A hand holds a phone showing a chat at a kayak launch, a yellow kayak and green water behind.

10:50pm · vacation planning

Kayak tour website design: Paddle plans at 10pm. The chat writes them down.

She asks about the mangrove tunnels. The chat drafts a paddle request, with dates and ages, for your guide to read.

Tunnel Vision Kayak Tours is a sample kayak company we invented. Its whole website is in the frame below, and every page works.

Tunnel Vision Kayak Tours— St. Petersburg, FLSample business

7 pages · every one works: use the site’s own menu · open on The toursAll 24 finished sites

Tunnel Vision Kayak Tours

How it works

How the chat works, in four steps.

From a guest's thumb to the guide's inbox. The tide has opinions; the request is tidy.

  1. The chat

    A guest taps the chat.

    Illustration: a guest taps a chat button on his phone at the kayak launch while his kayak drifts away behind him unnoticed and the guide stifles a laugh.
  2. A few taps

    It asks about experience, party and tide window.

    Illustration: the guest types on his phone while three abstract question bubbles float above it and the guide raises an eyebrow in approval.
  3. The request

    The tide has opinions. We pass them on.

    Illustration: the guide in reading glasses admires a neat abstract paddle card on a tablet while the guest looks on, pleased.
  4. The reply

    A person confirms by email or a call.

    Illustration: the guide gives a thumbs-up and the guest leaps with his paddle in the air as his kayak drifts comically away.

A day at the dock

A day on the shore.

What the chat does while the guide is busy reading the tide chart.

  1. Yellow and orange kayaks waiting on a sandy bank at the launch.

    Reading the tide.

    The guide checks the tide chart first. Overnight requests wait with notes on experience.

  2. A phone showing a chat, held at a kayak launch beside a yellow kayak.

    A guest asks about the tunnels.

    The chat answers about what to wear, how long, and why the tide matters.

  3. New paddle requestTour · dates · party · kayaks · notes

    The request lands.

    One email: tour, dates, party, kayaks, notes. A person replies.

  4. Yellow kayaks and orange life vests lined up on the bank, ready for the briefing.

    On the shore.

    A person has confirmed. The briefing comes before the first stroke.

Local detail

Local facts, named and sourced.

A site built for your waterway says what is true about it. The sample's Areas page uses these three, each with its source.

  • 3,190 acresWeedon Island Preserve, on the western shore of Tampa Bay, managed by Pinellas County.Wikipedia
  • A 4-mile paddling trailA local report advises mid to high tide for the South Paddling Trail, so check a tide chart.Tampa Bay 28
  • A 1,100-year-old canoeA 40-foot dugout canoe found at the preserve is believed to be about 1,100 years old.Wikipedia

What's on it

What's on a kayak tour website.

  • The tours All eight, from an hour to half a day, with a two-tap finder.
  • The guides Nora and the crew, and why the briefing on the shore comes first.
  • Questions Experience, tides, wildlife, what to wear, ages and how a request works.
  • Areas Weedon Island Preserve, Tampa Bay's quiet shore.
  • Request a paddle A request, not a booking; the chat opens beside the form.

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The front page

Its front page carries eight tours with the length on every card, the tide explained, and a briefing on the shore.

The line worth reading

Will we see wildlife? “We cannot promise it, and nobody honest can.” The chat drafts a paddle request and never prices, holds or promises anything; a person confirms the time that suits the tide by email or a call.

Why it looks like that: A tunnel for a shape: an arched hero picture, arched tour cards and an arched guide portrait on slate and paddle red, with a tide curve that explains why every tour follows the water. Every site we build gets its own structure, not the same page in another colour.

What it does

What it does for kayak and paddle tour companies.

Two friends seen from behind paddle a tandem kayak along green, tree-lined water. A photo from Tunnel Vision Kayak Tours, the sample kayak tour website.
  • The chat on the site drafts a paddle request: which tour, a day and a backup, a tide window, the party and their ages, their experience and single or tandem kayaks, and a name and a way to reach them, around the clock.
  • Nothing is booked, held, priced or promised over chat, and it never promises wildlife or safety outcomes: a person on the crew reads every request and confirms the time that suits the tide by email or a call.
  • A website on your own name, with every tour on its own page, the tide explained and your own waterway's facts, that you keep whatever happens next.

Start here

See your own kayak tour site before you pay anything.

  1. Tell us the business name

    And a way to reach you. No card, no password.

  2. We hand-build a real home page for your business

    Free, in 12 to 48 hours.

  3. You look at it, then decide

    If you want the rest, we build it. If not, you owe nothing.

No card, no password. Your details stay with us.

The price

Every price, before you talk to anybody.

A website starts at $1,195, paid once: online payment opens soon. The monthly package is separate. The chat that answers comes with Starter, and every bot with Growth.

Your website paid once · yours to keep

5-page website

The same build, just smaller

$1,195paid once

What comes with it
  • Five pages, built for your business
  • On your own domain, yours to keep
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10-page website

The same build, twice the pages

$1,895paid once

What comes with it
  • Ten pages, built for your business
  • On your own domain, yours to keep
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Complete custom build

From scratch, your way

$2,995paid once

What comes with it
  • Built from scratch around your business
  • On your own domain, yours to keep
How the custom build works

Your monthly package month to month

Mini

No bots

$49a month

First month free — billing starts 30 days after you sign

No chat, no staff, no marketing — add those any time.

