Guests waving from our Blue Pelican water shuttle at the Naples Bay marina, sailboat masts and a yellow marina building behind them

Near Your Stay

Boat Tours Near Hyatt House Naples/5th Avenue

Two blocks. That’s the whole distance between 1345 and 1500 5th Avenue South — and it quietly changes what a boat trip is on this stay: not one big outing you have to get right, but a different boat on a different day.

Naples Bay Resort & Marina
A 5–10 minute walk east
1.5–2 hour cruises
USCG Master Captains

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Nearest dockNaples Bay Resort & Marina

From Hyatt HouseTwo blocks — a 5–10 min walk

Waterprotected Naples Bay, out to the Gulf

You may seedolphins, pelicans, Port Royal seawalls — no promises

The Multi-Day Rhythm

A different boat on a different day

Hyatt House Naples/5th Avenue stands at 1345 5th Avenue South, at the east end of downtown on the Gordon River and Naples Bay side, looking across the water toward Tin City. Our Naples boats tie up at Naples Bay Resort & Marina, 1500 5th Avenue South. Same street, same end of it, roughly two blocks apart — a five to ten minute walk, or a two-minute ride instead. That distance is worth saying out loud, because it removes the thing that normally turns a boat tour into a whole production, which is the getting there.

So spread it out. Our Naples Bay water shuttle is $20 per person and works dock to dock, which makes it the easy first ride — a lunch or a dinner you arrive at by boat instead of by parking garage. A dolphin cruise gives you a different version of the same water: down the bay toward the mangrove edges of Dollar Bay and out through Gordon Pass, with wild bottlenose dolphins often surfacing alongside or rolling into the wake. Never promised, because they are wild animals keeping their own hours, but they do live here year-round. Then there is the Port Royal run, all seawalls and canals at an idle. Then a sunset. One bay, four genuinely different afternoons.

The rest is logistics you no longer have to solve. With no drive-time buffer to build in, the early slot stops being a gamble, and an afternoon that turns lumpy costs you nothing but the walk home — you shift to the next day and go on with your evening. A cruise runs an hour and a half to two hours, so it slots into a morning rather than eating one. What we would still ask is that you book ahead, especially January through April: short notice works more often than people expect, but it is never something we can promise. One call to (239) 301-8913 is usually enough to get the whole week laid out.

1345 to 1500 5th Ave S — a five-minute walk east
Naples Bay water shuttle, $20 per person
Dolphins one day, Port Royal the next, sunset later
No drive-time buffer and no parking to solve

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Guests aboard our Blue Pelican water shuttle under way on Naples Bay with the downtown Naples waterfront behind them — ⚓ The $20 shuttle — the ride you can take more than once

One Boat at a Time

Enough trips to fill a week, not just an afternoon

Every one of these leaves from the marina down the street from your door — take one a day and you’ll never repeat yourself.

Naples Bay Water Shuttle$20 per person, dock to dock — the easy first outing, and the one guests here come back to. Dolphin ToursWild bottlenose dolphins work this bay year-round — often right alongside, never promised. Sunset CruisesSave one evening for the run out toward Gordon Pass as the light goes. Port Royal Mansion CruiseCanals, seawalls and yacht basins at idle speed — call it the architecture day. Private ChartersYour own boat and your own route, worth doing once while the whole group is in town. Shelling Tours from GoodlandThe wild-island trip — our other dock, a real drive south, worth its own day.

Getting There

From Hyatt House to our slip, and back all week

The route is short enough to learn on day one. Here’s the honest version, plus how to space the trips out.

Start: 1345 5th Avenue South

You’re parked at the point where 5th Avenue South finally runs out of shopfronts and hits water, with Tin City sitting across the channel from you. That position is the entire reason this page exists. Turn west and the street runs up through the restaurants and galleries of Old Naples toward the Gulf. Turn east and you are pointed straight at the marina we run from. There is no highway to merge onto, no bridge to time and no turn to miss — which means you can decide to go boating over breakfast and still make an early departure. It also means the boat is available to you at odd, useful hours: a late-morning gap before checkout day, an evening that opened up when a dinner reservation fell through. Most guests have the geography sorted on their first walk down and never think about it again.

