Everglades Airboat Adventure with Hotel Transport from Miami
Description
Immerse yourself in the wild beauty of the Everglades with this thrilling Airboat Adventure. This tour includes convenient roundtrip transportation from your Miami hotel, allowing you to explore one of the most unique ecosystems in the world with ease, hotel pickups will be between 9 and 10 am and the transportation to the park takes about 30 to 45 minutes. Selecting the Express Transport option you will meet the bus at the very last stop before the Everglades Park at Holiday Inn Port of Miami in Downtown Miami. Once at the Everglades park you'll embark on a 60-minute airboat ride, where you'll have the chance to spot alligators, exotic birds, and other wildlife in their natural habitat. This tour offers an exciting and educational experience and promises to be a highlight of your trip. After your time at the park we will continue to drop off everyone back to their starting point. *The location is not located inside the National Park therefore no additional fees apply
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Itinerary
Climb aboard a state-of-the-art airboat for a 40-minute ride that will take you deep into the Everglades. The airboat, powered by a giant propeller, will glide across the shallow waters at thrilling speeds, offering you an exhilarating experience as you explore this natural wonder. As you cruise through the “River of Grass,” keep your eyes peeled for the incredible wildlife that calls the Everglades home. Your experienced guide will help you spot alligators lurking in the water, as well as a variety of bird species, turtles, and maybe even the elusive Florida panther. Learn about the unique adaptations of these creatures and how they survive in this dynamic environment. The Everglades is known for its vast, open landscapes that stretch as far as the eye can see. During your airboat ride, you'll have the opportunity to take in the breathtaking views of sawgrass marshes, cypress swamps, and mangroves, all while feeling the rush of the wind in your hair.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Gray Line Miami provides bus pickup service from selected hotels in Miami Beach and Downtown Miami. If your hotel is not listed, please choose the nearest available option. Hotel pickups occur between 8.30am to 10.00am, with each location assigned a specific pickup time. Important: Passengers must wait outside the hotel at the main entrance for pickup.
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Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Minimum age is 3 years
- Pick-up transportation is mandatory. Unfortunately travelers cannot drive to the park, though one can drive to the last pickup location at Holiday Inn Port of Miami and leave their car parked at Bayside Marktplace to get on the transportation there if desired
- The location is not located inside the National Park therefore no additional fees apply
Reviews(543)
The boat tour is very noisy: the captain keeps talking without it being very relevant. Every animal seen at large is harassed by tourist boats... Surprising but finally the demonstration and the info given during the visit with the captive crocs are interesting.
Make sure to bring a jacket if the temperature is below 80 degrees F. Also, make sure you stay around for the alligator show. Excellent tour!
By bus to the Everglades started on time with a pick up near the hotel. There we were picked up by a grumpy driver in a very dirty bus. The air conditioning was dirty the luggage bins extremely dirty. The edges of the windows full of filth and the floor sticks because of the caked-on liquid. The man was hard to hear and when we indicated that we got an extra snarl. Everglades park was a great experience. With friendly people and 5 alligators spotted. The show was fun but the host spoke very quickly.
Thank you so much for your feedback Rens_V. I will check on the bus you was in and have it examined and place any reports to improve. Thank you again
The trip was really good but the booking process with Viator not so much. Booked online and chatted with Gillian who seemed unable to advise where the nearest pick up was to our hotel. There was a list of addresses to choose from but nothing near us. She advised 'just pick one' and the booking would be amended on completion. This proved not to be the case and several emails later I was still none the wiser. It wasn't until Grayline the actual tour operator contacted me the day before the trip on Whatspp to offer pick up options that I felt reassured that we would be going on the trip. So probably reluctant to book with Viator again - sorry!
Good afternoon Lyn_K, Thank you so much for your feedback. Thank you for the kind words about my team here at Gray Line Miami. I will reach out to Viator to see how we can go over the pickups list to make it easier or to inform all guest to reach out to us if there are any questions. once again thank you so much for your feedback and have a great day.
There was a pick up at the hotel included in the price but, though we were on time, the bus had already left and we had to reach in a hurry walking the meeting point. After few minutes the bus broke down and we had to wait more than 1 hour for the bus to be replaced. They advertised a Tour of almost 6 hours and it lasted less than 4 hours The short cruise on the boat was the only nice thing that lasted about 50 minutes. Then we waited 30 minutes for a stupid and bad alligator show which was not advertised in the tour..
Good afternoon Filomena_P, Thank you so much for your feed back. I know there is a alligator show after the airboat and i will make sure it is list in the tour description. i do apologize for the unforeseen circumstance with the bus. we are check all of our buses and even adding a few more inspection times. I will also check the duration times for its approximately 5 hours and 45 minutes, this includes pickup and the tour and the drop offs. Once again thank you so much for your feedback, have a great wonderful day.
Efficient way to get to the Everglades, simple and stress-free, alligator show not necessary though .
The actual trip to the Everglades is worth 4 stars. One star lost for poor admin. Pick up was late, past supposed final time but did turn up. Pick ups were for 2 separate tours, meaning a drop off in Miami to let some passengers off, and pick up some more. It took more than 2 hours to get there. The driver got confused as to which wristbands were to be use by which customers. Lots of us had to swop bands. There was a problem with some of the passengers not having paid the full price, and we had to wait in Miami while they went to the ATM to get money to pay for the balance of their trip. This is very poor admin. The boat trip itself was basically a tourist version, but we did see Flora and fauna, birds and indeed some alligators. It’s quite difficult to get to the true natural Everglades in just a one day trip. Allowing for the difficulties, we enjoyed the trip very much.
Good morning Keith_P, Thank you for reaching out with your feedback. I will look into what happen this day and if anyone on my staff needs to be retrained that is what we will do. I am glad to hear you had a great time with the Everglades park and the animals. Have a wonderful day.
The bus wasn’t on time but the ride was great and everything went well. 30 minutes of waiting on the side walk.
I absolutely loved the airboat ride and guided tour. Our captain was amazing! Would come back again and bring my husband next time!
It was a fun tour and good experiences with the friendly and knowledgeable Captain, really enjoyed the tour. The only issue with the driver who pick us up from the Hotel we provided, He stopped at the opposite site and he wanted us to cross over in the middle of the street under rain and heavy traffic which was very dangerous and we also didn't get notify in advanced.
