Austin anthems aren’t purely written by guitarists on a stage drenched in Jim Beam and red light. On Lake Travis, the stage is a sunlit sheen of water, the notes are scents of burgers, and your performer?
Enter the Lake Travis party barge.
You want the best boat rental Austin can offer. Your weekend depends on it. We understand.
You’ve got 40 Austin boat rental companies screaming for your attention. Here’s how you know you’re looking at the best.
Pre-prepared, chilled kegs on your Austin party boat rental
The 1,800-square-foot ship store at VIP Lake Travis.
Note the “Great Beer Wall of Lake Travis,” Austin’s finest party boat support system.
Drive 30 minutes from Austin to rent a boat on Lake Travis and you’re met with flat, warm beer? Unacceptable. The entire thought of flat, warm beer is devastating.
The thought of flat, warm beer has toppled entire nations.
Rome’s downfall? Flat, warm beer.
The extinction of dinosaurs? Flat, warm beer.
Weekends on an Austin party boat rental on Lake Travis have no tolerance for flat, warm beer.
The VIP Lake Travis team sets up its party boats for Austin students and young professionals like this: You call or email ahead, tell our staff what you want before the weekend, and we will order your keg(s), chill them, then stock them on your party boat before you arrive from Austin. VIP Lake Travis carries domestic, import, and specialty kegs (IPAs and ciders) for your Austin boat rental.
An Austin party boat rental without sunscreen access is certain “lobster time”
Most of the Austin party boat rental companies on Lake Travis don’t have a marina store. They meet customers at a pick-up location, load ‘em up, and whatever party supplies were ordered ahead of time is what they’ve got for the next four to eight hours.
In the realm of Austin boat rental science, venturing onto the sun-splashed Lake Travis for eight hours without sunscreen leads to:
- Dehydration
- Poorly aimed beer pong shots
- Bouts of madness
For real, though – sunburn is a nightmare. Nobody wants to spend $800 to be a lobster.
VIP Lake Travis has a marina ship store. Not only do we carry sunscreen to make standing atop a double-decker party barge feasible, but our ship store has ice cream. Delicious, frozen Häagen-Dazs ice cream – the kind that comes from a cooler that you dunk your head in and let the air hit you like you once did as a small child in the frozen green bean aisle.
VIP Lake Travis’s ship store also carries hats, shirts, flip-flops, sunglasses, snacks, beer, water, ice, and souvenirs to remind you later that you did your Austin party boat rental right.
Austin boat rentals with captains who know Lake Travis (and grill a heck of a burger)
The difference between the mediocre, good, and best boat rentals on Lake Travis is a measurement based on quality of service.
VIP Lake Travis captains will order, chill, stock, and tap your Austin boat rental kegs – we’ve established that. They will serve as your personal grill chef creating art on a sizzling flattop, and cruise for hours as your on-water Uber driver. They will make you feel as if you’ve stepped aboard a cloud with valet drink service.
Need party advice? VIP Lake Travis party barge captains are navigational explorers. They’ll inform bachelors about Lake Travis restaurants and bachelorettes about Lake Travis events. They’ll show the student letting out an end-of-school-year sigh of relief just where to sit for the Starnes Island Fourth of July fireworks.
The Austin “bareboat” boat rental option
Okay, so you thought a keg and fraternity pledge was necessary for an Austin boat rental on Lake Travis. Nah.
The VIP Lake Travis Berkshire tritoon boats are the gliding, quiet cruise to the bombastic overtures of a 50-person party boat. Austin families love them, kids love them, and the boater who appreciates style draws themselves to an experience of class and comfort.
Each tritoon boat rental supplies Austin visitors with a Bimini shade top, Bluetooth radio, and a full tank of gas as you embark on what feels so much like a sweet open-aired lake limo.
The Austin rental boats that don’t surprise you with fees
Lake Travis visitors spend four or eight hours on the lake, step off, and are greeted with a bill that’s $300 more than they expected. “Oh, we didn’t know we booked during peak hours.”
Yeah, that happens.
VIP Lake Travis builds tax and gratuity right into your initial price. You can check our prices before you ever try to split the cost with that one shady guy in the group who always promises to Venmo then says he lost his phone. Check out the VIP Lake Travis party barge price sheet to know exactly what you’re paying before you ever get on Lake Travis.
The best Austin boat rentals on Lake Travis live at VIP Lake Travis
Finding your Austin boat rental is like trying to choose the right kind of takeout food on a Friday night. You’ve got options. The captains and the staff at VIP Lake Travis do everything to prepare an exciting, safe, friendly boat rental experience for Central Texas weekend parties.
When that bright Texas summer weekend calls you to the water, and your energy thrums with a mysterious longing for a day on the lake, count on this:
VIP Lake Travis is the home of the best Austin boat rental.