Everglades VIP Airboat Tour with Transportation Included
Fort Lauderdale, USA
+15
- 4 hours (approx.)
- Pickup offered
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Make sure you tick off the most important highlights of the Everglades with an experienced guide in the lead when you book this Everglades airboat tour. Race through the River of Grass listening to in-depth commentary on the local environment and wildlife. Plus, round-trip transport from Fort Lauderdale is provided for a stress-free adventure.
- Go on an airboat tour through the Everglades with in-depth commentary
- Leave the navigating the swamps to someone else for safety
- Take home a group photo of your friends or family who joined you
- Hotel pickup and drop-off from Fort Lauderdale makes for a seamless day
What's Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Fully narrated airboat tour of the Everglades that's approximately 60-minutes in duration
- 1 free professional grade group photo per party
- Live commentary on board
- Taxes
- Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
- Food and drinks
- Gratuities
- This tour does not include an Alligator Show
Meeting and Pickup
Pickup points
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Pickup details
We pick up at all locations in Broward County and Miami Dade County, including all Fort Lauderdale and Miami hotels and ports. Daily pick-ups are both morning and afternoon between 8:30am-9:30am and 1:30pm-2:30pm. If your hotel is not listed, please note your hotel name and address in the Special Requirements box.
Arranged start time
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Itinerary
Your Everglades airboat excursion begins with hotel or port pickup in Ft. Lauderdale or Miami in the morning or afternoon, depending on your chosen pick-up location and tour time. Meet your boat captain and guide at the launch location and set off on board an airboat through the Everglades Holiday Park, learning about the local flora and fauna as you try to spot alligators, snakes, waterfowl, and other animals in the wild. Spend about an hour exploring, with stops to cut the engines and listen to the sounds of nature plus snap photos, before heading back to the departure point for your return transfer.
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Everglades Holiday Park
4 hours • Admission Ticket Included
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
- Infant seats available
- Wheelchair accessible
- Pushchair accessible
- Near public transportation
- Transportation is wheelchair accessible
- Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Not recommended for pregnant travellers
- No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
- Most travellers can participate
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Airboat Tours are approximately 60-minutes long
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 24 travellers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Featured review
What a blast. Our captain from Dominican Republic was wonderful. From the beautiful waterways to blue skies. Look underwater for turtles. We were lucky to see 3 alligators. The motor is loud if you sit in the back. Earplugs help but not necessary. Highly recommend for everyone to seniors to young families.
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It was fun! Was loud. Leaned a lot about the Everglades. Leaned a lot about alagators
Great time, good weather.
🐊🌴 Everglades Crocodile Adventure — What a Great Time! 🌴🐊
Such a fun and exciting experience! We had an amazing time exploring the Everglades and seeing the crocodiles and wildlife up close. The guides were fantastic—knowledgeable, friendly, and made the whole tour entertaining.
Lots of learning experiences beautiful scenery, and definitely an adventure to remember. I would absolutely do this tour again! 🐊☀️
We saw gators, turtles, and lots of birds. The staff were fun and entertaining. The boats were powerful and fast, and very safe. We had a great time!
The pick up and drop off service was really good, as a vip package you got a free photo, bottle of water and priority boarding. The driver was very nice and informative.
The boat ride itself was amazing, didn’t see much in the way of alligators but it’s not guaranteed.
Would highly recommended this trip.
Demitrius our driver was amazing and shoutout to our boat captain Zach! It was a great experience and the VIP treatment is exactly what we got. I could not recommend enough.
Marc was a great driver and host. He picked us up early and he gave us a lot of information about the park and about the animals when we walked through the little zoo. The boat ride was just ok. We went in September and the water was low and we only saw one alligator. Instead of telling us more about the park and wildlife and flora, captain chaos talked endlessly about his dislike of fisherman (we get it, the outboard engines scare the alligators) and alligators who were not there and which he had names for I.e Bella, Max, etc. he gave us almost zero facts about alligators themselves but would tell us “that’s Max’s favorite tree”.
We had an amazing time in the boat and a very friendly driver, Mark, who picked us up from the Hampton Suites in Fort Lauderdale.
Our tour guide had some great information , took his time to point out some fun facts . Stopped and showed us several alligators
Super easy pick up and drop off at our hotel. Our driver, Bruce, was fantastic, knowledgeable, funny and friendly. We enjoyed the boat ride and saw several alligators, turtles and
The whole trip start to finish was amazing! Ira was our driver he showed up early got us there quick and safe guided us to each activity and even collected our free photo for us! We had Captain Anna for our airboat ride she was the best and taught us so much on our adventure! The show afterwards was awesome even in the heat it was still fun! The whole experience is highly recommended!
Bruce was great!!! The boat ride and show was great. Got to take a picture with a baby alligator and snake.
This was a perfect experience for my family with 2 boys ages 8 & 9! In addition to the boat and exploring they loved the show, interactions and gift shop! Highly recommend!