The walk: five to ten minutes east

Head east on 5th Avenue South and keep the water in front of you. It is flat sidewalk, well lit after dark, and short enough that most people cover it without much thought — call it five to ten minutes at an ordinary pace, longer if you are moving at a four-year-old’s speed or stopping to look at the boats. Treat that as a range and not a stopwatch: drop 1500 5th Avenue South into your own map app and see what it says from your exact door. In July and August, do the walk before ten or after five and you’ll be far happier than you would be at two in the afternoon.

Or the two-minute ride

Nobody has to walk anywhere. A rideshare or a cab from the property to Naples Bay Resort & Marina is a two-minute trip, and downtown Naples is quick for pickups, so this is a genuine option rather than a consolation prize. It is the right call in a downpour, with grandparents along, with a stroller and a cooler bag to manage, or on a night when you’d rather not walk back after a sunset cruise. Driving yourself works fine too, and the two-minute version of the trip is short enough that the parking question at the far end is the only part worth thinking about. Our honest advice is to keep both options in your pocket and decide the morning of each trip. Over four or five nights that adds up: you walk down on the good mornings, you ride when the sky looks unconvincing, and the weather never gets a vote on whether you go at all.

The dock: Naples Bay Resort & Marina

Our slip is at 1500 5th Avenue South, inside a protected marina on Naples Bay. That is deliberate: you board on calm water, which matters more than people expect when a toddler or a grandparent is stepping over a gunwale. From that basin the bay runs south past Crayton Cove and the city docks, and both the Port Royal canals and Keewaydin Island’s boat-only shoreline are an easy cruise away. Once you’ve booked we send the slip number and a short where-to-meet note, and restrooms are right there before you board. Arrive about ten minutes early — from this address, ten minutes early costs you almost nothing.

Parking, and the bag you leave by the door

If you do drive down there is parking around the marina and through the Bayfront and 5th Avenue South district, but on a stay like this the car mostly stays where it is. What helps more than a parking plan is a small bag you pack once and leave by the door for the week: sunglasses, a hat, reef-safe sunscreen, soft-soled shoes and a light layer, because the bay cools off after sundown faster than the street does. Wipe your phone lens if you plan to shoot the estates or the last of the light. We handle water and shaded seating; bring whatever you want to sip or snack on, and leave behind anything you’d hate to watch sink.

Then: spacing the trips out

Here is how we’d order a several-night stay. Put the water early — first thing on a morning near the front of the trip — because the bay usually lies flattest before the afternoon breeze fills in, and because it gives you your bearings for everything after. Slot the shuttle into the middle of the week, on the night nobody feels like cooking or driving to dinner. Hold the sunset cruise for the back half, when you already recognize the shoreline sliding past. A private charter is the one to reserve first if it matters to you, since the whole boat goes to a single group and those slots move. To shuffle anything, call (239) 301-8913 and a real person will pick up.

Who It Suits

Made for you if you’re…

Four kinds of guest get more out of this address than anybody else.

Here for several nights

You have days to work with, not one slot to fill. Stop trying to cram the whole coast into a single outing and take one boat a day instead — the bay looks different every time you come back to it.

Traveling with small children

Ninety minutes on the water, then a short walk home for a nap. No car seat, no long haul in either direction, and if a cruise goes sideways you are back inside in ten minutes rather than an hour.

Back in Naples again

You’ve already done the headline cruise on some earlier trip. This is the stay where you take the other three — the canals, the shuttle, the evening run — and finally see the whole thing.

Planning at least one dinner by boat

The $20 Naples Bay shuttle turns a waterfront table into part of the evening instead of a drive with a parking problem at the end. Book the table first, then the boat that gets you there.

On the Water

What a week of it looks like

The shuttle you’ll probably ride twice, the dolphins that show up on their own terms, and the evening you save for last.

The Blue Pelican water shuttle coming bow-on across Naples Bay loaded with guests, a palm-lined shoreline behind it — The $20 shuttle, working the bay

A wild bottlenose dolphin leaping through the wake behind the boat while two boys and a woman watch from the stern — They turn up when they turn up

A couple sitting together on the bow of a Sand Dollar boat as the sun drops toward the Gulf horizon — The evening you save for the back half

Keep Planning

More of the bay outside your window

The marina, the shuttle route, and the waterfront you’re looking across at.

