Memphis City Tour: Guided Exploration and Mississippi Riverboat Cruise
4.4
465 Ratings
Memphis
Experience the best of Memphis with a guided city tour and a scenic Mississippi Riverboat cruise. Discover downtown Memphis, explore Beale Street, and enjoy a relaxing sail along the Mississippi River. Don't miss out on this unforgettable combo tour!
Duration: 6 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Memphis Best Tours - After pickup from your downtown Memphis hotel, Our professional humorous guides will help you discover downtown Memphis and the Mississippi river all in one package. You will see some of the most famous and infamous sites around our historical city.
What's Included
  • Complimentary Hotel Pick-Up/Drop-Off
  • Professional Guide with Live Narration
  • Tour Past Victorian Homes and Cultural Landmarks
  • Guided Memphis City Day Tour with Riverboat Cruise
  • See Historic Sites, including Pyramid Arena and Lorraine Hotel
  • Admission to Memphis Riverboats: Mississippi River Cruise
  • Free Time at Iconic Beale Street
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Lunch (time for lunch on own between city tour and riverboat cruise)
Additional Information

This all-inclusive tour offers a comprehensive experience of Memphis. Our well-informed and entertaining guides will introduce you to downtown Memphis and the Mississippi River in a seamless package. You will surely feel like you’ve covered the essential Memphis sights. It’s a tailor-made chance to digest the entire city while you’re visiting. Following the city tour, you’ll have free time to wander around Beale Street or grab a bite, at your leisure before we set sail on the river.

Subsequently, relish a riverboat trip on the Memphis Riverboats, a tradition long-steamer voyage along the Mississippi River. Float downstream the Mississippi River and absorb the surrounding panorama as enlightening captain’s narration unfolds. Observe Tom Lee Park while learning about its origin, and comprehend how Mississippi impacted trade in Memphis and the neighboring regions during the journey.

  • Subject to favorable weather conditions. If canceled due to poor weather, you will be given the option of an alternative date or full refund.
  • Total tour duration is approximately 6.5-7 hours
  • Please note: Our buses are not wheelchair accessible. We can accommodate if they can get out the chair and step on the bus.
Location
Memphis Best Tours
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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(465 Ratings)
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Grapevine_jim
May 31, 2024
Michele was the bomb - Michele was the bomb. City tour was best part. Enjoyed the time for lunch and walking Beale St. River cruise was nice, but a lot of repeat info.
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Danlinebarger
May 30, 2024
This tour includes a tremendous amount of history especially about what happened in the 60's - Michelle was our driver and she was an amazing book of information. Both entertaining and a great historian. My only recommendation is for the tour company to give her a headset with boom mic. Her trying to drive the bus and deal with a handheld microphone bouncing in her hand left about 50% of what she had to share with the passengers sometimes inaudible. Take this tour!
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Jole_h
May 27, 2024
Seeing it all in a couple hours - The history shared by our guide gave us a real feel for the city. We really enjoyed the Rock N Soul museum.
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Nancy_d
May 23, 2024
Awesome - Enjoyed this tour and riverboat awesome bus driver made it special for us and Michelle was very knowledgeable and fun! Best tour for the price!
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Nellie
May 18, 2024
Amazing! - Amazing! Without the guided tour we wouldn’t have known what to see/do outside of the (amazing!) Elvis exhibits. Michelle the awesome tour guide.. gave us history, facts, a tour we couldn’t have known to do on our own. The boat ride on the Mississippi-absolutely extraordinary!
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Tiffany_b
May 30, 2024
Long wait for the boat trip to start - Michelle was an amazing guide and very knowledgeable about Memphis. She told all Of the stories beautifully. The only drawback to this tour was the wait for the boat ride. We were dropped off almost an hour early and had to wait for the trip to start. The guide on the boat was also very knowledgeable and we learned a lot. I think I would have broken up the sightseeing and the boat tour. It was a 7 hour day.
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Francie_h
May 21, 2024
Worth doing - Enjoyed hearing the history of memphis and seeing the sights. Wish the riverboat had been a real paddleboat( as was implied) and would have been nice to go a bit farther than just from bridge to bridge. Didn’t like all the tip requests.
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Andrea_s
May 20, 2024
The Mighty Mississippi in Memphis, TN - The entire tour in downtown Memphis and the Mississippi River was good. Reason I gave 4 stars was because they had plastic chairs and chair legs started spreading so I had to get another chair. The tour gentleman was good, he was well versed. This boat needs better chairs.
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Mary_g
Jun 5, 2024
Not so pleasant trip - Our bus driver was good but so loud that we couldn’t understand half of what she said. Then I got overheated and had to cancel the riverboat trip. Next time in cooler weather. Beale St was hot and no place to sit.
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Kathleen_m
Jun 4, 2024
Nice way to see the city - the instructions on where to go and how to get there for the start was a bit confusing. The city tour was a bit disorganized as the driver was unaware of a parade that prevented us from going to Beal street. The river cruise was pleasant.
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