creating a sea of memories
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Manthey Hospitality features a cruise for everyone with Tampa Bay’s largest fleet of passenger vessels! Our dining fleet features a lot of firsts: Yacht Starship is America’s First 3-diamond rated dining yacht and Craft our newest addition launched in 2024 a
dining river cruiser featuring America’s first open galley with gas appliance cooking and
a bar handcrafted from a 1914 vintage wood cruiser. For sightseeing board Pirate
Water Taxi Tampa’s most popular cruise with 12 stops of hop-on and off all day fun!
Coming soon to the Cumberland River: Nashville Riverboats, launching Spring 2026.
Our Brands
Set sail aboard Yacht StarShip! With two decades of service, Yacht StarShip’s dining cruises have become a seaworthy staple. Cruise the waterways of Tampa Bay or Clearwater while enjoying a premier brunch or dinner cruise featuring an open bar that’s free at sea!
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Set sail aboard Yacht StarShip! With two decades of service, Yacht StarShip’s dining cruises have become a seaworthy staple. Cruise the waterways of Tampa Bay or Clearwater while enjoying a premier brunch or dinner cruise featuring an open bar that’s free at sea!
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Welcome aboard Craft, a multi-million dollar river cruiser built to cruise Tampa’s most scenic waterways, offering 2-hour brunch, lunch and dinner cruises. At 10’8″ of air draft the Captain will navigate the many low bridges on the Hillsborough River with only inches to spare, similar to the river cruises in Europe.
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Welcome aboard Craft, a multi-million dollar river cruiser built to cruise Tampa’s most scenic waterways, offering 2-hour brunch, lunch and dinner cruises. At 10’8″ of air draft the Captain will navigate the many low bridges on the Hillsborough River with only inches to spare, similar to the river cruises in Europe.
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Pirate Water Taxi offers daily tours of Tampa with many stops located along our route near attractions, museums, restaurants & parks!
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Pirate Water Taxi offers daily tours of Tampa with many stops located along our route near attractions, museums, restaurants & parks!
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Do ye think ye have what it takes to be a pirate? Join the crew of the Lost Pearl as they search for treasure in Downtown Tampa.
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Do ye think ye have what it takes to be a pirate? Join the crew of the Lost Pearl as they search for treasure in Downtown Tampa.
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Nashville Riverboats: Authentic paddlewheel and steamboat cruises on the Cumberland River, right in the heart of downtown Nashville.
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Nashville Riverboats: Authentic paddlewheel and steamboat cruises on the Cumberland River, right in the heart of downtown Nashville.
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Our STORY
Manthey Hospitality is a family-owned company first launching Tampa Bay dining cruises aboard Yacht Starship in 2001. Over the past 23 years our fleet has grown to 14 vessels making it Tampa Bay’s largest fleet of passenger vessels, with capacities from 24 to 600 passengers. We are first and foremost a Hospitality company with 225 team members that take great pride in safely creating a Sea of Memories for the millions and millions of guests cruising aboard our fleet. With a cruise for everyone, we look forward to welcoming you aboard soon!
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Manthey Hospitality owns Tampa’s largest fleet of Passenger Vessels, with 14 vessels and counting. Interested in coming aboard? View our recent job openings.