Boat Tours at Naples Bay Resort & MarinaThe dock itself — what boarding and parking look like on site. The Naples Bay Water ShuttleHow the $20 dock-to-dock ride works, stop by stop. Tin CityThe old working waterfront across the water from you, and how it got there. All Stays We ServeEvery hotel and neighborhood we run boat tours near.

Good to Know

Boat tours near Hyatt House Naples/5th Avenue

What guests staying this close to our slip actually ask before they book.

How far is your dock from Hyatt House Naples?

About two blocks. The hotel is 1345 5th Avenue South; our Naples slip is a little further along the same street at number 1500, inside Naples Bay Resort & Marina. On foot that is a five to ten minute stretch of flat sidewalk. A rideshare or a quick drive takes roughly two minutes when walking doesn’t appeal, and either version works fine after dark. Take those as ranges rather than promises and check the distance from your own door in a map app before the first trip. Either way, nobody here is building a day around the drive.

Can we do more than one tour during our stay?

Yes, and from this address it is the sensible way to do it. Each booking is separate — pick the trips you want and reserve them the same way you would reserve one — and because there is no drive on either end, a second or third outing costs you the cruise time and nothing more. Most people land on two or three across a several-night stay. If your dates are firm, book them together rather than one at a time, since the evening slots go first from January through April. If the dates are still soft, call (239) 301-8913 and we’ll tell you honestly which days still have room.

Do you pick up at the hotel?

No. Every tour departs from our slip at Naples Bay Resort & Marina, and we don’t run hotel-lobby pickup anywhere — though from 1345 5th Avenue South it barely registers as an inconvenience, since the marina is a short walk east on the same street. We should also say plainly that we have no affiliation, partnership or arrangement of any kind with Hyatt House Naples/5th Avenue. We are a locally owned, family-run boat company crewed by USCG Master Captains, and we simply happen to work out of the marina down the block from where you’re staying.

What is the Naples Bay water shuttle, and can we ride it more than once?

The shuttle is our Blue Pelican, a small covered boat that moves people between docks around Naples Bay for $20 per person. Think of it less as a tour and more as a way to travel: you board at the water, you step off at the water, and a waterfront dinner stops involving a parking decision. Nothing limits you to a single ride, and guests staying this close often use it two or three times in a stay with a different table at the far end each night. Schedules and stops shift with the season and with how busy the bay is, so call (239) 301-8913 or check the booking page for what is running on your dates.

Which cruise should we book first?

If this is your first time on this water, start with a dolphin or bay cruise in the morning. Morning light on this water is kind, the boat traffic is thinner, and once you’ve seen Naples Bay, Gordon Pass and the front edge of Port Royal from the deck, everything else you do that week has a map behind it. Wild bottlenose dolphins live here year-round and often surface beside the boat or ride the wake, though they are wild animals and we will never promise you a sighting. Save the sunset for later in the stay — it lands harder once you recognize the shoreline going past. If you only get one evening, make it that one.

Can we go shelling from downtown Naples?

Not the wild-island version. Our shelling trips leave from our other dock at San Marco Marina in Goodland, on the southeast tip of Marco Island, because that is the head start into the Ten Thousand Islands and the boat-only beaches where shells actually pile up. From 5th Avenue South that is a real drive south, so give it a day of its own rather than squeezing it between two Naples cruises — on a several-night stay you have the room to do exactly that. Shelling starts at $125 per adult and $90 per child. Two things worth knowing first: Collier County is empty shells only, no live shells, sand dollars or starfish, and the Florida state shell is the horse conch.

Reserve Your Seats

Pick a day. Then pick another one.

Check availability and book a boat tour — getting to the dock is the shortest part of the day, so the only real decision is which trip goes first.

Or call (239) 301-8913

Your Week on Naples Bay

Book the first one from Hyatt House Naples

The $20 Naples Bay shuttle, dolphin cruises, the Port Royal canal run and a sunset out toward Gordon Pass — all from a marina a couple of blocks down 5th Avenue South. Send us your dates and we’ll spread the boats across your week.

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