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)

Steve_H

Jul 2021

This was one of the worst tours ever. Misleading and fell short of what it promised on all levels! We paid a lot of money for run down boats, a walk on a cheesy trail off the road in a hot humid mosquito infested environment. Our tour guide was a nice guy but we learned nothing and oh if you wanted those alligator appetizers they promised forget about it. They didn’t even mention it. False advertising! I would not recommend this tour. Imagine throwing $400 in the trash can. Ouch!!!

Response from Host

Jul 2021

Hi Stephen, Thank you for the feedback. The heat and humidity of a Florida summer is not for the faint of heart. While I can't control the weather, I am proud of the comfortable, air conditioned van that we transport you in but to experience the subtropical wilderness we do need to get out. The nature walk takes place in an award winning Florida State Park. I don't know what constitutes "cheesy". The old growth cypress? The nesting gators? The poisonous (and harmless) grasshoppers? Owls hooting in the trees? It's all cool to me. The Everglades National Park boat ride is on a 2016 Carolina skiff. The airboat is a 2009. Neither are old or rundown and they operate well. I have not advertised alligator appetizers since January 2021 when we removed them from the menu and from our website. I no longer felt it made sense to eat the animal everyone was excited to see. We don't eat panther, dolphin or manatee either. I hire well-educated biologists and naturalists to conduct the tour. I'm sorry if a day with an Everglades expert wasn't an educational experience but I would encourage anyone going on tour to have an open mind to everything the Everglades has to offer.

O292OZabbyb

Jun 2021

Our tour guide was very knowledgeable. He was enthusiastic and happy to be a part of our experience.

Response from Host

Jun 2021

Thanks for the 5-star review! We do love our jobs and I'm glad you recognized that!

Out_of_Iowa

Jun 2021

Our guide, Mark, was very knowledgeable and friendly. We did get to see gators and dolphins but the part we were disappointed in was the time spent being shuttled around. It was a dreary/rainy day but besides the hour for lunch and the two, hour long boat rides, we were glued to the seats of the tour van. I guess I expected more of an active itinerary, especially since we had younger kids along but I was wrong. There also was a lot of waiting around which was a disappointment. It was a cool experience but once is more than enough.

Response from Host

Jun 2021

You are justified in being disappointed and I sincerely apologize. I have responded to a similar complaint about the time in our van. Both reviews are in response to the tour that occurred on June 17th which did not include the regularly scheduled nature walk or stop at the Big Cypress Visitor Center. It should have and I have taken steps to make sure that does not happen again. Thank you for the feedback and again I apologize that we failed to live up to the high standards that should be expected.

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