Prijzen gecontroleerd op 11 sep 2026Wat te doen in Chicago
Tijdens deze nostalgische en leerzame tour nemen we je mee op een "kerstspeurtocht" door het centrum van Chicago, op zoek naar de meest verbluffende en indrukwekkende kerstbomen en andere kerstversieringen - en wij weten waar ze zijn! Deze tour omvat niet alleen bezoeken aan bekende haltes zoals de Christkindlmarkt en de oude Marshall Field's, maar ook aan weinig bekende haltes die enkele van de beste kerstversieringen in de binnenstad bevatten. Je leert over de oorsprong van enkele wereldberoemde kerstpersonages – sommige uit Chicago, andere niet – en de geschiedenis achter kersttradities die door mensen over de hele wereld worden beoefend.
We zullen ongeveer 2,5 mijl aan prachtige decoraties en tradities voor de feestdagen in het centrum van Chicago behandelen en leren over de geschiedenis van alles wat we onderweg zien!
We booked The Christmas Tree Crawl Experience in Chicago through TripAdvisor on December 13, and we had amazing time. The tour was enjoyable regardless of the cold and windy weather indicative of the season, thanks to the excellent knowledge of our guide, Hillary, who combined insight into architecture and history with her outstanding knowledge of Christmas traditions to create a memorable tour experience. We are planning to return next year.
My sister and I spent a few days in Chicago right before Christmas, and we did this tour on a lark… And it was absolutely delightful. It’s an inside and outside walking tour of downtown, highlighting all kinds of Christmas decorations. Hilary (who also happens to own the company) was a fantastic guide – knowledgeable, fun, super warm, and full of historical and architectural information along with the festive Christmas stuff. Completely, utterly delightful.
My sister and I did this while in Chicago for a few days. It was so fun and charming and festive. Hilary (who actually owns the tour company) could not have been more knowledgeable - and she’s a freaking delight. The tour ends at the Palmer House, which is a gorgeous, historic hotel (super festive at Christmas). Fantastic guide, fantastic tour!
This tour was a total disappointment. Our guide took a call as soon as we were about to start. Walked away from the entire group and was on his phone for 15 minutes. We were all just standing there in the cold waiting. He then told us he had to make some “changes” to the tour. He started walking extremely fast and was way in front of us all. By the time we got to the first stop two people already left the tour. The first stop, we could not even go in to see the tree. At the second indoor stop 5 people decided they wanted to quit the tour so he had to spend another 10 minutes trying to give them a refund, while we all just stood inside this office building. Third stop he gave us very frozen Frango mints in the dirty underground train station. Kept showing us Christmas pictures from a ratty notebook. We ended up exiting the tour at Macy’s. This was a poorly run tour with only 1 Christmas tree being seen. The guide seemed very overwhelmed and unprepared.
Georgette, I am truly sorry that the first part of this tour was full of unexpected obstacles that your guide had to try to resolve on the fly, and that it ruined the experience for you. It is not at all representative of this tour nor this company, and I would like to clarify for you (and for future customers) what happened with this tour. Scott gets many excellent reviews, and is an excellent guide -- but even the best guides would get overwhelmed by the many unexpected customer issues at the start of this tour. One large group mistakenly booked thinking it was a trolley tour, so they left. Another large group hadn't alerted us to needing handicap accessibility for one of their guests (though it is clearly marked that this particular tour route is not handicap accessible), and so they eventually left, and Scott was stuck fielding their insistence on a refund while other guests waited and got irritable. Scott was on his phone at the start of the tour trying to help many late guests locate the starting point (and it's the late guests that made the tour start late). Then, for the first couple stops, he was texting *with me* trying to work out how he could discretely adjust the tour route to accommodate a wheelchair user when the tour route is generally not handicap accessible (for future guests, please let us know if you'll have a wheelchair or stroller so that we can make proper accommodations). That's why he was on his phone so much. In addition to all this, he had angry guests bullying him, saying "looks like you're having personal issues -- we want another guide" (or calling his binder "a ratty notebook"). I am sincerely sorry that you didn't get the experience all of our other tour groups get, but I want to clarify that you did see two of the scheduled Christmas trees (out of the 5-6 we show): to be clear, there was no tree to be seen in the first place we usually enter that your guide skipped due to needing impromptu handicap accessibility, and there's nothing to see inside that building anyway -- we simply enter this building to take the Pedway into the first actual Christmas tree stop, which you saw. You must have decided to leave just before I met your group in Macy's to apologize to the group for the start-of-tour issues that were out of our control. I would have been happy to speak with you individually about how we could make it up to you. You decided to leave the tour at Macy's -- and if you didn't see the Walnut Room tree where I met the group, then you must have left as soon as the group got to Macy's through the Pedway (the "dirty underground train station," as you called it, which we use to keep guests warm), so you didn't see the 3rd tree. I do understand why you decided to leave, but unfortunately you didn't get to experience the entire second half of the tour, which took place without any further issues, and which saw the rest of the trees and decorations as usual.
Highly recommended! We brought our 4 year old along expecting to abandon after 30 minutes or so, but the boy loved the full 2 hours. Perfect mix of indoor/outdoor with a bathroom break. Scott was fantastic as guide. I’ve been to Chicago this time of year a dozen times, and learned/saw MANY new things - wish I had done this way sooner! There were 20 total in the group (5 in our family), and everyone was so nice! I would do this again!!!
Scott gave a group of 20 including 5 from our family an excellent tour, stopping at about 8 different places to share interesting details about the buildings paying special attention to Christmas. We visited the famous Marshall Fields department store and traveled up 7 successive escalators to visit the Walnut Room (restaurant) within which is a highly decorated Christmas tree. The 2 hours flew by and we ended up at the Palmer House Hotel where we were staying. Highly recommended!
Great value lots of insights that I had no idea about! It was also great to walk around Chicago and behind the ropes to get inside several places I had no idea existed
This was a phenomenal experience. I loved learning about the history of the city as well as the history of Christmas. Scott was a phenomenal tour guide who obviously was passionate about history. I learned so much cool and interesting stuff about the city. I can't wait to book my next tour!
Scott was great! We saw so many beautiful buildings that I had never seen before despite growing up in the area. Will definitely be going back.
Viewing the various Christmas trees was fun, but for me, learning new “fun facts” about Chicago, the history behind some of our favorite Christmas traditions, and several downtown buildings was well worth the price, thanks to our guide Scott.
| Tour | Duur | Beoordeling | Prijs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Christmas Tree Crawl Ervaar Chicago tijdens de feestdagen | 2 uur | 4.9 (44) | $35 | |
 Chicago Architecture Center River Cruise aboard First Lady | 1h 30min | 4.9 (7,028) | $57 | Bekijk |
 Chicago Architecture River Cruise | 1h–1h 30min | 4.8 (16,969) | $39 | Bekijk |
 Chicago River 90-Minute Architecture Tour | 1h 30min | 4.7 (10,918) | $45 | Bekijk |
 Chicago Sightseeing River and Lake Cruise | 1h 30min | 4.7 (722) | $46 | Bekijk |
 Chicago River 45-Minute Architecture Tour from Magnificent Mile | 45 min | 4.7 (3,577) | $28 | Bekijk |
 Chicago By Night River and Lake Cruise | 1h 30min | 4.5 (432) | $50 | Bekijk |