‘Tis the season of giving, and what better way to celebrate than with a gift to your favorite restaurants in Southwest Florida — Old Captiva House and Crow’s Nest Bar & Grille. Get on Santa’s good side, and give the [...]
It’s an island tradition that dates back almost two decades. More than 100,000 holiday lights in musical synchronicity. The colorful lighting of a majestic, 30-foot Christmas tree at the threshold to the Gulf of Mexico. Live holiday music. A spectacular [...]
Dietary restrictions are becoming increasingly frequent and restaurants have adapted to those restrictions in efforts to make dining at a restaurant a more inclusive experience, and Old Captiva House has been leading the way on Sanibel and Captiva Islands. Gluten-free [...]
Change can be hard to swallow. But when we’re talking about something as delicious as this, it’s not so bad. Starting last year, The Old Captiva House decided to let guests have more options removing the free breakfast buffet and [...]
It stands on the site of Captiva Island’s very first schoolhouse that opened its doors in 1908 to a few pioneering students and families. In 1931, when the first overnight guests to Captiva Island checked in at the new ‘Tween [...]
In the early 1900s, Captiva was truly a “tropical paradise,” populated by select families of inhabitants who were adventurous, courageous, hard-working and hot weather loving — the first and second generations of American founders of the island. As the first [...]
More than 110 years ago, Captiva Island's first schoolhouse welcomed its first class of children to a small, one room white building perfectly situated between the Gulf of Mexico to the west, and Pine Island Sound to the east. Some [...]
