tie. He was an excellent first impression and I was pleasantly surprised when he told us that he would be picking up a "tour guide" when we arrived downtown. (He would have been an excellent "guide" on his own. After a comfortable and informative ride downtown, we met our tour guide (Ben), a City school teacher who proceeded with our guided tour for the next 4 hours. We started downtown and went North through the Gold Coast to Wrigleyville, with a stop at the botanical gardens & zoo to the South Side with stops at the Cultural Center & Millenium Park. Along the way we saw everything in between (including the Obama residence) and received a wonderful overview of Chicago. The tour was casual, interactive, filled with many tales from Chicago's interesting history and left us with a list of attractions that we were able to follow up over the weekend. This is just a great way to get an introduction to the City for a newcomer or business traveler that is looking to expand their knowledge and appreciation of one of the World's great cities. A five-star experience that will not disappoint !

Anonymous

Jun 2012

Overall My overall impression of Chicago Private Tours is of a service still trying to find its market position - which end of the market is it appealing to: the bottom end, middle or upper, bespoke concierge service end – and it’s the latter end which is what we thought we were getting – and therefore frames my feedback, feedback which I have also given to Mike who runs and owns the business. We came to Chicago for 10 days to celebrate my birthday. We originally thought we'd do the airport pick up and a city tour with Chicago Private Tours but after looking at their website and emailing back and forth we ended up wtih a customised package of tours, total cost not far short of $2,000. We were taking several tours not just one and as a result for me it was over-sold and under-delivered. If we were only buying a straight forward airport pick up or a City Tour we would have been satisfied. As it was there was a gap between what we discussed over several emails in setting up our trip and what we actually experienced. For example, a few months passed between our agreeing a schedule, payment etc and our arriving in Chicago. I was very surprised not to receive any communication at all in the two weeks leading up to our trip along the lines of “ We are looking forward to welcoming you to Chicago and below is your confirmed schedule etc. etc. “ until I finally sent an email myself! Not a good start in my mind. Nor dealing with basic issue of security, especially as we were foreigners, were we told who would be picking us up, how they would identify themselves and their contact telephone number – until once again a day or two before our arrival I asked for this info. In my job I deal with the travel and other arrangements for people and we always give them these details at least one week in advance. It helps give peace of mind. Staff and Drivers Without exception the staff were warm, friendly, polite, courteous and well informed. It was a pleasure meeting everyone. The problem for was we met too many. Given we had booked several tours we would have preferred to have to deal solely with one or two people – that in essence is our view of a bespoke service. If staffing levels do not permit this please let us know at the time of booking. This is one of the reason we cancelled two trips – the second Guy Fieri and Jazz Music Tour as we didn’t know who we would be going with. Also I think we found as the week progressed and we got the feel for Chicago we didn’t want or need as much hand holding as we had thought we would, which was another reason why we cancelled these trips. Vehicles All the vehicles were comfortable, clean, well maintained and well driven. And here’s something from a European perspective. Vans, minivans are not as ubiquitous here as they are in the States and so we were expecting cars. Vans, mini vans have a slightly down market feel in Europe, used mainly for more mass transport – in fact they are called people carriers in the UK which kind of let’s you know our view of them - and so we surprised to be greeted by one. However once we climbed on board and found how comfortable they were we enjoyed them for the rest of our stay.. Preparation We planned our detailed itinerary with Chicago Private Tour six months in advance – so imagine my surprise when the afternoon before my trip to church they didn’t know what time I would be picked up, and were not able to confirm this until early in the evening. And on the morning itself their driver took me to a church having no idea what time the service began. We were an hour early and so drove around aimlessly looking for another church to go to. Is it really that difficult with six months notice to find out what time a church service is? The Guy Fieri food tour was also disappointing, rather than a highlight. Rightly or wrongly we felt there wasn’t enough advance preparation done, so much so we didn’t want a repeat so cancelled the second tour. What is the point of taking us to three restaurants, none of which we have eaten at before, the food is totally different to what we have a home, and then asking us “ what would you like to order?”. We just shrugged our shoulders and looked at each other in astonishment. A little more firm steering and direction would have been appreciated. Perhaps we can take some blame for expecting too much. Overall we had a fantastic time in Chicago and would love to come back and look forward to doing business with Chicago Private Tours again

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