Just For Fun

This place is complete shit and a ripoff.
As the other reviews state, their customer service is horrible — they are rude, unethical, and could care less about how they treat customers because they’re 1 of 2 companies near Houston that rent large party barges.
The barge I rented cost $ 830 and had no working speakers — after 20 – 30 minutes of crew members trying to fix the problem and someone coming out to take a look, the speakers still did not work.
40%-50% of the vibe of the party is from the music on the boat.
After our sail I spoke with the manager about some sort of discount on our rental, he offered me 1 free hour on my next rental. NO! Absolutely not!
Why would I want to come back another time if you don’t fix the problem I’m having today? Fix the current situation and I’ll reconsider coming back and giving you my business. Who in their right mind would think this is OK?
Reimburse me for 1 hour today!
The manager kept trying to press the 1 hr credit for MY NEXT rental but I refused.
We argued back and forth and all he could say is, «it was a freak accident», «it’s not my fault», «it’s just like your car, things happen all the time!», and that he would ABSOLUTELY would take the 1 hour credit for next time. — Firstly, if something were to mess up with my car, it’s probably because I chose not to take care of it, secondly, you ABSOLUTELY wouldn’t accept that resolution if it was YOUR $ 830, lastly it wasn’t a freak accident when you took $ 830 out of my bank account. DUMB!
The staff standing next to him wanted him to shut up — they kept saying they had my credit card number and telephone and they’d contact me. So after about 20 more minutes of going in circles and hearing more stupid excuses, the manager finally said, «We’ll have the owner contact you.»
And as I walked away, one of their staff members said, «I’m sorry, I’ll see if I can make a phone call to see that the RIGHT thing happens.»
Well here we are, 2 weeks later, no phone call, no contact, nothing. But they sure have all $ 830. Fuck this place.
The only thing remotely accommodating about this place — The Captain.

Don’t bother to read the old reviews. They must be under new management. The people here at Conroe Boat Rental are very friendly and extremely helpful. We were visditing from California and just wanted to spend a couple hours on the water. I called and talked with a very nice gentleman who helped me make a decision on a pontoon. When we arrived the 2 different people that helped us were awesome. The guy that goes over the boat with you and sends you on your way was very informative about where to go and not go and how to make the most of your time! Thanks

I am really surprised to see such low reviews! We were invited to join our friends for a birthday/​Labor Day celebration yesterday and we all had a great time! The staff was friendly and the four hours we had the pontoon for went by so quickly. I heard no complaints and everyone was sad to have to get off when it was time. I would go again in a heartbeat.

I have rented Ski Boats quite a few times from multiple places including the Lake Travis location of JFF… This place was by far the worst ever.
They gave us a old looking Ski Boat which was dirty and didn’t look like was well maintained. The boat was fine for 30 minutes. Then the ignition key just snap broke inside the ignition. They sent an employee to find us. Which took them over an hour. Then the guy gave us a spare key, which didn’t work, and we were towed back to the marina in a pontoon, so that took over 1.5 hours. So we lost 1.5 hours of our hired time and had to spend another 2.5 hours to get back to shore. At which point I was told that we broke their boat. The manager was super super rude and told that he wasn’t absolutely refunding me any money instead going to charge me $ 50 extra for a broken key. The manager also told us that the whole ignition was repaired the previous day and we had a brand new ignition, which «Didn’t have a spare key» Completely in contradiction to the promise made to use earlier that an employee was coming with a spare key. I was shocked beyond imagination. The worst service and the worst equipment and the place looked like a fly by night make shift little operation, who were clearly lying. Never Never going to go to this company in any of their locations again. They just killed it for all their locations anywhere in Texas.

A group of friends went on a party barge through Just for Fun on the 4^th of July. I have been on party barges through this company’s rentals at Lake Travis in Austin, and this didn’t really compare. The barge was not really what we expected; no slide, quite a bit older looking, really slippery surfaces.
On the plus side, we had tons of fun, and the staff were really friendly. Not sure if I would rent from this company myself though, I may try looking elsewhere.

Our family took one of their boats out for 4 hours. It was clean and the staff were very pleasant and helpful. The price was reasonable and clear from the start. I’m surprised at some of the negative reviews, our whole group spoke about how we would use JFF again in the near future b/​c they were great. Good job!

Rented jet skis through a groupon offer. Great price, make sure to arrive early to fill out forms that «sign your life away!» Jet ski’s are decent, though have some wear and tear. Make sure to take pictures of jet ski prior to rental. Staff is ok, though far from professional. Compared to my past rental experiences mostly on the east coast, Just for Fun does, so-​so, andl eaves a lot to be desired.

Like the other reviewers, I agree this place is just awful with poor and deceptive service.
I rented a jet ski for 2 hours and a ski boat for 3 hours, arrived with plenty of time to spare and waited for 15 minutes before anybody even noticed me. The guy then took us outside and had us sign a bunch of papers without really explaining anything. In fact, half the time while he was talking to us, he was looking away and talking in a virtually inaudible voice, obviously distracted by something. In the middle of this, he took off unannounced and didn’t come back until 10 minutes later, causing us to depart late. Then, he told us to get on the boat and spin the propeller, and took down some notes. This will come back to bite us later.
So a couple of hours later, we returned onshore, again with plenty of time to spare. I thought everything was fine and ready to go until a worker there told us that the propeller was screwed up and we had to pay for it.
Wait… what?
Their rules were simple — stay 1000 feet away from shore and 100 feet away from other vehicles at all times. We followed these rules to a tee, yet the propeller was somehow messed up?
Oh right, this is probably because the worker didn’t tell us what the propeller was supposed to look like, as he didn’t say anything at all when we spun it. Like I said earlier, he just took down some notes. It’s pretty obvious they were blaming us for damages that were already there. And now we were forced to pay it or we weren’t allowed to leave.
Needless to say I filed a dispute with my credit card company the moment I could. If I could give this place 0 stars, I would. I really fail to understand how this place can still be booked, but I guess it’s just a whole of bunch of to-​be-​disappointed first time customers.
Stay away from this place, especially if you don’t want some extra charges dropped on you out of the blue.

Such a rude dock master! I couldn’t believe how someone could scream at their customers as much as this guy did. We were literally scolded for going on the wrong side of the dock with the boat we rented… Maybe they should put signs in the marina so everyone else that was going the wrong way as well wouldn’t get scolded like we did. Pretty sad when the other staff members were apologizing for how rude this guy was.