Everglades Day Safari from Fort Myers/Naples Area in Fort Myers booking from $199.00

Everglades Day Safari from Fort Myers/Naples Area

Overview

Spend a full day exploring the wilderness of the Everglades on this adventure from the Greater Fort Myers/Naples area. With your naturalist guide, take an exciting airboat ride in the Western Everglades, see wildlife on a drive through Big Cypress National Preserve, admire towering cypress trees on a nature walk, and enjoy a relaxing boat cruise along mangrove-lined waters to see manatees, dolphins and osprey. Your guide will teach you all about the Everglades and accompany you to lunch.

City: Fort Myers

Sun 22 Sep

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What's Included

Narrated van tour

Expert naturalist or biologist guide

Lunch

1-hour airboat ride

Hotel pickup and drop-off (Only Select Hotels)

Transport by air-conditioned 13-passenger van

1-hour boat cruise

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Minimum age is 5 years old
Hat, sunscreen and sunglasses are recommended
Strollers are not permitted
Please note: if your hotel is not on the list provided then pickup will be at the Perkins Restaurant, 14801 South Tamiami Trail, Fort Myers, FL 33908 at 7:35 am
Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Face masks provided for travellers
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
Contactless payments for gratuities and add-ons

What To Expect

Big Cypress National Preserve

Wildlifedrive through the back country of the first Preserve in the National Park system.

Smallwood Store

Step back in time and explore the historic Smallwoods Store Museum. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the museum stands frozen in time, a window to a bygone era when the store was the islands trading post and island life revolved around the activities here.

Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park

Nature Walk through a grove of ancient cypress trees out to a "gator hole" where female alligators have been nesting for decades.

Cancellation Policy

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

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Reviews (212)

Patti_F

Dec 2021

Trip was wonderful. Rhett was an excellent tour guide. And the boat captains were awesome too. We saw so many birds and alligators. Dolphins too. Great experience

Response from Host

Dec 2021

Thanks of the 5-star review.I appreciate the kinds words for the tour and Rhett's expertise.

Gina_S

Nov 2021

Heidi, our guide was very informative and kept the day exciting and interesting. The accommodations, frim the boats to the van ride were all great. Lunch was great. Would definitely recommend this tour

Response from Host

Nov 2021

Thank you for the recommendation and recognition of Heidi's excellence!

N4106NGsteves

Nov 2021

Our guide was outstanding but there was A LOT of van time. We were picked up near Sanibel and spent more than half of the day driving in a van that was clean but not that comfortable to be in for well over 5 hours. I know a safari includes travel time but the van time overshadowed the less than two hours of boat time and the 45 minute nature walk. We didn't get any great pictures either, a couple of sleeping gators and a few birds. I realize nature is unpredictable and perhaps we went on an off day but be aware, there is a lot of driving. My review would have been rated higher if we hadn't spent so long in a van driving between the 3 tours stops, 4 including lunch, and the time it took to stop and pick up, then drop off, the other guests up from various locations.

Response from Host

Nov 2021

I appreciate the feedback but I need to clarify a few incorrect statements. The airboat ride is an hour. The mangrove wilderness boat ride is an hour. The visit to the Smallwoods Store Museum was left off of your review. Lunch is about 45 minutes to an hour and the nature walk is an hour. The nature walk is an hour. You have also left out the hour long wildlife drive in Big Cypress National Preserve. It's possible you've included that in the drive time but that's part of the tour where we take you into the backcountry to look for wildlife. It does take an hour to get from our last pickup to the Everglades and 45 minutes to return from our last excursion to the first drop off. Our guests are not in the van for 5 hours. The tour takes place in one of the most remote wildernesses in the Eastern United States and accessing it from Sanibel does take time and patience. Thankfully we have amazing biologists as guides to narrate the tour on the way there. Thank you again for your review.

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Everglades Day Safari from Fort Myers/Naples Area

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