CRAZY WAVERUNNER PARASAIL

Came here from an hour away from St. George Island at 10:30 Am when they were “open”. Walked down to the little shack and it was all closed up. 10/10 would not recommend wasting your time to come here.

I had called before we drove an hour to make sure their parasailing was open. The guy on the phone said they were open for parasailing today and confirmed the price of $180 for a pair ride. We arrived and went to the shack and were informed they weren’t doing parasailing today because they were short staffed (understandable) however, they would have known before hand when I called that they were short staffed because I called a few hours after they opened. The lack of communication was very frustrating. I would recommend calling multiple times before making your way there. I can not comment on the actual experience, however just from this first impression I wouldn’t get your hopes up and would not recommend this place.

I’m posting because I read another review that was not good. In order to rent a wave runner, drivers do have to pass an exam. I understand it is for liability and safety. As a mom, I’m okay with that. They had some sample tests. My son (17) studied and had no problems passing. I’m glad we called and knew before we went. The test took a while to study and then they do a brief training. Just fyi. I know we’re all used to being on a tight schedule, but just wanted people to know to budget in extra time for study, taking the exam, training and then time on wave runner. The staff was very helpful and made it a fun experience for our kids. Thank you!

I wanted to post their brochure here since I had such a difficult time finding out any information, hope this can help other people. That’s the ONLY reason I’m rating 4 stars instead of 5, is how hard it was to figure out what they offered, what their prices were, and where they were located. Another note is they are CASH ONLY. No big deal to me, but I thought it might be a good thing to note. This is a great service, it’s not some huge corporate franchise type place, it’s some guys on a beach with their business and they are honestly killing it. They care about safety and rules and regulations—you might need to take the test (which they provide there for you, $3) and get licensed to operate a personal water craft in FL. As it is a local business, they have been impacted the same way other local businesses have been—the day I visited they were short staffed, but they did a good job for the amount of people they were providing service for. I appreciated the care they took into letting me know what was going on, (as in they had me wait for a specific person and once he was finished he would be the one to help our group with orientation. It lessened my confusion as I hadn’t done something like this before) Once we had our brief orientation, we got on the jet skis and had a great time! Me not having a ton of experience on jet skis, they were able to help me navigate in to shore once my ride had finished. I had a great time and would definitely recommend going to visit. If you call ahead of time, leave them a message, or call again. As they are in and out of their beach hut with customers. They’ll call you back.

Took the Banana Boat ride out with some coworkers on our annual "Girls Weekend Out" trip. THE. BEST. FUN. EVER!!! Our "Boat Captain" did an excellent job on keeping his eyes open for any downed riders and other waverunners. Highly recommend!

Go and do it, it was a blast and great people. You won't regret anything, they make it a blast. Was on the boat within a few minutes and a few minutes after that up in the air to enjoy. Thanks for the fun ride.....

How can this be 5 stars? We called bf we came to Florida they said no reservations to parasail just call us and we will tell u what time. We call they say no it’s first come first serve the boat is here at 11. Get there at 11:10. No boat. Boat will be there around noon. What does that mean? Well 12:01 or later we don’t know!! So we leave. Try again 2 days later. Come around noon. Now they say boat isn’t here until 1pm. We wait. It’s 1:36 and he says no boat bc of clouds in the way way distance. If boat was there at 11 am like website says everyone there would have been able to parasail. Very bad experience. If there is no boat for the week. Just tell us. Don’t offer us your free chairs to sit in for an hour waiting.

We made a reservation for 4pm. We got there and had to wait a little bit but Michael and Alex were really good to our group. We took two jet skies out and had a blast. We recommend anyone looking for jet skies, this is the best place around.