Retreat At Crystal Manatee, Crystal River

The Retreat at Crystal Manatee offers a spacious double room featuring air conditioning, a seating area, and a private bathroom with a walk-in shower and a hairdryer. Rooms include air conditioning and a flat-screen TV. Some rooms offer a tiled floor and one bed. Family rooms with air conditioning and a flat-screen TV are available.

Charlie's Fish House, located a ten-minute walk away, serves locally caught fish and seafood and includes a full-service bar. Norton's Riverside Sports Bar and Grill, a two-minute walk from the hotel, is a sports bar with an outdoor setting. Cattle Dog Coffee Roasters, a new coffee shop, is about a seven-minute walk from the hotel on Citrus Avenue. Vintage on 5th is another option for dining.

The property features a white sand beach with views of the Mexican Gulf and a fishing pier. Paddles Outdoor Rentals provides bike, kayak, and paddle-board rentals, plus guided kayak tours for manatee viewing. Explorida offers manatee swim tours and scallop charters. The Crystal River Preserve, one of Florida's biologically diverse estuaries, is nearby. Each manatee swim tour includes an in-water guide from arrival to departure, plus a professional photographer. Hunter Spring Park is 0.3 km away and features kayak/paddle board launches, a playground, picnic tables, BBQ grills, a fishing pier, and a boat dock. Seasonal eco-heritage boat tours are available from September to May. The newly redesigned park features a natural shoreline & beach, bathrooms and changing rooms, a kayak launch, and a boardwalk for manatee viewing.

The Retreat at Crystal Manatee is in Crystal River, 100 km from Gainesville Regional Airport. Nearby landmarks include Pete's Pier (2 km), Regal Crystal River Mall (3 km), Crystal River Archaeological State Park (3.5 km), Crystal River (4.5 km), Hunter Spring Park (0.3 km), Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge (2.5 km), Coastal Heritage Museum (0.3 km), and Franklin Anderson Gallery (0.5 km). Three Sisters Springs, King Springs, and Hunter Springs are within a ten-minute radius.

The property allows visitors to see what Florida looked like centuries ago. The nearby trail features trees like live oak, magnolia, palms, and other hardwoods. The Preserve's wetlands refresh Florida's aquifer. Within its borders are more than 27.5 acres of scrub, pinewoods, hardwood forests, salt marshes and mangrove islands.