Orlando Manatee And Natural Spring Adventure Tour At Blue Springs

We went on a kayak manatee & dolophin tour 11/1. It was a 2 hour tour & while we knew we may not see animals, i was surprised we ended tour early. I did not have my watch as we were in the water but guide had his phone. He should have kept us on the water, maybe we could have seen animals if we waited 30 more minutes:(

We had the best time and Spencer was so knowledgeable on all the animals and the history of SilverSprings it made it so much more memorable. We seen so many types of birds and babies, monkeys, small fish, huge fish and alligators. Without a guided tour we would have missed out on most of this, Spencer was so observant and over all a great guide. Thanks to Spencer and Three Brothers for the best kayak tour, We definitely recommend!

We had a last minute change of venue due to better wildlife activity closer to the coast. So glad we did it! We ended up seeing beautiful river dolphins and several bird species nesting and fishing. Storks, ibis, heron and a special pink one as well. Really peaceful and serene kayaking trip with great info from Jack our tour guide. I loved the history and nature mix!

It was an Amazing experience !Conner was an exceptional tour guide!! Very friendly & informative! Gorgeous breathtaking views. The spring was crystal clear. It was SO cool! We saw otters, monkeys, exotic birds, sea turtles , & alligators I would highly recommend!!

A wonderful experience—I recommend it to everyone. Conor was a very helpful guide who provided us with a wealth of information about nature.

We didn’t get to experience this tour. The park was not allowing this activity, due to the number of manatees. Not the outfitter’s fault. However, I think that they should have known and communicated with us sooner than 24 hours beforehand that the tour would not be possible. That would have given us the notice and time to book a different kind of tour in the area. And it would have prevented our credit card being charged.

Super fun day! Our guide Spence did a wonderful job touring the waters! Clean nice kayaks and we saw a lot of wildlife and manatees

three brothers is an awesome company, such friendly and knowledgeable people. spence is the best! got to see my favorite manatees!!!

Silver Springs was absolutely beautiful! Our guide Spence was so informative in regard to the region, park and wildlife. An experience I will never forget!

A really great morning out on the water with our guide Spencer. Easy kayaking, plenty of manatees, alligators, turtles and other wildlife life through the tour. Highly recommended!!

What a terrible experience! I was very excited to book this manatee and natural spring experience for my business associates. But that's not we experienced. First, the organizer called less than a day before the event to tell us that they are changing the location. It ended up on the Indian River, a brackish body of water loaded with abandoned boats (counted 7 semi-sunken boats in a 2-mile stretch). No manatees, no clear water...just birds (we have the same birds in SanFran). Although the guide (Spencer) was knowledgeable and friendly, the location was awful. And very difficult to find as there was no address to meet at. If you don't know central Florida, you would be like us, and very lost. The guide tried hard and we finally found him by using his description of his truck. We met on the side on a highway! I usually love the trips we schedule with Tripadvisor, but this was just awful.

I was booked for the Orlando manatee and natural Spring adventure tour at Blue Springs. The day before the tour Three Brothers adventure tour texted me that they were changing the tour to Merritt Island because they saw more wildlife at this location. It was a little further from our hotel by Universal Studios, but closer to the airport. My tour guide was Jack and he was very knowledgeable of the area. It was great because I had a private tour. Jack told me the history of the area and it was very interesting. We didn’t see any manatees, but there were 4 bottlenose dolphins that we got to see. A mother, her baby and 2 other dolphins. I was so happy he sent me 18 pictures of me kayaking with the dolphins. I love kayaking and really enjoyed the tour. I would highly recommend it.

Great experience. Guid ,Jack, was awesome, and patient. We saw tons of dolphins and manatees as well as really cool birds. We learned a lot.

We got told very last min our tour is cancelled. Kristen R put us to another tour, she called me on WhatsApp and said “it’s the same tour but different location” so we agreed to go. However when we arrived at the new tour location, we were super disappointed: not a national park, literally right next to a highway, not a spring, water isn’t clear. I tried to call and message her and she gives no response even until today.

