Outdoor Recreation Center — Local services in North Charleston

Be careful. Manager is charging $50 cleaning fees for FISHING kayaks smelling like fish and having a sunflower seed rapper left in them. Do not recommend renting from here unless you want to overpay for some kayaks and get charged extra multiple days after return.

Also, they did not strap our kayaks onto the trailer correctly which thankfully fell off before we got on the highway potentially causing much harm.

When we had a discussion they threatened to charge me more if I did not pay the cleaning fee “we could charge you for other things”

Also told me I should have returned them in the condition I got them which was brand new (so not physically possible)

They’re looking to get every penny possible from you. Do...

USE CAUTION WHEN VISITING OR RENTING EQUIPMENT. Manager (Stefan) is extremely rude and dishonest, has started charging wild fees upon equipment return. Apparently he believes that it takes TWO men TWO HOURS to hose a footprint off of a 17 ft boat and that’s a $50 hose job. I’ve been a regular for 7 years and have never been charged a fee upon returning the equipment until now. Use caution when renting equipment as of 4/17/2025 this guy is out to nickel and dime our military community and it’s wrong. Spoken to several others who have had similar experiences lately. I hope that they get this under control soon because this used to be a...

The staff is nice but the manager ruins the whole place. The concept of not being able to take payment by any method except for in person in the year 2021 absolutely blows my mind and completely ruins it for anyone whose stationed somewhere else looking to use their equipment. All in all if the manager didn't look for literally every excuse to say no, no matter how much he contradicts himself I'd...