Fifteen minutes from your hotel, four hundred feet up
The bay view nobody gets from the sand — a short ride off the Beach and you're airborne over Biscayne Bay.
You can see the water from your balcony on Miami Beach. This is how you get above it. The trip runs about an hour on the boat, of which five to ten minutes are spent hanging under the canopy at up to four hundred feet, with Key Biscayne on one side and the downtown skyline on the other. You leave from Pier 9 at Dinner Key Marina — a fifteen-minute drive from South Beach — because the bay there sits behind the barrier islands and stays flyable on afternoons when the ocean side is too churned up to launch. Take-off and landing happen on the back deck of the boat, so you finish dry unless you specifically ask the captain to dip your feet on the way down. Two or three people fly together under one canopy, children from age five, and nobody needs to swim.
What's included
- Up to 400 ft flight
- Coast Guard licensed captain
- Takeoff & landing from the flight deck
- Credit if cancelled (never expires)
What to bring
- Sunscreen, sunglasses, a hat
- Camera or GoPro (secured to you)
- Swimsuit and towel (if you want the dip)
- Reservation confirmation
Good to know
The operational details our captains brief at the dock — covered here so you can plan.
- Roughly an hour aboard; the airborne stretch is five to ten minutes of it
- Dry launch and landing off the back deck — ask the captain if you want the dip
- Bring a layer: it's noticeably cooler up there than on the dock
- Sunglasses need a strap or they belong to the bay
- Last flight leaves an hour before sunset, seven days a week
Frequently asked
I'm on Miami Beach — why not book something on the sand?
Do I need to know how to swim?
How many of us can go up together?
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