Vista Fleet

My husband and I just did the Grand Sightseeing Tour on the Vista Star. We absolutely loved it! It was so very informative. Bill did a fantastic job narrating and dropping in some humor as well as offering up so many facts about permanent points of interest as well as ships currently in the harbor. The entire staff was phenomenal! This boat tour was the highlight of our visit to Duluth and we'll definitely do this or another tour option next time we visit. I very highly recommend going on one of the many tours that Vista Fleet has to offer.

We had a great time on the Vista Fleet. We did the lunch tour. The views were breathtaking through the Duluth harbor! The staff was extremely friendly! Callie did a wonderful job narrating the boat tour. It what’s fun because they offer special announcements for passengers. I did one for my three kid’s 1st boat ride and they were so excited to hear their names announced! I did this boat cruise when I was a kid and it was wonderful to come back and have that experience with my kids! We definitely recommend!

A great experience! It took the exact amount of time they said it would take. Left on time and arrived on time. Our tour guide wasn’t very factual, so if you’re looking for facts maybe fact check… they have drinks that are expensive but it was worth it!

This is a great tour with excellent narration about the history of the harbor and the lake. I took this tour in the 1980s, the 1990s, and most recently in the 2024, and it's always been great. On our latest tour, we saw the Arthur M. Anderson (the ship that was out with the Edmund Fitzgerald the night it went down in 1975) come into port. We also saw the largest freighter currently on the great lakes, the Paul R. Tregurtha (a.k.a. "Queen of the Lakes").

We had a great time on the Vista Star in Duluth Harbor. Although the weather was rainy and very windy and it was too choppy to go out on Lake Superior, we had a very nice and informative tour of the harbor area. We got to see some big boats up close. The crew was great!

The service on the boat was horrible at the bar three employees working and a line of 10 people took 5 minutes to get a beer. The boat itself was really a fun ride and the guide talked a lot about the area he was very good but difficult to hear as most people were inside because of the weather. Ordered a few times not one time did the server at the bar even thank me.

Nice way to see the city! It was smoggy from the wildfires so we didn’t have the clearest views. We purchased tickets ahead of time which I would recommend, though tickets can be purchased right across the street. Departure and arrival times were spot on. We sat up top, it is not at all shaded, so be prepared to need breaks down on the lower levels if it’s hot and sunny (90+ when we went ). Full bar was available, water was free. It was hard to hear the guide from the top level, either she was too quiet or she was right on the mic and everything was muffled. When they tell you not to remove chains to go up and down sets of stairs, they mean it. Mind blowing how many grown adults were asked by staff to follow the rules after they were explained, witnessed several get stuck downstairs after letting themselves down from the upper level. There is a capacity they have to keep track up so if they don’t see you go down you can’t go back up. However once we got moving, they do remove the chains so you can’t get up and down freely.