Gary A

Review of Paradise Boat Rentals

The people were nice enough but sitting in a room ...

The people were nice enough but sitting in a room with stale cigarette smoke for 45 minutes going over the maps etc. was not a good way to start the day. The boat we had was very dirty and we brought home a cockroach that was in the dry storage area. He / she must have jumped in our bag. When we were in an emergency situation, that required us to hail the sheriff's boat, we found the horn did not work nor was there an air horn. We ended up going up the river and having to cut off the sheriff to get his attention. When I brought this up when we returned the boat I was told the horns rust out quickly but there is a whistle on the key chain. Okay, stop the boat shut off the engine and use this very grungy whistle to try and hail another boat. The navigation system was sooo small we mostly used the maps and our phones. The few times we were able to open up the boat to about 35mph the engine sounded very tired and knocked a lot. Over all not a great experience! As a previous owner of several different boats we have only rented boats a few dozen times across the US and none were ever in such poor condition.