What comes with it
  • Your website kept up: hosting, security updates and an SSL certificate
See the sites it keeps up

Starter

Starting with bots

$149a month

First month free — billing starts 30 days after you sign

Your Google listing and local directories set up, the chat answering, your marketing platform to post, answer reviews and see all your analytics in one place, and 15 minutes of work a month. Found, and answered.

No other bots — the rest of the staff is on Growth.

What comes with it
  • Everything in Mini: your website kept up, with hosting, security updates and SSL
  • Your Google Business Profile set up
  • Your local directory listings
  • The AI chat on your website, answering customers day and night
  • Every lead emailed to you
  • Your marketing platform: make posts to your website and your Google Business Profile, and answer your reviews, all from one place
  • Continuous updates for AI search: your posts go from the platform to your website and your Google Business Profile, keeping your business current for the people searching and the assistants that read it
  • One platform with all your reporting and analytics: your AI analytics, Google Analytics and Maps analytics, your posts, leads and reviews, where your customers come from, and your ads if you add Google Ads
  • If you add Google Ads: see your Google Ads analytics, your spend each day and your keywords, day by day or across any date range, from the same platform
  • 15 minutes a month of website and Google Business Profile work. It does not roll over to the next month.
Start here

Growth

Full bots

$249a month

First month free — billing starts 30 days after you sign

Everything in Starter, plus every bot for your trade, the reviews, the referral program and 30 minutes of work a month — answered and followed up.

What comes with it
  • Everything in Starter, plus:
  • Every bot on staff for your trade
  • Reviews watched, and a reply drafted for each one, for you to approve
  • Your posts drafted for you to approve, for your website and Google Business Profile. Nothing goes out until you say so
  • The Ad Manager checks your Google Ads spend every morning, if you run ads
  • The referral program
  • The lead form, wired to you
  • The staff tools: scheduling, crew, documents and the repair helper
  • 30 minutes a month of website and Google Business Profile work (Starter has 15 minutes). It does not roll over to the next month.
See the chat it runs

Or have us do it all our team does the work

Platinum Service

Done for you

We do it all for you, because you just don't have any time.

$949a month

Month to month, like every package. We do the work every month. We don't promise rankings or results.

Want Google Ads too? Add it to this plan or any other.

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  • Everything in Growth, plus:
  • We write and publish four posts a month on your Google Business Profile
  • Four articles a month written for your website and published on it
  • Ongoing local SEO work on your site and Google profile
  • Review management: we answer your Google reviews and ask your customers for new ones
  • We keep your site running and fix what breaks. It's checked every hour
  • Security updates and SSL, as on every plan
  • One hour a month of website and Google Business Profile work (Growth has 30 minutes). It does not roll over to the next month.
  • A report every month, written by us
  • One platform with all your reporting and analytics: your AI analytics, Google Analytics and Maps analytics, your posts, leads and reviews, where your customers come from, and your ads if you add Google Ads
  • Our own team does the work, with no middleman between you and the people doing it

Google Ads: Google Ads, set up and run for you: $249 a month to manage them, plus $299 once to set them up. Added to any plan: Mini, Starter, Growth or Platinum Service. Your ad budget is paid by you directly to Google, on your own card. Our $249 is only for managing it.

The website and the monthly package are priced separately. An extra page is $99–$129; we list it at $129. The sports team app is a separate quote.

Questions

Straight answers.

What pages does a kayak tour website need?

This one has 7 pages, including the tours, the guides, questions, areas, request a paddle. Yours is planned around your own services and towns: a page for each service you want to be found for, and the questions your customers ask before they get in touch.

What does the chat do when a guest asks about a kayak tour?

It drafts a paddle request: which tour, a day and a backup, a tide window, the party and ages, experience and single or tandem kayaks, and a name and contact. A person reads it and confirms the time by email or a call. It never prices a tour, takes a payment, promises wildlife, or texts.

Will a kayak tour website help me get found on Google?

It is built to be found: every service on its own page, titles and descriptions written the way people search, your towns named, and structured data that search engines read. Nobody can promise a ranking, and we do not.

Is Tunnel Vision Kayak Tours a real company?

No. It is a sample business we invented, and so are its address and the job numbers on its paperwork. Every page says so: in its footer, and on its own address in a strip across the top. The telephone number on it is ours, so if you ring it you reach us.

What does a kayak tour website cost?

Two separate parts. The website is paid once: 5-page website $1,195, 10-page website $1,895, Complete custom build $2,995. Then a monthly package: Mini is $49 a month with no bots; with the chat answering and every enquiry sent to you, Starter is $149 a month; Growth, with every bot on staff, is $249 a month. Or have our team do it all: Platinum Service, $949 a month. It is everything in Growth, with our people writing and publishing your posts, working on your SEO, answering your reviews and keeping the site running, plus a report every month. Every price is on this page.