Naples Marina and Excursions

Great day on the water @ a great rate! Get the ½ day package and hit barefoot beach for some lunch. Check the tide and save yourself a lot of extra effort

The haunted kayak tour was great. I hope they keep building on it every year. The mangroves are so freaky at night as it is.

Worst experience EVER ! Me and my boyfriend just wanted to go out on a nice kayak adventure. Little did we know that we had received the «trickiest» kayak from what the dock master had told us, but there was also a possible leak that we were unaware of. They had warned us about weight distribution and we had placed all of our belongings in front. Yet, the kayak was taking on substantial water in the back. Kayak «D17» had taken us all the way to the beach. At this point it had filled with gallons of water in the bottom that we were not aware of. We then attempted to paddle back to the marina which was when the kayak capsized in the middle of the water. Thank god that there was a boat around that took us back to shore. We had rented a fishing rod bought bait and a bucket for the bait which I didn’t mind paying for. I was just very upset that I had to pay for a horrible experience on the kayak. MARK GARCY refused to give us our money back on renting the kayak. He had at this point pushed his employee to charge us the full amount if not, his employee would have to call the police and the employee would be fired the next day. MARK GARCY would rather have his money then care about the people renting his kayaks or his employees. He is a horrible man renting a broken kayak to a pregnant woman & fully charge us. WORST PLACE TO DO ANYTHING IN WATER!!!

I have to express my disappointment with Naples Marina Excursions! Today, we decided to use this company to rent two Kayaks. The website stated double Kayaks, $ 20 per hour. We rented 2 of them for an hour. The service was a little backed up, but that was to be expected. What we didn’t realize was, from the moment we «checked in» upstairs, to the moment we «checked back in» we were“on the clock”! The fact that we had to wait for the Kayaks and stopped to shop (in their store!!!) was not considered!
We went downstairs, awaited our turn, had to wait and have a seat changed, checked our watch, paddled around for well under an hour and returned the Kayaks.
Once we had returned the Kayaks, we stopped to see an alligator that a conservationist was holding, and proceeded to shop for a few minutes to find a shirt, etc in the shop.
When the register was open/​available we went to retrieve our ID, credit card, and pay (cash) it was $ 80. We didn’t realize until a few minutes later that we were over charged. It should have been one hour for two doubles, totaling $ 40.
When my wife went in to inquire about the overpayment, the cashier was rude and explained we came back too late and were charged for an extra hour because we checked back in upstairs after 1hr 25 minutes. THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!! This is easily preventable as I noticed both upstairs and downstairs employees have 2 way radios and our kayaks were (re)rentable — although we had not checked in upstairs yet.
If you are trying to prevent people from shopping in the store and eliminate repeat customers you have succeeded! I truly feel bad for the owner, because I am sure this isn’t the type of service he is hoping for from his employees! $ 40 is not a lot, but apparently enough to justify being rude to new customers.
Looks like I’ll be using Estero River Outfitters from now on!

Great day on the water. Very friendly service. Few days ago we tried to get kayaks but they told us about bad weather approaching, I was disappointed but appreciated it! They are definitely worry about your safety. So we went again and it was just perfect. Highly recommended!

We are visiting Naples and had the pleasure of having two granddaughters stay for a week. We had gone on the dolphin cruise the year before and knew it was a winner. We booked a cruise with captain Mark and the girls described the trip as awesome! It is amazing to watch the Dolphins follow the boat and «perform». This cruise is great for the entire family.

Great fishing trip! Would go again in a heartbeat!

This is my one & only favorite place to rent kayak’s!
Awesome location, and a beautiful experience every time.
Count on seeing all of what SWFL’s nature has to offer!

This is a privately operated marina on US41, right on Cocohatchee Creek, with direct access to the Gulf of Mexico. The marina consists of a tourist office for registration, bathrooms, and purchase of a few nicely selected souvenirs, a patio with covered umbrellas, and a ramp to a pontoon boat that will take visitors to the Gulf through the mangroves several times a day. It’s also fun to book an afternoon pontoon lift to the Wiggins Pass beach for a bit of wading with the shorebirds.
We like this place for its kayak rentals. Beneath the tourist building there are racks of new single and double kayaks which launch into the water over a neoprene mat. No slushy, river muck to wade through. The new mgmt has an attendant to oversee the launch and the return.
The Gulf is a leisurely hour and a half paddle past mangrove islands, an original fishing park of RVs, the bridge that is Vanderbilt Dr, then onward past the public marina at Wiggins to the north beach end of Wiggins Pass park.
This is heavily travelled so you will see lots of paddlers, and plenty of courteous power boaters. Occassionally a clueless boat driver will be ignoring the no wake zone, but there’s not enough wake to swamp you.