My husband and I took the 1/2 day trip... the bus was overloaded... they didn't have enough airboats for everyone so people had to wait and then had their boat time cut short. The boat ride was only an hour. The bus ride was 3 hours and the driver's commentary was lacking. The ad's were misleading about animals and pricing was too high. ...
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Total Ripoff
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 05/03/08
This trip is a total misrepresentation, and a complete rip-off. My wife and I spent $75 EACH for the "half-day safari"...this consisted of 2-1/2 hours stuck on a mini-bus with broken air conditioning, listening to inane (and sometimes factually incorrect) "stories" of Collier country and the Everglades. And a one hour airboat ...
it nature at its finest the sky was beauityfull the animals were out,wish more people would care for the everglades like me,the water and sawgrass at sunset i happed to be on a airboat and the buggy rides there so thing for everyone i heard the use to allow hunting but no more and the locals talk about there camps they used to have. now park own.
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Just an expensive boat ride
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 03/02/07
Worthless. It was nothing more than an expensive boat ride. We saw (1) alligator the whole time. It was a complete waste of money and time.
My wife and I had a terrible experience on this outing and it is NOT worth the money. The tour guide was incredibly boring, and most of his commentary was related to his failed investment opportunities, his ex-wife, and his dislike of Habitat for Humanity. The airboat ride was a disaster - my wife and I were forced to ride separate boats due to ...
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They put the GRRRR in Gator
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 04/22/06
The bus they rode us on was deluxe.John, our driver was a cornucopia of information about the area and the sites. We stopped to look for manatees, I guess they was busy cause we saw none but it was fun. Then we stopped at a couple of other parks and saw big ole gators. That cute little post office long the way, we all got post cards. He said it as ...