Lani Kai opens beach access, bar, sports rentals

By NATHAN MAYBERG nmayberg@breezenewspapers com

The Lani Kai Island Resort has a lot of Hurricane Ian recovery work to do before it reopens but significant progress has been made to open up its beach for furniture rentals, along with one of its beach bars Wind & Water Sports has a rental stand at the property Parking is also available at the Lani Kai, at 1400 Estero Blvd

“Our rebuild is coming along nicely, it’s slow but thankfully steady, and our family has been working so hard to juggle so many projects so we can open what we can, when we can, as soon as we can,” Lani Kai Island Resort Marketing Director Melissa Schneider said “Our most recent completion was getting the impact doors and windows installed along our ground-level shops and storefronts ”

Along with beach chairs and recliners looking out to the Gulf of Mexico the beach, the Lani Kai is offering bar-to-beach service for food and drinks

Wind & Water Sports provides the beach furniture along with parasailing, personal watercraft and bananaboat-ride adventures.

Lani Kai has opened its Beach Bar 1, which is referred to as “Mr C’s Bar” as that was the first bar Lani Kai Island Resort owner Bob Conidaris opened back in 1978

“We’re coming full circle from the time he first built this legendary beachside icon 45 years ago,” Schneider said

“We all continue to push through this devastation to try to return the island to some sort of normalcy,” Schneider said