Spirit of the Swamp Airboat Tours

The phone is just jingling away today… everyone seems to want to make reservations for the upcoming Holidays!  Don’t wait!  Spirit of the Swamp is the number one all 5-star rated Florida Airboat Ride on Trip Advisor for a reason.  Our passengers love our small 6-passenger airboat and private rides and you will too!

It’s a busy time of the year, so please give us a call to reserve your preferred date and time for your exciting airboat ride later this month.  As a reminder – we’re closed Christmas Day, but we’re open for business Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.   Give us a JINGLE!!

We don’t usually talk about the other airboat companies in the area, but… when one of our customers brings it up, it’s hard to resist.  We’re the number one rated Airboat Company on Trip Advisor for a reason!  We decided to offer our passengers an authentic Florida airboat ride experience that was the “real deal”.  We designed our airboat tours to take you where the locals go, and give you an experience that’s different (very different!) than what the other airboat ride companies offer.  Here’s an email I received yesterday from Scotland:

Hi Debi

Just a short (and late) note to thank you for a great day that we had on the 10th October. It was enjoyed by all the family, and having sampled “the oppositions” private tour, we must say that your one is far more friendly, exciting and informative. We especially appreciated the knowledge of your good man in finding and describing all the different wildlife…..the mics/headphones are a great feature.

Having had such a great time in Florida as a whole we have booked to fly back again in the last week of June 2010 for two weeks. We will definitely book with you again and will see you sometime thro the holiday.

Thanks again for a great time

Ian, Jocelyn, Scott and John Forrest and “Barnie” Barnett
From:  Bonnie Scotland

Here’s another new 5-star review from Trip Advisor.  Thanks so much Brian and family, we can’t wait to see ya’ll again soon!

We’ll visit them again and highly recommend Spirit of the Swamp. The “Private Party” concept is brilliant. It allowed us to chat amongst ourselves and to the Captain whom responds to your tour wishes during the trip making it personal and special. The mixture of travelling over the swamp, lake and tucked away little spots makes the whole trip varied and exciting making it excellent value for money. We thank Captain Harold for a great time and wish Spirit of the Swamp, as a business, the very best for the future.
Brian Porter & family.

Honestly, I have no idea how these things happen.  You might remember the “Catch of the Day” story about a fish leaping into the airboat…

But a fish jumping into the airboat a second time?  No way!  Except it happened again last night… we were on a night airboat ride, nearing the end of the ride.  Our passengers were understandably a little edgy – it’s a bit spooky out there in the swamp at night seeing all those glowing red gator eyes.  I spotted one more pair of eyes we wanted to check out before heading back, so Captain Harold was inching closer and closer while I had the spotlight aimed on the eyes….

And the fish leaped onto the boat!  I thought our passengers were going to come unglued, but they managed to tell us (through lots and lots of laughter I might add) that what had jumped into the boat was a fish.  I guess they had a moment or two where they thought it could have been something else (a gator maybe?  I’m not telling!) 

Captain Harold laughed all the way back to the boat ramp.  And then some.  We sure know how to make memories!!