The Best Helicopter Tours of Panama City Beach

Breathtaking Tours

 
When you’re at the beach and you want to experience something new and different, try out the various helicopter tours that fly over and around Panama City Beach FL. If you’ve never been in a helicopter it’s an experience you won’t soon forget. It’s beyond breathtaking! Following are some local companies offering an assortment of tours around the coastal area.
 

Panhandle Helicopter

• 15726 Front Beach Rd, Panama City Beach, FL 32413
• Reservations: (850) 230-2080
• This family owned business offers 5 different types of tours that vary in time, distance and price. If you have something special in mind they can accommodate most requests. Helicopter’s are weight based but can usually hold 3 passengers plus the pilot. Be sure to bring your camera or video cam. There will be some unbelievable shots you’ll want to capture!

Sportations

• Shell Island Helicopter Tour in Panama City Beach Florida
• Reservations: 1-800-974-1762
• You’ll fly over 24 miles of the emerald coast to view St. Andrews State Park, the shipping channel, Grand Lagoon, and the famous Shell Island. See sunken boats and manmade reefs; home to a variety of fish species. This extravagant helicopter tour takes you to see the best of Panama City Beach. Come experience for your self why it’s a crowd favorite.

Panama City Beach Helicopter Charters

• Panama City Beach, FL 32401
• Reservations: 1-877-996-3454
• Offering a wide range of services, from helicopter tours and rides to carrying and lifting heavy equipment, aerial photography, and gift certificates that have an expiration date of two years from date of purchase. Tour packages of varying lengths are available from Panama City Beach Helicopter Charters. The amazing sights from above will leave you breathless.

Thrillant Helicopter Tours

• Panama City Beach, FL 32401
• Reservations: 1-800-913-4627
• Come experience the Shark Run Helicopter Tour in Panama City Beach. It’s an adventure that all thrill seekers and shark enthusiasts alike will want to partake in. You’ll get close-up views of numerous sharks swimming in the water. Expect to see hammerheads, bull sharks and more, feeding in their natural habitat on this 16-mile helicopter tour. If you can stand being up close and personal with one of the most revered creatures in the sea, then this thrilling tour is for you.

Memorable Swimming

You’ve surely heard about people that have gone swimming with dolphins but did you ever think about trying it out for yourself? Have you even been up close and personal with a friendly dolphin? You might be surprised just how personable they are, not to mention such excellent swimmers! We want you to have a fabulous time when you spend your vacation in Florida, so as well as providing you with outstanding yet affordable Panama City Beach vacation rentals, we’ll also tell you about the 4 best places where you can swim with the dolphins right here in Panama City Beach. Make this summer the year your memories are downright priceless!

Flippers Dolphin Tours

5201 North Lagoon Dr., Panama City Beach, FL 32408; Tel. (850) 238-2484

The whole family will enjoy this unique way to experience Panama City Beach, Florida. Swimming with Dolphins and visiting Shell Island are some of the beaches most popular things to do here. We hit every spot and cover every angle on our Dolphin Tours. Our tours last approx. 2 hours, so you will have plenty of time to enjoy the experience. Come experience a stunning adventure in the Gulf of Mexico you won’t soon forget.

Last Local Guide Service

St. Andrews Marina, Panama City Beach, FL 32405; Tel. (850) 774-0909

The waters around Panama City Beach are home to one of the highest populations of bottle-nosed dolphins in North America. This, coupled with predominately warm, clear water conditions make the perfect scenario to interact with one of the most friendly and intelligent marine mammals known to man. With Last Local the boat is occupied with only your group and the captain. Our trips start with a minimum of four hours. The odds of dolphin interaction with us are greatly increased. Capt. Vann will see to it that your dolphin encounter is an amazing and unforgettable experience! Not to mention, a more personable one.

Dolphin & Snorkel Tours Panama City Beach

3824 Hatteras Lane, Panama City Beach, FL 32407; Tel. (850) 866-8815

We are located at Bay Point Marina, the closest marina to Shell Island and the closest marina to the areas where dolphins are often spotted. This area is famous for having one of the highest and most consistent concentrations of Bottlenose Dolphins. We can virtually guarantee dolphin sightings. Our focus is on personal experience. You are welcome to swim in the areas that dolphins swim, if they want to swim with you they will. We will put together a day that you are sure to never forget. You learn about the intelligence and hear stories about these majestic creatures. You may even get a chance to hear them underwater with our underwater microphone!

Water Planet

203 Greenwood Dr, Panama City Beach, FL 32407; Tel. (850) 230-6030

Water Planet offers a variety of dolphin swim programs for the whole family including fun and educational swim-with-the-dolphins tours and dolphin therapy programs for children with special needs. All of our dolphin tours combine the natural beauty of a dolphin encounter with education. We are the oldest (since 1994) and most experienced wild dolphin swim facility in Panama City! Our swim with the dolphins tours include an educational briefing, a sightseeing boat ride across the Bay of St. Andrews, the dolphin encounters, the exploration of Shell Island, a marine ecology wet lab (by request), shelling and exploring boat wrecks. Our 1-day Wild Dolphin Swim tour is offered March through October in Panama City Beach FL.

Sweet Treat

Ice cream is something everyone loves. When you’re looking for things to do in Panama City Beach, whether it’s to celebrate a birthday, have dessert, relieve some stress, or if you’re just trying to cool off, ice cream never lets you down! It comes as soft serve or hard scooped, in a dish or on a cone, dipped with any number of different toppings, or dressed all up as a sundae. Something we all agree on is that when it comes to pleasure ice cream is near the top of the list.

Here in Panama City Beach there are lots of places to enjoy ice cream whether dipped, scooped or swirled from a machine. Following are some of the best places!
 

The Pink Pelican Ice Cream Bar

 
Located at Shoppes At Edgewater, 543 Richard Jackson Blvd, Panama City Beach. A gourmet ice cream parlor and restaurant. Offering souvenir mugs filled with your favorite ice cream or frozen yogurt. Flavors include favorites such as red velvet with real cream cheese and banana cream pie.
 

Marble Slab Creamery

 
Located at 9956 Hutchison Blvd, Panama City Beach. They make small-batch homemade ice cream that is hand blended. Free homemade waffle cones with unlimited mix-ins, just one price. Ice cream cakes, too. Come create your favorite combination today!
 

Hershey’s Beach Ice Cream Shop

 
Located at 8815 Thomas Drive with indoor and outdoor seating. Hershey’s Beach Ice Cream Shop offers 40 flavors of creamy, smooth hand dipped ice cream…Scooped into crisp homemade waffle cones or piled high into sundaes loaded with fudge, caramel and toppings. For the true ice cream lover…we recommend you “create your own” Shake or try our famous BIG Banana Split!