The Everglades Alligator Farm, South Florida’s oldest alligator farm, is located near the Everglades National Park entrance and houses over 2,000 alligators. An exhilarating airboat tour, an alligator display, a snake show, and an alligator feeding demonstration are all included in a visit to the Everglades Alligator Farm!
This is an attraction you will not want to miss if you are visiting Key Largo or Key West. The Everglades Alligator Farm is a great place when looking for a unique experience! You can see that they take good care of their animals, and the stuff is really kind and professional as well! The Everglades Alligator Farm is open daily from 9 AM to 5:30 PM.
Attractions
In the Everglades Alligator Farm, you can go on an airboat ride with other tourists, or you can even go on a private airboat ride, but it costs more. The airboat tour lasts about 30 minutes, and you can see the farm and learn more about the alligators.
There are more shows and programs as well, you can go to the alligator show, and alligator feeding, and you can even hold baby alligators, while you learn and learn more about the wildlife! After the alligator show, they pass around baby alligators, and if you are brave enough you can hold and pet them.
The Everglades Alligator Farm is one of the best places to visit in South Florida, and it is pretty cheap as well. The rides are very informative and educational.
What you’ll see on the Airboat ride
The ride usually takes around 25 to 30 minutes, you get hearing protection and you need to dress up properly, because they guarantee that you will get wet! There are no age limit for the rides, but you should not bring small children, because the boats are loud.
Some of the main things people usually see are alligators, birds, fish and turtles as well! Oh, and while on the ride, you will learn a lot about the wildlife as well! The staff that comes with you, are real professionals, who knows a lot about the animals in the Everglades Farm, so you can learn a lot from just listening.
If you want to go on an airboat ride, you don´t have to reserve your ride, you can just buy the ticket in the farm and they will put you on the next ride. But, if you want a private ride, you have to reserve your tickets. You can buy tickets online as well, and you can save more that way.
What kind of shows they have
In the Everglades Alligator Farm, there are a lot of activities and shows that you can watch or take part in. There are alligator, snake and reptile shows, alligator encounter where you can feed the alligators.
Alligator Show
The Alligator Show is the most popular and entertaining show of the farm. The Everglades alligator experts will educate the crowd on all aspects of these amazing but scary creatures of the swamp. They will show you different capturing techniques, even primitive ones, that were once used by Native American Indians. The experts even show you to how to calm down the alligators as well, hopefully you won´t need to use it! At the end of the alligator show, they will pass around a baby alligator, so you can take a picture with it, of course if you want to do it.
There are 4 different show times, but of course the time can change:
- 11AM
- 1PM
- 3PM
- 5PM
Alligator Feeding
When the alligators are hungry, you know it is lunch-time! In this show, the crowd can learn about how the alligators feed in the wild. Sometimes, they even try to show you tricks with the alligators as well. There are over 500 gators in that breeding pond area, so you know the show will be wild and crazy. You can watch the gaters chomp down, and crawl over each other just to get their favorite meal.
There are 4 different show times for this as well, and the times can change:
- 10AM
- 12PM
- 2PM
- 4PM
Pricing and the length of the rides
There are three different tickets in the Everglades Alligator Farm, the first is a normal one for $30 for the adults, for children between 4 and 11 years old are $22, and for children under 4 years old are free. This ticket only includes the airboat ride, and the rides usually takes around 25 to 30 minutes.
You do not need reservations for this ticket, you can purchase them and they will put you on the next available boat. This ticket also includes the alligator shows and the alligator feeding shows as well, so you only have to pay once.
The second ticket is the VIP one. You can only bring children in that are over 6 years old, and the first 2 ticket price starts from $498, and you can bring in 4 additional people for $99 per person.
With this ticket, you will get all the best parts of Everglades Alligator Farm experience, alligator encounters, private airboat tours and this package also includes souvenirs and refreshments for your party. This VIP ticket is an incredible 3 hour experience.
You can also buy the private airboat ride as well, the tickets for the first 10 people are $400, and up to 19 additional people it is $40 per person. You can bring up to 25 people in one party. This private ride takes around 45 to 60 minutes, with a master naturalist guide.
It is really great and exciting for all ages. You can learn about the wildlife in the Everglades Farm, and survivor tips as well. The airboats travel at really high speeds, and even doing 360-degree spins through the sawgrass prairies. You need to reserve this ticket, but this includes all shows and admission to the farms as well.
People who have been here before, leave really positive reviews, they can’t even complain about anything! The Everglades Alligator Farm is one of the best places to visit in South Florida, with amazing and kind staff, cheap prices and you will leave with an amazing experience. They guarantee that you will want to come back sooner, or later.
