We want you to ride with us. In fact, we want you to ride with us again and again! That's why we offer you more tour options by far than our competition.
If you've never taken a Segway tour of Chicago before, we highly recommend you take our three-hour Morning or Afternoon Tour. Even if you've ridden a Segway before, this is a great tour! We ride through Grant Park, Museum Campus, the Lakefront, and downtown Michigan Avenue. We stop at Buckingham Fountain, Millennium Park, the Shedd Aquarium, the Adler Planetarium, the Field Museum of Natural History, Soldier Field, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rose Garden in Grant Park, and more scenic places. We discuss them all, as well as the architecture of the city and many other prominent features of Chicago.
If you are visiting Chicago, we further recommend you take this tour at the beginning of your visit. This way you will better be able to plan the rest of your visit -- where you want to go, what you want to see and do, and where you want to eat -- by utilizing the expert input of our experienced tour guides. Even if you visit Chicago regularly, or even live here, you will still benefit greatly from taking this tour. I guarantee you will learn information about Chicago, and hear stories and anecdotes that are completely new to you.
Want to travel a different route? We have a North Tour, a River North Tour, an Architecture Tour, and even a Haunted Tour (I like to call it the gruesome murder and death tour)! All are very popular, and it doesn't matter btw if you believe in spirits or not. The Haunted Tour is filled with awesome all true stories of unexplained deaths and large scale disasters from Chicago history.
Want to ride more and stop less? Then you might be interested in our two-hour Evening Tour. We cover almost the same amount of territory, we just do it in an hour less time, with a lot briefer comments from your tour guide. We highly recommend this tour for after-work corporate outings, where most all participants are local Chicagoans (and hopefully know the downtown area and its history quite well - otherwise, once again we recommend one of our three-hour tours).
Have you taken a standard morning, afternoon, or evening tour with us, loved riding the Segway (a common feeling), and now you want to see what it's like to ride the Segway at its top speed? Then come take our expert level "Red-Key Tour". It is so named because the older Segway models have 3 keys (settings) -- black, yellow, and red. The black key is the beginner key and has a top speed of 5 mph. The yellow key is the intermediate key and has a top speed of 8.5 mph. That may not sound like much, but it is a far more powerful setting than the black key, which you really notice in turning. With a top speed of 12.5 mph, the red key is the expert key. The red key is not used on tours. It would be irresponsible without sufficient experience. The new i2 model no longer uses these 3 keys. It has an "InfoKey™" that can be set to different levels. Although obsolete, we retain the name "Red-Key Tour" to colorfully describe our expert level tour, wherein you get to ride the Segway at its top, fastest, and most powerful setting.
Have you taken a tour with us and now you want to ride somewhere other than our standard tour route? No problem! Steve's Segway Tours allows you to basically "Design Your Own Tour" -- within reason of course. We'll take you north or south along the lakefront, include a swim at the beach, a picnic lunch, or lunch at a scenic outdoor restaurant. We'll tour longer or shorter, or start and end at a special time, if you so desire. Tell us what you want to do, or ask us for suggestions, and we'll make it happen.
Please note -- the "Design Your Own Tour" feature is intended for returning customers. However, first-time riders with Steve's Segway Tours may certainly elect this option. We still recommend you take our standard Morning or Afternoon Tour, mostly because it is incredibly fun and informative. But if you want something different, or added or changed, let us know and we will do everything we can to make it happen -- and far more than our competition will. By the way, you can combine a "Design Your Own Tour" option with a "Red-Key Tour", but every member of your tour group must be a returning customer, and ready for the red-key challenge.