Memphis City Tour: Riverboat Cruise Adventure

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: 24 hours
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…

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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Joan_w
Jul 20, 2025
Excellent - Sam was an excellent tour guide. Convenient pick up and drop off at hotel. Highly recommend this tour
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Katharina_b
Jul 12, 2025
Ask for Sam - The bus was very comfortable and the AC worked wonderfully keeping us all cool How interesting our driver made the tour with knowledge about everything . All the different landmarks he took us too . Sam was so entertaining , a cheerful chap full with lots of enthusiasm to his guests
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Ruth_s
Jul 1, 2025
xx - Our Tour Guide was great! he was also very helpful! he gets the gold star for service! I don't appreciate you requiring me to do a certain number of Characters. You just made me change my mind as to how I feel about Viator
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James_w
Jun 28, 2025
Awesome Tour Today! - The tour guide was very knowledgeable about the city. His name was Sam. He was polite and friendly with everyone on the tour! He made sure that everyone knew all about the city. It was personal for him and that made me feel good about returning back to Memphis in the future!
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Connie_h
Jun 26, 2025
Memphis City Tour - This was a wonderful city tour! Sam was a wealth of knowledge and spoke very clearly so I could hear him well. I especially liked the historical houses and the facts he gave us about them. He was also very professional, but still friendly too!
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Peggy_j
Jun 19, 2025
Traveling Memphis tour with friends - The guided Memphis tour is so worth doing. Learned a lot about Memphis with our wonderful guide Michelle.
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Laura_h
Jul 13, 2025
Great First Day Excuse - Overall, a good tour. Sam was a great guide. He kept everyone on time and was really fun! However, so much of the tour was spent talking about St. Jude. And while St. Jude has done AMAZING things for the kids, I feel so much more built Memphis than Danny Thomas creating St. Jude. We would have appreciated more history about Memphis itself. This is a GREAT tour to take on your fist day into Memphis. It give a general overall review of Memphis. It could help you decide what you want to go back and visit more closely. The boat ride was informative and relaxing. Thank for all the efforts put into this tour!
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Stay20296329244
Jul 3, 2025
Guided Memphis City Tour that includes a stop for the Duck Walk at the Peabody Hotel and a Paddle Boat Ride - The tour with our driver Sam was excellent. He was very knowledgeable and entertaining. He kept the tour on time. The tour was well worth going on! The Duck Walk at the Peabody took too much time. A 30-40 minute build-up for a two minute event. Both children and adults were losing interest. The Paddle boat ride was not worth the money as a sightseeing venue. You only go back and forth between the two main bridges. The guide was very knowledgeable about the history of Memphis music .
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Stacy_m
Jun 12, 2025
Bus and paddleboat tour combo - A good overview of Memphis history. Some places bus tour takes you past are St. Jude's Hospital, Lorraine Motel and Civil Rights Museum where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed, and a few other places. Bus tour drops you off at Peabody Hotel with enough time to shop in hotel before seeing the duck walk at 11 am. After duck walk, there is a drop off at other tours purchased in conjunction with Bus tour. If you do the Riverboat, you are dropped off in Beale St for lunch and looking around. Beale Street is only about 3 blocks. After lunch, went to the Mississippi Paddleboat River tour. The ride was about an hour and a half long. The boat did not move very fast or far. Narrator for tour was entertaining and there were 3 levels of the boat to hang out on, the bottom being air conditioned. Our bus tour guide Michelle was entertaining kept things moving. Better her than me to navigate the city!
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Deborah_b
Jun 22, 2025
Too hot to be enjoyable. - It was hot even in the bus. They dropped us off in the middle of down town during a gay pride parade. We couldn't get across the street or enjoy any shopping it was sooo crowded. The River boat was hot too. Idk if everyone's a/c was broken or what, but the most uncomfortable tour I've ever been on.
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up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).