Brisbane River Cruise: Scenic 1.5-Hour Tour

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South Brisbane

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Relax on a 1.5-hour Brisbane River cruise. Capture iconic sights and learn local legends with live commentary. Perfect for a summer afternoon.

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

The Brisbane River - Explore the city of Brisbane from the river

What's Included

1.5 hour Sight Seeing Cruise with commentary
Afternoon Tea - Tea/Coffee, Danish/Muffins/Savoury Scrolls/Cinnamon Scrolls *subject to change
Access to the on board Coffee Shop and Licensed Bar
Restrooms onboard
Souvenir Map of the Brisbane River

What's Not Included

Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
Food and drinks, other than specified in inclusions

Additional Information

Have a relaxing 1.5-hour river cruise along Brisbane River. Take advantage of several photo opportunities as you glide through the water and see iconic sights such as Kangaroo Point Cliffs, Brisbane City Center and Story Bridge. Learn about the colorful history and local legends through informative and entertaining live commentary. This mid-afternoon…

Location

Cultural Centre Public Pontoon

Cultural Centre Pontoon. (50m upstream from the Victoria Bridge, 300m upstream from The Wheel). The Cultural Centre pontoon is directly in front of the Cultural Centre ie. Museum and State Library). Google ‘Cultural Centre Public Pontoon’ to get directions.

Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings

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758clareq

Aug 24, 2025

Wonderful welcome to Australia 🇦🇺 - The welcoming amazing and safety paramount. My husband enjoyed the local beer,called felon. Plus the ginger 🫚 beer went down to well. All guests had complimentary, coffee,cakes ,tea. But the history needed to be abit louder ,only because of noisy water jets going by constantly. From old to new ,the speaker explained everything perfectly.

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778serinas

Aug 9, 2025

Comfortable and relaxed - It was really nice, staff friendly and informative and we appreciated that we could still enjoy the tour with light rain as there was a waterproof clear plastic protection on the upper deck so that was great.

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Gregh785

Jul 24, 2025

Great views and an interesting history lesson. - I've been to Brisbane before but have never been on a river cruise. It was really interesting to see the sights from a different perspective and to hear the commentary about the history of the various places we passed. The bar was handy and it was a great view from the top deck.

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Allanjgj

Jan 18, 2025

Good value cruise on a sunny day - An excellent way to spend a sunny afternoon. Cute boat, amusing and informative commentary and not too crowded. Good value for a 90 minute cruise.

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Barbara_d

Jan 5, 2025

Fun time boating down the river! - We had a great time on the boat ride. They gave us all the history of everything we saw, & the boat layout made it easy for all on board to see. They also had refreshments available- some for purchase. We would recommend this excursion to all ages.

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Sujeewa

Dec 28, 2024

Brisbane river cruise - A vey relaxing boat trip with great commentary on the story of Brisbane. Good refreshments too! Very polite staff. Boat captain made sure everyone was safe during the tour.

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919blessingm

Aug 3, 2024

Calm waters cruise. - Very good cruise. Relaxing and smooth. Highly recommend. Tour of Brisbane central and many sites. Lots of bridges and history of the land.

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Loven875

Jul 27, 2024

Lovely tour - The river city cruise team were very helpful and kind enough to reschedule our booking when we couldn’t make it on time due to traffic. Overall the tour was very enjoyable and very informative. Relaxing 90 minutes tour with great views and on a top of that complementary tea and coffee were provided. Thanks river city cruise team from our family.

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Scotte800

Feb 15, 2025

Meh - Boat cruise was a bit “meh”. The “guide” was a recording that was not very engaging. We were hoping for an actual human telling us stories and background of the sites we cruised by. The seats were not that comfortable. You could sit in benches around the perimeter of the upper deck, but then you faced inward instead of outward. Or, you could sit on some plastic chairs in the middle around tables.

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