It was a very good time. Our guide was very knowledgeable. I would recommend doing it. It was a lovely morning.

Didn’t go. They called last minute and said the water was too cloudy and we couldn’t get back there. We went to the park anyway and the water was clear. Still waiting for a refund.

They canceled the tour saying too many y manatees, but other tours were going on and we had to rebook with them, waiting on our refund back and have not gotten it, they said we will get it

It was horrible. Your people canceled on us 20 mins before we got there. The park said they do that all the time. I want my money back. Please contact me asap. 8067868901. We have used aviator for years and this was was an awful experience and so upsetting with a 7 year old.

Seeing the manatees and the lovely setting. Our guide was very knowledgeable and patient. Would recommend to others.

Not terrible and not fantastic. Kill a few hours and go. Not much to see and the lady captain was boring . On her phone alot texting. Not alot of wildlife to view. More if you walk around the park

Peaceful kayak tour around Merritt Island. It’s a beautiful way to connect with nature. We saw manatees and dolphins, bu the manatees were only visible by a few inches of snout and tail. Super customer service by Three Brothers and we really enjoyed our guide, Roman.

This trip is terrible. Because the event location suddenly has been changed from Blue Springs to Daytona beach. And we can't see any manatees and dolphins in unstable sea area. As well as in unclear water (Brown color). There is no wildlife. We are very disappointed. I hope you would refund us.

Loved our guide but would have preferred to have done our paddle boarding in Blue Springs instead of in Daytona. Was told the day before that our trip was moved to Daytona from Blue Springs.

Our guide was wonderful and so entertaining. It was my first time paddle boarding, I can’t wait to do it again.

Cancelled twice in a row. Repeat 2nd booking should not have been possible if Viator and operator had communicated with each other

We had an amazing time kayaking, we got to see lots of dolphins and manatees and our guide Riley was so friendly and helpful. Would definitely recommend this! Was especially good that we were contacted several days before to change location to a place where more wildlife was.

Sorry I don’t have photos, I didn’t have a water proof pouch for my phone. Make sure you do. Take the 8am tour for manatee sighting. Choose the paddle board will provide you better physical view by reducing the glare of the reflective morning sunlight. Honestly, we saw 6-7 manatee right off the bat, before we even got into our kayaks. Four Right there under the no wake sign going into the canal. Riley of Tennessee, was our guide’s name. He was pretty chill and fairly knowledgeable while at the same time being proactive and protective of the manatees. I imagine that’s a rare skill set. It was a no stress enchanting couple of hours. We even passed three manatee coming back out of the canal who were sleeping. My mum and I made good memories! The best kind of gift a vacation can provide. Especially since we were in the area for my Uncle’s internment. It was a brief relief from the grief we were enduring due our loss of him.

I rarely write reviews but the exceptional customer service given to our group by Tommy Bragg was so deserving of a glowing review, so here I am. We had a mix up with our booking but Tommy took care of us. He went above and beyond for our group. What could have ended in disappointment, instead ended up being a most enjoyable afternoon spent out kayaking with Tommy. He was a great guide - funny and informative. We were so blessed to have encountered such a lovely young man. Thank you, Tommy!!!!

Lots of Manatees and fish and people all swimming around the spring together. Nice laid back green space. More than I expected. Worth the visit.

I reserved my time and paid and then received a call that they weren't running tours for today. So disappointed. Waiting for my refund.

Relaxing kayak ride through mangroves, though I was originally scheduled for Blue Springs Manatee Tour I’m not sure why it was rebooked…that was disappointing, not going to lie. Though my guide was very nice and knowledgeable for area we wound up kayaking in.

One of those times when you would give zero stars if you could. Booked a 1 pm guided tour in the morning, got charged, received a confirmation from Tripadvisor. We arrive to the pick up point about 20 minutes before the start, there's no one waiting for us. I called the organizer's number (Three Brothers Boards...), turned out they were not able to do the tour from that location, but worst of all, they couldn't notify us earlier because they were overwhelmed or something. Will need to wait a couple of days to see if we got a full refund. At least we were already in the area so we found a trail nearby, but overall our day was quite messed up because of that and not being informed that the tour wasn't viable to begin with. Definitely check with them first before booking anything.

