Dining Cruise Experiences on St Johns River

Experience a unique dining cruise on the St. Johns River aboard the authentic paddle-wheeler, Barbara-Lee. Enjoy live entertainment, fresh meals, and stunning views.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Saint Johns River Drive - Travelers will experience a cruise along the St Johns River on a historic paddlewheeler, The Barbara-Lee, while enjoying live entertainment and food cooked to order.
What's Included
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
What's Not Included
  • Guests are provided their choice of tea, coffee and water. Cash bar available.
Additional Information

Our ship, the “Barbara-Lee”, is an authentic paddle-wheeler, hosting lunch, dinner and specialty cruises. She travels across Lake Monroe and up the beautiful St. Johns River. Live entertainment, full table service and an entree selected from a menu are part of every cruise. All meals are prepared fresh in the galley. Included are appetizers, salad,…

Location
433 N Palmetto Ave
North Palmetto Avenue
433 N Palmetto Ave, Sanford, FL 32771, USA
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Daniel_w
Nov 28, 2024
Thanksgiving Week - Wonderful cruise. Saw a beautiful sunset and the food and service was great. We highly recommend this cruise!
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Donnaw706
Nov 16, 2024
Interesting outing! - Very interesting. There was high wind and the boat was unable to cruise. They had a dj that was awesome. Lunch was top notch. Service was awesome. They kept us busy for 3 hours. We would like to do again when we can actually see the sights.
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Polly
Nov 10, 2024
Amazing - Absolutely amazing! From the moment you board the riverboat every was was so friendly! The food was out of this world we had the prime rib, melted in your mouth! Food was abundance!!!
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Joe_p
Dec 29, 2024
Lake Monroe water excursion - Very friendly staff… entertainment during trip was nice. Need better system for cocktails. Took way too long… ended up going to bar to get my cocktail.
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T2619colisam
Dec 22, 2024
Yuletide dinner cruise - Planned for a family Christmas outing Tour was nice but dark and not much Christmas lights to see. Entertainment was okay. The music was good but the speakers were so loud it was very hard to enjoy. The food was mediocre salmon was overcooked and dry the loaded baked potatoes was 1/2 of a 1/2 and was just cheese and little bacon and no sour cream and was hard on bottom and the Brussels sprouts were steamed and mushy. The dessert was great and coffee and service was great !! The prime rib was really good too. This was the dinner cruise Yuletide !
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Maryanne_f
Dec 23, 2024
St John Rivership cruise - Don’t expect the food to eatable because you will be disappointed. Just come for ambience and scenery, but the service and staff were good.
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Lisa
Sep 22, 2024
Disappointed. - We bought tickets for the comedy wedding and dinner. We were looking forward to this since we used to work for a company that did a dinner theater show. The show was awful. It was chaos. The sound was terrible. Not sure if the cast had a script or just ad lib. None of it was funny. Not one person had any talent. They did not interact with many of the guests. The dinner service was so slow and the food was sub par. My husband sent back his gray piece of tough prime rib. Really disappointing.
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Shellyp61
Sep 19, 2024
it wasn't worth the money - The service was great and I ordered chicken parmigiana the chicken was soggy, the noodles weren't done and had very little sauce. My friend has celiac and was listed on her ticket but that didn't matter. The diesel fumes on the back of the boat were so strong there was NO way you could sit back there. Disappointing
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Joel_l
Feb 20, 2025
Cruise dinner canceled - Our cruise was canceled the day before we were to go no reason given to why it was canceled not good business
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500laurav
Feb 15, 2025
Expensive and Not worth a cent - It was a terrible experience. The Barbara Lee boat was in dry dock so we never went on the cruise. They did not tell the transportation company until we were halfway there and offered to give us back 40 of $130. The dinner was terrible. When we arrived…a group of 12….they had to arrange seating…it was so confusing and uncomfortable, with the other guest watching us. The prime rib was like boiled ham. I had to send it back and I tried the chicken. It was better. They had us seated for an hour and a half before the dinner came I guess so we could buy more drinks. Would not recommend this excursion!!!
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