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Activity planner

Plan your Key West activities

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Build a realistic Key West activity plan, catch scheduling conflicts, and create a clear operator brief — without pretending to know live availability or choosing a business for you.

The decision tool tells you what kind of experience fits. This is the next question: can the things you want actually share a day, which one needs the most flexibility, and what do you still need to ask before anyone takes your money?

No email needed to build, review, print or save a plan. You only reach a contact form if you decide you want help finding an operator — and only after the planning part has already been useful to you.

1. What are you considering?

Pick up to 6. These are formats, not companies — we don't choose a business for you.

Activity formats

2. Your trip and your group

How many days can you give to activities?
How many people?
Who's coming?
How long a trip are you willing to commit to?
How much activity do you want?
Shared boat or private?
How does your least confident swimmer feel about open water?

Answer for the weakest swimmer, not the strongest.

How does your group handle a long stretch on a boat?
How much weather flexibility does your trip have?

We don't forecast weather. This is about whether a cancelled day can move.

Other parts of the day that would also work
Age bands in the group

Bands only — we never ask for exact ages or dates of birth.

Access topics to raise with an operator

Topics, not conditions. We never ask what someone's needs are — only which questions you want asked.

Your planning draft

Early draft — add a few more answers before this is useful

No unresolved scheduling conflicts.

Choose an activity format above and a draft will appear here.

What this plan is not

  • This is a planning aid, not a reservation. Nothing here is booked, held or confirmed.
  • We have not verified availability, prices, policies or capacity with any operator.
  • Durations and day slots are broad planning assumptions, never departure times.
  • Operators must confirm current details before you rely on any of it.
  • Key West Compass has not selected, ranked or verified an operator for you.
  • Weather, marine, safety, accessibility and age requirements must be confirmed with the operator or the appropriate authority.

Saving is unavailable in this browser — the planner still works, it just won't remember.

Saved plans stay on this device. Nothing is uploaded.

Where every statement comes from

Every line this planner shows you carries one of four labels. There is no label for “fact about this operator”, because we hold no operator facts — no schedules, no prices, no policies, no capacity, no availability.

General planning assumption
A general pattern for this kind of trip. Not a fact about any particular operator, and not a schedule.
Your preference
Something you told us. We have not checked whether it is achievable.
Key West Compass guidance
Our own guidance, written from published research rather than operator data.
Operator must confirm
We do not know this and cannot find out. Ask the operator directly before you rely on it.

What this planner does, and what it refuses to do

What it does

  • Arranges 12 activity formats into broad day slots
  • Flags scheduling conflicts and shows the reasoning behind each one
  • Separates your preferences from planning assumptions from operator unknowns
  • Builds a list from 24 neutral operator questions
  • Produces an editable brief you can copy into an inquiry
  • Runs entirely in your browser and prints cleanly

What it never does

  • Check or claim availability — we cannot see anyone's calendar
  • State a departure time, duration, price, fee or policy
  • Book, reserve, hold or confirm anything
  • Rank operators, or let a paying partner influence your plan
  • Call an operator best, safest, trusted or verified
  • Ask for contact details before the plan is useful to you

Where this sits in planning a trip

  1. 1Understand the activities — The category guides.
  2. 2Compare the formats — Side-by-side on eight dimensions.
  3. 3Find your personal fit — The decision tool.
  4. 4Build a realistic plan — You are here.
  5. 5Prepare an operator brief — Generated from your plan, edited by you.
  6. 6Optionally ask for help — Only if you want it.
Not sure what fits yet? Start with the decision tool

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Every guide, comparison, checklist and tool is listed on all planning resources.