Everglades Airboat Safari in Miami booking from $29.00

Everglades Airboat Safari

Overview

Explore the Everglades on an airboat adventure. This tour includes transportation, park entrance, airboat ride, the airboat tour, and free time to walk the park and see all the alligator exhibits. Have the chance to see alligators up close in their natural habitat, as well as the many exhibits scattered throughout the park. This half day tour departs twice daily at 9:30 and 1:30.

City: Miami

Mon 18 Nov

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What's Included

Free time for lunch at the park

Airboat Ride

Park Entrance

Airboat Tour

Free time to walk and explore Exhibits

Transportation to the Everglades

Additional Info

Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Dress code is comfortable
Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Gear/equipment sanitised between use
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Regular temperature checks for staff
Temperature checks for travellers upon arrival
Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
Contactless payments for gratuities and add-ons

What To Expect

Miami Double Decker

Check in 15 minutes prior to departure

Everglades National Park

Alligators…they are inexplicable! They are atrocious! They are exciting! And above all, they are must see when you are in the Everglades. If you wish to get up-close and personal with alligators then there’s no better way out than taking alligator tours.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (307)

damoske

May 2018

I did this as I only had a morning to spend on the trip, and I was based at South Beach. For a start, MiamiTours staff were pretty unfriendly. I panicked as I got at the office only five minutes early to find a huge 20 minute queue, where a guy shouted at me to get in line when I tried to check whether we’d still make it. No-one explained that it would be OK and the buses wouldn’t leave without us. This turned out to be the case, and the bus left half an hour later once everyone was on board. There was no commentary at all either way, but it was a chance to nap and the driver didn’t expect tips as a result. For £29 ($40ish) via Tripadvisor and Half Price Tours, we got an air conditioned double-decker coach both ways from Lincoln Street, a 30min airboat ride, a 20min alligator show, and around 20 mins to browse the shop. I had a smoked alligator sausage from the kitchen for $11. Now, don’t expect to be “at one with nature”, this is definitely nothing other than a canned tourist experience at a smallish private centre attached to the main national park. There are 5 rows of 6, 30 people on the airboat, and it rides on the same well-travelled course as every other boat every 10-15 mins. The gators can stay in the same place all day, and live to 70, so when the guide points one out, he’s probably done so to every other group in the same spot all day, every day, for years. But - that’s probably partially true for the private tours too. As it was, we saw four of the five regular gators that the guide said they had names for, a juvenile or two, plus some birds and turtles. They slowly drift along for 10 mins pointing out the wildlife, then do a speed run which is pretty fun, then another 10 mins of slow drifting back to the dock. The people at the park are pretty friendly and relaxed, and our guide Jay was practiced and funny. The wildlife show afterwards was again showing a few animals in a small covered arena, and Tom was almost inaudible with the PA system broken, but there were a few interesting facts, I’m sure kids will love it, and again - it’s just checking boxes as a tourist. “Seen scorpion - check. Eaten gator burger - check”. Seeing the 5-6 medium gators up close in the pen is definitely something. From the way the gators have been trained scared of the stone carried by the keeper, it may not be the most humane centre, but then those gators are apparently all caged anyway as being dangerous to humans, and there’s a gator farm next door where they breed and kill them, so go figure. I’m sure you would see a lot more of the land and more varied wildlife in the main national park and visitors centre, but for a quick rush visit, this is very efficient, and at the price I got it for, great value.

Katherine B

Apr 2018

The airboat Safari was really fun and is a must see if you go to Miami. But you do not need to book it through Viator who uses Miami Double Decker, who were terrible. The Everglades is only about 35 to 40 minutes south of Miami so if you are renting a car, go there yourself and book the safari with Gator Park directly. The tour consists of an airboat ride with an informative local guide and a gator show at the end. The bad review is for Miami Double Decker. All they provided was the ride to Gator Park. We were told to check in at 1:00 pm for a 1:30 pm trip. We showed up much earlier, checked in. Then the bus was very late, did not show up until 2:15 pm. We stood in the rain for over 1.5 hours. Finally we were all loaded onto the bus, then the bus went all around town including the cruise port to pick up more passengers. We finally reached Gator Park after 4pm! The guide on the bus kept blatantly asking for tips and all he did on the ride over was point out Miami Airport and the Baseball Stadium. Everglades is a must, but skip this excursion and go yourself. You will save several hours of frustration and being treated like a dumb tourist.

Eric_A

Mar 2018

Booked the Everglades Airpboat Safari for a sister's weekend in Miami and the Keys. A few things I wish I had known beforehand are: the bus leaves from SouthBeach and the only free hotel pickups available are in/around the SouthBeach area. For an additional fee, you can elect to have the bus pick you up at a different address, but we did not do this, so I'm not sure what their pickup radius is. After you book on Viator, you DO need to call and confirm the time/date of your booking direct with the tour company in order to reserve your spot. The bus leaves promptly, and since long-term parking in SouthBeach is a bit tough to locate and expensive, you'll want to leave plenty of time to get there. We ended up parking at one of the public lots near Lincoln Square Mall, which was just a few blocks away and was just 8 for 4 hours a bunch of the other lots closer to the beach were between 18-20 for 2-4 hours. The tour bus is a double-decker, and sitting on the top, we were able to get great views of Miami, the beaches, and lagoons as we headed toward Everglades State Park. There is an additional 3 per person National Park Fee that you have to pay upon arrival this is NOT included in the booking fee. Traffic in Miami is terrible we were on the Friday morning, 9:30AM trip, and most of the tour is spent driving to and from the alligator park about 45 minutes there and over 1 hour to return to South Beach. The boat ride and alligator demonstrations take place at a rather small alligator park that is NOT the National Park endorsed Everglades Safari Park as I had hoped, but rather a place called Gator Park Airboat Tours. The boat ride was about a 30-minute loop through some lagoons and into the wide grass river area of the Everglades. We saw about 1/2 dozen large and small alligators on the boat ride itself, as well as some interesting water birds, and we learned a bit about the Everglades park and the plant and wildlife in that area from our captain. Afterward, we wandered around the gator park where we saw dozens of other captive alligators, and enjoyed a live demonstration about alligator and crocodile behavior that was quite fascinating and educational. The things I found to be a bit disappointing about this tour I've never done one, so I don't have anything to compare it with, so please keep this in mind, were the length of the boat ride and alligator demonstrations in proportion to the time we spent driving to/from Miami seemed very short, you don't really see much of the Everglades - just a few minutes through the canals, then a few minutes out on open water before turning around, the gift shop and restaurant at the park were pretty sub-par, and the only bathrooms at the place were in a trailer outside the building where there was 0 water pressure and none of the toilets were flushing the day we were there and it was quite busy, so it was rather an unpleasant experience. We did, however, see dozens more alligators in the wild along the canal by the highway as we drove back to Miami, which ended the trip on a more positive note. My recommendation for anyone who isn't worried about getting transportation to the Everglades from Miami for anyone that wants to experience the Everglades itself a bit more would be to drive directly to the north end of the park, visit the actual Everglades Safari Park - if you're set on doing an airboat ride - then drive down to the southern end of the park to the Royal Palm visitors center and walk the Anhinga Loop Trail - where you'll see tons of alligators, fish, birds, wildlife and beautiful bog foliage up front and personal.

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