Deb did a lot of research to find a place that is reasonably priced and on the water. She scored big time here. It has a very 'old Florida' vibe with direct access to the river with lots of amenities to use on it. However there were a few items that were advertised but not available but it did not really bother us. Check in was quick and efficient. We were given our own spot. NOTE: use the supplied cone to hold your spot when you leave or else someone will take your spot. The Monkey bar was pretty popular and parking is scarce when it gets crowded. We had an upstairs room with a great view of the river. 2 rooms with lots of space and full size appliances. TVs in both rooms, satellite and WIFI was great! Fastest WIFI I have seen in a secluded place like this. Shower had good pressure and lots of hot water. The shower had the weird faucet 'switch' to get the shower going. Seems to be something they like in these parts. Just pull down on the end of the faucet to close it and start the shower. The resort is in walking distance to many bars and restaurants. We went to the Monkey bar every night just to chill in the open by the water. There is a water taxi to take you over to Crumps if you want. We didn't use it but it was available. We did use the pontoon boats that were available to guests for a fee. $100 for 4 hours was not bad at all. However we got rained on and were only out 2 so they guy working at the desk let us have it for free! Great customer care here! Overall our stay was great. If you have a boat this place is perfect as a launch point to explore the river. A very relaxing get away very close to both nature and nightlife. We will be back. read more

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The pizza was terrible old food must have bad coolers made me very sick the beer was hot and sour matt the man you're not don't know nothing the bar manager does not know nothing kin to the family hair all over his face all in her drinks all in our food full of hair and sour beer hot is horrible don't eat there make you very sick read more

This pertains ONLY to the recently opened Florida Cracker Kitchen, not the Monkey Bar. Lunch order - Fried Oyster basket and Gator Basket. Breading on both so unbelievably salty making it inedible. The slaw, made with Chinese Cabbage was oddly bland, especially noticeable compared to the over salted breading - but has possibilities. Tartar sauce bore no resemblance to any tartar sauce that I've ever had in 60+ years. But to be fair salt was the only thing I could taste at this point. Will stick with the tasty flatbreads at the Monkey Bar from now on! read more

We stayed at the Florida Cracker Riverside Resort last weekend for our scalloping trip. Rooms were clean and our group was very happy with the stay. We loved that we had the Florida Cracker Kitchen in walking distance for breakfast and the Monkey Bar in walking distance for drinks and pizza at night. We definitely plan to go again. read more

If you get a water facing room, so pretty. Love the Monkey Bar bartender, food was really good too..plus love Florida Cracker restaurant. Rooms were good, but old & could use renovating. They only change your sheets every 4 days, but do not tell you this when you check in. Pool has a great view, but not the cleanest. Deb at front desk is absolutely rude if you ask her about getting clean sheets. I'm actually shocked they continue to employ her. read more

Love what they have done to this spot and it's exciting to have them in our community. On the downside, it's not their typical food at their other flagship restaurants, only pizza, which was a bit odd read more

Super disappointed in the food. Shrimp and grits were not Southern to say the least. Never ever put onions in grits! The onion sauce that is called tomato sauce was red but I did not taste like tomato. There were no grits! The red onion sauce is served with zero flavored bread. You can't taste the gator bites unless you peel off the extremely overpowering salty peppered breading. My wife ordered breakfast but couldn't eat and said it was just that bad. The waitress's were robots and then they tell you at the counter that in 2022 they only take cash for their disgusting food. We directed to an ATM 10' away. The also charge for parking. For all the hoops you jump through the food was pig slop. read more

Staff is nice, room clean. No laundry facilities and the dock had no hose. The restaurant has a great menu online but it doesn't exist. Pizza only. read more

Attention: DO NOT RENT A BOAT FROM HERE!!!! this review is solely for the pontoon boat rentals. We rented an 11 person pontoon (we only had 5 on board) recently and told the facility we wanted to go scalloping and where should we go and stuff like that. So they knew our intentions. They rented us a dirty boat that was wet on all the seats with snack remnants from the previous day still on some of the seats. The floors were dirty and snack bags still under the seats areas. BUT that wasn't the worst part of it. We started off our trip and didn't think much about how slow the boat was going because we stayed in the canal area at first. But when we went to the west towards the gulf to go scalloping, we were getting passed by every boat in the rivers. It took us about 2 hours to get to the gulf. Then when we got to open waters, we had to fight the current which basically made us crawl at about 3 mph. Seriously I am not kidding. The pontoon has a 50hp engine. We finally got to where we were going but could stay as long as we wanted cuz we had to return the boat. On the way back the boat seemed even slower. It took us 3 hours to get back in. So over 5 hours of our trip way trying to get to and from. We were so pissed off when we got there. Come to find out they tell us that their boats only go a max of 15 cuz they put a Governor on it. That is ridiculous! It is more dangerous to operate at that speed in those types of water. PS: We left the boat cleaner than we got it. read more