2026 LakeGeorge.com Fab Five Winners: Best Cruise or Boat Tour
Experiencing Lake George from the water offers a whole new perspective on its natural beauty. The 2026 LakeGeorge.com Fab Five results, based on community voting, recognize businesses that provide standout scenic and narrated boat tours. This category highlights those delivering memorable on-the-water experiences for visitors and locals alike.
1. Daleys Adventure Boat Tours
Daleys Adventure Boat Tours claims the top spot by offering award-winning, private charters tailored entirely to each group's desires. Departing from multiple flexible docks including Kattskill Bay, their fleet of smooth-riding luxury cruisers guides small groups through personalized itineraries that can feature everything from historic mansion sightseeing and sunken ship ghost stories to high-speed tubing and cliff jumping.
2. Lake George Steamboat Company
Lake George Steamboat Company captures the runner-up position, sharing the lake's rich maritime history directly from the village docks. Operating continuously since 1817, this iconic institution allows passengers to step aboard historic vessels—including the authentic Minne-Ha-Ha paddlewheel steamship and the massive Lac du Saint Sacrement—for classic, fully narrated sightseeing and meal cruises.
3. Original Tiki Tours
Original Tiki Tours brings a festive, highly social atmosphere to the water, launching custom charters straight out of the village dock basin. Up to twelve guests can step aboard these distinctive, thatched-roof floating tiki barges to enjoy a relaxing, captain-led excursion complete with high-end Bluetooth sound systems and bring-your-own beverage coolers as they cruise along the shoreline.
4. True North Boat Tours
True North Boat Tours delivers an authentic local experience, picking up guests from the village docks for private, pet-friendly lake excursions. Operating a luxury 26-foot Viaggio Tritoon powered by a high-output outboard motor, Captain Vito treats friends and families to custom itineraries filled with island picnics, swimming, waterskiing, and guided hikes to Shelving Rock Falls.
5. Lake George Waterfront Cruises
Lake George Waterfront Cruises rounds out the top five, operating a fleet of custom double-decker vessels out of their village charter docks. The company specializes in highly engaging, historic narrated cruises that dive deep into the area's French and Indian War heritage, alongside popular seasonal sunset sails, happy hour cruises, and vibrant evening fireworks excursions.
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