Nolan was a great tour guide he was funny and very knowledgeable about the wildlife and plant life!! We saw dolphins and manatees on the tour.

We got to see a dolphin on our trip. Very relaxing& enjoyable. Knew we had set it up with the right company, 3 brothers boards because their logo was a triscilion which is an irish symbol that I love & saw it a lot when I went to Ireland.

I did a Kajak-Tour with Venture Outdoors at Blue Springs. Our Guide Astrid was exelent. She is very knowlegeable about the wildlife, could answer all our questens. There was no rush, we could decide the tempo and the lunchtime with the healthy food was perfect. I would always recomand Venture Outdoors. Pia

We loved the Blue Springs state park. We took the ecological boat tour, snorkeled, swam, rented tubes, picnicked, and enjoyed the bike trail. I would highly recommend!

my tour was cancelled with no notice. i wouldnt have know if i hadnt called them to confirm the meet point.

Our guide was Dallas and he spent time showing us the little things that make nature come to life. He spotted the dolphin pods so that we could enjoy seeing them play right around us. Great guy, friendly and knowledgeable. Thanks Dallas.

The tour was cancelled due to launch being closed. We rebooked at another location but it was on a bigger river which was not what I wanted. The office personnel were wonderfully accommodating in my cancelling my booking. Would book with them again if it was not the end of my vacation

My family and I had planned a kayak tour through this company for last weekend. We arrived early to the boat ramp where we were told to meet. This company never showed up....never called...even after calls and messages this company has never replied to us. This company should not be allowed to be open. Total scam.

Great company and tour guides. Catered to my 4 yr old and neither of us had experience paddle boarding before. Thank you

This is a scam, this tour operator, Three Brothers, is blocked from providing this tour in the state park (the meet location). We consulted the Blue Spring State Park Manager who advised that Trip Advisor has been advised about this situation, to no avail. Bad on Trip Advisor to allow this company to continue with this link in their website. Instead we used the State Park kayaks, we rented them for $25 for 4 hours. We did this and had a great time when we found out where the manatee's were grazing that day. Go to the state park website for further information about park entry reservations. We were relived that this operator did provide a 100% refund, but why offer the service and charge us????

Tour guide didn't show up. Save your money and just rent your own kayaks. Manitees are in a protected area anyway where you can't kayak.

We were expecting to see manatees, but the area that we kayaked/paddleboarded was in water that was dark and would have been very difficult to see anything. The equipment was old and in dis-repair. I would recommend just going into the State park to see the manatees - it was much much better

Our tour was booked for the blue spring location but due to the flooding, the blue spring location was not open and the central office relocated us to another location in Sanford. We were initially concerned but after meeting our tour guide, Spence, who is so friendly and knowledgeable, we end up very happy about the whole experience. The river water was calm and the birds were active. I tried paddle board for 1st time and after Spence’s quick guidance, I was able to manage it for the whole tour without any problem. Also Spence was very attentive during the whole tour to make sure we were safe and he was very knowledgeable about the wildlife animals here, birds or fish. Great experience for 2 hours!

Visited the Daytona location from Orlando, very doable drive. I had a scheduling issue, and the 3 bros team was very flexible and worked with me to ensure I could still do my tour while in Florida. Sandra was so nice and greeted us and was very informative. Neither of us had paddle boarded before, Brock was a great tour guide and helpful in learning to paddle boat. He was very friendly and informative. Overall a great experience and tour! Will definitely return!

Everything about this trip was AMAZING! The area is beautiful and we were able to see a few manatees. Thank you Seth for everything!

The area is sooo beautiful and green! Has a very tropical jungle type feel and the water was gorgeous. Loved seeing all the little (and big) fish swim under us. Our guide Seth was phenomenal. Will be back!

The water alone made the tour. It was so clear! Manatees aren’t a common sight here in the summer but we were fortunate to see one on our tour. This is FRESH water so there ARE gators in the area but our guide Seth made its feel safe and the clear water eases the nerves as well.