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

Yes, it’s true; we’re the number one rated Florida airboat ride company on Trip Advisor!  I’m not bragging, honestly!  It’s awesome to think that our passengers loved their airboat ride so much they took the time to post on Trip Advisor - and we thank them! 

But yes, although we’re proud of our top reviews, but it does mean that our reservations fill up quickly!  Today is a perfect example… the phone hasn’t stopped ringing!  We try to accommodate as many “last minute” reservations as we can, but we do want you to know that if you want the best airboat ride in Florida, please make a reservation at least a few days in advance!  We don’t want to disappoint anyone!

Many people don’t realize how many of Florida’s beautiful and rare birds they’ll see on an airboat ride!  Michael and his family took an airboat ride with us, and here’s what he had to say: 

I’ve made an Excel spreadsheet of the birds I saw either from the boat, or on land near your boat launch. Considering the trip was in the heat of the day, and in the middle of summer, it isn’t a bad list for a trip that is NOT focused on birds.  

Here’s Michael’s list of birds:  Wild Turkey, Double-Crested Cormorant, Anhinga, Green Heron, Great Egret, Great Blue Heron, Snowy Egret, Cattle Egret, Tricolored Heron, Little Blue Heron, Wood Stork, Turkey Vulture, Black Vulture, Osprey, Bald Eagle, Crested Caracara, Limpkin, Purple Gallinule, Common Moorhen, American Coot, Sandhill Crane, Rock Pigeon, Mourning Dove, Belted Kingfisher, Florida Scrub-Jay, American Crow, Common Grackle, Osceola Turkey and Boat-tailed Grackle.

By the way, Linda, our son Brandt, and I all had a wonderful time.   We loved it and have no regrets at having chosen the 2-hour trip.   It seems that the short trips couldn’t possibly get one back into the more remote sections of the county as you were able to do with the longer trip.   Thanks again.  Michael Hay