Shell Factory 2787 North Tamiami Trail, North Fort Myers, FL 33903

"My family had a great time at the Shell Factory. My 7yr old loved seeing all the animals. She was even able to pet a few and made a friend while there. This is a great place to go to entertain a child and the parents. Lol"

"Never fails to amaze me! I've been coming here for about 20 years, and I LOVE it! It's very cost-friendly, but wow, how easy it is to spend everything you have on their variety of exciting avenues! They have a wonderful animal attraction with monkeys, a huge camel, and an entire area devoted to reptiles. You can also get your thrills at the "Fun Park" consisting of "Bumper Boats", Mini-Golf, a large zip line, and more! The restaurant has live music and the best burgers. Let's not forget the endless selection of shops and souvenirs. Friendly staff, you can't go wrong! Lovely adventure for the family!"

"This is a great example of Old Florida. The animals are the star. Very nice staff who are working hard to make the best of damage from Ian. An information desk or guide of sorts would be a nice addition here. There is a lot to see: loose shells and Shell gifts, Christmas shop, animal trail, where many of the animals are rescues. It's kind of kitschy but a reasonably priced adventure. The open air bar making BBQ had entertainment looked interesting, and the huge smoker smells wonderful. If you're expecting Disney, this is not the place for you."

"Clearly this place is still dealing with some after affects from the hurricane and once it's fully operational I'm sure I could give a better review. I'd give it more but several of the activities that are part of packaging prices aren't in working order, the pricing seemed to be different depending where you went I'm the park to get tickets, you had to go to the ticket window any time you wanted access to a certain activity which was a pain making a few kids walk back and forth across a parking lot to get someone. Bumper boats was alot of fun, loved the nature walk (full of plenty of animals), kids enjoyed the carousel, the store was pretty cool to look through, and the arcade room was neat. The zipline wasn't working, nor was the water wars up and going, the gem mining area wasn't running either so you got a nag of sand and rocks inside to do at home, the little gun shooting thing had some guns that didn't make any noise making it hard to tell if you shot any targets. Oh and you had to put dollars into that to play it and pay at the ticket window to do the hammer thing to ring the bell, went to that window alot. The staff was great and super friendly. They made it such a better experience. The food at the restaurant there was really good. Loved all their dishes. Overall it was a neat place and experience. A ticket to include most of what we did (along with water wars and gem mining that were both closed) was $30. They had another 2 different packages that were 40 and 50 but we couldn't do half the things on there so we didn't get them. I found the tickets to be overpriced for what you got to do. But the kids had a good time and to me that's worth the 3 stars."