The Amelia Island guide
Pages a local actually writes: where to go, who to call when something breaks, and who to ring if you are moving here. Each is built around the question that settles it, and nothing on them is ordered or ranked by payment.
Listings last checked . Live readings — tide, wind, surf, water temperature, the bridge — are read the moment you ask.
Nothing on this page matches that. Try fewer words, or ask Amelia and she will look across the whole island. Own a business we are missing? Add it, free.
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Ask Amelia and she will work it through with you. She knows the island, not just this page.
Let Amelia point youOr scroll on and read the 551 listings yourself.
Where to go
7 pagesSomewhere to eat, a boat to book, something to do with an afternoon.
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Fishing charters on Amelia Island
Half-day inshore trips run about four hours in the creeks for redfish, trout and flounder. Offshore days go out the inlet for snapper, grouper and kingfish.
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Beach horseback riding on Amelia Island
Kelly Seahorse Ranch has closed. Two outfits still ride the sand from Peters Point Road, one from age 6 and one from 13, at $125 a person for a day ride.
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Bike, kayak and golf cart rentals on Amelia Island
Cruisers and e-bikes, street-legal carts, kayaks, boards and boats. Delivery covers four different arrangements here, so ask before you compare day rates.
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Bakeries, ice cream and desserts on Amelia Island
Custom cakes need days of notice, so start with the lead time and not the hours. Ice cream after dinner, the candy makers downtown, donuts made in the morning.
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Spas, massage and yoga on Amelia Island
Yoga on the sand moves with the weather, so check the day before rather than turning up hopeful. Studios run class schedules, day spas run appointment books.
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Restaurants on Amelia Island
Plan to eat early: 83 percent of the kitchens with published hours stop serving by nine, Sunday through Thursday. Fifteen close Sunday, thirteen Monday.
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Amelia Island wedding venues
No permit is required for a ceremony of your own on the public sand. Oceanfront resorts, marsh-front rooms and historic inns, plus florists and planners.
Who to call
9 pagesWhen something on the house has stopped working and you want a local name.
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Home repair on Amelia Island
Lawns and trees, pest control, house cleaning, pools, docks and seawalls, garage doors. 144 businesses in all, and who is based here rather than driving over.
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Garage door repair and installation on Amelia Island
Springs, openers and wind-rated doors. One of the three is based here and runs mobile across the county, and the other two drive over from Jacksonville.
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AC repair on Amelia Island
Six of the twelve say they run around the clock or take emergency calls. Eight are based in Nassau County, four on the Jacksonville side. Phone number for each.
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Roofers on Amelia Island
Ask about a wind mitigation report while you have someone on the phone. Fourteen of the fifteen are based in the county. Shingle, metal, tile and flat roofs.
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Plumbers on Amelia Island
Only five of the eleven are based in the county; the rest run the island from the Jacksonville side. Most do emergency work. Slab leaks, septic, water heaters.
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Handyman on Amelia Island
Florida has no handyman license, so no number settles it. Twelve names for the shelves, the screens and the deck boards, and what needs a licensed trade.
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General contractors on Amelia Island
Kitchens, baths, additions and decks, custom-home builders, one outdoor-living specialist. 22 of the 24 are based in Nassau County. Ask for a license number.
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Electricians on Amelia Island
Nineteen electricians, every one based in Nassau County, not Jacksonville. Three do generator work, one installs EV chargers, two also do plumbing and AC.
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Painters on Amelia Island
Two quotes for the same house usually differ on what happens before the first coat, not on the paint. Four of the 18 do drywall, two list cabinet work.
About a house
1 pageBuying, selling, renting one out, or working out who to call before you do any of it.
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Amelia Island real estate companies
Fifty-three offices, each under a single broker of record. Eight also manage property for owners, six rent by the week or month, nine broker commercial space.
Not covered yet
There are 17 pages and several hundred businesses in the directory, so most of the island has no page of its own yet. That is not a dead end: ask Amelia and she answers from the directory, or tells you honestly that there is nothing good. What people ask for and cannot find is exactly how the next page gets chosen.
Common questions
- Who writes these guide pages?
- A person who lives in Fernandina Beach. Facts get pulled from a business's own website and then checked by a person, and anything an owner tells us directly beats what a page said. Each entry carries where it came from and when it was last looked at, and each page is written around the decision that actually settles it — which water a charter fishes, whether a rental shop will bring the bike to you.
- Do businesses pay to be listed or ranked here?
- No business pays to be listed, to rank higher, or to be recommended. Some pages carry a featured partner above the list, labeled as paid where it sits; the spot buys that one surface and nothing else, not a place in the list below it and not a mention in an answer. A business can claim its listing for free and correct its own details, which changes what the page knows about it and never where it sits.
- How current is this?
- The listings were last checked on 20 September 2026. Live conditions — tide, wind, surf, water temperature, sunrise and sunset, the bridge — are read at the moment you ask rather than stored.
- What if there is no page for what I want?
- Ask Amelia on the front page. The directory behind her is far wider than the handful of guide pages, so there is usually an answer even where there is no page, and where there genuinely is not one she says so rather than sending you somewhere weak.
Own a business on the island? Add or correct your listing — free, and a local reads every one.