Chassahowitzka River Lodge

"Very cool people very helpful pricing is very reasonable. Oh if you have baby feet you're going to want water shoes you City Slickers LOL"

"Was hard to find the Kayak rental shop, it’s located behind the bar. Paid $30.00 for a kayak that should’ve been decommissioned. Not only did it leak it sank, leaving me stranded in shoulder deep water. I was petrified of stepping on a gator. Making it extremely difficult to return to the rental shop. Fortunately, other kayakers helped me back to shore. I called the rental shop to explain what it happened, they did not offer any assistance. If I had paid cash for the rental, I would’ve left the kayak at the bottom of the river. I definitely would not recommend renting a kayak from this company. Poor service and deplorable equipment and left stranded."

"Launched our canoe from here. Very nice owners. Only didn't like how wide the river was with boats going through while on a motorless canoe. Nice water, lots of nature and wildlife to enjoy."

"DO NOT RENT KAYAKS OR CANOES FROM HERE we rented a kayak from here and it leaked the entire time we were in it. I asked the manager for a refund, at least half. And she refused saying that all of their boats leak and that she will not give a refund. Do not rent from here. Leads me to think you shouldn’t camp here either."

"We have come here for years, always had a great experience besides the bathrooms and the leaking canoes (we’ve had to return several because of the leaks and sometimes there aren’t any left to switch them out). We were on our way back from crystal river yesterday and went to put our paddle boards in for an hour or so before we headed back to Pinellas county. They wanted to charge us $30 just to park and put our paddleboards in! We’ve always launched our boards with a rented canoe with no problems or being charged for it and spent way less! It was an hour until 5 when their rentals should be back anyways… I had absolutely no problem paying for parking but that was a little pricey just to be out there for the hour. We went down the way to the river campgrounds and was only charged 5 dollars for parking and our 4 paddleboards launches with it being only a few extra second paddle. We are definitely rethinking which launch area to consider after how the woman treated us there. I understand having to make money, but we aren’t there all day, we were going for literally an hour or 2. I believe the $10 parking would have been sufficient enough for that."