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SELF-CAPTAINED PONTOON RENTALS

Quick Details

  • Duration: 4 hour Half Day | 9 hour Full Day
  • Ages: Minimum age to rent a self-captained pontoon is 25 years old
  • Capacity: 10 passengers max.
Mon-Thurs
Half Day Rental (4 Hours)
$245
Full Day Rental (9 Hours)
$490
Fri-Sun
Half Day Rental (4 Hours)
$280
Full Day Rental (9 Hours)
$560

Enjoy a Day on the Milwaukee River or Lake Michigan with a Boat Rental

Riverwalk Boat Tours offers boat rentals in Milwaukee at competitive rates. Rent our pontoon boats to enjoy a 4 hour Half Day or 9 hour Full Day on the Milwaukee River and Lake Michigan! All rentals are for 10 passengers maximum and are self-captained.

Feel free to bring your own food and beverages on our self-captained pontoon rentals. Guests are responsible for taking all trash with them and not disposing of it in Pere Marquette Park or leaving trash on rental pontoon boats. Thank you

You must pay for and complete a boater safety course if you were born on or after January 1st, 1989, before you can operate the rental boat.

This can be completed online at www.boaterexam.com/usa/wisconsin/ for a lifetime boater’s safety license or https://www.boat-ed.com/wisconsinrental/ for a temporary boat rental license.

  • Driver needs to have filled out online rental agreement and sign waiver before arriving to docks. All guests need to sign online waiver/child waiver before arriving to docks.
  • Driver needs to bring their own valid driver’s license and credit card to docks as well as proof of boaters safety license when applicable
  • A $500 rental damage, loss of equipment deposit will be authorized at time of rental on drivers credit card. Authorization will be held for no more than 7 days. Debit cards not accepted.
  • AGAIN, boat driver needs to bring their own valid credit card for the $500 deposit for boat damages to dock on day of rental, as well as drivers license and boat safety license when applicable.
  • AGAIN, all guests going on boat will be required to sign online waiver/child waiver before arriving to docks.

CANCELLATIONS

FOR SELF CAPTAINED 10 PASSENGER PONTOON RENTALS: Refunds Will Not Be Issued if customer Cancels or is a No Show.  Refunds Will Not Be Issued if customer arrives to the dock at time of rental without the proper requirements to drive the boat to include Valid Driver’s License, proof of passing a boat safety course (when applicable) or a Valid major Credit Card to capture required $500 damage security deposit, This will result in loss of rental time and rental boat payment.

If Riverwalk Boats cancels rental due to inclement weather or mechanical issues, renter will be offered a full refund Credit, their choice.  A rental credit may be issued for a portion of a rental that was affected by bad weather, not a refund.                                                                                          

*Minimum 48 notice is required to change a rental date or time *

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