Year-round Specialty Cruises
Year-round fun on Boston Harbor
and the Harbor Islands.
Each year, Boston’s Best Cruises offer a series of year-round specialty cruises on Boston Harbor and to the Boston Harbor Islands National Park area. The trips below are all co-sponsored by Boston Harbor Island Alliance. In addition, the trips displaying the park logo are jointly sponsored by the National Park Service and the MA Department of Conservation and Recreation.
Directions to our dock
Whale Watch, Boston Harbor Islands, Harbor Cruise, Sunset Cruise, & MBTA Harbor Express Quincy Ferry
190 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, MA 02210
Located across from Faneuil Hall Marketplace, between the Marriott Long Wharf Hotel and Christopher Columbus Park
BY CAR
Discounted Parking ($2.00 off) at 1 International Place (address: 1 International Place) when you present your parking garage ticket at the Ferry Center at time of purchase.
FROM THE NORTH: Take I-93 South to exit 24A/Government Center. Left onto Surface Rd; Left on Milk St; Left on Atlantic Ave, Long Wharf North on right past Marriott.
FROM THE SOUTH: Take I-93 North to exit 23 in the Thomas P O’Neill tunnel; Left on Surface Rd; Left on Milk St; Left on Atlantic Ave; Long Wharf North on right past Marriott.
FROM THE WEST: Take the Mass Pike (I-90) to I-93 North. Take Exit 23 (Government Center). Follow signs to the New England Aquarium which will require you to make a 180 degree loop onto Atlantic Avenue.
BY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
BY TRAIN
Take MBTA Blue Line to Aquarium Station. Follow the exit signs for the New England Aquarium. Upon exiting the station onto Atlantic Ave. turn around and walk towards the waterfront, turn left and walk through the Long Wharf Marriott Hotel. When you exit the hotel, turn Right, the Ferry Center is located ahead along with Boston’s Best Cruises dock.
BY FERRY
Take the MBTA Harbor Express Ferry from Quincy or Hull (weekdays only). Take the MBTA Inner Harbor Ferry to Long Wharf, near the Aquarium. Walk around or through the Long Wharf Marriott Hotel. When you exit the hotel, turn Right, the docks are located ahead along with Boston’s Best Cruises Ferry Center.
