The 25 most-booked experiences in North America, and which ones the ratings back

Booking numbers and ratings disagree, and the gap is the useful part. The list below is the 25 experiences with the most reviews in our partner's catalogues for Glentio's seven North American cities, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Miami, Toronto and Vancouver, as read on October 1, in order of reviews. Each carries the rating it earned, and the list is split by whether the rating backs the booking count. Prices are "from" prices in US dollars.

Booked a lot and rated 4.7 or better

• New York, SUMMIT One Vanderbilt. Tickets, from $48, 4.7 from 60,600. The most-reviewed experience on the continent, the mirrored observation deck at Grand Central.
• New York, 9/11 Memorial and Museum. Timed ticket, from $25, 4.8 from 34,900, the best-rated of the big five.
• New York, Empire State Building. Observation deck and museum, from $50, 4.7 from 29,000.
• New York, CityPASS. Five attractions over nine days, from $149, 4.7 from 11,600; the arithmetic works if you were going to three of them anyway.
• Chicago, the architecture cruise. Ninety-minute guided cruise, from $45, 4.8 from 9,570, the most-booked experience outside New York and the best-rated on this list with more than five thousand reviews. The skip-the-line version, from $39, 4.8 from 4,700, is cheaper and as well rated. More in the Chicago story.
• New York, by helicopter. Manhattan sightseeing helicopter tour, from $272, fifteen to thirty minutes, 4.8 from 7,630. Statue of Liberty and skyline, from $269, 4.7 from 7,430.
• New York, two more. The FRIENDS Experience, from $55, 4.7 from 7,050. Intrepid Museum entry, from $38, 4.7 from 5,210, the aircraft carrier on the Hudson. More in the New York story.

Booked a lot and rated 4.6

Fine, and a tenth below the line. The observation decks cluster here because the rating is the queue and the weather, not the view.

• New York. Edge, from $41, 4.6 from 23,500. Top of the Rock, from $46, 4.6 from 22,500. MoMA entry, from $30, 4.6 from 14,300. One World Observatory skip-the-line, from $30, 4.6 from 13,400. Top attractions including Edge, from $89, 4.6 from 8,850. Sightseeing cruise with the Statue of Liberty, from $39, 4.6 from 7,920. Statue of Liberty express cruise, from $29, fifty minutes, 4.6 from 5,820. Washington DC day trip by van or bus, from $107, fifteen hours, 4.6 from 4,540. Of the four decks, the 9/11 Museum below ground and SUMMIT above it are the two the ratings prefer.
• Los Angeles. Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood, from $79, 4.6 from 8,680, the most-booked thing in Los Angeles. More in the Los Angeles story.
• Chicago. Willis Tower Skydeck and the Ledge, from $47, forty-five minutes, 4.6 from 5,090.
• Las Vegas. Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam view with lunch and Skywalk options, from $99, 4.6 from 6,370, the most-booked thing in Las Vegas. The better-rated canyon days are in the day-trips list.

Booked a lot and rated under 4.6

• New York, American Museum of Natural History. Ticket, from $37, 4.5 from 17,600.
• Miami, the Everglades and the bay. Everglades airboat, wildlife exhibit and bus, from $50, 4.1 from 11,100, the lowest rating on this list and the most-booked thing in Miami. Everglades airboat tour and wildlife show, from $32, 4.5 from 8,020, the same marsh without the bus and better rated. Biscayne Bay millionaires' homes cruise, from $20, 4.5 from 9,300. Miami's three entries are its three most-booked things and none clears 4.5; the Little Havana food walk, rated 4.9 by 1,300, is the thing to book instead, and it is in the Miami story.

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What the list says

New York holds seventeen of the 25. Chicago's two architecture cruises are the only non-New York entries rated 4.8. The pattern is that tickets to look at a city get booked and rated 4.6; things with a guide on a boat get booked and rated 4.8. Toronto and Vancouver have nothing in the top 25, which says more about the catalogue sizes than the cities.

For Americans

Most of this list is New York and most of New York's list is a deck. If you have one afternoon, the 9/11 Museum and SUMMIT, in that order, are the two the ratings back; if you have one morning in Chicago, the architecture cruise is the one thing.

For Europeans

Prices above are in US dollars; your card converts. Dates on posters are month first: 10/12 is October 12. The CityPASS is the one American habit worth copying if three of its five are on your list. The ESTA is applied for on the official site, not a reseller.

For visitors from East Asia

Mid-October is after Golden Week; the deck queues are shortest on a weekday morning. The cruises and tours run in English; the listing names any other language. US sales tax is added at the till and is not refundable to visitors.

Sources

• The partner catalogues for New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Miami, Toronto and Vancouver, as read on October 1, 2026, for every price, rating, duration and review count. The list is the 25 listings with the most reviews across the seven; a review count stands in for bookings because the partner publishes the former.