Great trip. A fun day out in nature. Saw lots of wildlife and were well entertained ny captain Zak (nicknamed him Blippy)
Good conservation education, the gator “show” was a great opportunity to educate others about the alligators.
Wish we could have heard the airboat pilot…. Half of what was said was drowned out by the idling boat.
Really fun and interesting. Captain Anna was informative and entertaining. We saw quite a few alligators.
We had a VIP package that included an airboat ride, a show and access to gift shop. We saw several alligators up close, turtles, lizards and interesting birds.
We had a fabulous driver (Bruce) who picked us up from our port after our cruise and dropped us off at our hotel. The van was great, and had plenty of room for our luggage. Bruce made the experience great with local history, animal trivia, local tips and more.
Definitely recommend the experience for those curious about the Everglades.
We had a great time! Highly recommended. Family friendly. Wear shoes and sunscreen. Bruce picked us up from our hotel. He was very nice and was on time. He provided water, ear plugs (if needed), and a poncho.
We had a very fun morning. Our escort Mark was amazing and so kind. He picked us up in a timely manner, gave us VIP treatment the entire time we were there. Highly recommend and if you can request Mark i would suggest it!
It was a great experience and the VIP driver was great, taking care of my daughter and I. Loved that it was operated by the Gator Boys, as a bonus.
They had a fox in a small cave, the fox looks sad i a small cell 😭. Saw alligators 🐊 in the vild .
Was looking for something that Two teenage granddaughters have not experienced living in Chicago. This took them. by surprise and they totally got into the excursion. Mark our driver and Captain Jack our boat operator and guide were excellent
The trip was good , however we were told the pick was 13:40 so we got there for 13:25, didn’t get picked up until 14:35, we had to keep contacting the company. Felt really let down waiting around for all that time. Didn’t even get an apology when we did get picked up, would seem like your holiday time is of no concern to them.
We were picked up 5 minutes ahead of schedule but we drove 15 minutes to pick up the next party, waited at the hotel and driver made a phone call to find out the party had already been picked up so then drove back to where we had started!! We then picked up another 2 parties in our resort and was expecting another party to join but again they had already been picked up too, we were in the vehicle for well over an hour before getting on the road to the Everglades! The driver was on his phone when driving and veering off over to the other side of the road at times!
The airboat ride was good fun, we did see quite a few gators, the walk round the animals back at the park took less than 5 minutes, the croc show was quite short too!
The staff were all fun and seemed knowledgeable!
For the return journey one party decided to get an uber so our return was much better as only 2 parties to drop off.
It was an ok day, nothing amazing!
If you have any reservations about this activity, DON’T! One of the best value activities I’ve ever taken part in. Bruce, our tour guide/driver, was super knowledgeable and insightful about the area and the Everglades. This package was the “VIP package” for the park, so free waters, earplugs, and ponchos were given to us. It includes a 60 minute airboat ride where we were lucky to see at least a half-dozen gators, a gator show, and even get to pay a little extra to pose with a baby gator or snake. Took us a little over 4 hours from our designated pickup time to drop off back at the hotel.
Staff are all super nice and take care of you with anything you may need. The cost of this activity, $58, would’ve cost me more in Ubers alone to get there and back had I booked separately, so if you’re in FLL/Miami region and don’t have transportation, this is a must-have activity experience!!
Easy booking! Timely pickup! Airboat ride worth it's weight in Alligator gold! I would definitely recommend!
Crew was very friendly and funny our family group of nine loved every minute.captain kios was the best and our shuttle driver mark was informative of park and Miami
Bruce made the experience so memorable! The airboat tour was not has fun as expected due to the water levels low so we only went down and back the one canal, plus our guide on that boat was pretty disengaged/monotone. But having Bruce guide us around all day, giving us the history of the Everglades and Florida, made the trip.
This trip was amazing! Our bus driver Bruce was so friendly and such a wealth of knowledge! He offered us complimentary water for our trip. Upon arrival you will receive a rain poncho, hand fan, and ear plugs for the fan boat ride. Our fan boat captain was Captain Chaos, he was fantastic, very lively and great at spotting all the wildlife! We saw +10 gators, several different birds, turtles, and iguanas. 10/10 would go back! We also ate gator bites and frog legs at the snack shop, which were very good!
Amazing experience! They have an option for pickup and drop off at your hotel and Courtney helped with arrangements perfectly! Also the boat tour guide Nadim was great and made the ride so enjoyable. We saw many alligator and spun around to watch them and take photos and he explained what’s going on with the habitat too! Then we bought some food $6 hot dog and an $11 sandwich, each being a decent size. Lastly we watch the gator show and the host Paul was funny and informative. Devin did some tricks which I loved and I also took a photo with a gator, so Cool! Loved the experience and would recommend!!!
We booked all our trips with Viator We booked the Everglades boat trip expecting to go at a fast speed to be told due to the drought this could not happen. This was very disappointing and made the boat extremely hot as we were moving that slow. Felt we should have been informed of this and given an option to cancel. Felt the trip was extremely boring just going up and down the water ways
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