Chicago Architectural River Tour Through Viator or the CA Fourndation
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Chicago Architectural River Tour Through Viator or the CA Fourndation
Will be in Chicago and want to take the Chicago Architectural River Tour and was wondering if anyone has experience with either Viator tours or the Chicago Architectural foundation tour? Viator tours offers a less expensive tour for the same amount of time and with great reviews. But would going through the foundation offer a better learning experience? And which boats are more comfortable?
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The Chicago Architectural Foundation is the best, a not for profit organizarion that studies and shares the city's historic and modern architecture with the public. Now lots of copy cat arxhectural boat tours are popping up. I can't recommend your gping on any other boat tour. The CAF docents are excellent narrators and I learn something new each time I take the CAF boat.
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CAF is definitely the gold standard and that's what I always recommend to friends and visitors. However, if someone isn't interested at all in architecture or historical accuracy and are operating on a tight budget where saving a few dollars might help, then going with a cheaper operator would probably be just fine.
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Thanks! I appreciate your replies. We tried to go a few years ago to go but needed 4 tickets and the CAF only had 3 available. So I will try them again. That was my gut feeling but thought I would put it out there in case I was missing something. I've heard the docents are excellent.
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